Steven Karcher & Michael Servetus
Shake twisting and turning! Observing, you are terrified: Oh! Oh! Trap! Chastising closes the Way. Shake is not in your body, but in your neighbor’s body. Be calm. This is not a mistake. There will be words about a marriage.
The fertilizing shock twists and turns, driving people around you into a frenzy. Stay aloof. Do not lock your understanding away in old patterns. Be brave and independent. When an impulse to action comes, try to hold back before it leads you into compulsive entanglements. This could become an ever-flowing source of profit and insight. Step outside the norms. These goings and comings release the energy bound up in the past. Gather it for a decisive new move.
Book of Changes
上六, 震索索, 視矍矍, 征凶, 震不于其躬, 于其鄰, 无咎, 婚媾有言.
Richard Wilhelm
Shock brings ruin and terrified gazing around.
Going ahead brings misfortune.
If it has not yet touched one's own body
But has reached one's neighbor first,
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There is no blame.
One's comrades have something to talk about.
When inner shock is at its height, it robs a man of reflection and clarity of vision. In such a state of shock it is of course impossible to act with presence of mind. Then the right thing is to keep still until composure and clarity are restored. But this a man can do only when he himself is not yet infected by the agitation, although its disastrous effects are already visible in those around him. If he withdraws from the affair in time, he remains free of mistakes and injury. But his comrades, who no longer heed any warning, will in their excitement certainly be displeased with him. However, he must not take this into account.
