Antoine/transmuting was (transmuting negativity)

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Hi Antoine,

 

You know Antoine it is really an exact science if

one knows how to read it. And if one can read it

then it becomes possible to manipulate it. (I think).

 

My friend James gave me something once which has

proven quite interesting. I have been working with it

for a year now at least. Maybe you would appreciate

it.

 

In each trigram there are three positions and in each

position there is one of two possibilities. This makes

for a possible eight states as follows.

 

Consciousness explores Abstraction, and the result is

strength and creativity, Sky/Heaven, + + +

 

Consciousness considers Matter and the result is

Attention and awareness, Fire, + - +

 

Consciousness focusses on Matter and the result

is Stillness and stopping, Mountain, + - -

 

Consciousness works with Abstraction and the result

is Initiative and action, Thunder, + + -

 

Feeling sinks into Matter and the result is Receptivity

and docility, Earth, - - -

 

Thought works with Matter and the result is Penetration

and following, Wind/Wood, - - +

 

Feelings encounter Abstractions and the result

Passion and danger, Water, - + -

 

Thoughts play with Abstractions and the result is

Joy and attraction, Lake/Sea, - + +

 

So for instance if you consciously explore an abstraction you

will end up with creativity and if you switch to consciously

considering something concrete you will end up with awareness

or attention. Try it sometime. Consciously explore an abstraction

and watch the creative ideas come into your mentation system.

Then switch to consciously considering something concrete and

watch the resulting awareness. If you connect feeling wise with

abstraction then passion arises and then if you switch to thinking

about an abstraction joy enters. After awhile you begin to notice

exactly what is going on in yourself and others. It takes some of

the carmel crispies out of it if you know what I mean. :-)

 

Marcia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Antoine wrote:

> Antoine <carrea

>

> Message: 10

> 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

>

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