Drop your obstinacy trying to enforce your will. Impatience produces inner conflict. What you need will come in time.
Here a man is suffering from inner restlessness and cannot abide in his place. He would like to push forward under any circumstances, but encounters insuperable obstacles. Thus his situation entails an inner conflict. This is due to the obstinacy with which he seeks to enforce his will. If he would desist from this obstinacy, everything would go well. But this advice, like so much other good counsel, will be ignored. For obstinacy makes a man unable to hear, for all that he has ears.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 9 – Better to stop in time than to fill to the brim
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Meditation: LA135-19791029 Resolve Inner Conflict
Lecture and Meditation: Patience Pays – LA-19831020
Previous Readings:
A Deluge from Heaven: The issue must be raised before an impartial authority. SITUATION ANALYSIS: Your iron will must come to the forefront now. Your legs are torn and bleeding as you push heedlessly through the thorns toward your target. There is no skin on his thighs, Deep Waters in the Heavens: Great Success if you sincerely keep to your course. SITUATION ANALYSIS: You must now endure this Dangling — either a carrot before your nose, or a sword above your head.43 – Forty-Three. Kuai / Breakthrough
The Superior Person rains fortune upon those in need, then moves on with no thought of the good he does.
Be sincere and earnest, despite the danger.
Do not try to force the outcome, but seek support where needed.
Set a clear goal.
It will take great personal determination to resolve the situation in question.
Your adversary would love to force you into an angry display.
That would legitimize his opposition to you.
Such a berserker rage would drag you down to his level.
You must resolutely take a public stand against what he represents, but refuse to engage him.
Without compromise, you show others the way to higher ground.
Nine in the fourth place means:
If you would allow yourself to be led down the path of least resistance, you would reach your goal.
And walking comes hard.
If a man were to let himself be led like a sheep,
Remorse would disappear.
But if these words are heard
They will not be believed.
Here a man is suffering from inner restlessness and cannot abide in his place. He would like to push forward under any circumstances, but encounters insuperable obstacles. Thus his situation entails an inner conflict. This is due to the obstinacy with which he seeks to enforce his will. If he would desist from this obstinacy, everything would go well. But this advice, like so much other good counsel, will be ignored. For obstinacy makes a man unable to hear, for all that he has ears.
5 – Five. Hsü / Calculated Waiting
Thunderclouds approaching from the West, but no rain yet.
The Superior Person nourishes himself and remains of good cheer to condition himself for the moment of truth.
You may cross to the far shore.
This strange mix of apprehension and anticipation is a Purgatory.
There is nothing more you can do to affect the outcome.
You must now submit to the Fates.
