Yi 14: what good if i Quit Drinking today

 

The Image

Legge: Wind over thunder -- the image of Increase. When the superior man perceives good, he moves toward it; when he perceives his faults, he eliminates them.

Wilhelm/Baynes: Wind and thunder: the image of Increase. Thus the superior man: if he sees good, he imitates it; if he has faults, he rids himself of them.

Blofeld: This hexagram symbolizes wind and thunder. The Superior Man, seeing what is good, imitates it; seeing what is bad, he corrects it.

Liu: Wind and thunder symbolize Increase. When the superior man discovers good, he follows it. When he has errors, he corrects them.

Ritsema/Karcher: Wind, thunder. Augmenting. A chun tzu uses visualizing improvement, by-consequence shifting. A chun tzu uses possessing excess, by-consequence amending.

Cleary (1): Wind and thunder increase. Thus do superior people take to good when they see it, and correct whatever faults they have.

Wu: Wind and thunder make Gain. Thus, when the jun zi sees a good deed, he improves his own at once; when he realizes he is making a mistake, he corrects it at once.

NOTES AND PARAPHRASES

The Superior Man recognizes his duty and rectifies his mistakes. Or: "Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative."

Yi 13: recognizing The Asian Woman Nearing Fashion Island dream

Maybe/probably not Fashion Island so/but why did I kindasorta feel it was. No matter, I reckon. Regardless, she's approaching where I've parked the White Car. And approaching from behind, kindasorta. 

I am Waiting for her to arrive where I am parked.. She is Nearing.

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Yi 12: Christ's conundrum on the cross

 

Yi 11: how do people Quit Drinking

 

Hilary Barrett:

"The old Chinese character for 'retreat' shows a pig and footsteps on the road; perhaps this pig is running away so as not to be eaten. Retreat means withdrawing from what can harm you, or what might swallow you up: it is a way to keep yourself whole. So retreating creates success."

NOTES AND PARAPHRASES

Judgment: When carried out with shrewd discernment, Retreat is a strategy for success.

The Superior Man removes himself from disintegrating forces. He controls his weaknesses by maintaining his serious purpose.

DeKorne: With the possible exception of line two, there is very little ambiguity in the hexagram of Retreat. Without changing lines it is a clear injunction to remove yourself from an inferior situation, influence, emotion or way of thinking. The figure has certain affinities with hexagram number forty- four: Temptation which also depicts an inferior element encroaching from below.

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Yi 10: TAWIMD 2: Quit Drinking/Smoking

 TAWIMD 1

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Yi 9: TAWIMD 1: re my sense she is married

 The Asian Woman In My Dreams

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Yi 8: what most drives people to suicide

 

Hilary Barrett:

"In ancient China, ancestors angered by neglect would send sickness and misfortune. This is corruption: something dark, like a curse, lurking under the surface of life and manifesting as patterns of negative experience. We don't have to believe in angry ancestors to be haunted by corruption, whether we inherit its darkness from our past, our culture, or through our parents."

Yi 7: weaning re Quitting Drinking

 

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Yi 6: best i can do today

given that i don't want to do ANYthing...

Moon in Pisces CHECK.