30. Li / Igniting
(Fire above Fire)
Description
Fire sparks more Flames:
The Superior Person holds an inner Fire that ignites passion in every heart it touches, until all the world is enlightened and aflame.
With so searing a flame, success will not be denied you.
Take care to be as peaceful and nurturing as the cow in the meadow; you are strong enough to be gentle.
Analysis
A Promethean flame is delivering light and heat to the situation at hand.
This radiance will cause such an alchemical transformation of circumstances that the changes will seem magical, miraculous.
Yet they are only shifts of perspective and attitude that bring clarity.
The passions kindled by this fire must be harnessed and used judiciously, or they threaten to consume your hopes and dreams.
Changing Lines
Line 1
Meek and uncertain, he nevertheless approaches the radiance.
No mistake.
Line 2
Glowing yellow warmth as if from the sun.
Supreme good fortune.
Line 3
Old men read the lesson in the setting sun.
Beat the cymbal and sing in this life, or wail away the hours fearing death.
Their choice is their fortune.
Line 4
He bursts into flame, dazzles with his brilliance, spends his fuel, dies out quickly and is forgotten.
Line 5
Tears of repentance flood.
Enlightenment turns the tide for the better.
Line 6
Sent as an instrument of justice, he transcends his station, delivering swift punishment to the perpetrators, but mercy to the misled.
Faultless.