Urgent Return

Returning from the brink, pressing and urgent. Face the adversity, the hungry souls and angry ghosts. This is not a mistake. You confront danger with its roots in the past. You have found the central illusion causing the disorder. This will free you from affliction, but you must act slowly and carefully to realize it. Pull back from your sense of crisis. Hide your light and accept the difficult task. These goings and comings release the energy now bound up in the past. Co-operate with the ongoing process of change.

六三, 頻復, 厲无咎.

Repeated return. Danger. No blame. ##### Comments There are people of a certain inner instability who feel a constant urge to reverse themselves. There is danger in continually deserting the good because of uncontrolled desires, then turning back to it again because of a better resolution. However, since this does not lead to habituation in evil, a general inclination to overcome the defect is not wholly excluded/