The energy of the kidneys is under the water sign. Now if one closes the eyes and, reversing the glance, directs it inward and looks at the room of the ancestors, that is the backward-flowing method. When both eyes are looking at things of the world it is with vision directed outward. The marriage of K’an and Li is the secret magical process which produces the child, the new man… It represents the region of eros, while Li stands for logos. It dwells in the eyes, forms the protecting circle, and brings about rebirth… The trigram K’an: water, the Abysmal, is the opposite of Li, as is already shown in its outer structure. The trigram Li: sun, fire, the lucid, the Clinging, plays a great role in this religion of light. If we want to know what these workings are, we need a method of inquiry which imposes the fewest possible conditions, or if possible no conditions at all, and then leaves Nature to answer out of her fullness.Ĭontinue reading → C.G.Jung I Ching 64. The workings of Nature in her unrestricted wholeness are completely excluded. For this purpose there is created in the laboratory a situation which is artificially restricted to the question and which compels Nature to give an unequivocal answer. She is prevented from answering out of the fullness of her possibilities since these possibilities are restricted as far as practicable. It makes conditions, imposes them on Nature, and in this way forces her to give an answer to a question devised by man. Experiment, however, consists in asking a definite question which excludes as far as possible anything disturbing and irrelevant. This grasping of the whole is obviously the aim of science as well, but it is a goal that necessarily lies very far off because science, whenever possible, proceeds experimentally and in all cases statistically. The I Ching, which we can well call the experimental foundation of classical Chinese philosophy, is one of the oldest known methods for grasping a situation as a whole and thus placing the details against a cosmic background-the interplay of Yin and Yang. Judgment must therefore rely much more on the irrational functions of consciousness, that is on sensation (the “sens du réel”) and intuition (perception by means of subliminal contents). For obvious reasons, a cognitive operation of this kind is impossible to the unaided intellect. Unlike the Greek-trained Western mind, the Chinese mind does not aim at grasping details for their own sake, but at a view which sees the detail as part of a whole. The I Ching, which we can well call the experimental foundation of classical Chinese philosophy, is one of the oldest known methods for grasping a situation as a whole and thus placing the details against a cosmic background.
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