Comments on: Release from the foxes

By: chris lofting

chris lofting — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:33:21 +0000

40.6 - an intepretation:

“A prince takes advantage of shooting a hawk, moving towards the heights. Potentially advantageous only if he hits the mark.” [If he hits the mark his preparation for his path upwards is complete]

There is a link to line 6 of a hexagram with 23 (and so 43). The movement to yang indicates 23 focus. The characteristics of 23 is of housekeeping and the examples used are of a priest and so high servant of some ‘lord’ - as a duke is to a king - removing chaff and so maintaining stability, the last piece of structure in an ‘chaotic’ context .

Since a hawk is an elicitor of tension so its removal is an act of tension release. This removal is done by a ‘high priest’ of the current dogma where the act will reinforce that position in the eyes of others.

By: chris lofting

chris lofting — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:17:06 +0000

40.4
“Releasing rather than grasping. When friendships reach their peak, it may be time to let them go. [Dont hang on.]” [Holding together has it's limits]

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 21:18:57 +0000

Ah, Hilary knows what time it is! She really has learned how to spot the foxes…

By the way, you all might be interested to learn that the graph sun3 (Matt. 1487) - which we are calling “hawk” or “bird of prey” - has been attested on two Shang oracle bones - Yibian 3787 and Tieyun 191.4 - with the clear meaning of “octopus” or “cuttlefish”. See the standard Shima Kunio, “Inkyo bokuji sorui” (Tokyo, 1967). How does this advance your interpretation of 40.6?

By: Hilary

Hilary — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:52:24 +0000

OK… April 1st, right?

(Mandate of Heaven, published 2001.
Total I Ching, published 2003.)

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:42:41 +0000

Novelty? Surely you’ve noticed a number of key ideas in Stephen Karcher’s deeply original “The Total I Ching” find extensive development in Steve’s “Mandate”? Steve employs many footnotes - I noticed he admires James Legge’s translations much more than standard Chinese editions of the same texts - but I don’t recall Steve crediting Karcher for any of his seminal ideas. Clearly some influence exists, and I can’t help feeling Steve has learned a thing or too from the Jungian master. I wish I could be more specific - perhaps you know what I’m talking about? - but, as luck would have it, I gave my copy of “Total” to a local fund-raiser for the Slobodan Milosevic defense fund. I believe in supporting good causes!

By: Hilary

Hilary — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:04:00 +0000

Still, Steve, finding someone who’d describe Stephen Karcher as your mentor has to have some novelty value…

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:12:37 +0000

Note to self: Resist sharing your interpretations in future because there is always someone out there who wants to put you down for it.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:33:21 +0000

Steve, your psychological insight almost matches that of your mentor, Stephen Karcher.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:14:27 +0000

I suppose that is a crude attempt to rile me. Your patriotic twat-headed-ness is your own business.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:13:06 +0000

Too late, Steve. A couple of weeks after I bought your book as a mark-down from the Columbia Univeristy Press overstock catalogue, I donated it with some other books (Joseph Murphy’s “Secrets of the I Ching” and Diane Stein’s “The Kwan Yin Book of Changes”) to a Republican Party booksale to support our troops in Iraq. I think they were able to sell it - at least I never saw it again.