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'This is a time to recognise that I am caught in the swamp and that I will need to draw deeply on my own resources to climb out to dry, firm land'.
I'd suggest then that your role model might be someone who didn't start out living a good, compassionate, peaceful life, but who instead came to their purpose in life by making lots of mistakes - maybe including hurting others - and then learning some hard lessons from these mistakes, and was transformed (or transformed themselves).
a laborious effort that could be far simpler.
because I thought that knowing how I would know how untangled my efforts, my potential.I don't think there are 'teachings' as such in Yi.
In order to connect with your ideal of a leader/role model at all you'd need to ditch false authorities/images you have in your head about this. These are depicted in the lines and in 47.3 you are being warned about not leaning on false things that don't support you, things that aren't real. I don't think your perceived quest for an idea role model is anything that serves or nourishes you.
.who is attending their local AA meeting
Mark FrauenfelderIt’s a waste of time to imitate, to do something other people can do as good or better than you.
Is Mark Frauenfelder your role model?
Yes, thank you. I think a lot about your question about the type of mindset that searchs for a role model, a leader. Maybe it is my christian catholic background that taught that the inner wisdom is wrong, that our reliance must be in a superior authority.I think you asked who the superior man was some way back, here is a new blog post on it
I felt sad when I read your post. You said that it is okay but It is hard to me recognize that I do not know where I am now.this line seems to say that for right now you are in a state where you DON’T see the path. And that’s okay.
I felt chills when I read this. Am I now in open fight with the divinity? I felt like a great weight came to my shoulders. Alone. Like the world did not have any explanation.At 47.3 so off on your own that you don’t see “recognize hte divine plan anymore.
Am I now in open fight with the divinity?
Thank you for your post. I know that the 47.3 is not a pessimist line. It is more an invitation. Nonetheless when I read that I do not recognize the "the divine plan anymore" I felt like I was expel out from a gang or something and I want to be in. I know that in it is not always the right place but I want to be include. The most weird thing is that I do not believe that there is a divine plan.I'm gonna have to think about the next line. Comment if you care to.
Yes, I know. It is only I think there is something there that touch some part on me that it is sensible to this interpretation.Al you need not feel chills or sadness because of someone's interpretation, it's just their interpretation and I don't agree with it.
So I see this line as saying that you may actually have some vague idea of who or what your personal guide or true path is but you have been slow to believe to follow through. So follow your feelings and don't assume that something that has a small beginning won't produce significant results
When I wrote this I didn't want to stain the question with my previous knowledge. I wanted a "pure" read of the Yi answer. In that moment I was reliving a "spiritual exercise" from the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola where he ask the participant to imagine a "personal role model" a leader from the world and think about was qualities of this person are attractive for you. I thought when I asked to Yi that I will find a more transcendental explanation.A inquiry that bother me in the last weeks, it is what is the way like I perceive the type of leadership. What is the perfect leader to me.
I can see that you don't want to answer my question for some reason.
So, good luck.
Re-reading this thread I noticed I pushed the people through a hard time because I was stubborn to specify why I was concerned with the "role model" stuff, because I didn't want that the question to be related to Ignatius of Loyola because I was in conflict with religious connotations at the time. I think I took to the heart that this Sharing Reading community is not Google-proofs so if I went to open this will appear in Google search.As a matter of interest why are you asking this ?
So your role model might be someone who started out with their good qualities exhausted or repressed (47), but was then able to transform themselves, so their good qualities begin to 'slow take root' in their lives (46). It need not be someone famous, and might likely be someone like us, or even someone who is attending their local AA meeting.
like a pattern without the imperfection of the flesh.
Can you show me living flesh
without spirit?
A inquiry that bother me in the last weeks, it is what is the way like I perceive the type of leadership. What is the perfect leader to me. I asked the Yi because I think that I have some kind of bias about this subject. The bias is that I chose some type of leader because I want to please other people, because I want to satisfy the images that other have about me when I select the "right" type of leader.
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Clarity,
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