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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.
  

 

THE LINES

 

Six in the second place means:

If one

does not count

• on the harvest while plowing,
  
• Nor on the use of the ground while clearing it,
  

It furthers one to undertake something.

We should do every task

• for its own sake as time and place demand and
  
• not with an eye to the result.
  

Then

• each task turns out well, and
  
• anything we undertake succeeds.
  

 

 

MOVING HEXAGRAM

 

 

HEXAGRAM 10 – Lu – Treading (Conduct)

Above    CH’IEN    THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN

Below    TUI        THE JOYOUS, LAKE

1. The name of the hexagram means on the one hand the right way of conducting oneself.
   

• Heaven, the father, is above,
  

and

• the lake, the youngest daughter, is below.
  

This shows the difference between high and low, upon which

composure, correct social conduct, depends.

1. On the other hand, the word for the name of the hexagram, TREADING, 1
   

   means literally treading upon something.
   

   The small and cheerful [Tui] treads upon the large and strong [Ch’ien].
   

   The direction of movement of the two primary trigrams is upward.
   

   The fact that the strong treads on the weak is not mentioned in the Book of Changes,
   

   because it is taken for granted.
   

   For the weak to take a stand against the strong is not dangerous here,
   

   because it happens in good humor [Tui] and without presumption,
   

so that

the strong man is not irritated but takes it all in good part.

 

THE JUDGMENT

TREADING.

Treading upon the tail of the tiger.

It does not bite the man.

Success.

The situation is really difficult.

That which is strongest and that which is weakest are close together.

• The weak follows behind the strong and worries it.
  
• The strong, however, acquiesces and does not hurt the weak,
  

because the contact is in good humor and harmless.

In terms of a human situation, one is handling wild, intractable people. In such a case one’s purpose will be achieved if one behaves with decorum. Pleasant manners succeed even with irritable people.

 

THE IMAGE

Heaven above, the lake below: The image Of TREADING.

Thus the superior man

• discriminates between high and low,
  

And thereby

• fortifies the thinking of the people.
  

Heaven and the lake show a difference of elevation that inheres in the natures of the two,

hence

no envy arises.

Among mankind also there are necessarily differences of elevation;

it is impossible to bring about universal equality.

But it is important that differences in social rank should not be arbitrary and unjust,

for if this occurs, envy and class struggle are the inevitable consequences.

• If, on the other hand, external differences in rank correspond with differences in inner worth,
  

and

• if inner worth forms the criterion of external rank,
  

people acquiesce and order reigns in society.

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