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This is from the notes section in my online Gua Ming book. There are differences between the Bagua Kan and the Gua: Notes: Rather than simply overreacting to the words Peril, Danger or Abyss, try asking instead: what is it that is deliberately and enthusiastically sought by people who climb about in these deep canyons and boat right through the white water rapids. There is a fullhearted commitment to the process of surviving, to the passing of this trial. There is a great simplicity in having most of our options removed by serious constraints to the path or the route ahead. The senses sharpen, the heart pounds, the whole being responds to the challenge by waking up, being more fully alive. It's a Risk, but it's life learning more about life and what it is capable of. There's also this from the Bagua section in my first book: The Symbolism: Kan, as water in action, cutting a river canyon or filling a pit, symbolizes a fluid response to context, the deliberate changing of self and shape to meet needs and necessities. From above, the human perspective, there arise feelings in the pit of the stomach, and a pounding of the heart, when one wishes to cross this tricky ground, the challenge ahead. The point is, of course, that the teacher is at work below, patient yet opportunistic. The solution to the problem ahead is not a single leap in a single direction, but a series of risks, decisions and choices. These will call upon memory, second-hand if not first, and concentration, meaning to locate oneself around something central, such as ones courage, heart or balance. 29.M, Key Words Repeated, multiple, familiar with + crisis, risk, hazard, peril, exigency, trial, danger Pit, chasm, canyon, gorge, strait, test; living on the edge, the way out is through Immerse, plunge in, undergo, commit, fall to, get involved; fear, vertigo, anxiety Concentration, alertness, challenge, unarguable constraints, the will to live, heart Flow, waters approach to givens, necessity to perform; fluidity, grace, courage Enlightening confrontations, the hard fact as teacher; Castanedas having to believe