Read a record of the questions asked of I Ching, read the response, and read the comments of others
  
    On December 20, 2010 at  8:30 PM 
  
  
    
how can i overcome bitterness?
  
  
    and received a response of:
  
  
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    41 Decrease
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Decrease. Have confidence. 
Great fortune. No fault
if one can be upright.
Gain by having a place to go. 
How should one act? 
Two square bamboo baskets
can be used in offering.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The third line:
    A group of three travelers 
is decreased by one person. 
One person travels and gets a friend.  
  
    The fourth line:
    Decrease your hatred. 
Act quickly and you will have joy. 
No fault.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    14 Great Holdings
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Great hold_ings: 
supreme 
every_where.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    The Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    Lake below mountain: 
decrease. The noble one 
halts his anger 
and curbs his desires.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Fire in heaven:
great holdings. 
The noble one 
curbs evil and fosters good, 
and is favored 
with heaven's blessings 
and commands.