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40.5 a brilliant and wise person should keep a distance from petty fellows
based on these readings i think you need a group 3
Dening says it means to free yourself from involvement with those who drag you down. To be your own best friend. But that would leave me just as isolated as I am now.
I saw it as freeing yourself from yourself and that is how you are your own best friend....However 40 > 17 is good
Is it wise to maintain our loyalty when a nonprofit can no longer follow through on its own mission statement?
If only the superior man can deliver himself,
It brings good fortune.
Thus he proves to inferior men that he is in earnest.
If ... the meetings outcome is to have another meeting,the draining influence of individuals makes it wasted energy.
it was at a point of release from the situation that I actually became involved
Walking away from misery is something we human beings need to learn, since it is not innate to us. The concept is simple and yet in practice it is difficult to implement, especially since I am already limping, as in hexagram 39.
Does 40 entail abandoning the others? In the I Ching we find the concept of not abandoning the others.
It took a long time. So maybe there is a sense of 'over-time' with 40
the 8.4 seems to advise going out beyond the borders of what you have called your groups, seeking newer kinds of involvement. maybe a book club! a cinema circle. a tai chi class. something to enrich you ( newness is enlivening) and not exhaust you!!! thats the pits
Yes, yes, the need for a group 3 ... absolutely! You are so right.
Are you a Taoist? The Taoists say that 'a brilliant and wise person should keep a distance from petty fellows,' as Alfred Huang writes on line 40.5.
I'm reluctant to designate anyone I know as a 'petty fellow.' I don't like to point fingers at other people, since I can be inconsistent, too ...
don't compromise in selecting companions ( the 54 position), it is important to choose wisely.
Abandonment is specific to when you have a responsibility to someone/something less capable than yourself, or helpless even like a baby. In your current situation this is not so.
But hex 54 unchanging however is never favorable, as far as I understand it.
I didn't think you did draw 54 unchanging in this thread..?
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