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    On June  8, 2010 at  6:18 PM 
      madmur1 asked:   
  
  
    
witast the collection?
  
  
    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 fifth line:
    Someone gains ten groups of turtles 
no one can defy. Great fortune.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    9 Smallness Tames
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Smallness tames. Persevere. 
Dense clouds, no rain 
at my western border.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    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
  
  
    Wind moving high 
in heaven: smallness tames. 
The noble one acts
with restraint, culture, 
and morals.