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HEXAGRAM 55 – Feng – Abundance (Fullness)

Above    CHEN    THE AROUSING, THUNDER

Below    LI    THE CLINGING, FLAME

• Chen is movement;
  
• Li is flame, whose attribute is clarity.
  

• Clarity within,
  
• movement without –
  

this produces greatness and abundance.

The hexagram pictures a period of advanced civilization.

However,

the fact that development has reached a peak suggests that

this extraordinary condition of abundance cannot be maintained permanently.

THE JUDGMENT

ABUNDANCE has success.

The king attains abundance.

Be not sad.

Be like the sun at midday.

It is not given to every mortal to bring about a time of

• outstanding greatness and
  
• abundance.
  

Only a born ruler of men is able to do it,

because his will is directed to what is great.

Such a time of abundance is usually brief.

Therefore

a sage might well feel sad in view of the decline that must follow.

But such sadness does not befit him.

Only a man who is inwardly free of sorrow and care

can lead in a time of abundance.

He must be like the sun at midday,

illuminating and gladdening everything under heaven.

THE IMAGE

Both thunder and lightning come: The image of ABUNDANCE.

Thus

the superior man

• decides lawsuits And
  
• carries out punishments.
  

This hexagram has a certain connection with Shih Ho, BITING THROUGH (21),

in which thunder and lightning similarly appear together,

but in the reverse order.

• In BITING THROUGH, laws are laid down;
  
• here they are applied and enforced.
  

• Clarity [Li] within makes it possible to investigate the facts exactly, and
  
• shock [Chen] without ensures a strict and precise carrying out of punishments.
  

THE LINES

Nine at the beginning means:

When a man meets his destined ruler,

• They can be together ten days, And
  
• it is not a mistake.
  

Going meets with recognition.

To bring about a time of abundance,

a union of clarity with energetic movement is needed.

Two individuals possessed of these two attributes are suited to each other,

and even if

they spend an entire cycle of time together during the period of abundance,

it will not be too long, nor is it a mistake.

Therefore

one may go forth, in order to make one’s influence felt;

it will meet with recognition.

Six at the top means:

His house is in a state of abundance.

• He screens off his family.
  
• He
  
  • peers through the gate And
    
  • no longer perceives anyone.
    

For three years he sees nothing.

Misfortune.

This describes

a man who because of his arrogance and obstinacy

attains the opposite of what he strives for.

• He seeks abundance and splendor for his dwelling.
  
• He wishes at all odds to be master in his house,
  

  which so alienates his family that in the end
  

  he finds himself completely isolated.
  

 

MOVING HEXAGRAM

 

HEXAGRAM 56 – Lu – The Wanderer

Above    LI    THE CLINGING, FIRE

Below    KEN    KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN

• The mountain, Ken, stands still;
  

above it

• fire, Li, flames up and 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 wanderer and 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 cautious and 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 upright and 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.
  

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