I Ching - O Livro das Mutações - cont.

58 Delight lake below, lake above

Delight comes through, beneficial if correct.

When one is fulfilled, others find satisfaction in this;

... developed people do not enjoy attempts to delight them with what is not right, so delight is only beneficial if correct. As the classics say, do not destroy people to follow your own desires; do not deviate from the right path to win peoples's praise.

... delight is beneficial if correct; this is how to obey heaven and respond to humanity. ... The greatness of delight is how it inspires the people.

When strength is balanced, there is no biased selfishness of emotional desires; when flexible outside, there is no belligerence or violence. This is the most correct delight, the virtue shared by heaven and earth. If people are led with this virtue, the people will naturally forget their toil. If difficulty is entered into with this virtue, the people will naturally forget their death. This is the greatness of delight; the people inspire themselves and transform each other for the better. It does not mean someone else urges them on.

Joined lakes are joyful. Thus do developed people study and practice with companions. Associating with companions in cultural pursuits is study; fostering humanity through association is practice. Study without practice leads to nothing; practice without study leads to danger. ... when you study, the unsaid is said; when you practice, what is said becomes the unsaid.

Only if you are firm and independently decisive, swift and unhesitanting, will you have happiness.

This represents one with positive strength balanced and correct, whose sincerity within shows outside, developed to the highest degree. Thus one can exercise sincerity not only toward good people, but even toward people who heve fallen from the right way, getting them to change their evil ways and follow what is good, to turn away from error and return to rectitude; so there is inspiration therein. Once one has the qualities and also has the position, one's influence can be this great.

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