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Outside boundaries, thunder within. Stoic and calm in one's presentation to the world, but electrified power in one's inner world, driving one to ever new achievement.
Like the previous hexagram, the pattern here begs to be interpreted as a whole rather than merely as the sum of the two trigrams, but such interpretations are suspect despite being the focus of the received text. Perhaps it is a difference between a particulate representation of language such as English versus a pictographic representation of language such as Chinese. I am increasingly inclined to think the hexagram names started life as mnemonics and only accreted their interpretive meanings after students "lost quotes" on the process. But I have similar views about mnemonics in Western tradition too, and the magic that makes something memorable can seem more important than that which was to be remembered. We are good at losing track of the levels at which we intended to operate.
If we wish to know what anyone is like, we have only to observe on whom he bestows his care and what sides of his own nature he cultivates and nourishes...tranquility keeps the words that come out of the mouth from exceeding proper measure, and keeps the food that goes into the mouth from exceeding its proper measure.
Terribly unimpressed by this hexagram as treated. The Willhelm/Baynes reading is barely a page of text, this despite the attractive memorability of the hexagram pattern. Ah, but the particulate, the elemental, the inner/outer of the trigrams. Today we see the value of starting with basics. Truly learn the trigrams and any reading is simple in terms of inner and outer.
This is also a good time to look at the "nuclear" trigrams, that is, the trigrams formed by lines 2-4 and 3-5. In this case they are both K'un, and so we get a "nuclear hexagram" of K'un as well. Despite my preference for the elementalistic analysis, I don't much like this term, "nuclear". Consider, then, that each hexagram is a manifest public trigram layered on top of a manifest private trigram, but in the building of the hexagram from the bottom up we pass through the inner or transitory trigrams traditionally called "nuclear". What really tickles me about this description is it seems to call for a new axis of movement for which I lack a word. Maybe it's because so much of the discussion is of binary events, inner outer, static or changing. But this view sees a total of four trigrams created as the six lines are determined, lines 1-3 being the base, the foundation, the most enduring and tangible core related to the essential self of the person for whom the casting is done. Lines 2-4 represent a transitional trigram, lower and thus older, closer to the source, the root of things than what follows, but removed from the "inner" trigram of lines 1-3. One could even take a four line reading and derive a hexagram from it using these two trigrams. But the addition of the fifth line permits analysis of a third trigram of lines 3-5, and allows of two more hexagrams, one consisting of the initial trigram under that of lines 3-5, another consisting of the trigram of lines 2-4 under that of lines 3-5. The first of these could be considered more strongly rooted in nature, being built on the first three lines, but the interaction of trigrams in the second could be considered in some ways more robust as there is more overlap of lines. Add the sixth line and now there are four trigrams from which to build no fewer than six trigram pairs, with the traditional pair from which we determine "the" hexagram arguably viewed as where the energy enters and departs into the world of the supplicant and the other five allowing for a sense of progression from entry to exit even where there are no changing lines. This, then, is the aspect which seems to call for a third dimension, a third distinction, something like the inner/outer and changing/static distinctions which is both and neither.
I. Space, my Lord, is height and breadth indefinitely prolonged.
STRANGER. Exactly: you see you do not even know what Space is. You think it is of Two Dimensions only; but I have come to announce to you a Third --- height, breadth, and length.
I. Your Lordship is pleased to be merry. We also speak of length and height, or breadth and thickness, thus denoting Two Dimensions by four names.
STRANGER. But I mean not only three names, but Three Dimensions.
I. Would your Lordship indicate or explain to me in what direction is the Third Dimension, unknown to me?
STRANGER. I came from it. It is up above and down below.
I. My Lord means seemingly that it is Northward and Southward.
STRANGER. I mean nothing of the kind. I mean a direction in which you cannot look, because you have no eye in your side.
(excerpted from E.A. Abbott's "Flatland")
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