Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).
- Joined
- Dec 1, 1971
- Messages
- 482
- Reaction score
- 33
Dear friends,
my brother (at this point in time I live with him and his wife in their apartment) knows a family quite well. The mother suffered from a stroke, is permanently disabled at around age 40. She has to live in a home for disabled persons some 50 km from here in Vienna where the rest of her family lives. The father has an alcohol problem.
There are five brothers, age 17 to age 10.
The youngest ones are twins.
We had all the brothers here for a day, they are more then happy to escape from their complicated life for a while.
They love to play icehockey on the computer.
The twins, who are the youngest ones lose quite often.
A lot of crying on their side because they feel treated badly from their older brothers. Which of course is true. And on a deeper level treated badly and unfair by life itself.
Which is true as well, at least seen from the perspective of a 5th grader.
I listened to one of the twins when he was crying out of impotent rage (after letting him cool down a little, sobbing in the bathroom)
He lost a game...
Unfair, of course..
After the fury he still cried, but this crying was coming from a deeper level.
I talked very little.
All of the sufferings of the youngest brother(s). The older ones are allowed to go to the cinema, to drink Coke, they are better at playing soccer, they are stronger etc. etc. You get the idea.
I asked him if he (or they) see(s) a way what he/they could do to make their life better.
Of course he had no idea.
Me neither.
I asked the Yi: "Please give a hint to him/them what he/they could do to make their life better."
16, 4 (Enthusiasm) to 2.
°Key Questions
What do you imagine?
What inspires you?
How can you use your enthusiasm constructively?
Oracle
‘Enthusiasm.
Fruitful to set up feudal lords and mobilize the armies.’
The Chinese word for ‘enthusiasm’ contains an elephant – a character that also means ‘image’. The elephant is magnificent, strong, a source of delight – and also unpredictable and potentially dangerous. Imagination and anticipation move us with ease; with them, we can be motivated and inspired – or we can be carried away by the power of our own story.
The energetic charge of enthusiasm can be used to set great things in motion. It is good to use it to expand and enrich your experience by extending your network of communication and support, marshalling your resources ready for future challenges. And it is also good to use such structures to channel the motive power of enthusiasm, and keep it from running amok. Then its brightly coloured images can be woven securely into the larger patterns and meanings of life.
Image
‘Thunder bursts forth from the earth: Enthusiasm.
The ancient kings composed music to honour virtue,
They celebrated and worshipped the supreme lord,
Joining with their ancestors.’
Sequence
Enthusiasm follows from Hexagram 15, Integrity:
‘One who possesses greatness and is also capable of Integrity is naturally Enthusiastic.’°
Line 4
‘Source of enthusiasm.
Great possessions gained.
Do not doubt.
Partners are gathered together as a hair clasp gathers hair.’
Now that sounds optimistic-
but I could not tell him because it probably may sound like purest cynism his ears.
What could I tell him?
Ideas are more than apreciated. :bows:
my brother (at this point in time I live with him and his wife in their apartment) knows a family quite well. The mother suffered from a stroke, is permanently disabled at around age 40. She has to live in a home for disabled persons some 50 km from here in Vienna where the rest of her family lives. The father has an alcohol problem.
There are five brothers, age 17 to age 10.
The youngest ones are twins.
We had all the brothers here for a day, they are more then happy to escape from their complicated life for a while.
They love to play icehockey on the computer.
The twins, who are the youngest ones lose quite often.
A lot of crying on their side because they feel treated badly from their older brothers. Which of course is true. And on a deeper level treated badly and unfair by life itself.
Which is true as well, at least seen from the perspective of a 5th grader.
I listened to one of the twins when he was crying out of impotent rage (after letting him cool down a little, sobbing in the bathroom)
He lost a game...
Unfair, of course..
After the fury he still cried, but this crying was coming from a deeper level.
I talked very little.
All of the sufferings of the youngest brother(s). The older ones are allowed to go to the cinema, to drink Coke, they are better at playing soccer, they are stronger etc. etc. You get the idea.
I asked him if he (or they) see(s) a way what he/they could do to make their life better.
Of course he had no idea.
Me neither.
I asked the Yi: "Please give a hint to him/them what he/they could do to make their life better."
16, 4 (Enthusiasm) to 2.
°Key Questions
What do you imagine?
What inspires you?
How can you use your enthusiasm constructively?
Oracle
‘Enthusiasm.
Fruitful to set up feudal lords and mobilize the armies.’
The Chinese word for ‘enthusiasm’ contains an elephant – a character that also means ‘image’. The elephant is magnificent, strong, a source of delight – and also unpredictable and potentially dangerous. Imagination and anticipation move us with ease; with them, we can be motivated and inspired – or we can be carried away by the power of our own story.
The energetic charge of enthusiasm can be used to set great things in motion. It is good to use it to expand and enrich your experience by extending your network of communication and support, marshalling your resources ready for future challenges. And it is also good to use such structures to channel the motive power of enthusiasm, and keep it from running amok. Then its brightly coloured images can be woven securely into the larger patterns and meanings of life.
Image
‘Thunder bursts forth from the earth: Enthusiasm.
The ancient kings composed music to honour virtue,
They celebrated and worshipped the supreme lord,
Joining with their ancestors.’
Sequence
Enthusiasm follows from Hexagram 15, Integrity:
‘One who possesses greatness and is also capable of Integrity is naturally Enthusiastic.’°
Line 4
‘Source of enthusiasm.
Great possessions gained.
Do not doubt.
Partners are gathered together as a hair clasp gathers hair.’
Now that sounds optimistic-
but I could not tell him because it probably may sound like purest cynism his ears.
What could I tell him?
Ideas are more than apreciated. :bows: