Timid Progress

Advancing like a bushy-tailed mouse. Trial: Adversity, the hungry souls and angry ghosts. Though you have the strength to advance you are being timid and furtive. Greedy people and bad memories attack you. Pull back from the crisis. Do not get caught in negative emotions. You will find the central illusion that is causing this chaos. It will act slowly but it will release you from what afflicts you. Strip away old ideas. Be open and provide what is needed.

九四, 晉如鼫鼠, 貞厲.

Progress like a hamster. Perseverance brings danger. ##### Comments In times of progress it is easy for strong men in the wrong places to amass great possessions. But such conduct shuns the light. And since times of progress are inevitably brought to the light, perseverance in such action always leads to danger.