Hi there! So I'm new at the forum, so first of all: I'm so very glad about finding this community. It made me really happy. I'm from Argentina, and I started reading the book some months ago. I'm getting into it pretty deeply, and I decided that I'd try to do some kind of transcription/reinterpretation of the writings in the hexagrams, not to change their meaning, but more to expand the ideas with a different vocabulary and some ideas of my own. So, basically i wanted to share with you a couple of sentences i put together after analyzing the Sentence of Ch'ien, the Creative, and i was hoping you could give me some feedback on how i configured them, and if I'm too far away from the original concept.So the first Sentence, in richard willhelms version, traduced to spanish, uses 4 key words: elevated or great maybe? (elevado), accomplishment (logro). propitiate (propiciando) and perseverance (perseverancia).The first to keywords speak of the act of creation, and the 3rd and 4th speak of the conservation of the creation and of the act of creation itself, as far as i understood it. So, meditating on these words and on the sentence itself, i wrote the following:"Lo Creativo persevera en expandir las ideas y darles forma (propiciarlas) con su fuerza" "The Creative perseveres on expanding and forming the ideas (propitiate them) with his strenght"and/or "Lo Creativo expande las ideas y les da forma con su fuerza; crea lo que corresponde al TAO y en este obrar se muestra perseverante""The Creative expands and forms the ideas with his strenght; it creates what corresponds to the TAO and in this work it shows itself persevering (or, he perseveres in this work)"So, those are the two final sentences i've arrived to. If you'd like to read the whole interpretation on the abstraction of the hexagram tell me and i'll publish it here. It'd be in spanish though.
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