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It's something between a treasure-trove and a chocolate box, isn't it? How about this, from the footnotes?
There is another hexagram in which a central line takes on new importance in a shifting situation.
Second Yang of #59 Dispersion reads: “In a time of Dispersion run to the platform.” The word
机 is this line may be interchangeable with 機, so the line can take on many intriguing meanings: “In
a time of Dispersion, run toward the X,” where X could mean a nexus of change, a point from which
events unfold, a crux of development, the most organically alive point of a system, the point in a
chaotic system which most affects the outcome.
Or his characterisation of the trigrams at the beginning?
 

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I copied the same text, of 59.2, for keeping and looking at now and then...
What I like most, is his way of looking at the Yi. No dogma, no rules or theories, but open, living, embracing.
 

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I find very interesting the FIRST THESIS and the FIRST NOTE:

[1st. thesis]

I believe that the structure of the Yi is based on fertility symbolism.[1] The forces that knit the world together are portrayed as two primordial tendencies—heaven/ expansion / creativeness versus earth/ coalescence/ receptivity. #1 Qian and #2 Kun line up at the beginning of the text, and the subsequent exchange of lines between them results in all the other hexagrams.
[Page 1]

[1st. note]
I make this statement based on numerous symbolic features of the first two hexagrams. One item of evidence is an alternate name for hexagram #1, jian [1], used in the Mawangdui silk manuscript version of the Yijing. Edward Shaughnessy points out in his I Ching translation that jian is an ideograph for a wooden pillar which presumably had phallic significance in ancient rites. I offer structural evidence in “The Dance of Qian and Kun,” Sino-Platonic Papers, #152 June 2005.
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Denis Mair
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59.2:

huan4: overflow / expansive flood / scattering / scattered /
ben1:to hurry or rush / to run quickly /
qi2:his / her / its / theirs / that / such / it / one's /
ji1:[=機] bench / tool / machine // secret // opportune moment // cunning / crafty /
hui3:regret / remorse /
wang2:to die / to pass away / to disappear / to vanish /

Temporary translation:


OVERFLOWING.
HURRYING ONE'S TOOL.
REMORSE WILL PASS AWAY.

I believe that in times of GROWING DANGER we are adviced TO MOVE:

• OUR INNER RESOURCES
• THE SECRETS OF OUR CRAFT OR BUSSINESS
• OUR ACQUIRED EXPERIENCE
• OUR HIDDEN SKILLS
• OUR QUEST FOR OPPORTUNITIES
• ANY MACHINERY WE HAVE AT HAND

... AND TO MOVE QUICKLY!

Of course in case of growing danger soldiers, or even common people, look for SEXUAL OPPORTUNITIES, but that's another story.


Yours,


Charly

____________
P.D.:
(1) 鍵 jian: door bolt, lock bolt; key [MDBG]
Ch.
 
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(1) 鍵 jian: door bolt, lock bolt; key [MDBG]
Ch.

I remember Shaughnessy's JIAN with the METAL radical: and translated the KEY.

Another JIAN with the same phonetic and other radicals:

with MAN radical means healthy / strong / vigorous / capable
with TAIL radical means SHUTTLECOCK! Also called JIAN ZI (毽子), literally LORD JIAN.

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Source: http://jianqiu.baike.com/article-36453.html

But Denis quoted it without radicals maybe seeing it as the protograph for all the others. Did it have all the meanings in ancient times?

Charly
 
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Of course in case of growing danger soldiers, or even common people, look for SEXUAL OPPORTUNITIES, but that's another story.


Northern China was invaded by Japan while the magazine was still being published in the South. Some of the references to the war are heart-rending. I don't know what the couple above are saying, but the thought of love and charm in the midst of chaos is interesting. Are these people crazy, or did they make a zen decision to enjoy what may be their last hours on Earth?

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Ch.
 

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Invocation to Kun

Invocation to Kun, the Receptive:

It’s not easy to address you. There is so much going on within you, yet you present no form. You are the ground under the feet of things. You are not just a neutral featureless groundstuff. Any ground from which things emerge must be fertile. Being fertile means that you have secrets of internal circulation. You have tendrilled rootlets, you have a tangle of fibers like a blanket of horsehair felt. You have interlocking metabolic cycles; you balance thousands of enzyme reactions in homeostasis.

How can I start telling about what has already been accomplished---all the things we take as given when we make our departures? You are not some homogenous, dark, passive stuff. You differ according to the platform that has been achieved. You are a quilt made with a hundred patches of cloth, but in sleep we only feel your warmth. You differ in all your ways of mothering us. Sometimes you are the formal matrix, where we solve the new formula or postulate an elegant theorem. When we understand the new theorem, we see it was built into your matrix of rules from the start. Sometimes you enclose us in your incubation chamber, feeding our embryonic ferment with your richness, and isolating us from the storms and shocks outside. When we stay too long, this is not always good for us.

You are as busy inside as the snow on a television screen. But your snow is not seen, because all the dots follow each other within you. You have completed the community of your inner agents; you have tied the strands of flow together; you have joined the knots into a carpet for our feet.

You exist as the celtic knot of living fabric. The moment when your labyrinth came together must have been accompanied by a breakthrough of light, but we cannot see past your “darkness”.

In one of its wonderfully elliptical insights, the Yi Jing characterizes you as something “simple” that “clumps together”. This simplicity means you are so well woven we come along and simply use you as a fabric. You “clump together” because integration is what you eternally offer.

The macramé knot of life could not have been tied easily. Normally, in our flashy, fleshly theater of consciousness, we see only a few strands getting tied together. In our theory of evolution, we say they are tied together because they are of use to each other. But the basic metabolism of life is made of thousands of strands. Each strand is an enzyme cycle---a feedback loop that takes energy from metabolites or builds a protein. Each strand depends on the others, but if a loop is not closed, its 95%- complete cycle is useless to the others. Once they were tied together, they became reliable germ plasm for the phylogenetic tree. The coalescence of cellular protoplasm is the hidden prelude to the panoply of evolution that fills niches and expresses a myriad forms. What a flash of light must have accompanied the moment when it came together! So some would say that the living fabric was conceived by Qian the Creative. But looking further toward the source, below that flash of light, what a deep matrix of concentration must have been accomplished to let Nature’s insight could flash forth!

Below every breakthrough there is a deep Kun matrix of samadhi. Samadhi is the intuitive, imaginary weaving that conceives the eventual weaving of threads.

And there is no limit to how deep that samadhi-concentration goes. Below the integration of an individual mind is Nature’s integration that allows intelligent beings to arise. And below that is the great samadhi of the universe that conceived the lawss of matter.

The substrate of matter is not a collection of neutral building blocks: it is full of countless enabling tricks. The interlocking scheme of elements was a breakthrough that paved the way for emergence of life. There must have been a very deep level of enmeshing while the laws of matter were being conceived. The vacuum of space is filled with energy fluctuations that appear to cancel each other out. According to string theorists, it took 40,000 levels of integration to get from strings to matter.

Symmetry built upon super-symmetry, until a singularity came and hatched matter out of sheer energy and mathematics. But from the perspective of Kun, the deep samadhi of world-nurturing is eternal, without beginning or end, regardless of any abrupt leaps into history. Kun always goes further down, preparing the Way, not just for the next breakthrough, but for all future breakthroughs!

Of course, we cannot get close to appreciating what Kun has done. We watch the work of nurturance from way up here on our high platforms of the world-tree. We feel the limbs rocking in a storm. We cannot see very far down. Mostly we feel her in our nurturing bonds, in our community. But we see Her interrupted and chopped up by constant new developments, because things are cooking up now on our platform. We play along with the breakthrough, the flash, the happening.

Our consciousness is tuned to detect the 1% change against the steady 99% backdrop. But always, and at whatever level, Kun is there knitting transient things together, laying the groundwork for something that will weather the changes, preparing a seedbed for breakthroughs that won’t exhaust themselves on their first try.

Yijing Poetics
Denis Mair

Source: http://www.yijingpoetics.net/yjp/invitekun.pdf

Ch.
 

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