15.3 to 2 creative project with someone

[post-snow]

hello.
i have asked about a project and would love to read your input.

i have started a creative project with someone i had a crush on (i still like them but am afraid they want just to be friends, however they value me and treat me very good)

what i wanted to know is how much energy to put into this project (it is going pretty well. but i have bad experiences with working with crushes and ex crushes. this time it might be okay as we both are more mature than years ago when i last entered such a situation)

i got 15.3
"To experience Integrity is like coming face to face with your real self – plain, simple and unadorned. To have Integrity is to be whole, at one with yourself and with reality. It means being honest about your own capacities, holding yourself in creative balance with your world and not exaggerating the importance of your role.

These qualities enable the noble one to bring whatever work presents itself to completion. Since she is not overly full of herself, she has space for the real world; she isn't hampered by an excess or by a lack of confidence. Since she isn't caught up in a personal story, and doesn't identify her work with her worth, she is free to do what needs to be done and move on."

my opinion is that it is okay to continue and it might actually be good as a sort of training of honesty and integrity. in this thing i am the one who is less visible and i am okay with it. they are doing mch more work but i have started it and can decide how it will develop.


what do you think?

 

[redoleander]

Was that the question, "How much energy to put into it"? If it was, I think 15.3 > 2 is an interesting answer. Pointing you toward doing something purely out of devotion, not for a particular result. So I would say that if this will disappoint you, meaning not meet your expectations, maybe not to do. You should probably only do it if you're totally ok with not much else coming of the relationship.

 

[post-snow]

Was that the question, "How much energy to put into it"? If it was, I think 15.3 > 2 is an interesting answer. Pointing you toward doing something purely out of devotion, not for a particular result. So I would say that if this will disappoint you, meaning not meet your expectations, maybe not to do. You should probably only do it if you're totally ok with not much else coming of the relationship.

thanks, it seems a really reasonable reply! it had already started so i cannot "not" do it at all (stopping it would be a pity because it is working really nicely and people can relate to the output) but, as sort of expected, havng in mind that there is nothing more but just this thing (ie we have a good working relationship/froendship but not romantic at all) is advisable!

 

[dfreed]

i wanted to know is how much energy to put into this project

One translation of 15.3 reads '... For princes, ultimately auspicious. Unfavourable for nothing.'

I think that's a very good response, but it hinges on you acting like 'a prince' - which in this instance means approaching this project with a caring and down-to-earth attitude, which feels similar to what was said above ...

'... doing something purely out of devotion, not for a particular result.' .... Or even that it's okay to focus on the 'results' of the project - and this will put you on 'equal footing' with the other person; e.g. Hex. 2 is made of two trigrams (three-line figures): Earth and Earth.

Besides my take on your reading ....

i got 15.3
"To experience Integrity is like coming face to face with your real self – plain, simple and unadorned. To have Integrity is to

... I am wondering where this quote is from. It doesn't seem like a translation of 15.3, but reads like something someone thought about it.

 

[post-snow]

One translation of 15.3 reads '... For princes, ultimately auspicious. Unfavourable for nothing.'

I think that's a very good response, but it hinges on you acting like 'a prince' - which in this instance means approaching this project with a caring and down-to-earth attitude, which feels similar to what was said above ...

'... doing something purely out of devotion, not for a particular result.' .... Or even that it's okay to focus on the 'results' of the project - and this will put you on 'equal footing' with the other person; e.g. Hex. 2 is made of two trigrams (three-line figures): Earth and Earth.

Besides my take on your reading ....

... I am wondering where this quote is from. It doesn't seem like a translation of 15.3, but reads like something someone thought about it.

thanks a lot - i like your thought about this (also because the whole idea seems now more positive. i want to be a part of this althoug i will not devote my life to this
the quote is a copy paste frpm holllarys translation i got as the actual reading.
thanks again!