We Need Help to Overcome
Spirit shares I Ching wisdom.
I Ching 13 – Association With Others follows
Obstruction and leads to Great Possession.
Obstruction suggests that something is blocking
our way.
Or someone?
It is never someone unless that someone is
our self, and it usually is.
We need help in overcoming whatever seems to
prevent us from following our spiritual path.
What if the community we now associate with
is itself the means of obstructing
our spiritual development.
Isolation is not the answer.
Isn’t meditation a form of isolation?
No.
How is it not?
Meditation is time out to reflect on
the situation and seek higher guidance
to develop awareness.
Develop awareness of what?
Of how to best contribute to our own
spiritual development without
unnecessarily obstructing the
development of others.
Looking at it from that perspective …
That is the only perspective.
Then, we could be obstructing those
who seem to be …
Yes.
Then how to overcome obstruction in a way
that leads to community?
Meditation.
And then?
Follow your heart.
And mind?
No, not in this instance.
Why?
Mind will overwhelm you with reasons
to stay.
To stay where?
Not where, what.
Then what?
Obstructed.
But, if obstruction is the problem …
Obstruction is a challenge. It doesn’t
exist in a material or physical form.
Not everyone would see the same
situation as an obstruction. We need
to change the way we see.
How?
By looking within for the answers
to life’s challenges.
What about community?
For that, too.
I Ching as a Way to Enlightenment 
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