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From the Wilhelm/Baynes:
...If mistrustful or unintelligent questioning is kept up, it serves only to annoy the teacher...and the chun tzu fosters character by thoroughness in all acts...the spring escapes stagnation by flowing on and filling up all the hollow places in its path...confusion with subsequent enlightenment...
It is not I who seek the young fool;
The young fool seeks me.
At the first oracle I inform him.
If he asks two or three times, it is importunity.
If he importunes, I give him no information.
Perseverance furthers....danger and standstill, this is folly...To strengthen what is right in a fool is a holy task...
13 in the Mawangdui..."beneficial to determine...the Karcher is so removed from the European assumptions, no hint of the first Tarot in its reading...arguably closer to Rumi's "Wean yourself,"
You ask the embryo why he, or she, stays cooped up
in the dark with eyes closed
Listen to the answer
There is no "other world."
I only know what I have experienced.
You must be hallucinating
Balkin almost makes it "out of the mouths of babes", but continues with "The wisdom that lies beneath the surface and can be brought out through education and proper training" and "Remember that your goal is to learn, not show off what you already know."
Then Professor Balkin sidetracks into theorizing about whether the references to importuning the oracle should be taken literally, "...there is no evidence that Meng is more likely to appear through random selection than is any other hexagram." I eschew the coins in no small part because there is much less of the random in the stalks, much more of the meditative, arbitrary, unconscious. A skilled diviner could indeed manipulate the stalks with relative ease, like forcing a card in a magic trick, and cause any given result. This is not that case with the coins. The possibility of such forcing, however, is part of what makes the stalk technique superior, not because it can be done, but because of the delicacy of approach required to avoid doing it, the intentional putting into abeyance one's ability to hear what one wishes to hear, similar to the 18 iterations of the cycle of not knowing (will the first half bundle yield big or little?) to knowing (given the results of the first bundle, the second bundle results serve as a check of our work and hold no mystery.) Balancing these states of certainty and uncertainty, willfulness and acceptance, such balancing is itself valuable, and cannot be acquired through flipping coins.
The reference to importuning, also, need not come on multiple consultations; it serves at an initial consultation to exhort the supplicant to take heed of the first casting, for it is better to meditate on the hexagram that comes up than to keep fishing for one that makes easy sense to us. If the first answer doesn't make sense supplementing it with more will often only cloud the issue. Recall, however, that there is at least one hexagram which, in essence says, "Ask again." Balance and timing in all things. Soon it will change.
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