Hello there!
I was recently reading the Sorrell's I Ching book (the auto-biographical "real-life stories" behind each hexagram), and was a bit surprised to see how, for some time, they used the IC in order to make money in the stock market, trading goods.
This made me question myself about the morals behind using the IC in order to make money (I have since read another thread in here about the morals of questioning some other person's feelings, but wanted to push this a bit further, or in another direction).
I really want to point out first of all that I'm not making a judgement here, I'm not saying that it is wrong, I am just trying to understand if there is a "rule" about how our own morals affect the readings (for example, maybe it was working for them because they planned to use that money for a good cause? and if someone else was asking out of sheer greed, maybe it wouldn't have worked?). Proof that I'm not judging: I've also asked finance-related questions (even in this forum!), about my company (that sells my art), but since it is related to my passion and helps me make a living out of it that didn't feel 'wrong' to me. However trading goods in the stock market (someone invariably will lose the money that you earn) didn't seem right to me, but again, maybe it depends on how it sounds to the person asking the question?
So my point is: there are questions that we would all agree are immoral to ask to the IC, but there are others that are not so clear. What is the common ground that all questions should share, morally speaking?
I have this feeling that IC works (like everything in the universe) with whatever vibrates. Passion vibrates, love vibrates, ambition vibrates. Money is just an object, it is dead, per se, it doesn't have a vibration, so the IC will not deal well with that. Also, greed is a negative feeling, I guess that also vibrates negatively and wouln't be taken in to account correctly by the Universe, or the IC... well that is just my 5cents about that, what are your opinions?
Thank you
I was recently reading the Sorrell's I Ching book (the auto-biographical "real-life stories" behind each hexagram), and was a bit surprised to see how, for some time, they used the IC in order to make money in the stock market, trading goods.
This made me question myself about the morals behind using the IC in order to make money (I have since read another thread in here about the morals of questioning some other person's feelings, but wanted to push this a bit further, or in another direction).
I really want to point out first of all that I'm not making a judgement here, I'm not saying that it is wrong, I am just trying to understand if there is a "rule" about how our own morals affect the readings (for example, maybe it was working for them because they planned to use that money for a good cause? and if someone else was asking out of sheer greed, maybe it wouldn't have worked?). Proof that I'm not judging: I've also asked finance-related questions (even in this forum!), about my company (that sells my art), but since it is related to my passion and helps me make a living out of it that didn't feel 'wrong' to me. However trading goods in the stock market (someone invariably will lose the money that you earn) didn't seem right to me, but again, maybe it depends on how it sounds to the person asking the question?
So my point is: there are questions that we would all agree are immoral to ask to the IC, but there are others that are not so clear. What is the common ground that all questions should share, morally speaking?
I have this feeling that IC works (like everything in the universe) with whatever vibrates. Passion vibrates, love vibrates, ambition vibrates. Money is just an object, it is dead, per se, it doesn't have a vibration, so the IC will not deal well with that. Also, greed is a negative feeling, I guess that also vibrates negatively and wouln't be taken in to account correctly by the Universe, or the IC... well that is just my 5cents about that, what are your opinions?
Thank you