Steven Karcher & Michael Servetus
Chasing the deer without a guide, you wander alone into the forest center. The Realizing Person almost fails to realize that going on will bring distress.
You are being carried away by your impulses. Do not go on like this. Do not confine your spirit in outmoded desires. It is time to eliminate the negativity and compulsion. Protect the real transformation that is going on. Co-operate with the ongoing process of change.
Book of Changes
六三, 卽鹿无虞, 惟入于林中, 君子幾, 不如舍, 往吝.
Richard Wilhelm
Whoever hunts deer without the forester
Only loses his way in the forest.
The superior man understands the signs of the time
And prefers to desist.
To go on brings humiliation.
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If a man tries to hunt in a strange forest and has no guide, he loses his way. When he finds himself in difficulties he must not try to steal out of them unthinkingly and without guidance. Fate cannot be duped; premature effort, without the necessary guidance, ends in failure and disgrace. Therefore the superior man, discerning the seeds of coming events, prefers to renounce a wish rather than to provoke failure and humiliation by trying to force its fulfillment.
