41 Sun: Decrease 国际易经网iqing.netKen, keeping still, mountain is over Tui the joyous, lake. 42189▅▅▅▅▅ 31745▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅ ▅▅▅▅▅ 31745▅▅▅▅▅ 31745 This hexagram represents a decrease of the lower trigram in favour of the upper, because the third line, originally strong, has moved up to the top, and the top line, originally weak, has replaced it. What is below is decreased to the benefit of what is above. This is out-and-out decrease. If the foundations of a building are decreased in strength and the upper walls are strengthened, the whole structure loves its stability. Likewise, a decrease in the prosperity of the people in favour of the government is out-and-out decrease. And the entire theme of the hexagram is directed to showing how this shift of wealth can take place without causing the sources of wealth can take place without causing the sources of wealth in the nation and its lower classes to fail.
DECREASE combined with sincerity Brings about supreme good fortune 18453Without blame. 48245One may be persevering in this.
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42112 The lines 10497Nine at the beginning [yang at bottom] means: 30436Going quickly when one's tasks are finished 35902Is without blame. 48245But one must reflect on how much one may decrease others. It is unselfish and good when a man, after completing his own urgent tasks, uses his strength in the service of others, and without bragging or making much of it, helps quickly where help is needed. But the man in a superior position who's thus aided must weigh carefully how much he can accept without doing the helpful servant or friend real harm. Only where such delicacy of feeling exists can one give oneself unconditionally and without hesitation. 11447Nine in the second place means: 国际易经网iqing.net13629
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Perseverance furthers. 44447To undertake something brings misfortune. 35543Without decreasing oneself, One is able to bring increase to others.
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When three people journey together, 34234Their number increases by one.
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When one man journeys alone, He finds a companion. When there are three people together, jealousy arises. One of them will have to go. A very close bond is possible only between two people. But when one man is lonely, he is certain to find a companion who complements him. 国际易经网iqing.netSix in the fourth place means: 国际易经网iqing.net13629
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If a man decreases his faults, 国际易经网iqing.netIt makes the other hasten to come and rejoice. No blame. A man's faults often prevent even well-disposed people from coming closer to him. His faults are sometimes reinforced by the environment in which he lives. But if in humility he can bring himself to the point of giving them up, he frees his well-disposed friends from an inner pressure and causes them to approach the more quickly, and there is mutual joy. 45037Six in the fifth place means: 国际易经网iqing.net13629
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Ten pairs of tortoises cannot oppose it. 42548Supreme good fortune. 1940241239If someone is marked out by fate for good fortune, it comes without fail. All oracles - as for instance those that are read from the shells of tortoises - are bound to concur in giving him favourable signs. He need fear nothing, because his luck is ordained from on high. Nine at the top means: 国际易经网iqing.netIf one is increased without depriving other, 国际易经网iqing.netThere is no blame. Perseverance brings good fortune. 1940241239It furthers one to undertake something. 4539731155One obtains servants 32694But no longer has a separate home. There are people who dispense blessings to the whole world. Every increase in power that comes to them benefits the whole of mankind and therefore does not bring decrease to others. Through perseverance and zealous work a man wins success and finds helpers as they are needed. But what he accomplishes is not a limited private advantage; it is a public good and available to everyone.