Choose Peace

Opening, bargaining words. No peace yet. Separate from the contention and there will be rejoicing. You are discussing this opportunity and everyone’s temperature is rising. Simply separate yourself from all the contention and this will become a source of joy. Do not be caught in your desperate need for control. Dissolve your old identity and articulate the new time peacefully. Be open and provide what is needed.

九四, 商兌未寧, 介疾有喜.

Joyousness that is weighed is not at peace. After ridding himself of mistakes a man has joy. ##### Comments Often a man finds himself weighing the choice between various kinds of pleasures, and so long as he has not decided which kind he will choose, the higher or the lower, he has no inner peace. Only when he clearly recognizes that passion brings suffering, can he make up his mind to turn away from the lower pleasures and to strive for the higher. Once this decision is sealed, he finds true joy and peace, and inner conflict is overcome.