hi all,

run into this blog entry

http://kvond.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/the-production-of-constraints-work-and-annealing/

which resonated with hex.60 in a very creative way . .

probably should have waited for "Memorizing" to reach that hex., but was really excited over it so here it is!!



rodaki

Thank you, rodaki! Very interesting to understand the whole annealing process.

Hiya Rodaki,

Rearranging molecular structure sure seems 60-ish, and I also get strong 50 from the blog entry as well. Transformation, alchemy, purification of matter, etc.

I come from a family of wrought iron artisans. As a little kid I'd watch my grandfather work raw material into old world Italian ornamental iron railings, doors, gates and chandeliers, with little more than a forge, hammer and anvil. I even worked in the shop for a couple of years, but by then the forge was only rarely fired up, and everything had become pretty standardized. Still, when you grow up around it, you never forget those sounds and smells of red hot coals and iron, hammer and anvil, tap..tap....taptap tapping. In reflection, it all feels pretty 50-ish to me.

Tripping on the thought of..
50 showing one what is possible, where one could be if one "consolidates his fate by making his position correct."
Eventually this adds up (50.-59.) and what you've been visualizing starts 60. solidifying, manifesting, so you not only see what you are creating, you also see where you have been out of alignment with your vision.
So 60 is where you limit yourself, do the anvil tapping to get the molecules back into alignment with the vision and then, when you do: Ta-Ta 61. Inner Truth when your outer world is in alignment with your inner knowingness the promise of 50. The Ting manifests.

hi there!

sorry for the delayed appearance but a lot of work coupled with a bad connection held me back . .

so nice that those quotes stroke a chord of experience
I think that things lived during very early years form part of what we later recognize as 'home' even though might live away from it . . those smells, those sounds, specific air temperatures, things unseen but intensely felt.
Personally I don't have any background in this kind of craftmanship. but I can certainly relate to a similar type of relating to the elements of nature . . in fact, I think I have based the metaphor of my life in those memories (we all live according to some metaphors, or myhts, to my mind)

Can definitely see the cauldron in the process of annealing, the vessel were elements melt and are molded in new configurations, stirred or struck until they reach the luminosity of 61, inner truth . .

60 was one (out of many) hexs I had trouble understanding but then seeing it in such a material practice made it crystal clear . . and I loved how the stream of thoughts/quotes ended up in the notion of tempos that by constraint turn sound in music, formless material into a willfully thought through object of art . .

sometimes craftmanship feels like wisdom (and a certain ethics) in action . .
but I still have a lot to learn about constrains and discipline

cheers!

rodaki

rodaki said:

60 was one (out of many) hexs I had trouble understanding but then seeing it in such a material practice made it crystal clear . . and I loved how the stream of thoughts/quotes ended up in the notion of tempos that by constraint turn sound in music, formless material into a willfully thought through object of art . .

sometimes craftmanship feels like wisdom (and a certain ethics) in action . .
but I still have a lot to learn about constrains and discipline

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You have a lot to teach too, flattery not intended.

The notion that the IC teaches something new is, to me at least, crazy. There's nothing new, other than, as you implied, furthering the craft of working with the basic elements of nature, mostly within oneself.

hi Meng

it's kinda funny but I have been thinking recently that maybe teaching is the only way to go on -go on being in a class that is, since i have exhausted by far my time as an actual student (you know in school or university) and I still feel I don't want to give up the playing ground that classrooms are for me

so in fact, teaching is not very far removed from studying for me, it's just another way to take part in groups of people that come together in order to play around with ideas, bounce them off to one another and learn something in the meantime

the real change that has to evolve though, that one demands discipline and constraint, especially for someone like me who was always more attracted to the idea of the amateur rather than the professional . . preferred to join in according to my whims, chip in sth, hope I could be a catalyst, and then retreat without damaging the consistency of the group . .

now that attitude cannot work no more and I'm learning things about commiting (even through dry spells! . . I think now I'm learning the craft of studying

take care,

rodaki