Contemporary Interpretation
Disengage
and be nurtured.
Sometimes everything is
Quite simple:
You disengage
And orientate yourself
Anew:
Empty handed,
Intuitively
And yet: decisive.
And are nurtured.
Dynamics of the Hexagram
The Hexagram
Upper Trigram: Kun, Earth
2nd Core Character: Zhen, Thunder
1st Core Character: Kan, Water
Lower Trigram: Gen, Mountain
The Hexagram's Dynamic within the Matrix
The Changes in Detail
Lower Trigram: Gen, the Mountain
First Change: Gen → Kan, the Water
Second Change: Kan → Zhen, the Thunder
Third Change: Zhen → Kun, the Earth
Upper Trigram: Kun, the Earth
Follow the Path of the Dao: A Western Approximation
The Interplay of Yin and Yang
Changes and Impulses
Exemplary Experiences
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Classical Interpretation
He who is modest (15) has got it easy.
The image
Within the earth a mountain: the image of modesty. Thus the superior man reduces what is too much, and increases what is too little. He weighs things and makes them equal.
The judgement
Modesty creates success. The superior man completes things.Full text of Richard Wilhelm's 1924 translation by Cary F. Baynes
References and Connotations
- Hexagram 14 → hexagram 15 → hexagram 16
- LI11 (A Gathering Pool of Accumulation)
- Winter
- XIV Temperance