Oct 22 24
Strength (reversed)
59. Dispersion [Dissolution]
57. The Gentle (The Penetrating, Wind)
These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)
From “M.S.”: We are very tired of the world, life, other people and ourself — we would appreciate any advice as what to do? To be a bit specific, we are tired of learning about dead children (both in war and generally). We’re tired of thinking “where is all this headed?” every second of the day. We’re tired of news people and tired of the endless stupidity of the unproductive negative “discourse” they create. We are tired of the expensive (both environmentally and financially) imbedded obsolesces of technological hardware (phones, laptops, cords, etc.) and tired of the executives who pretend they don’t implement these transcendentally wicked blights. We are tired of our love of processed foods and tired of thinking about the deadly cell growth that it may cause. We’re tired of the gossip parading as philosophy. We are tired of our own infinite bad habits. We are tired of the constant middling to severe hatred of our own body. We are tired of everyone’s insane confidence in their perspectives. We are tired of all the urges and memories. We’re tired of not being able to get our true projects off the ground. We’re tired of the death of books (because of what that death really means — namely the death of humans being able to think improvisationally and the subsequent ability of corporations to be able to turn human heads into a network of unthinking actual corporate nodes). We’re tired of the sanctimony of the Right. We’re tired of the sanctimony of the Left. We are tired of porn and all of the sad soul crushing spokes that radiate out from it (tired of the people who say its amoral and tired of the people who rationalize it). We’re tired of the steady replacement of good mornings and hellos with something akin to either blank paranoia or legitimized easy avoidance (the foolish thought that we’ve entered a new era of independence where quotidian kindness is somehow unnecessary). We’re tired of thinking about what people are going to do if Harris wins. We’re tired of thinking about what people are going to do if Trump wins. We’re tired of the fake stories we tell ourself to make sense of a story-less universe (the endless single perspective anthropomorphism). We’re tired of feeling like we’re stuck in a perpetual home room world right before a school shooting (or the week after). Tired of people mostly only taking on easy targets. Tired of that grotesque thing in everyone’s hand. Tired of people being told to love themselves but it really being a trick by businesses and governments to get everyone to consume more. Tired of the hoards of Facebook vampires, Instagram vampires, YouTube vampires, X vampires, TikTok vampires, Twitch vampires, Snapchat vampires, LinkedIn vampires, Reddit vampires, Discord vampires, WhatsApp vampires, and their hoards of stupid familiars. Tired of our own complaining and its closed reverberations and shrill feedback. Tired of the fake battle between tradition and newness (they’re really inseparable, inter-defining and indistinguishable).
We know “the race begins when you’re tired,” etc. and we know that many situations are far worse than our own but... 🤷♀️
(Surprisingly we’re not tired of scenarios like wind blowing through the leaves of trees in defunct and forgotten parking lots...)
“The soul’s weariness is the precursor to its renewal.”
It seems you must get away and go somewhere un-networked; a place beyond where you only see manifest corporate/profit intrusion. It may take a moment to figure this out. But it can’t just be a purchase of a ticket to a magnificent landscape or whatever, it must be a real attempt to get beyond your “understandings” — maybe it’s not a physical place at all. Perhaps it’s meditation (likely at least part of it). It might be the reading of a significant book from cover to cover without apology. Maybe it’s death.
You must reconnect with the truth of not knowing. Fatigue and belief are inextricably linked. You must break apart the weariness of your calcified knowledge and be “shaken by awe in the face of eternity.“
It is a world of opinions only on the surface. Try to unveil the inviolable, innocent strength that pulses through all things in this world whether processed foods, the clothes journalists wear, the patterns of thoughts in your head, or the patterns of currents in the oceans.
Perhaps you should strive to see all things in the manner in which you see the “wind blowing through the leaves of trees in defunct and forgotten parking lots.” That definitely seems a good start.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled Power card (reversed). A connection to the concealed, inviolable, innocent strength of this world has been severed. One’s proper/healthy function is at risk without its restoration (or, at least, without the journey towards its restoration).
Our first hexagram this week is 59, Dispersion (Dissolution). “When a person’s vital energy is dammed up within them… gentleness serves to break up and dissolve the blockage.” “Here the subject is the dispersing and dissolving of divisive egotism.” “Through hardness and selfishness the heart grows rigid, and this rigidity leads to separation from all others. Egotism and cupidity isolate people. Therefore the hearts of people must be seized by a devout emotion… must be shaken by awe in face of eternity.” The point here is the dissolving of barriers, of rigidity. A dissolution that reconstitutes the individual with the all else — like joining, melding. That is, to break apart a biased clinging, so as to let in a kind of humble but deep, appreciation of the cosmos of self as well as the outer cosmos. This likely will require a visit to a personage, place or scenario of greatness (visiting a holy person, climbing a mountain, helping to build something of civic/healthful significance, etc.).
There was one change this week of which the specific note is: at times, to achieve a great thing, the weight of personal objects must be eschewed, so that the momentum of the object can be pursued.
Our second hexagram or how best to meet the changes is #57, The Gentle (The Penetrating, Wind). “Penetration produces gradual and inconspicuous effects. It should be effected not by an act of violation but by influence that never lapses. Results of this kind are less striking to the eye than those won by surprise attack, but they are more enduring and more complete. If one is to produce such effects, one must have a clearly defined goal, for only when the penetrating influence works always in the same direction can the object be attained.” To be effective one’s conduct should not be glamorous, scattered or scheming; it must be genuine and persistent, that is, continually strive to be true and clear.
- A reconnection to the concealed, inviolable, innocent strength of this world must be established.
- Make a pilgrimage to a personage, place or scenario of greatness.
- To achieve a good and serious goal, one’s conduct should not be glamorous, scattered or scheming, but always striving to be genuine (it is a continual journey not an arrival).
From “M.S.”: We are very tired of the world, life, other people and ourself — we would appreciate any advice as what to do? To be a bit specific, we are tired of learning about dead children (both in war and generally). We’re tired of thinking “where is all this headed?” every second of the day. We’re tired of news people and tired of the endless stupidity of the unproductive negative “discourse” they create. We are tired of the expensive (both environmentally and financially) imbedded obsolesces of technological hardware (phones, laptops, cords, etc.) and tired of the executives who pretend they don’t implement these transcendentally wicked blights. We are tired of our love of processed foods and tired of thinking about the deadly cell growth that it may cause. We’re tired of the gossip parading as philosophy. We are tired of our own infinite bad habits. We are tired of the constant middling to severe hatred of our own body. We are tired of everyone’s insane confidence in their perspectives. We are tired of all the urges and memories. We’re tired of not being able to get our true projects off the ground. We’re tired of the death of books (because of what that death really means — namely the death of humans being able to think improvisationally and the subsequent ability of corporations to be able to turn human heads into a network of unthinking actual corporate nodes). We’re tired of the sanctimony of the Right. We’re tired of the sanctimony of the Left. We are tired of porn and all of the sad soul crushing spokes that radiate out from it (tired of the people who say its amoral and tired of the people who rationalize it). We’re tired of the steady replacement of good mornings and hellos with something akin to either blank paranoia or legitimized easy avoidance (the foolish thought that we’ve entered a new era of independence where quotidian kindness is somehow unnecessary). We’re tired of thinking about what people are going to do if Harris wins. We’re tired of thinking about what people are going to do if Trump wins. We’re tired of the fake stories we tell ourself to make sense of a story-less universe (the endless single perspective anthropomorphism). We’re tired of feeling like we’re stuck in a perpetual home room world right before a school shooting (or the week after). Tired of people mostly only taking on easy targets. Tired of that grotesque thing in everyone’s hand. Tired of people being told to love themselves but it really being a trick by businesses and governments to get everyone to consume more. Tired of the hoards of Facebook vampires, Instagram vampires, YouTube vampires, X vampires, TikTok vampires, Twitch vampires, Snapchat vampires, LinkedIn vampires, Reddit vampires, Discord vampires, WhatsApp vampires, and their hoards of stupid familiars. Tired of our own complaining and its closed reverberations and shrill feedback. Tired of the fake battle between tradition and newness (they’re really inseparable, inter-defining and indistinguishable).
We know “the race begins when you’re tired,” etc. and we know that many situations are far worse than our own but... 🤷♀️
(Surprisingly we’re not tired of scenarios like wind blowing through the leaves of trees in defunct and forgotten parking lots...)
“The soul’s weariness is the precursor to its renewal.”
It seems you must get away and go somewhere un-networked; a place beyond where you only see manifest corporate/profit intrusion. It may take a moment to figure this out. But it can’t just be a purchase of a ticket to a magnificent landscape or whatever, it must be a real attempt to get beyond your “understandings” — maybe it’s not a physical place at all. Perhaps it’s meditation (likely at least part of it). It might be the reading of a significant book from cover to cover without apology. Maybe it’s death.
You must reconnect with the truth of not knowing. Fatigue and belief are inextricably linked. You must break apart the weariness of your calcified knowledge and be “shaken by awe in the face of eternity.“
It is a world of opinions only on the surface. Try to unveil the inviolable, innocent strength that pulses through all things in this world whether processed foods, the clothes journalists wear, the patterns of thoughts in your head, or the patterns of currents in the oceans.
Perhaps you should strive to see all things in the manner in which you see the “wind blowing through the leaves of trees in defunct and forgotten parking lots.” That definitely seems a good start.
Complete Reading
This week we pulled Power card (reversed). A connection to the concealed, inviolable, innocent strength of this world has been severed. One’s proper/healthy function is at risk without its restoration (or, at least, without the journey towards its restoration).
Our first hexagram this week is 59, Dispersion (Dissolution). “When a person’s vital energy is dammed up within them… gentleness serves to break up and dissolve the blockage.” “Here the subject is the dispersing and dissolving of divisive egotism.” “Through hardness and selfishness the heart grows rigid, and this rigidity leads to separation from all others. Egotism and cupidity isolate people. Therefore the hearts of people must be seized by a devout emotion… must be shaken by awe in face of eternity.” The point here is the dissolving of barriers, of rigidity. A dissolution that reconstitutes the individual with the all else — like joining, melding. That is, to break apart a biased clinging, so as to let in a kind of humble but deep, appreciation of the cosmos of self as well as the outer cosmos. This likely will require a visit to a personage, place or scenario of greatness (visiting a holy person, climbing a mountain, helping to build something of civic/healthful significance, etc.).
There was one change this week of which the specific note is: at times, to achieve a great thing, the weight of personal objects must be eschewed, so that the momentum of the object can be pursued.
Our second hexagram or how best to meet the changes is #57, The Gentle (The Penetrating, Wind). “Penetration produces gradual and inconspicuous effects. It should be effected not by an act of violation but by influence that never lapses. Results of this kind are less striking to the eye than those won by surprise attack, but they are more enduring and more complete. If one is to produce such effects, one must have a clearly defined goal, for only when the penetrating influence works always in the same direction can the object be attained.” To be effective one’s conduct should not be glamorous, scattered or scheming; it must be genuine and persistent, that is, continually strive to be true and clear.