Yijing: Top 10 Too Much that Leads You to Deep Trouble

 

Yijing's core is about Appropriateness or 'Du' 度 in Chinese.  This means, neither too much nor too little.  Here are the top 10 'Too Much' that will lead you to trouble

1. Too Happy will lead to Saying the Wrong Things.  You offend people fastest when you are very happy, for you will become insensitive to others' feelings of jealousy and inferiority.  

2. Too Angry will Lose Your Dignity

An angry man is more like an animal, not only will the mouth be bad, so will the hands and legs.  Take a deep breath, leave the argument for a while and take five

3. Too Shocked will Lose Manners

When you are too disturbed, you become emotionally unstable. Showing such instability is the fastest way to make lose confidence in you.  The solution: hold on and control your temper

4. Too Sad will Lose Your Looks

You'll never realise how ugly you look when you are overcome with grief and sadness.  The key is to let go and look forward when you are sad.

5. Too Joyous will Fall into Traps 

When you think you have got a good deal, you will start to lose for you will be less obsevant and can be taken advantage of easily

6. Too Careful will Lose Ability to Act

Too deliberate will miss the boat and may live a life of regret

7. Too Thoughtful will Lose Yourself

When you think too much of others, you lose the love for yourself

8. Too Drunk will become Barbarian

9. Talk Big will make you not Trustworthy

10. Too many Desires will make you lose Everything

Too greedy with wants and desires will make you pursue a life of gaining but losing everything. The unsatisfactoriness means there is simply no end to your suffering.  The more luxuries you have, the more you lose the inner sense of joy and peace.

Written by Andy Ng