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- “How should I interpret my physical symptoms?”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- “What point am I at right now?”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- “Without success<\/a>, I can not keep living. But success always includes some failure. How can I deal with this?”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- “What do I have to give up to be happy?”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A user asks the I Ching<\/a> about a medical procedure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Some Reflections<\/h2>\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nI find it surprising that – in my understanding – a certain disorientation speaks from all these<\/span> questions. Personally, I have always been amazed by the name of this <\/span>hexagram<\/span>: enthusiasm. How in the world can something like enthusiasm arise from the combination of Kun, <\/em><\/span>the <\/span><\/em>earth<\/em> (lower trigram<\/a>) and Zhen, <\/em><\/span>the <\/span><\/em>thunder<\/em> (<\/span>upper<\/span> trigram)?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is exactly this question – how does enthusiasm arise from Kun<\/em> and Zhen<\/em>? – <\/span>which <\/span>I asked myself <\/span>when <\/span>the answer literally crossed my path. <\/span>It crossed my path <\/span>in the form of an incident that made me <\/span>suddenly<\/span> understand how something like… enthusiasm!… <\/span>eventually <\/span>could <\/span>arise<\/span> from what the winding paths of the changing lines<\/a> suggest.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The story goes something like this: Quite a long time ago a damage was done to me, which I noticed only many years later. As a result, I broke off contact with the person in question. And then recently I run into someone I hadn’t seen in a very, very long time and <\/span>who knows the story and everyone involved. <\/span>That day we<\/span> talk<\/span>ed<\/span> about this and that, but then the <\/span>conversation<\/span> turn<\/span>ed<\/span> to this ancient story and… somehow I had the feeling that my counterpart wanted to sound me out <\/span>in the form of<\/span>: “Well, and how do you feel, as a victim?”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
At that very <\/span>moment I realized: I don’t want that <\/span>any more<\/span>. I <\/span>no longer want <\/span>see myself as a victim. Because that’s what I had done, for some time, <\/span>because<\/span> the damage had indeed been great, the <\/span>whole <\/span>thing <\/span>vile<\/span>. But I <\/span>had <\/span>worked it out for myself <\/span>since then<\/span>, intensively even, and at some point… yes, you can put it that way: <\/span>A<\/span>t some point I made my peace with it. The <\/span>chapter<\/span> was closed for me.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then this person comes and… wants to see me (again) as a victim. No thanks, no need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At that moment, the changing<\/span> lines <\/span>of the hexagram <\/span>made <\/span>suddenly <\/span>sense to me. I am in a place where I am at peace and comfortable (Kun, the earth<\/a><\/em>). The <\/span>victim story<\/span> lies<\/span> long behind, <\/span>is <\/span>worked through. And then someone speaks to me about the old incident and I realize: <\/span>H<\/span>ey, that’s not it anymore. The chapter “I, the victim” is <\/span>done with<\/span>. It’s no longer a description that applies to me. I am now much more than “the victim”… Voila: Gen, the mountain<\/a><\/em>, releasing what has become <\/span>obsolete<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, let’s follow the course of the changing lines even a bit further: What does it mean if I let go of the term “the victim”? And replace it with something else, perhaps with “the one who made it (anyway)”? Then, clearly, the glasses with which I look at the world change (Kan, the water<\/a><\/em>). I no longer see all the little episodes where I’ve been screwed, but I suddenly see… all that I’ve managed and overcome in my life. And instead of fear and worries<\/span>, I am suddenly filled with… enthusiasm ? in the face of the path <\/span>that lies ahead of me, the path<\/span> to<\/span>wards<\/span> myself (Zhen, the thunder<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n