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esolo said:In other words, there IS an oppressive situation here that one has little control over....but the advice is to not let it get you down...not to give into the gloom and doom?
willowfox said:It could be a real situation as in to others but it could also be real just to them. They have/had control but they lose it either temporarily or for quite sometime until they or someone else helps them out of the hole that they are digging for themselves. Now a days people tend to sit and watch the TV (no longer under a tree)in a total daze of gloom and doom until someone or something shakes them out of it (like having the power cut off).
bruce_g said:I REALLY like this.
esolo said:I did a reading where the answer to why someone hasn't done something was 47.1. My question is more about what the line means than the reading itself. Is there a sense here with this line that the person may not be ABLE to do anything about the situation? I realize that it may be an attitude problem but I'm wondering if it could also be that someone simply isn't able to affect the situation because he/she is surrounded, trapped etc....because I think this might be the case.
bradford said:There's a little play here with the word for Valley (Gu3), which, as in our tongue, also refers to a Depression (it's also played with in the Well at 48.2). I would look to this first, more than Oppression, or maybe Depression as a consequence of Oppression. But the problem to solve now is Depression, getting out of this rut and up and about.
LOL! Yes, I like this too!Now a days people tend to sit and watch the TV (no longer under a tree)in a total daze of gloom and doom until someone or something shakes them out of it (like having the power cut off). http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=44444
bradford said:Hi all-
Some of you are aware of my theory that there is a lot more humor in the Zhouyi than is generally acknowledged, humor that was deliberate and intended by the authors, but often buried in other alternate interpretations and double entendres.
I don't think there is any hexagram where this is more true than 47, the wordiest of them all. The form of humor varies throughout the Yi, but in 47 I see a whole lot of parody and caricature. I think that this is done with the intention of lightening us up, getting us to snap out of these loops of dark mood and dark nights of the soul.
bruce_g said:as though poking the lad's ribs with his staff.... knowing full well the young sourpuss's foul mood.
bradford said:Now, wouldn't that be an extra something if he was poked and tickled with the same cane he got his ass whipped with?
esolo said:Bradford, your translation differs significantly from Wilhelm's:
"With bottom belabored by a wooden cane?" (Bradford)
"One sits oppressed under a bare tree" (Wilhelm)
I'm assuming that this has something to do with the original.
willowfox said:"The problem is that he isn't moving. He's wallowing."
I told you this before in a previous thread, he wallowing in self pity, he needs friends and time but the end date is closing in fast, so now he needs a shove and perhaps a kick.
hilary said:I once had a customer, new to all this, receive all 3 backside lines in quick succession. It's moments like this that remind me what divining with Yi is all about...
"With bottom belabored by a wooden cane?" (Bradford)
hilary said:"Yi has three lines about buttocks: you've received all of them now."
sparhawk said:I certainly hope that one of your advises was a visit to a proctologist...
bradford said:The rod is applied sideways, Luis, you perv
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