51-days #60 "Restricting" 8/27/08

Restricting
Prosperous and smooth
Not appropriate to be steadfast
In bitter restriction

Water over lake
an image of restricting
the superior person creates numbers and measures for restriction and discusses a moral code for social conduct.

the Message of the gua is that if there is too much water, one needs to take precautions against its flooding. if there is too little water, one should be concerned about possible drought. in our daily lives, we should strike a balance between excess and insufficiency and walk in the central path.

Element : Water
Mutual Gua: NOURISHING #27

어떠한 재앙이 닥쳐도 적절한 대비를 하고 준비를 하면 큰 탈이 없다. 국가적인 차원에서도 평소에 각종 사회제도나 재난 구호제도를 적절히 마련하고 민생을 위한 덕행을 의논하여야 한다.

잘 조절해야한다는 뜻이다.
호괘가 산뢰이 괘이니 백성을 다스리는데 언어를 삼가고 음식을 잘 조절해야한다.
절괘로서 실질적인 인생과 사회의 파노라마는 매듭을 짓게 된다. 형통하다.

You need 1. true understanding, 2. to feel happy to restrict yourself, 3. to keep to virtue as the proper way

Position and Instruction
1. light energy - cultivate the inside, keep to sincerity
2. light energy - open yourself, keep to sincerity
3. dark energy - try to restrict yourself, keep to humility
4. dark energy - content yourself with restriction, cultivate the inside with humility
5. light energy - make restriction sweet for others, keep to principle in acting
6. dark energy - do not go to extremes, take restriction as natural

Restriction is to character as the joints are to bamboo. to restrict yourself by morality and to be tolerant of others by forgiving is a virtue.