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Following. The Balkin and the Mawangdui agree on which reading, although the are placed in different order. Balkin puts this at 17, the Mawangdui puts it as 47. They concur on the name, adjusted for orthographical followings. This might be a good point to mention that, on the heels of my comment last time about not knowing Balkin's sources, I was looking this morning at the "Bibliographical Essay" toward the end of the Balkin text which makes quite clear his sources. If his style is more wordy and Western than I would hope to achieve it is clearly a matter of studied choice rather than default as his research, if not fully exhaustive, was indeed extensive and incorporated everything on my paltry shelf and much more.
That said, Sui, or Following, but really "hunting/pursuing".
Very dissatisfied with the Balkin today, but equally with the almost absent Mawangdui which only says, "Following: Prime receipt; beneficial to determine; there is no trouble." How the hell that grows into the preachy feel goods of "follow your bliss" offered by Professor Balkin is beyond me.
What do the trigrams tell us? The joyous lake, Tui is above/outer. Thunder/the arousing is below/inner. Swelling energy withing, placid pleasantness without. Certainly that's a nice place to be.
Balkin says the word "Following" was originally "Hunt," with notions not of being a follower but of pursuing something. Balkin's reading is about the duty of leaders to serve their followers, but also the need to follow one's conscience. It puts me in mind of my discipline lecture. The root word for discipline is disciple, and those were the guys who gave up their worldly lives to pursue the gifts of heaven. Their leader was the world's quarry, eventually hunted and killed for sport, but willingly in service of that which he pursued. The loving Christ is the outer face, but mighty was his wrath inside the temple with the money changers. Hunting. Pursuing. Following. The arousing thunder within, the joyous lake without. There will be no trouble.
Soon it will change.
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