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.
Follow the Path of the Dao: A Western Approximation
The Hexagram's Inner Trigrams
Upper Trigram: Kun, Earth
2nd Core Character: Zhen, Thunder
1st Core Character: Kan, Water
Lower Trigram: Gen, Mountain
The Hexagram's Inner Trigrams in the Context of Yin and Yang
Changes and Impulses
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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
- Hexagram 14 → hexagram 15 → hexagram 16
- LI11 (A Gathering Pool of Accumulation)
- Winter
- XIV Temperance