The Seba library treats Cart in 4 passages, across 3 authors (including Thomas Cleary, Liu Yiming, Liu I-ming, Shapiro, Francine).
The wheels are detached from the cart; husband and wife look away from each other. When strength acts on its own and one is self-centered and inconsiderate of others, this turns away from harmony and loses balance, sure to end in ruination of strength.
Liu I-ming treats the detached cart-wheels as a primary symbol for the psychological and relational ruin that follows from self-centered action and the loss of harmony between firmness and flexibility.
, The Taoist I Ching, 1986thesis
Coming gradually, exhausted in a golden cart; shame has an end. One comes gradually, as it were, ‘exhausted in a gold cart,’ and there is shame. However… if one comes gradually, one will eventually achieve one’s aim.
The image of being ‘exhausted in a golden cart’ figures the slow, incremental overcoming of impasse through patient endurance rather than direct force.
, The Taoist I Ching, 1986supporting
Exhaustion means reaching an impasse… joy comes out of danger — so it also has the sense of resolving exhaustion, resolving an impasse.
The hexagram Exhaustion contextualizes the cart imagery within a broader teaching about the polishing of body and mind through difficulty, providing the interpretive frame in which the golden cart passage acquires its depth-psychological resonance.
, The Taoist I Ching, 1986supporting
His ‘office’ was a big closet where the school stored textbooks and a media cart left over from the days when projectors were high-tech.
The cart here is a mundane object in a clinical narrative, carrying no symbolic weight but marking the improvised therapeutic settings in which depth-oriented work with traumatized children takes place.
, Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy, 2012aside