Spirit explains I Ching 60 – Discipline.
Water is above Lake, and lakes have limits
to how much water they can hold.
To add more water, as in times of flooding,
results in loss of discipline.
Discipline implies limits; self-imposed or
socially determined.
Yang is above Yin in this instance, which
describes thought over emotion.
Then, rational thought should determine
the limits of acceptable emotion?
Yes.
How is that possible?
Self-control.
Self-imposed limits to emotional experience
or to emotional expression?
Yes.
What does that mean?
The role of self-discipline along our path
to enlightenment honours genuine emotions.
How can I know if my emotions are genuine?
Are they self-determined?
They are usually responses to outside
influences.
Then, you have answered your own question.
What emotion can be free from outside
influences.
Unconditional love.
Wind over Water
Dispersal develops out of Pleasing and dissolves with Discipline.
Dispersal results in both disconnecting from the past and connecting to the future, without necessarily understanding either, or the destiny that moves within us, as the wind moves around us.
How can there be any stability and a feeling of being here and now in such a view of reality?
It isn’t a view of reality. It is as it is.
But, I need to hold on to my past while reaching for my future.
My as in individual?
Yes, and even if it proves to be an illusion, I need it, now.
Yes.
Today’s I Ching reading by Spirit
I Ching 61 – Sincerity follows Discipline in the order of the hexagrams.
Spirit explains: Discipline comes before Sincerity for a reason.
Sincerity expresses awareness of one’s own acceptance of and
Commitment to the need for and purpose served by discipline in
Order to develop structure.
Structure?
Yes, structure of thought, emotion, and action, and the purpose
Direction, and meaning they give to our life.
What can the message for me be when I do all that, now?
Now is now.
What other time do I have?
Yes.
Today’s I Ching reading by Spirit
Wind over Lake
Sincerity follows Discipline
Spirit explains:
As wind moves water, discipline moves sincerity,
Directing our chosen lifestyle.
If we sincerely desire and intend to follow our path
With purpose, then discipline will be a welcome
Companion.
I hesitate to ask who …
Yes.
Today’s I Ching – 61 – Sincerity in the Centre
Wind above, Lake below.
Sincerity follows Discipline in the order of the Hexagrams.
Spirit explains:
Yes, in a voice of authority, as if to recapture
The attention of a wandering mind .
I had dared to entertain a cynical interpretation
Of wind over water. Spirit continues:
Discipline for its own sake is worthless,
More or less, unless it can be
Transferred to a purpose, other than
Its own. However, sincere effort
Is of high value, even if
Progress is slow.
Should I ask Spirit what His reading says
To me? No. I pass,
As in a game of cards.
Today’s I Ching – 60 – Discipline
Water above, Lake below.
Discipline follows Dispersal in the order of the Hexagrams.
Spirit explains: Dispersal suggests a scattering, an absence of discipline, self
or otherwise, a lack of focus or organization, and
can refer to animals, people, or ideas.
To gather anything together, He stresses,
requires discipline, preferably, self-discipline,
and intent..
I do not ask Him what this says to me.
I don’t want to know.
I Ching as a Way to Enlightenment 
I Ching 60 – Discipline
Today’s I Ching reading by Spirit
Water above Lake
Discipline follows Dispersal.
Spirit explains:
Dispersal describes scattering, a disorganized
Movement of whatever.
Water over Lake strongly suggests flooding,
A disorganized movement of water, or emotion.
Where is discipline?
Obviously, it is missing.
Is that a personal comment?
Yes.
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