60 - Limitation

Contemporary Interpretation

60 - Limitation

Debris turns humus

A seemingly
Inflexible
Situation
Which
Surprisingly
resolves:
Debris
Turns humus.

Follow the Path of the Dao: A Western Approximation

The Hexagram's Inner Trigrams

yin yang yin yin yang yang

Upper Trigram: Kan, Water

2nd Core Character: Gen, Mountain

1st Core Character: Zhen, Thunder

Lower Trigram: Dui, Lake

The Hexagram's Inner Trigrams in the Context of Yin and Yang

The hexagram's inner trigrams within the fields of Yin and Yang

Changes and Impulses

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Limitation (60) signifies adherence.

The image

Water above the lake: the image of limitation. Thus the superior man verifies number and dimension and examines the nature of virtue and adequate conduct.

The judgement

Limitation. Success. In bitter limitation one should not practice with perseverance. Full text of Richard Wilhelm's 1924 translation by Cary F. Baynes