“If you are right, and resistance to your efforts is wrong-headed, adopt a flexible approach. ” – a reading from the I Ching

If you are right, and resistance to your efforts is wrong-headed, adopt a flexible approach.  Don’t force the issue.  It only meets with more resistance. Your course will prevail in the end.

Meditation: The Neutral Mind

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Today: I Ching – Previous Readings

Read the text from Richard Wilhelm's and subsequent translations of the I Ching

#19, line 3, #36
You are in a position to help another.
This is a temporary situation, because your power is cyclical, seasonal.
Knowing this, you must perform your good deed without hope of reward.
You are not furthering your own process, but another’s.
Though you may cherish this other, you will never possess.
Touch without grasping.
Take comfort in becoming a fond memory.
Nurture, then let go.
Aggressive action meets inflexible resistance.
If regret leads to a softer approach, there will be no irreparable damage.
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.

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