Humble Preparation

Offer the sacrifice using a mat of white mao-grass. This is not a mistake. When you look at your problems you fall into self-pity reject your creative power. Prepare your beginnings. Be simple, humble and pure. Change the place you find support by changing your stand on things. All cause for sorrow will disappear. If you use force you will not win. Be resolute and part from the past. You are connected to a creative force.

初六, 藉用白茅, 无咎.

To spread white rushes underneath. ##### Comments No blame. When a man wishes to undertake an enterprise in extraordinary times, he must be extraordinarily cautious, just as when setting a heavy thing down on the floor, one takes care to put rushes under it, so that nothing will break. This caution, though it may seem exaggerated, is not a mistake. Exceptional enterprises cannot succeed unless utmost caution is observed in their beginnings and in the laying of their foundations.