Hexagram 36 as a Daoist strategy
Hexagram 36, Brightness Hiding or Brightness Injured, can certainly be a danger-signal in a reading: hide your light, risk of injury ahead. But it is also a postive strategy, as this Deng Ming-Dao quotation from Donna Woodka’s Changing Places blog shows. (One to subscribe to, I think.)
It also shows very naturally how Release, hexagram 40, can be the hidden core of Brightness Hidden: it frees you from being defined by your knowledge or your job description. And that can also mean greater personal autonomy.
June 16th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
[...] The nuclear hexagram – the hidden possibility – in Brightness Hiding is 40, Release. Of course if you hide your light, you are liberated from the need to be something for someone, and your path isn’t defined by anyone’s definition (including your own) of what you should be doing. Havi’s ‘invisibility hacks’ hint at this. [...]