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On May 13, 2023 at 6:47 AM
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and received a response of:
6 Dispute
The Statement of the first hexagram
Dispute: keep confident
even if blocked and alarmed.
In the middle, good fortune,
but in the end, misfortune.
Gain by seeing a great person.
Do not advance across the great river.
even if blocked and alarmed.
In the middle, good fortune,
but in the end, misfortune.
Gain by seeing a great person.
Do not advance across the great river.
The changing lines
The second line:
Unable to win the dispute. Return,
and so flee his realm
of three hundred households.
No blunders.
Unable to win the dispute. Return,
and so flee his realm
of three hundred households.
No blunders.
The third line:
Surviving on old favors: a perilous sign.
In the end: fortune.
One may undertake royal service,
but without personal success.
Surviving on old favors: a perilous sign.
In the end: fortune.
One may undertake royal service,
but without personal success.
The fourth line:
Unable to win the dispute. Go back now,
make your decisions.
Change your mind
and there will be peace.
Unable to win the dispute. Go back now,
make your decisions.
Change your mind
and there will be peace.
The fifth line:
Dispute. Supreme fortune.
Dispute. Supreme fortune.
52 Stilling
The Statement of the second hexagram
One stills one's back
and does not move one's body.
There is movement in one's courtyard,
but one does not see one's people.
No fault.
and does not move one's body.
There is movement in one's courtyard,
but one does not see one's people.
No fault.
The Image of the first hexagram
Heaven and water clash:
dispute. The noble one
devises the right beginning
in all matters.
dispute. The noble one
devises the right beginning
in all matters.
The Image of the second hexagram
Doubled mountains:
stillness.
The noble one
does not consider matters
beyond his position.
stillness.
The noble one
does not consider matters
beyond his position.
