Restrain Speech

Binding its jaws. The words have order. The cause for sorrow disappears. If you restrain your speech what you say will have order and elegance. The fertilizing shock comes and you feel you have lost something precious. Do not grieve. Look at things from an independent perspective. Everything you lost will soon return of itself. Your creative energy will make contact with deep sources of energy. When this is complete nothing can stop you. Proceed step by step. Gather energy for a decisive new move.

六五, 艮其輔, 言有序, 悔亡.

Keeping his jaws still. ##### Comments The words have order. Remorse disappears. A man in a dangerous situation, especially when he is not adequate to it, is inclined to be very free with talk and presumptuous jokes. But injudicious speech easily leads to situations that subsequently give much cause for regret. However, if a man is reserved in speech, his words take ever more definite form, and every occasion for regret vanishes.