5 Koshas and hexagram #23

[Kain]

Here's a question I have...

In the mirror "5 Koshas (http://www.abrahadabra.com/five.koshas.htm)", utilization of hexagram #23, "Splitting Apart", is made due to it's appropriateness for depicting the mirror's mainly pronounced characteristics. I've always wondered though, in what way is that?

I can see the viewpoint of 5 "sheaths" being depicted as Yin lines due to their principles of form (and also essential passivity in relation to the directive tendencies of Apex) and of course the sixth line, being at Apex, being also portrayed as a Yang line. Thus far, it is clear to me. In traditional chinese hexagrammal interpretation however, since hexagrams are built bottom to top, such a hexagrammal configuration is defined as one where the Yin element has sequentially grown so much as to being one step before it's total "reign"...in short, the next evolutionary step will be the fall of Yang off the hexagrammal structutre (until it's eventual re-building up and growth, in the same fashion as Yin originally outgrew it). This is why this one is called "Splitting Apart", or "Falling Away" as Alfred Huang alternatively translated hexagram #23.

So, returning to my question, given the above, in what way is "Splitting Apart" related to the 5 Koshas mirror as a representative hexagram of the situation depicted?

Thanks in advance,

Kain

[m1thr0s]

hey...good question!

I can always count on you for that it would seem. In this instance the choice of Hexagram 23 was purely exemplary as defining a maximum ascension inertia itself. In a more technical sense, any of the hexagrams might suffice equally as well to demonstate different aspects of the Koshas...they are ultimately all on an even footing this way and no one is supremely best suited over another.

And this is where we begin to look at all the hexagrams as vital energy guides and also look to the pairing of opposites as a preferable approach to their assertions in general. Viewed as a balanced pair we would either want to work with hex's 23 & 24 (vertical opposites) or 23 & 43 (horizontal opposites) as being the most apparent "stable" pairs available to us...yet pairing itself is a very diverse methodology and we might also consider pairing (binary) hexagrams with running lines to their "changing" hexagrams as a third dynamic possibility in which case literally any hexagram can be potentially paired with any other...

And of course we always have the Nuclears to fall back on as the undercurrent pathways endemic to all the hexagrams in total...

So in this instance Hex #23 was simply deemed exemplary of ascending force in general with no other hidden agenda going on than that really.

edit: as a side-note I should also include that I have never been satisfied with the lack of running lines in the ternary system...even though there is a certain amount of justification for it owing to the forward manifestation of the Jen principle in lines themselves. Nevertheless, the practitioner in me reviles at the loss of freedom that derives from being free to mix & match pairs according to some underscoring principle of internal motion. I have a few ideas on how to restore that to the Ternaries themselves since a lot depends on how you "count" the line values. Using 3 10-sided dice, for instance, I am able to get both line values on a single toss of dice, by counting only odds & evens on the one side coupled with numerical reductions on the other. Jens of course will always flip over to Jens but Yin and Yang lines will still revert to their opposites using this method so again, we have the possibility of any hexagram resolving into any other (well, sort of, since neither yins or yangs can resolve into Jens this way and vice-versa) In any case I will save that conversation for another time.

m1thr0s

[Kain]

Thanks m1thr0s...I appreciate the remark. I see...that's an interesting aspect of "Splitting Apart" you bring up by the way, that of maximum ascension inertia. I hadn't seen it this way, more like staying on it's "staying" potential by ruling Yang out of the picture. The hexagrams are depicting quite complex phenomena if you're open to them however, so yeah, you're right, it does also present us with a quite obvious passive-ascending motion which is quite auspicious in a way.

Yes, working with those pairs would seem most appropriate, I agree. By the way, concerning your edit note, that's a very interesting system. I think you've expounded on it elsewhere at some point as I am aware of it, although it would be a good thing to bring up more formally whenever you feel the time is appropriate.

Kain

[MythMath]

I'm on a mission to type the word ternary
at least once a day until I understand why... :o_O:

[m1thr0s]

I'm on a mission to type the word ternary
at least once a day until I understand why... :o_O:when I started this work some years ago the word "trinary" was in almost no dictionaries and when it did appear would usually reference its use as an astrological term, such as in a "trinary aspect" etc...

I always preferred the term trinary to the more conventional ternary but elected to make every effort to speak in terms available to the rest of the english speaking world whenever possible. When you are introducing a lot of new ideas and terms in general, competent use of conventional ones is usually a reasonable indicator that you do at least comprehend the english language as spoken by hundreds of millions of people...

today the word trinary is making inroads as it has been picked up by a growing number of mathematicians pioneering trinary computer language systems etc...so who knows...learning to use the word ternary may be a moot point within another 5-10 years or so anyway...

m1thr0s