Avanir Pharmaceuticals AVNR under CEO Keith Katkin

Avanir Pharmaceuticals AVNR under CEO Keith Katkin

Avanir Pharmaceuticals AVNR under CEO Keith Katkin

 

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HEXAGRAM 43 – Kuai – Break-through (Resoluteness)

 

 

Above        Tui            THE JOYOUS, LAKE

Below                CH’IEN       THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN

 

 

This hexagram Signifies

·         on the one hand a break-through after a long accumulation of tension, as

o   a swollen river breaks through its dikes, or

o   in the manner of a cloudburst. 

·         On the other hand, applied to human conditions, it refers to the time when

o   inferior people gradually begin to disappear. 

 

Their influence is on the wane;

as a result of resolute action,

·         a change in conditions occurs,

·         a break-through. 

 

The hexagram is linked with the third month [April-May].

 

 

THE JUDGMENT

 

BREAK-THROUGH. 

One must resolutely make the matter known

At the court of the king.

It must be announced truthfully. 

Danger.

·         It is necessary to notify one’s own city.

·         It does not further to resort to arms.

·         It furthers one to undertake something.

 

·         Even if only one inferior man is occupying a ruling position in a city,

o   he is able to oppress superior men. 

·         Even a single passion still lurking in the heart

o   has power to obscure reason.

 

·         Passion and

·         reason

cannot exist side by side

therefore

·         fight without quarter is necessary

o   if the good is to prevail.

 

In a resolute struggle of the good against evil, there are, however,

definite rules that must not be disregarded,

if it is to succeed. 

·         First, resolution must be based on a union of

o   strength and

o   friendliness.

·         Second, a compromise with evil is not possible;

o   evil must under all circumstances be openly discredited. 

o   Nor must our own passions and shortcomings be glossed over. 

·         Third, the struggle must not be carried on directly by force. 

o   If evil is branded,

§  it thinks of weapons,

and

o   if we do it the favor of fighting against it blow for blow,

§  we lose in the end because thus

§  we ourselves get entangled in hatred and passion. 

 

Therefore it is important

1.   to begin at home, to be on guard in our own persons against the faults we have branded. 

In this way, finding no opponent, the sharp edges of the weapons of evil become dulled. 

2.   For the same reasons we should not combat our own faults directly. 

As long as we wrestle with them, they continue victorious. 

3.   Finally, the best way to fight evil is to make energetic progress in the good.

 

 

THE IMAGE

 

The lake has risen up to heaven: The image of BREAK-THROUGH.

Thus the superior man

·         Dispenses riches downward And

·         refrains from resting on his virtue.

 

When the water of a lake has risen up to heaven,

there is reason to fear a  cloudburst. 

 

Taking this as a warning,

the superior man forestalls a violent collapse. 

 

If

·         a man were to pile up riches for himself alone, without considering others,

·         he would certainly experience a collapse. 

For all gathering is followed by dispersion. 

 

Therefore the superior man begins to distribute

while he is accumulating. 

 

In the same way, in developing his character

he

·         takes care not to become hardened in obstinacy

but

·         to remain receptive to impressions by help of strict and continuous self-examination.

 

 

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