Overcoming Stagnation

Shake released from a bog. Everything is bogged down. Release the fertile energy from this cloud of confusion. The center of life is moving, so return to yourself and strip away your old ideas. Do not cut yourself in two, separating yourself from real and legitimate desires. The acrid smoke from this repression is smothering your heart. Push on. Something important is returning now.

九四, 震遂泥.

Shock is mired. ##### Comments Movement within the mind depends for its success partly on circumstances. If there is neither a resistance that might be vigorously combated, nor yet a yielding that permits of victory-if, instead, everything is tough and inert like mire-movement is crippled.