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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, 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.
  

 

THE LINES

 

Nine in the third place means:

The wanderer’s inn burns down.

He loses the steadfastness of his young servant.

Danger.

A truculent stranger does not know how to behave properly.

• He meddles in affairs and controversies that do not concern him;
  

thus

• he loses his resting place.
  

• He treats his servant with aloofness and arrogance;
  

thus

• he loses the man’s loyalty.
  

When

• a stranger in a strange land has no one left on whom he can rely,
  
  • the situation becomes very dangerous.
    

 

Nine in the fourth place means:

• The wanderer rests in a shelter.
  
• He obtains his property and an ax.
  

My heart is not glad.

This describes

a wanderer who knows how to limit his desires outwardly, though

he is inwardly strong and aspiring.

Therefore

• he finds at least a place of shelter in which he can stay.
  
• He also succeeds in acquiring property, but even with this he is not secure.
  

He must be always on guard, ready to defend himself with arms.

Hence

he is not at ease.

He is persistently conscious of being a stranger in a strange land.

 

Six in the fifth place means:

He shoots a pheasant.

It drops with the first arrow.

In the end this brings both praise and office.

Traveling statesmen were in the habit of

introducing themselves to local princes with the gift of a pheasant.

Here

the wanderer wants to enter the service of a prince.

To this end

he shoots a pheasant, killing it at the first shot.

Thus

• he finds friends who praise and recommend him,
  

and in the end

• the prince accepts him and confers an office upon him.
  

Circumstances often cause a man to seek a home in foreign parts.

If

he knows

• how to meet the situation and
  
• how to introduce himself in the right way,
  

he may find

• a circle of friends and
  
• a sphere of activity
  

even in a strange country.

 

Nine at the top means:

The bird’s nest burns up.

The wanderer laughs at first,

Then must needs lament and weep.

Through carelessness he loses his cow.

Misfortune.

The picture of a bird whose nest burns up indicates

loss of one’s resting place.

This misfortune may overtake the bird

if it is heedless and imprudent when building its nest.

It is the same with a wanderer.

If

he

• lets himself go, laughing and jesting, and
  
• forgets that he is a wanderer,
  

he will later have cause to weep and lament.

For

if through carelessness a man loses his cow – i.e., his modesty and adaptability – evil will result.

 

 

MOVING HEXAGRAM

 

 

HEXAGRAM 08 – Pi – Holding Together [Union]

Above    K’AN    THE ABYSMAL, WATER

Below    K’UN    THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH

The waters on the surface of the earth flow together wherever they can,

as for example in the ocean,

where all the rivers come together.

Symbolically this connotes

• holding together and
  
• the laws that regulate it.
  

The same idea is suggested by the fact that

all the lines of the hexagram except the fifth, the place of the ruler, are yielding.

The yielding lines hold together because they are influenced by

• a man of strong will in the leading position,
  
• a man who is their center of union.
  

Moreover, this strong and guiding personality in turn holds together with the others,

finding in them the complement of his own nature.

 

THE JUDGMENT

HOLDING TOGETHER brings good fortune.

Inquire of the oracle once again

Whether you possess sublimity, constancy, and perseverance;

Then there is no blame.

Those who are uncertain gradually join.

Whoever comes too late

Meets with misfortune.

What is required is that we unite with others, in order that

all may complement and aid one another through holding together.

But such holding together calls for a central figure around whom other persons may unite.

To become a center of influence holding people together is a

• grave matter and
  
• fraught with great responsibility.
  

It requires

• greatness of spirit,
  
• consistency, and
  
• strength.
  

Therefore let him who wishes to gather others about him ask himself whether he is equal to the undertaking,

for anyone attempting the task without a real calling for it

only makes confusion worse than if no union at all had taken place.

But when there is a real rallying point,

those who at first are hesitant or uncertain gradually come in of their own accord.

Late-comers must suffer the consequences, for in holding together the question of the right time is also important.

Relationships are formed and firmly established according to definite inner laws.

Common experiences strengthen these ties, and he who comes too late to share in these basic experiences must suffer for it if, as a straggler, he finds the door locked.

If a man

• has recognized the necessity for union and
  
• does not feel strong enough to function as the center,
  

it is his duty to become a member of some other organic fellowship.

 

THE IMAGE

On the earth is water: The image Of HOLDING TOGETHER.

Thus the kings of antiquity

• Bestowed the different states as fiefs And
  
• cultivated friendly relations With the feudal lords.
  

Water

• fills up all the empty places on the earth and
  
• clings fast to it.
  

The social organization of ancient China was based on this principle of the holding together of

• dependents and
  
• rulers.
  

Water flows to unite with water, because all parts of it are subject to the same laws.

So too should human society hold together through a community of interests that

allows each individual to feel himself a member of a whole.

The central power of a social organization must see to it that

every member finds that his true interest lies in holding together with it,

as was the case in the paternal relationship between king and vassals in ancient China.

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