I Ching - No.27 - I - 'Nourishment', by Faye Edmondson
I Ching - No.27 - I - 'Nourishment', by Faye Edmondson
This is the original watercolour painting. Picture size 81cm H x 53cm W.
*All the original works are mounted in black painted wooden frames and glazed.
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Interpretation.
Nourishment of oneself, regarding the body, is represented in the lower trigram , while the upper trigram represents nourishment and care of others in a higher, spiritual sense.
If we wish to know someone, we need only observe on whom he bestows his care and what sides of his own nature he develops and nourishes.
Words are a movement going from within outward. Eating and drinking are movements from without inward. These movement can be modified by tranquillity, keeping the words coming out of the mouth from exceeding proper measure and keeping the food going into the mouth from exceeding its proper level. In this way character is moulded.
The original impulses of the heart are always good, so that we may follow them confidently, assured of good fortune.
We should do every task for its own sake as time and place demand, and not with an eye to the result.
Sometimes undeserved misfortune befalls a man at the hands of another. In all transactions, no matter how innocent, we must accommodate ourselves to the demands of the time, otherwise unexpected misfortune overtakes us.