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HEXAGRAM 56 – Lu – The Wanderer
Above LI THE CLINGING, FIRE
Below KEN KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN
· The mountain, Ken, stands still;
· above it fire, Li,
o flames up and
o does not tarry.
Therefore the two trigrams do not stay together.
· Strange lands and
· separation
are the wanderer’s lot.
THE JUDGMENT
THE WANDERER.
Success through smallness.
Perseverance brings good fortune
To the wanderer.
When
· a man is a
o wanderer and
o stranger,
· he should not be gruff nor overbearing.
· He has no large circle of acquaintances
therefore
· he should not give himself airs.
· He must be
o cautious and
o reserved;
in this way
· he protects himself from evil.
If
· he is obliging toward others,
· he wins success.
A wanderer has no fixed abode;
his home is the road.
Therefore
· he must take care to remain
o upright and
o steadfast,
so that
· he sojourns only in the proper places,
associating only with good people.
Then
he
· has good fortune and
· can go his way unmolested.
THE IMAGE
Fire on the mountain: The image of THE WANDERER.
Thus the superior man
· Is clear-minded and cautious In imposing penalties,
And
· protracts no lawsuits.
When grass on a mountain takes fire,
there is bright light.
However,
the fire
· does not linger in one place,
· but travels on to new fuel.
It is a phenomenon of short duration.
This is what
· penalties and
· lawsuits
should be like.
They
· should be a quickly passing matter, and
· must not be dragged out indefinitely.
Prisons ought to be places where
· people are lodged only temporarily,
as guests are.
· They must not become dwelling places.
