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A number of inquies reached me regarding hexagram 03 – Difficulty at the Beginning. Here are some of them:
Weiterlesen: 03 – difficulty at the beginningA number of inquies reached me regarding hexagram 03 – Difficulty at the Beginning. Here are some of them:
Weiterlesen: 03 – difficulty at the beginningSomething new is coming to light decisively and powerfully. It will transform the entire situation. However, this new beginning has a price: we must disengage and let go of what is outdated, obsolete, an old pattern – even if it is hard to abandon something that was trusted and familiar for such a long time now. Eventually this image helps: a tree discarding old foliage, getting ready for a new cycle of life, with the old foliage serving as a fertilizer for new growth. We also need this fertilizer which is generated by disengagement: for our own forward bursting growth, which soon will interweave with the world, resonating with it in giving and taking.
Weiterlesen: 17 – followingUsually, when we take a decision and want to make a change, we assume that we have to act in a completely new way, to add something unprecedented to the already existing.
Sometimes, however, the solution lies in just the opposite: to do nothing – and to let go of something. Maybe of our self-image, a habit, our accustomed view on something, our habitual “but we always…”. Perhaps it is also our impulse to bang with our fist on the table and to push our will through.
Weiterlesen: 21 – biting throughSomething is happening in the dark womb of the earth: a decision (Zhen) has been made and is now a long period of growth and materialization (Kun) follows. I do not know which is harder: the decision, or the patience.
Weiterlesen: 24 – return無妄 wú wàng – A Japanese friend tells me about the meaning of the Chinese characters in the Chinese name of hexagram 25 – innocence. The first character means “scarifier tooth of the tiger”, the second means “release” or “letting go”. Later, a Chinese friend tells me that both characters are classical, so he cannot read them. This is not surprising: the Japanese adopted the classical Chinese characters and still use them today, while the Chinese have moved on to modern Chinese and therefore cannot read the old characters.
Weiterlesen: 25 – innocenceLike a mouth wide open, this hexagram stares around us. Fearful, insatiable. Or also: accepting, open and ready for anything….
It’s not so easy to make a decision and then trust it. To trust that things will fall into place. That I will be fed, nourished with everything I need.
Weiterlesen: 27 – providing nourishmentIn the context of hexagram 42 – Increase users share the following concerns with me:
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