13. T'ung Jên / Social Mechanism
(Heaven above Fire)
Description
Heaven reflects the Flame of clarity:
The Superior Person analyzes the various levels and working parts of the social structure, and uses them to advantage.
Success if you keep to your course.
You may cross to the far shore.
Analysis
This is a matter of Positioning -- not only yourself, but others as well.
There are niches to be filled, potentials to be realized, right livelihoods to be found.
You are not building a new organization, but shoring up an existing infrastructure.
It's worth the effort, because it will provide union, community, and an ironclad alliance.
Changing Lines
Line 1
Sincere affection in the open.
Why should anything so deep and genuine cause embarrassment or shame?
Line 2
The clan holds tightly, armed against outsiders.
This inbreeds fear and cruelty, which can only give birth to strife and extinction.
Line 3
You hold with unworthy allies.
Line 4
He greets them cordially, but from a high vantage point with secreted weapons close at hand.
His mistrust will slowly dissipate and good fortune will return.
Line 5
He is drawn to another.
He fights the attraction fiercely, but his later surrender brings joy.
Line 6
He meets with others in the meadow.
There all are in the open, none may remain hidden.
No remorse.