Will the Congress get a majority in the Delhi Assembly. ichingonline.org/index.html youtube/watch?v=KHGWU4jsRfY&list=TLHRsUNh_UGzZfrmHmVdn6r6EylcQaO5Xk https://youtube/watch?v=GMmL-xEi3gc&feature=c4-overview&list=UUTecJUJKdFVaf_ajOVqUEBA https://youtube/watch?v=-OIVg6e5pBQ https://youtube/results?search_query=abraham+hicks&sm=1 https://youtube/results?search_query=abraham+hicks&filters=long&lclk=long https://google/search?q=abraham+hicks&num=100 https://google/search?q=abraham+hicks&num=100&tbm=vid https://google/search?q=abraham+hicks&num=100&tbm=vid&tbs=dur:l youtube/watch?v=S-3Rl7_IS8g&feature=c4-overview&list=UU9OM-qeiYIPtAkBe9veG5uw [young yin] [young yang] [young yin] [young yang] [old yang] [young yin] Cast Hexagram: 48 48 - Forty-Eight Ching / The Well Deep Waters Penetrated and drawn to the surface: The Superior Person refreshes the people with constant encouragement to help one another. Encampments, settlements, walled cities, whole empires may rise and fall, yet the Well at the center endures, never drying to dust, never overflowing. It served those before and will serve those after. Again and again you may draw from the Well, but if the bucket breaks or the rope is too short there will be misfortune. SITUATION ANALYSIS: There is a Source common to us all. Jung named it the Collective Unconscious. Others hail it as God within. Inside each of us are dreamlike symbols and archetypes, emotions and instincts that we share with every other human being. When we feel a lonely separateness from others, it is not because this Well within has dried up, but because we have lost the means to reach its waters. You need to reclaim the tools necessary to penetrate to the depths of your fellows. Then the bonds you build will be as timeless and inexhaustible as the Well that nourishes them. Changing Lines: There is One Changing Line. Hexagram Forty-Eight/Line Two: Shooting at fish in the well puts holes in the bucket. No one can draw from this well. [young yin] [young yang] [young yin] [young yang] [young yin] [young yin] Transformed Hex: 39 39 - Thirty-Nine Chien / Obstacle Ominous roiling in the Crater Lake atop the Volcano: When meeting an impasse, the Superior Person turns his gaze within, and views the obstacle from a new perspective. Offer your opponent nothing to resist. Let a sage guide you in this. Good fortune lies along this course. SITUATION ANALYSIS: The Obstacle lies in obstinance. An insistence on only one way of proceeding has brought things to an impasse. You may either continue banging your head with irresistible force against this immovable object, or you might step back and survey this situation from a fresh perspective. Which is immobile here -- the obstruction or your attitude? ORIGINAL TEXT Cast Hexagram: Hexagram 48 Ching - The Well Wood is below, water above. The wood goes down into the earth to bring up water. The image derives from the pole-and-bucket well of ancient China. The wood represents not the buckets, which in ancient times were made of clay, but rather the wooden poles by which the water is hauled up from the well. The image also refers to the world of plants, which lift water out of the earth by means of their fibres. The well from which water is drawn conveys the further idea of an inexhaustible dispensing of nourishment. THE JUDGEMENT THE WELL. The town may be changed, But the well cannot be changed. It neither decreases nor increases. They come and go and draw from the well. If one gets down almost to the water And the rope does not go all the way, Or the jug breaks, it brings misfortune. ichingonline.org/img/miniature_03.jpg - Raga Kumbha meets a young woman at a well, and asks for water.1 ichingonline.org/img/well.gif In ancient China the capital cities were sometimes moved, partly for the sake of more favourable location, partly because of a change in dynasties. The style of architecture changed in the course of centuries, but the shape of the well has remained the same from ancient times to this day. Thus the well is the symbol of that social structure which, evolved by mankind in meeting its most primitive needs, is independent of all political forms. Political structures change, as do nations, but the life of man with its needs remains eternally the same-this cannot be changed. Life is also inexhaustible. It grows neither less nor more; it exists for one and for all. The generations come and go, and all enjoy life in its inexhaustible abundance. However, there are two prerequisites for a satisfactory political or social organisation of mankind. We must go down to the very foundations of life. For any merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied is as ineffectual as if no attempt at order had ever been made. Carelessness-by which the jug is broken-is also disastrous. If for instance the military defence of a state is carried to such excess that it provokes wars by which the power of the state is annihilated, this is a breaking of the jug. This hexagram applies also to the individual. However men may differ in disposition and in education, the foundations of human nature are the same in everyone. And every human being can draw in the course of his education from the inexhaustible wellspring of the divine in mans nature. But here likewise two dangers threaten: a man may fail in his education to penetrate to the real roots of humanity and remain fixed in convention-a partial education of this sort is as bad as none- or he may suddenly collapse and neglect his self-development. THE IMAGE Water over wood: the image of THE WELL. Thus the superior man encourages the people at their work, And exhorts them to help one another. ichingonline.org/img/water_well_paint.jpg The trigram Sun, wood, is below, and the trigram Kan, water, is above it. Wood sucks water upward. Just as wood as an organism imitates the action of the well, which benefits all parts of the plant, the superior man organises human society, so that, as in a plant organism, its parts co-operate for the benefit of the whole. 1. The painting personifies Raga Kumbha, one of the eight sons of Sri Raga. Kumbha refers to a pitcher filled with water, which symbolizes an auspicious omen. A young woman is pulling a pitcher out of the well, while a young thirsty soldier, clad in a yellow choga (garment) and a white apron tied around his head draws her attention. The painting is based on one of the folk songs of Kangra valley that essays the accidental meeting of a husband and a wife. The soldier after his marriage to a young girl goes away on service for several long years. On his return he visits his father in law to fetch his wife. He meets a young woman at a well and asks for water. He also pays compliment to her beauty. At this she rebukes him sternly and rushes home. On her arrival at home, her mother asks her to put on her best clothes and ornaments as her husband had come. She attires in best of her finery, and when goes to meet him finds that he is the same person who met her at the well. Guilty of harsh words she had spoken to him at the well she attempts reconciliation and soon all misunderstandings are dissolved and they live happily afterwards as a loving couple. CHANGING LINE: Hexagram Forty-Eight/Line Two Nine in the second place means: At the well hole one shoots fishes. The jug is broken and leaks. ichingonline.org/img/shooting-fish-in-a-barrel_s.jpg - Shooting fish in a barrel The water itself is clear, but it is not being used. Thus the well is a place where only fish will stay, and whoever comes to it, comes only to catch fish. But the jug is broken, so that the fish cannot be kept in it. This describes the situation of a person who possesses good qualities but neglects them. No one bothers about him. As a result he deteriorates in mind. He associates with inferior men and can no longer accomplish anything worth while. Transformed Hexagram: Hexagram 39 Chien - Obstruction The hexagram pictures a dangerous abyss lying before us and a steep, inaccessible mountain rising behind us. We are surrounded by obstacles; at the same time, since the mountain has the attribute of keeping still, there is implicit a hint as to how we can extricate ourselves. The hexagram represents obstructions that appear in the course of time but that can and should be overcome. Therefore all the instruction given is directed to overcoming them. THE JUDGEMENT OBSTRUCTION. The southwest furthers. The northeast does not further. It furthers one to see the great man. Perseverance brings good fortune. The southwest is the region of retreat, the northeast that of advance. Here an individual is confronted by obstacles that cannot be overcome directly. In such a situation it is wise to pause in view of the danger and to retreat. However, this is merely a preparation for overcoming the obstructions. One must join forces with friends of like mind and put himself under the leadership of a man equal to the situation: then one will succeed in removing the obstacles. This requires the will to persevere just when one apparently must do something that leads away from his goal. This unswerving inner purpose brings good fortune in the end. An obstruction that lasts only for a time is useful for self-development. This is the value of adversity. ichingonline.org/img/water-on-mountain_s.jpg THE IMAGE Water on the mountain: The image of OBSTRUCTION. Thus the superior man turns his attention to himself And moulds his character. Difficulties and obstructions throw a man back upon himself. While the inferior man seeks to put the blame on other persons, bewailing his fate, the superior man seeks the error within himself, and through this introspection the external obstacle becomes for him an occasion for inner enrichment and education.
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