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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 in the third place means:

The underbrush is of such abundance

That the small stars can be seen at noon.

He breaks his right arm.

No blame.

The image is that of a progressive covering over of the sun.

Here

the eclipse reaches totality;

therefore

even the small stars can be seen at noon.

In the sphere of social relationships,

this means that the prince is now so eclipsed that

even the most insignificant persons

can push themselves into the foreground.

This makes it impossible for an able man

though he might be the right hand of the ruler,

to undertake anything.

It is as though his arm was broken,

but he is not to blame for being thus hindered in action.

 

Six in the fifth place means:

Lines are coming,

Blessing and fame draw near.

Good fortune.

The ruler is modest and therefore open to the counsel of able men.

Thus

he is surrounded by men who suggest to him the lines of action.

This brings blessing, fame, and good fortune to him and all the people.

 

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 25 – Wu Wang – Innocence (The Unexpected)

Above    CH’IEN    THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN

Below    CHEN        THE AROUSING, THUNDER

• Ch’ien, heaven, is above;
  
• Chen, movement, is below.
  

The lower trigram Chen is under the influence of the strong line

it has received from above, from heaven.

When, in accord with this,

• movement follows the law of heaven,
  
• man is
  
  • innocent and
    
  • without guile.
    

His mind is

• natural and true,
  
• unshadowed by reflection or ulterior designs.
  

For

• wherever conscious purpose is to be seen,
  
• there the truth and innocence of nature have been lost.
  

Nature that is not directed by the spirit is

• not true
  
• but degenerate nature.
  

Starting out with the idea of the natural,

• the train of thought in part goes somewhat further and thus
  
• the hexagram includes also the idea of the unintentional or unexpected.
  

 

THE JUDGMENT

INNOCENCE. Supreme success.

Perseverance furthers.

If someone is not as he should be,

• He has misfortune,
  

And

• it does not further him To undertake anything.
  

Man has received from heaven a nature innately good,

to guide him in all his movements.

By devotion to this divine spirit within himself,

he attains an unsullied innocence that leads him to do right

• with instinctive sureness and
  
• without any ulterior thought of reward and personal advantage.
  

This instinctive certainty

• brings about supreme success and
  
• “furthers through perseverance.”
  

However,

• not everything instinctive is nature in this higher sense of the word,
  
• but only that which is right and in accord with the will of heaven.
  

Without this quality of rightness,

an unreflecting, instinctive way of acting brings only misfortune.

Confucius says about this:

• “He who departs from innocence,
  
  • what does he come to?
    
• Heaven’s will and blessing
  
  • do not go with his deeds.”
    

 

THE IMAGE

Under heaven thunder rolls: All things attain the natural state of innocence.

Thus the kings of old,

• rich in virtue, and
  
• in harmony with the time,
  

Fostered and nourished all beings.

In springtime

when thunder, life energy, begins to move again under the heavens,

• everything sprouts and grows, and
  
• all beings receive from the creative activity of nature
  

  the childlike innocence of their original state.
  

So it is with the good rulers of mankind:

drawing on the spiritual wealth at their command,

they

• take care of all forms of life and all forms of culture and
  
• do everything to further them, and at the proper time.
  

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