I Ching hexagram 40
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I Ching hexagram 40, depicted :|:|:: is named 解 (xie4), Taking-Apart. Other translations: R. Wilhelm/C. Baynes, Deliverance; E. Shaughnessy (Mawangdui), Untangled.
- Inner (lower) trigram is ☵ (:|: 坎 kan3) Gorge = (水) water
- Outer (upper) trigram is ☳ (|:: 震 zhen4) Shake = (雷) thunder
- The trigrams can be read bottom to top as "With containment (water in lower) comes awareness (thunder in upper)"
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[edit] The Self-Referencing I Ching : using the I Ching to describe itself
The following material is drawn from analysis of the binary sequence of the hexagrams where the hexagrams are derived from recursion of yin/yang and so showing a property of the method - the hexagrams are all linked together and contribute to the expression of, the description of, each hexagram.
- The skeletal form of hexagram 40 is described by analogy to the under-exaggerated properties of hexagram 38 where we have a generic focus on resolving issues of 'stress', oppositions etc. In 40 there is 'sudden' tension release (the association with the breaking of heat through a summer thunderstorm etc)
