Hexagram 41: Decrease
Statement: Decrease. Have confidence. Great fortune. No fault if one can be upright. Gain by having a place to go. How should one act? Two square bamboo baskets can be used in offering.
Top trigram: Mountain
Bottom trigram: Lake
Hexagram Number: 41
Hexagram Name: Decrease
Line 1 comment: In your own business, go quickly. No fault. Consider decrease there.
Line 2 comment: Gain is in purity, misfortune is in going. No decrease, but gain there.
Line 3 comment: A group of three travelers is decreased by one person. One person travels and gets a friend.
Line 4 comment: Decrease your hatred. Act quickly and you will have joy. No fault.
Line 5 comment: Someone gains ten groups of turtles no one can defy. Great fortune.
Line 6 comment: No decrease, but gain there. No fault. Pure fortune. Gain by having a place to go. Get servants, but not a house.
The image Lake below mountain: decrease. The noble one halts his anger and curbs his desires.