transmuting was (transmuting negativity)

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Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:19:49 -0700

Marcia Paul <jacpa

Re: transmuting negativity

 

Hello Marcia,

 

 

Antoine wrote:

> May I ask you Marcia, how with time, since then, the way you came "to

> take more of this" came to change? In order words do you see a

> difference with time to how "ignition" comes to burn into a life pattern

> for you?

 

 

<< Antonie, I believe that as well as other things that the I Ching

represents "states" of man and that it is possible with the proper

knowledge and understanding to change one's state. If you want ignition

you need combustion which means Fire. Fire is attention.

 

But I still have not answered your question have I? If I have seen that

it is possible to transmute a negative emotion if nothing else I know it

is possible. That in itself changes everything. I now know that a

different world exists. That establishes a different trajectory. Now 51%

of me rather than 49% of me is on the side of transmutation. >>

 

What if as percentage of you turns on the side of transmutation, at the

same time the object identified as "you" still grows in complexity,

subtlety, etc... Does not the understanding of the process of change of

state come to need to be understood all over again in it's cycle. A bit

like a 'spiraling' (to take a word i love when Holy uses it) "evolution"

or opening of who we think we are to what is.

 

Maybe that state of equilibrium and expansion, 'when 51% of me rather

than 49% of me is on the side of transmutation', can be represented in

the hexagrams:

 

63. Chi Chi / After Completion

 

above K'AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER

below LI THE CLINGING, FIRE

 

This hexagram is the evolution of T'ai PEACE (11). The transition

from

confusion to order is completed, and everything is in its proper place

even in

particulars. The strong lines are in the strong places, the weak

lines in the

weak places. This is a very favorable outlook, yet it gives reason

for thought.

For it is just when perfect equilibrium has been reached that any

movement

may cause order to revert to disorder. The one strong line that has

moved to

the top, thus effecting complete order in details, is followed by the

other lines.

Each moving according to its nature, and thus suddenly there arises

again the

hexagram P'i, STANDSTILL (12).

Hence the present hexagram indicates the conditions of a time of

climax,

which necessitate the utmost caution.

 

Until, a deeper skin of the onion that makes the difference between what

we believe as outside of one and inside of one, is found to explore,

after winter, in a new cycle called by the next hexagram, where it's

_49%_ of me rather than _51%_ of me is on the side of transmutation:

 

64. Wei Chi / Before Completion

 

above LI THE CLINGING, FLAME

below K'AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER

 

This hexagram indicates a time when the transition from disorder to

order is

not yet completed. The change is indeed prepared for, since all the

lines in

the upper trigram are in relation to those in the lower. However,

they are not

yet in their places. While the preceding hexagram offers an analogy

to

autumn, which forms the transition from summer to winter, this

hexagram

presents a parallel to spring, which leads out of winter's stagnation

into the

fruitful time of summer. With this hopeful outlook the Book of

Changes

come to its close.

 

And the spiral goes on,

 

I enjoy this exchange, so many fruits to taste from the Tree.

 

Love,

Antoine