When you come upon the means for improving the situation, avoid taking an overzealous approach to implementing it. People will adopt your methods once they become their new habits.
Meditation: 760422 – Balancing Projection with Intention
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Tao Te Ching – Verse 41 – When a superior man hears of the Tao, he immediately begins to embody it
36 – Thirty-Six Ming I / Eclipsing the Light
Warmth and Light are swallowed by Deep Darkness:
The Superior Person shows his brilliance by keeping it veiled among the masses.
Stay true to your course, despite the visible obstacles ahead.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
This time calls for a saintly effort to turn the other cheek.
You have been deliberately injured.
Going blow-for-blow will only escalate this war.
Abstain from vengeance.
Show all watching that you are above it.
Sidestep your aggressor’s headlong charge, giving him the opportunity to fall on his face.
Nine in the third place means:
The wounded pheasant hesitates outside the grain-filled cage.
The man chases the agent of darkness back into the night, risking his own safety in the shadowy domain.
Darkening of the light during the hunt in the south.
Their great leader is captured.
One must not expect perseverance too soon.
‘Napoléon Bonaparte abdicated in Fontainebleau’, 1845 – Paul Delaroche
It seems as if chance were at work. While the strong, loyal man is striving eagerly and in good faith to create order, he meets the ringleader of the disorder, as if by accident, and seizes him. Thus victory is achieved. But in abolishing abuses one must not be too hasty. This would turn out badly because the abuses have been in existence so long.
60 – Sixty Chieh / Limitations
Waters difficult to keep within the Lake’s banks:
The Superior Person examines the nature of virtue and makes himself a standard that can be followed.
Self-discipline brings success; but restraints too binding bring self-defeat.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
Cultivating the proper disciplines and the proper degree of discipline are the concerns of this hexagram.
By limiting options, you may give more attention to priorities.
One who is all over the map is no less lost than one without a map.
Avoid asceticism, however.
Deprivation is not wise discipline.
The key here is regulation, not restriction.