If you can live in contentment with your discipline, you will have the highest success. Your path should be relatively simple and not demand too much effort.
See Tao Te Ching – Verse 25 – There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born.
See the previous reading: Today: “Offer sustenance and guidance to those who have gone astray, as a good mother would. Help them to see their errors and find compassion within themselves.” from the I Ching
See the previous previous reading: Today: “Include all wisdom and experience that presents itself. Do not overthink the situation. Free yourself of useless imaginings.”
See Related posts
Meditation: LA101 790419-Faith In Our Self And Our Own Discipline
Meditation: M074 – 920423 – Balance the Pineal and Pituitary
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.
Six in the fourth place means:
He is most content in frugality and simplicity: the highest success.
Contented limitation. Success.
‘Waterfall’ – Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)
Every limitation has its value, but a limitation that requires persistent effort entails a cost of too much energy. When, however, the limitation is a natural one (as for example, the limitation by which water flows only downhill), it necessarily leads to success, for then it means a saving of energy. The energy that otherwise would be consumed in a vain struggle with the object, is applied wholly to the benefit of the matter in hand, and success is assured.
M.C. Escher Lego Waterfall
58 – Fifty-Eight. Tui / Empowering
The joyous Lake spans on and on to the horizon:
The Superior Person renews and expands his Spirit through heart-to-heart exchanges with others.
Success if you stay on course.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
This is the sign of true companionship.
The principals in this situation exchange energy, ideas and feelings, constantly invigorating and encouraging each other to new heights of Spiritual achievement and Self-discovery.
This exchange is not for the glory of the Team, but for furthering the process of each individual’s ‘Te’, or pure potentiality.