Hexagram 25: Innocence
Statement: Innocence: from the first, all must be pervasive, gainful, and pure. Those without such truth suffer calamity and do not gain no matter where they go.
Top trigram: Heaven
Bottom trigram: Thunder
Hexagram Number: 25
Hexagram Name: Innocence
Line 1 comment: Innocence: from the first, all must be pervasive, gainful, and pure. Those without such truth suffer calamity and do not gain no matter where they go.
Line 2 comment: No new fields, no old fields: it is better to go far away.
Line 3 comment: Unexpected trouble: a cow might be tethered by someone else. The traveler gains, the townsman loses.
Line 4 comment: If you can be upright, there will be no fault.
Line 5 comment: Unexpected illness. Recovery from sickness brings joy.
Line 6 comment: Unexpected action brings disaster. No place will be gainful.
The image Thunder moves under heaven: all the world is innocent. The ancient kings paid close attention to the time in nourishing the myriad things.