HUMILITY

Thomas Cleary, ed., I Ching Mandalas: A Program of Study for The Book of Change (Shambhala Dragon Edition), translated from the Chinese by Thomas Cleary (Boston & Shaftesbury: Shambhala, 1989) (Humility: It is lucky if leaders use humility as a means of travel. Expressing humility is good and correct. The exercise of humility is beneficial to all. When you do not aggrandize yourself but share with those around you, it is good to extend this to strangers and enemies as well--it is beneficial to all. If you are proud of your humility, you have yet to really overcome yourself." Id. at 90. From the backcover: "The ancient book of advice and divination known as the I Ching (Book of Changes) has gained such popularity in both East and West that it hardly needs an introduction. Less well known are the traditional programs for studying the I Ching which were published in China about one thousand years ago. I Ching Mandalas is an example of this literature, which enables serious students of the classic to achieve a deeper understanding of its philosophy through the study of diagrams. These diagrams are tools for whole-brain learning that help the student to visualize patterns and interrelationships among the trigrams and hexagrams of the I Ching").