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Coping with influences
31 - to get affected and how to handle it
32 - how to stay on one's course
'Above the mountain is a lake: Influence
A noble one accepts people with emptiness'
"In an unchanging form, ATTRACTION indicates it may be necessary to be receptive and open to all that comes into your life at this time. KEN, tranquillity and stillness, is in the lower trigram attracting TUI, joy and pleasure. A tranquil openness allows you to influence and be influenced, bringing the joy of shared experience into your life. This spontaneous mutual influence, perhaps a love affair, must be experienced before there is change."
"The lake can form because the mountain makes space for it, yet still remains inwardly solid. With solid rock in the inside, there can be clear water above; without it, there would only be mud throughout "
For me, 31 can make me think of these kind of push button puppets
if I felt pain in the 31 experience I referred to it is the pain of that giraffe
Hi all!
My experience with 31 was the one when the oracle told me to lay off and stop pushing for answers.
I was casting question after question for a while. Then I required on another aspect of my problem and got 31 which seemed to be out of place with the previous readings. Having read James Dekorne interpretation on it i realised that IChing is just telling me to leave it alone and stop pushing for more answers on the matter. I guess the oracle does get tired of us and sends us our own way once in a while to stop exhausting it.
Thank you!
Love, Vikk
Thought I'd post 31 and 32 before the Roar of Xmas drowns everything out.
I haven't even ever thought of 31 and 32 as a pair before, I don't know why. I seem to find thinking in terms of the pair helps when I get an unchanging answer....but right now I can't even see how they link.
Lise said of the pair
The only time I can see where I recorded 31 uc as an answer it was exactly that. I was experiencing pain through relating and I asked how to handle it. Tangible pain...that's being affected. It occurred to me mostly the overall idea in the I Ching, seems to be around avoiding being affected. Or maybe commentaries emphasise that. In any case the lines of 31 describe the more painful aspects of being affected. In 31.3 you lose independence, in 31.6 it's all talk etc etc
Anyway...never mind the lines, if you receive 31uc as an answer what thoughts tend to come to you ? I immediately think in terms of push/pull, of being buffeted by water or winds, being swayed by desires yet the trigrams are lake over mountain. I guess how we deal with desire is pretty central to any philosophy the Yi might bring us and so of course 31 and 32 are right at the centre of the book....
I have to look to the Image for any advice re 31 uc..from Hilary's book
So as an answer to feeling pain in relating 31 uc seems to be saying to make a space for the lake (feeling) by being solid, boundaried, like the mountain below the lake that holds the lake.
Wing says of 31uc as an answer
Well I don't know about that because to be receptive and open to anything it seems from the advice in the Image that one must also have a firm solidity within. That implies to me that some part of you must be like the mountain, impervious and still in order for the lake to exist at all. as Hilary writes on the Image
Yes I can relate the idea of 31 and mud in my question on feelings.
Looking through the journal, I also had 31 unchanging for 'What good are affirmations?' I think that might translate as 'You're moved. (Then what?)''
Looking through the journal, I also had 31 unchanging for 'What good are affirmations?' I think that might translate as 'You're moved. (Then what?)'
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