Light and Dark

[Limahong]

Just now, Marblehead said:

I represent only myself.

 

Then let us wait for TDB to comment on - 'highlight' and 'Quote this'.

[Marblehead]

I'm in no hurry.  Not planning on leaving the house today.

 

[Limahong]

19 minutes ago, Marblehead said:

But then, I have never failed (as far as I know) to clarify myself when questioned.

 

I am clarifying...

[Marblehead]

Just now, Limahong said:

 

I am clarifying...

I know.

 

I will remain out of it for now.

 

[Limahong]

6 minutes ago, Marblehead said:

I'm in no hurry.

 

It is now 2:17 AM at my end.

Edited July 26, 2018 by Limahong

[Limahong]

24 minutes ago, Marblehead said:

Not planning on leaving the house today.

 

I am going to sleep. Good night. Good day.

 

 

 

[Marblehead]

Have a nice sleep. C U Later.

 

[Limahong]

31 minutes ago, Marblehead said:

I will remain out of it for now.

 

Wait a minute...

 

 

Zzzzz...

[Limahong]

On 7/25/2018 at 7:04 PM, Wu Ming Jen said:

‘The sun and the moon act as the changes,
softness and hardness mutually push each other’. 

(as starjumper never said creation and the written classics is very pornographic in nature)

 

Hi Wu Ming Jen,

 

Starjumper has Primal Virtue...

 

 

He creates without claiming.

 

Paternity is not in his vocabulary.

 

Pornography? I am not sure.

 

Primal Virtue... more than words -

 

 

 

- LimA

[Lost in Translation]

I placed this in my PPD but perhaps it should also be posted here...

 

 

10 minutes ago, Lost in Translation said:

TELL ME ABOUT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LIGHT AND THE DARK.

 

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#15 ䷎ CHIEN/MODESTY/HUMILITY

 

The image of Mountain hidden beneath Earth. The Mountain, made of stone, represents stillness and quiet strength. This great strength is cloaked behind the softness of Earth. At its core is swift movement and penetrating power. The third line, being bright, rules. But the third line does directly represent the prince, rather it represents the hidden aspect of the prince - his shadow self, so to speak. Like the Mountain, this shadow self carries strength while remaining cloaked within the deceptively soft and yielding Earth.

 

MODESTY represents the balancing of things. The great is decreased while the scarce is increased. In this way all things come to fruition.

 

#36 ䷣ MING I/DARKENING OF THE LIGHT

 

The image of Fire lay shrouded in Earth. The Fire, bright and illuminating, clings to the Earth for its survival. Without the Earth to give fuel it would perish. In this way the Light depends upon the Earth to protect and shelter it. The hidden aspect of the prince has acquired an ally in the now firm first line. This ally is a hopeful omen.

 

MARRIAGE OF THE LIGHT AND THE DARK

 

The Light, represented alternately by the Mountain or Fire, remains shrouded inside the Dark, represented by the Earth. In the first instance the Light, filled with strength and speed, hid within the Dark as it lay in wait. In the second instance the Light, dependent and clinging, seeks shelter within the Dark while it seeks and finds allies. In this manner we see the movement of strength from Light to Dark and the alternating purpose of Dark, first as concealment then as protection.

 

 

[Lost in Translation]

I recently heard the phrase "Light and Shadow" during a discussion about eclipses. I very much like that wording since it brings clarity to what is otherwise a murky concept. From now on I shall strive to use the word shadow in place of the word darkness.

Edited January 13, 2019 by Lost in Translation

[whitesilk]

On 7/18/2018 at 12:12 AM, Lost in Translation said:

1. The Master said: The Creative and the Receptive are indeed the gateway to the Changes. The Creative is the representative of the light things and the Receptive of dark things. In that the natures of the dark and the light are joined, the firm and the yielding receive form. Thus do the relationships of heaven and earth take shape, and we enter into relation with the nature of the light of the gods. (Wilhelm/Baynes, The I Ching, 1950 Bollingen Foundation, Inc. pps. 343-344)

 

Right now I am 'having a kick' in the labeling of positive and negative areas of time. I perceive time linearly. The ebb and flow of a positive, creative, light time and a negative, dark receptive time has helped be to find center amongst change.

[Lost in Translation]

Let's see if we can resurrect this thread...

 

Light and Shadow: the shadow is a hardening, a coalescing of will around a kernel of fear that grows, nurtured by ego. Shadows collects shadow, gathers likeness to itself. It looks away from Light, afraid of what it sees. It hides itself in the shade of its own creation, tells itself lies until it no longer knows truth.

[Lost in Translation]

I have wrapped myself in shadow.

 

I called it intelligence. I called it sarcasm. I called it righteous indignation.

 

In reality it was fear. It was the cry of a small child, calling out to his mother in the night.