Will it be useful for the Politicians and other Collectives in the Country and the People of India to reduce the clutter and drag of past actions and attitudes on the present, by redefining current positions explicitly. We can then move forward to a wiser and cohesive future. spiritualdynamics.net/articles/the-physics-of-tao/ galacticchannelings/english/blossom24-01-14.html youtube/user/LifeBlissFoundation/search?query=Completion ichingonline.org/index.html [young yang] [old yang] [young yin] [young yang] [young yin] [young yang] Cast Hexagram: 37 37 - Thirty-Seven Chia Jên / Family Duties Warming Air Currents rise and spread from the Hearthfire: The Superior Person weighs his words carefully and is consistent in his behavior. Be as faithful as a good wife. SITUATION ANALYSIS: One in this situation must be keenly aware of his influence on others. Maintain a healthy respect for the ripple effect of your words and deeds. To some you serve as a role model. You can either help shape their world or tilt them into chaos. Show temperance and consideration to all. Changing Lines: There is One Changing Line. Hexagram Thirty-Seven/Line Five: A good ruler tempers justice with mercy. This is best for a household as well. [young yang] [young yin] [young yin] [young yang] [young yin] [young yang] Transformed Hex: 22 22 - Twenty-Two Pi / Grace Fire illuminates the base of the Mountain: The Superior Person realizes he has not the wisdom to move the course of the world, except by attending to each days affairs as they come. Success in small matters. This is a good time to begin something. SITUATION ANALYSIS: The emphasis now is on form, not function -- on the sizzle and not the steak. The environment around you is not one of depth, and you are appreciated now for your image, not your essence. You perfectly fill a role, and no one is seeing the genuine you. Still, you are being listened to and watched. Use this influence to further your goals as much as possible. Even if you dont feel understood, you can perhaps connect with a few isolated hearts. Relax and enjoy the attention. ORIGINAL TEXT Cast Hexagram: Hexagram 37 Chia Jên - The Family [The Clan] This hexagram represents the laws obtaining within the family. The strong line at the top represents the father, the lowest the son. The strong line in the fifth place represents the husband, the yielding second line the wife. On the other hand, the two strong lines in the fifth and the third place represent two brothers, and the two weak lines correlated with them in the fourth and the second place stand for their respective wives. Thus all the connections and relationships within the family find their appropriate expression. Each individual line has the character according with its place. The fact that a strong line occupies the sixth place - where a weak line might be expected - indicates very clearly the strong leadership that must come from the head of the family. The line is to be considered here not in its quality as the sixth but in its quality as the top line. THE FAMILY shows the laws operative within the household that, transferred to outside life, keep the state and the world in order. The influence that goes out from within the family is represented by the symbol of the wind created by fire. THE JUDGEMENT THE FAMILY. The perseverance of the woman furthers. The foundation of the family is the relationship between husband and wife. The tie that hold the family together lies in the loyalty and perseverance of the wife. Her place is within (second line), while that of the husband is without (fifth line). It is in accord with the great laws of nature that husband and wife take their proper places. Within the family a strong authority is needed; this is represented by the parents. If the father is really a father and the son a son, if the elder brother fulfils his position, and the younger fulfils his, if the husband is really a husband and the wife a wife, then the family is in order. When the family is in order, all the social relationships of mankind will be in order. Three of the five social relationships are to be found within the family - that between father and son, which is the relation of love, that between the husband and wife, which is the relation of chaste conduct, and that between elder and younger brother, which is the relation of correctness. The loving reverence of the son is then carried over to the prince in the form of faithfulness to duty; the affection and correctness of behaviour existing between the two brothers are extended to a friend in the form of loyalty, and to a person of superior rank in the form of deference. The family is society in embryo; it is the native soil on which performance of moral duty is made easy through natural affection, so that within a small circle a basis of moral practice is created, and this is later widened to include human relationships in general. ichingonline.org/img/forest-fire_xl.jpg THE IMAGE Wind comes forth from fire:1 The image of THE FAMILY. Thus the superior man has substance in his words And duration in his way of life. Heat creates energy: this is signified by the wind stirred up by the fire and issuing forth from it. This represents influence working from within outward. The same thing is needed in the regulation of the family. Here too the influence on others must proceed form ones own person. In order to be capable of producing such an influence, ones words must have power, and this they can have only if they are based on something real, just as flame depends on its fuel. Words have influence only when they are pertinent and clearly related to definite circumstances. General discourses and admonitions have no effect whatsoever. Furthermore, the words must be supported by ones entire conduct, just as the wind is made effective by its duration. Only firm and consistent conduct will make such an impression on others that they can adapt and conform to it. If words and conduct are not in accord and not consistent, they will have no effect. 1. Two deer take refuge in the Butterfoot river as their forest home burns. John McColgan, a BLM firefighter, took photos on August 6th, 2000 while fighting fires in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. McColgan says he just happened to be in the right place at the right time with his Kodak DC280 digital camera. CHANGING LINE: Hexagram Thirty-Seven/Line Five Nine in the fifth place means: As a king he approaches his family. Fear not. Good fortune. ichingonline.org/img/TangTaizong_s.jpg - Tang Taizong A king is the symbol of a fatherly man who is richly endowed in mind. He does nothing to make himself feared; on the contrary, the whole family can trust him, because love governs their intercourse. His character of itself exercises the right influence. Transformed Hexagram: Hexagram 22 Pi - Grace This hexagram shows a fire that breaks out of the secret depths of the earth and, blazing up, illuminates and beautifies the mountain, the heavenly heights. Grace-beauty of form-is necessary in any union if it is to be well ordered and pleasing rather than disordered and chaotic. THE JUDGEMENT GRACE has success. In small matters It is favourable to undertake something. Grace brings success. However, it is not the essential or fundamental thing; it is only the ornament and must therefore be used sparingly and only in little things. In the lower trigram of fire a yielding line comes between two strong lines and makes them beautiful, but the strong lines are the essential content and the weak line is the beautifying form. In the upper trigram of the mountain, the strong line takes the lead, so that here again the strong element must be regarded as the decisive factor. In nature we see in the sky the strong light of the sun; the life of the world depends on it. But this strong, essential thing is changed and given pleasing variety by the moon and the stars. In human affairs, aesthetic form comes into being when traditions exist that, strong and abiding like mountains, are made pleasing by a lucid beauty. By contemplating the forms existing in the heavens we come to understand time and its changing demands. Through contemplation of the forms existing in human society it becomes possible to shape the world.1 ichingonline.org/img/fire-mountain.jpg THE IMAGE Fire at the foot of the mountain: The image of GRACE. Thus does the superior man proceed When clearing up current affairs. But he dare not decide controversial issues in this way. ichingonline.org/img/Confucius_bs.jpg - Confucius The fire, whose light illuminates the mountain and makes it pleasing, does not shine far; in the same way, beautiful form suffices to brighten and to throw light upon matters of lesser moment, but important questions cannot be decided in this way. They require greater earnestness. 1. This hexagram shows tranquil beauty - clarity within, quiet without. This is the tranquillity of pure contemplation. When desire is silenced and the will comes to rest, the world-as-idea becomes manifest. In this aspect the world is beautiful and removed from the struggle for existence. This is the world of art. However, contemplation alone will not put the will to rest absolutely. It will awaken again, and then all the beauty of form will appear to have been only a brief moment of exaltation. Hence this is still not the true way of redemption. For this reason Confucius felt very uncomfortable when once, on consulting the oracle, he obtained the hexagram of GRACE.
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