Resist with no force /
Attack with yielding wisdom /
offer no target
Modest yet firm resistance against an oppressor will end the aggression and win concessions. Offer your opponent nothing to resist.
When meeting an impasse, the Superior Person turns his gaze within, and views the obstacle from a new perspective.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 70 – My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice.
Today: “There is no one good or bad, only your actions have an effect that is equal and opposite.” Yogi Bhajan
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15 – Fifteen Ch’ien / Modesty
The Mountain does not overshadow the Plain surrounding it:
Such modest consideration in a Superior Person creates a channel through which excess flows to the needy.
Success if you carry things through.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
The Cosmos is moving toward equilibrium.
Extremes are being tempered, excess is beginning to shift toward the empty.
You can use these moderating influences to strike a balance in the world around you.
Remember, though, that this Leveling will not come about through an arrogant confiscation of excess, but through subtler persuasions.
Modesty and moderation are the keys.
Six in the fifth place means:
Modest yet firm resistance against an oppressor will end the aggression and win concessions.
No boasting of wealth before one’s neighbor.
It is favorable to attack with force.
Nothing that would not further.
‘1951 Buick Roadmaster’ Painting by Ron Patterson
Modesty is not to be confused with weak good nature that lets things take their own course. When a man holds a responsible position, he must at times resort to energetic measures. In doing so he must not try to make an impression by boasting of his superiority but must make certain of the people around him. The measures taken should be purely objective and in no way personally offensive. Thus modesty manifests itself even in severity.
39 – Thirty-Nine. Chien / Obstacle
Ominous roiling in the Crater Lake atop the Volcano:
When meeting an impasse, the Superior Person turns his gaze within, and views the obstacle from a new perspective.
Offer your opponent nothing to resist.
Let a sage guide you in this.
Good fortune lies along this course.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
The Obstacle lies in obstinance.
An insistence on only one way of proceeding has brought things to an impasse.
You may either continue banging your head with irresistible force against this immovable object, or you might step back and survey this situation from a fresh perspective.
Which is immobile here — the obstruction or your attitude?
