Contemporary Interpretation
This time I'm just: Observer
Find your own rhythm:
Let impressions and events
softly subside
without re-action.
What has actually happened?
And what does it mean -
Detached from me,
From my personality?
This time I'm just:
Observer.
[I am safe. I am warm.]
Follow the Path of the Dao: A Western Approximation
The Hexagram's Inner Trigrams
Upper Trigram: Kun, Earth
2nd Core Character: Kun, Earth
1st Core Character: Zhen, Thunder
Lower Trigram: Dui, Lake
The Hexagram's Inner Trigrams in the Context of Yin and Yang
Changes and Impulses
Additional Resources
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The significance of the characters »approach« (19) and »contemplation« is that in part they give and in part they take.
The image
The earth above the lake: the image of approach. Thus the superior man is inexhaustible in his purpose to teach and without limit in suffering and protecting the people.
The judgement
Approach has sublime success. Perseverance furthers. In the eighth month comes misfortune.Full text of Richard Wilhelm's 1924 translation by Cary F. Baynes
- Hexagram 18 → hexagram 19 → hexagram 20
- LU9 (A Supreme Profound Pool)
- Late Summer
- Two of Swords