Walk Independently

Adorn your feet. Leave the chariot and go on foot. Adorn yourself with courage and independence. Make your own way. You have been seriously punished. Try to hear the lesson. Do not be infected by other people’s fear and confusion. Do the inner work and do not keep running after impossible things. Stabilize your desires. There is an ever-flowing source of energy available now. Co-operate with the ongoing process of change.

初九, 賁其趾, 舍車而徒.

He lends grace to his toes, leaves the carriage, and walks. ##### Comments A beginner in subordinate place must take upon himself the labor of advancing. There might be an opportunity of surreptitiously easing the way-symbolized by the carriage-but a self-contained man scorns help gained in a dubious fashion. He thinks it more graceful to go on foot than to drive in a carriage under false pretenses.