Common ground between warring factions is shrinking. Institutions are at a breaking point. Chaos increasing. Leaders must summon compassion while tempering tribal rage.
See Tao Te Ching – Verse 36 – If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand
See the previous reading: Today: “Authority is being usurped by bad actors.” from the I Ching
See the previous previous reading: Today: “Desist in your pursuit until or unless you have sufficient guidance to see it through or sufficient experience to bring it to completion.” from the I Ching
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8 – Thirty-Eight. K’uei / Estrangement
Fire distances itself from its nemesis, the Lake:
No matter how large or diverse the group, the Superior Person remains uniquely himself.
Small accomplishments are possible.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
You are working at cross-purposes with another.
The distance between you is very wide.
The gap can be closed, however, with no compromise of your integrity.
You are not adversaries in this case — just two persons addressing individual needs.
Ask yourself: are these needs mutually exclusive?
Is there common ground here?
Must there be one winner and one loser?
Could you become partners in seeking a solution that would allow for two winners?
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above: Li / The Clinging, Flame | |
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below: Tui / The Joyous, Lake | |
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| This hexagram is composed of the trigram Li above, i.e., flame, which burns upward, and Tui below, i.e., the lake, which seeps downward. These two movements are in direct contrast. Furthermore, Li is the second daughter and Tui the youngest daughter, and although they live in the same house they belong to different men; hence their wills are not the same but are divergently directed.THE JUDGEMENT
OPPOSITION. In small matters, good fortune. When people live in opposition and estrangement they cannot carry out a great undertaking in common; their points of view diverge too widely. In such circumstances one should above all not proceed brusquely, for that would only increase the existing opposition; instead, one should limit oneself to producing gradual effects in small matters. Here success can still be expected, because the situation is such that the opposition does not preclude all agreement. THE IMAGE Above, fire; below, the lake. |
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| The two elements, fire and water, never mingle but even when in contact retain their own natures. So the cultured man is never led into baseness or vulgarity through intercourse or community of interests with persons of another sort; regardless of all commingling, he will always preserve his individuality. |
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