Steven Karcher & Michael Servetus
Small People use Great Strength. The Realizing Person uses the empty spaces of a net. Trial: Adversity, the hungry souls and angry ghosts. The ram butts a hedge and entangles his horns.
Do not use force now. Use strategy and an open heart. You are confronting troublesome past experiences. If you try to force things you will only become entangled. Think about what you truly care for and keep greedy people at a distance. This is a portent of future happiness. If you let yourself be led now you can realize the hidden potential. Co-operate with the on-going process of change.
Book of Changes
九三, 小人用壯, 君子用罔, 貞厲, 羝羊觸藩, 羸其角.
Richard Wilhelm
The inferior man works through power.
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The superior man does not act thus.
To continue is dangerous.
A goat butts against a hedge
And gets its horns entangled.
Making a boast of power leads to entanglements, just as a goat entangles its horns when it butts against a hedge. Whereas an inferior man revels in power when he comes into possession of it, the superior man never makes this mistake. He is conscious at all times of the danger of pushing ahead regardless of circumstances, and therefore renounces in good time the empty display of force.
