Avoid Overextension

You cannot Exceed defending yourself. If you carry on, you may be killed. Trap! The Way closes. You are overextending yourself. You are in real danger, cycling through endless arguments in an escalating spiral. Re-imagine this situation. Leave old quarrels behind so that new life can enter the world. Do not be skeptical and do not hold back. These goings and comings release energy bound up in the past. Gather the resources for a decisive new move.

九三, 弗過防之, 從或戕之, 凶.

If one is not extremely careful, ##### Comments Somebody may come up from behind and strike him. Misfortune. At certain times extraordinary caution is absolutely necessary. But it is just in such life situations that we find upright and strong personalities who, conscious of being in the right, disdain to hold themselves on guard, because they consider it petty. Instead, they go their way proud and unconcerned. But this self-confidence deludes them. There are dangers lurking for which they are unprepared. Yet such danger is not unavoidable; one can escape it if he understands that the time demands that he pay especial attention to small and insignificant thing.