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'The lake submerges the tree. Great Exceeding.
A noble one stands alone without fear,
Withdraws from the time without sadness'
"In an unchanging form the time of CRITICAL MASS suggests that you may have to act alone and firmly, during the onslaught of these weighted times. The steady efforts of the lower trigram, SUN, hold firmly, while TUI, excess, predominates above. There are times when too much of even a good thing is just too much."
It's like being knocked off my canoe into the river - being submerged in the flowing stream not being able to breath and panic stricken flailing around gasping for air
Great exceeding perhaps means take control get a grip pull yourself together - you put yourself in this position (ie went canoeing on a swollen river) and now you are in deep water - get yourself out now
Dà Guò is a great pass in a mountain, it means to go beyond the proper limit, surplus. Often it is passing irreversibly.
It is used for serious transgressions, especially in respect to rules, like in a school or army. But also in a positive sense: surpassing others with an asset. Better or smarter and such. And also to transfer accounts.
Also very important is the transition from active life to old age. The hexagram gives counsel about how to do this in the best possible way, in order to become a grand old man or woman instead of being played out. The ridgepole is the old person who supported a family or a business, but who is now bending over, and needs a stick, or his family, to support himself. The lines tell him how to go on. Or in any other comparable situation. How to make the life after the great pass worthwhile too. How to deal with big changes, or with loss of securities. How to pass in a safe way. In everyday situations it warns you for excess, for things which are heavy to handle, which need extra care.
All this sounds more like 29 to me, which is the next hexagram in the sequence.
Hard for me to figure the trigrams here...we need a trigrams person. Iams girl ?
Identify with that aspect of you that is innately gentle and joyful – the innocent child within, for though the support structure of your life is severely strained under the excessive weight of both internal and external pressure and about to give way, you will safely walk away into fresh pastures providing you remain gentle and joyful like a child. The way of the heart will protect you and deliver you to somewhere wonderful now. The way of the intellect will merely compound the pressure.
This hexagram arises to remind you not to panic now but to trust the flow of yin and yang to transform your reality from one extreme (pressure) to the other (ease). Let the energy take you now, rather than you trying to push the energy and you will be led to a place of ultimate stillness within, free of fear and of the madness of the world, whence you will accomplish everything you want and all will be well.
[FONT="]Deng Ming-Dao explains that the word [/FONT]Kuo[FONT="] in Chinese (part of the name of this hexagram) has an alternate meaning of “a crossing”. He likened it also to a snake shedding its skin. We become better human beings when we can surpass our own barriers. The “great excess” that we experience is sometimes represented by our outgrowing old patterns of behavior that no longer fit us.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Extreme changes are very difficult to navigate, but it is these changes that will challenge us to put our spiritual practices into action. But, unless we have been practicing improving ourselves on a daily basis, we will not have the strength to withstand these tumultuous times. We will crumble. Crumbling isn’t necessarily bad. Things often crumble to make way for a new beginning. And, like Deng Ming-Dao said, “no one becomes great without being tested by great excess”.[/FONT]
These have been SO HELPFULheh heh you don't know how close you are....will pm you.
Wasn't intending to go on posting them but I notice now and then people add examples to the previous ones so I thought may as well do these...for now. Anyone can start them doesn't have to be me.
Thinking perhaps if I quote PaleSelene will see a notification and tell us what experience makes her say this.I would like to say that hexagram 28uc has to do with Avoidant Attachment.
Oh and by the way I apologize that just today (don't ask me) I found your comment.Thanks, yes, though I think to make sense of it we need more detail of the actual experience Pale Selene is attaching to her statement. I mean these are the 'Your experiences of the unchanging hexagrams' threads and so ideally, mostly, contributions need to have an actual experience attached and none has been. We could attach all sorts of mental conditions to 28 hypothetically
Thinking perhaps if I quote PaleSelene will see a notification and tell us what experience makes her say this.
Nosey ? I can't see how you were being nosey. You can write what you think of hexagram 28 unchanging of course, it's not annoying it's just we are curious, wanted to know more about why you think 28 is avoidant attachment. But probably if English is not your first language it's not so easy for you to explain. I wondered if you had a specific reading experience that made you say 28 was avoidant attachment. If you can't don't worry though.Hi Trojina. I was just reading and nosy, lol. I thought I could say that. I am an old visitor but never really wrote my questions as I don t know how to do it. Anyway I enjoy the wisdom of all the wise supporters here. I come to look for answers for my questions and Yi answers and I adapt the readings to my situations. I didn t intend to be annoying. My apologies. Also I have a question but I don t know where to place it. My respects.
Selene
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