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Hexagram 46 – Sheng – Pushing Upward
Above K’UN THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH
Below SUN THE GENTLE, WIND, WOOD
- The lower trigram, Sun, represents wood, and
- the upper, K’un, means the earth.
Linked with this is the idea that wood in the earth grows upward.
In contrast to the meaning of Chin, PROGRESS (35),
this pushing upward is associated with effort,
just as a plant needs energy for pushing upward through the earth.
That is why this hexagram, although it is connected with success, is associated with effort of the will.
- In PROGRESS the emphasis is on expansion;
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PUSHING UPWARD indicates rather a vertical ascent – direct rise
- from obscurity and lowliness
- to power and influence.
- from obscurity and lowliness
THE JUDGMENT
PUSHING UPWARD
has supreme success.
One must see the great man.
Fear not.
Departure toward the south
Brings good fortune.
The pushing upward of the good elements
- encounters no obstruction and
- is therefore accompanied by great success.
The pushing upward is made possible
- not by violence
- but by modesty and adaptability.
Since the individual is borne along by the propitiousness of the time,
he advances.
He must go to see authoritative people.
He need not be afraid to do this, because success is assured.
But
he must set to work, for activity (this is the meaning of “the south”) brings good fortune.
THE IMAGE
Within the earth, wood grows: The image of PUSHING UPWARD.
Thus the superior man of devoted character
Heaps up small things
In order to achieve something high and great.
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Adapting itself to obstacles and bending around them,
wood in the earth grows upward without haste and without rest.
Thus too
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the superior man
- is devoted in character and
- never pauses in his progress.
- is devoted in character and
