Our Desired Outcome May Not Choose Us
Spirit shares I Ching wisdom.
First, He explains to me that the purpose
of using the 64 I Ching hexagrams
to share ancient wisdom is to enable
seekers to learn to accept that
nothing happens totally separated from
what has or what might yet happen.
Life and all situations we experience
are intricately connected together.
Before and following are relative terms
that have no separately existing
meaning but are always and must be
part of what is happening now.
The finger that points back to where
we have been is the same finger
that can point ahead to where we are
or may go, unless we choose to follow
another path, or another way of life.
Hexagram 46 – Rising represents today’s
I Ching situation. Rising follows
Gathering and leads, or can lead to
Exhaustion, unless we choose to travel
in a different direction.
We gather what we value, at any given
time and in any given situation.
Harvest is a season to gather crops
that have reached an ideal stage
of development.
We also gather certain people we know,
as friends, when our relationship
to them has developed to a certain stage.
How does Gathering lead to Rising?
The numbers or quantity of whatever
we gather rises as we gather.
Then, how can Rising lead to Exhaustion?
We can only rise as high as we can
without exhaustion.
Please explain.
We gather to ourselves whatever we seem
to need or, with some, as much as they
can above their personal needs, and are
not satisfied until the effort involved
in continuing to rise exhausts them.
Could seeking knowledge and understanding
have the same result?
Yes.
Then, quality of what we choose to gather
to us has no effect on outcome?
What outcome?
Our chosen outcome.
Do we choose outcome?
Don’t we choose outcome?
No.
Wow!
What does that mean?
It means, as I’m sure you know,
that I now understand that we
can choose our desired outcome
but it might not choose us.
Yes.
I Ching as a Way to Enlightenment 
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