Hilary Barrett, I Ching

Archive for September, 2009

Not Knowing etymology

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

All meanings of the name of this post are intentional, as I really don’t know the first thing about Chinese etymology. But in my ignorance, I just stumbled over something wonderful in the first line of Hexagram 4, Not Knowing.
Hexagram 4, line 1 speeds the young ignoramus on her way by removing her fetters and [...]

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Not Knowing and Protection

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

One of the meanings of Hexagram 4, Not Knowing, is being ‘covered over’, like a young animal whose mother hides it in the undergrowth. This means you can’t see as far as you’d like to, something which people tend to find frustrating – and yet the image of the young creature in the undergrowth, to [...]

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