Burning Bridges

Burning down the rest house, you lose your young vassal. Adversity, the hungry souls and angry ghosts. You destroy what you have found through violent passions. Try to understand this. It could mark a profound change to a new state of being. Reclaim your lost intelligence. You can find the force moving events and acquire the capacity to move with it. Your sorrows will vanish. These comings and goings release energy bound in the past. Prepare the decisive new move.

九三, 旅焚其次, 喪其童僕, 貞厲.

The wanderer's inn burns down. He loses the steadfastness of his young servant. Danger. ##### Comments A truculent stranger does not know how to behave properly. He meddles in affairs and controversies that do not concern him; thus he loses his resting place. He treats his servant with aloofness and arrogance; thus he loses the man's loyalty. When a stranger in a strange land has no one left on whom he can rely, the situation becomes very dangerous.