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On October 15, 2022 at 7:49 AM
Don't grieve when the truth hurts: a loss of illusion is a gain in awareness.?
and received a response of:
6 Dispute
The Statement of the first hexagram
Dispute: keep confident
even if blocked and alarmed.
In the middle, good fortune,
but in the end, misfortune.
Gain by seeing a great person.
Do not advance across the great river.
even if blocked and alarmed.
In the middle, good fortune,
but in the end, misfortune.
Gain by seeing a great person.
Do not advance across the great river.
The changing lines
The first line:
Do not prolong this case.
The petty control all the talk.
In the end: fortune.
Do not prolong this case.
The petty control all the talk.
In the end: fortune.
The second line:
Unable to win the dispute. Return,
and so flee his realm
of three hundred households.
No blunders.
Unable to win the dispute. Return,
and so flee his realm
of three hundred households.
No blunders.
The third line:
Surviving on old favors: a perilous sign.
In the end: fortune.
One may undertake royal service,
but without personal success.
Surviving on old favors: a perilous sign.
In the end: fortune.
One may undertake royal service,
but without personal success.
The fifth line:
Dispute. Supreme fortune.
Dispute. Supreme fortune.
30 Brilliance
The Statement of the second hexagram
Brilliance. Gainful purity.
Continue.
Tame the bull: fortune.
Continue.
Tame the bull: fortune.
The Image of the first hexagram
Heaven and water clash:
dispute. The noble one
devises the right beginning
in all matters.
dispute. The noble one
devises the right beginning
in all matters.
The Image of the second hexagram
Brightness doubled:
brilliance. The great person
spreads his brilliance
to illuminate
all four directions.
brilliance. The great person
spreads his brilliance
to illuminate
all four directions.
