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On September 1, 2017 at 11:51 PM
wHAT IS THE THE APPROPRIATE STANCE TOWARD THE KING OF THE HILL? WHO IS HE AND WHAT IS HE TO ME?
and received a response of:
25 Innocence
The Statement of the first hexagram
Innocence: from the first, all must be
pervasive, gainful, and pure.
Those without such truth suffer calamity
and do not gain no matter where they go.
pervasive, gainful, and pure.
Those without such truth suffer calamity
and do not gain no matter where they go.
The changing lines
The first line:
Innocence: from the first, all must be
pervasive, gainful, and pure.
Those without such truth suffer calamity
and do not gain no matter where they go.
Innocence: from the first, all must be
pervasive, gainful, and pure.
Those without such truth suffer calamity
and do not gain no matter where they go.
The third line:
Unexpected trouble:
a cow might be tethered by someone else.
The traveler gains, the townsman loses.
Unexpected trouble:
a cow might be tethered by someone else.
The traveler gains, the townsman loses.
The fourth line:
If you can be upright,
there will be no fault.
If you can be upright,
there will be no fault.
The sixth line:
Unexpected action brings disaster.
No place will be gainful.
Unexpected action brings disaster.
No place will be gainful.
39 Hindered
The Statement of the second hexagram
Gain in the west and south.
No gain in the east and north.
Gain by seeing the great person.
Pure fortune.
No gain in the east and north.
Gain by seeing the great person.
Pure fortune.
The Image of the first hexagram
Thunder moves
under heaven: all the world
is innocent. The ancient
kings paid close attention
to the time
in nourishing
the myriad things.
under heaven: all the world
is innocent. The ancient
kings paid close attention
to the time
in nourishing
the myriad things.
The Image of the second hexagram
Water on top of the
mountain: hindered.
The noble one
turns inward
to cultivate virtue.
mountain: hindered.
The noble one
turns inward
to cultivate virtue.
