18 - Work on What Has Been Spoiled

Contemporary Interpretation

18 - Work on what has been spoiled

Until I am finally determined enough to...

Growing
[and fully becoming myself; then]
Listening
[to the rhythm of the world].
Time and time again.
Until I am
Finally
Determined enough to:
Disengage.

Follow the Path of the Dao: A Western Approximation

The Hexagram's Inner Trigrams

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Upper Trigram: Gen, Mountain

2nd Core Character: Zhen, Thunder

1st Core Character: Dui, Lake

Lower Trigram: Sun, Wind (Tree)

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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The image

The wind blows low on the mountain: the image of work on what has been spoiled. Thus the superior man stirs up the people and strengthens their spirit.

The judgement

Work on what has been spoiled has sublime success. It furthers to cross the great water. Before the starting point three days, after the starting point three days. Full text of Richard Wilhelm's 1924 translation by Cary F. Baynes