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I Ching, Hexagram 19Lin 臨 ䷒

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Confucianism · The Five Classics

I Ching, Hexagram 19

Lin 臨 ䷒

ChineseChinese
LeggeEnglish
臨:元亨。利貞。至于八月有凶。
Lin (indicates that under the conditions supposed in it) there will be great progress and success, while it will be advantageous to be firmly correct. In the eighth month there will be evil.
初九:咸臨,貞吉。
The first NINE, undivided, shows its subject advancing in company (with the subject of the second line). Through his firm correctness there will be good fortune.
九二:咸臨,吉无不利。
The second NINE, undivided, shows its subject advancing in company (with the subject of the first line). There will be good fortune; (advancing) will be in every way advantageous.
六三:甘臨,无攸利。既憂之,无咎。
The third SIX, divided, shows one well pleased (indeed) to advance, (but whose action) will be in no way advantageous. If he become anxious about it (however), there will be no error.
六四:至臨,无咎。
The fourth SIX, divided, shows one advancing in the highest mode. There will be no error.
六五:知臨,大君之宜,吉。
The fifth SIX, divided, shows the advance of wisdom, such as befits the great ruler. There will be good fortune.
上六:敦臨,吉无咎。
The sixth SIX, divided, shows the advance of honesty and generosity. There will be good fortune, and no error.

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Sources & credits: Chinese · Legge

Chinese — 周易 (Classical Chinese) (Western Zhou core text (about 9th century BCE)). Public Domain. Chinese text from Wikisource, 周易 (the 易經 part of each hexagram), public domain. Source

Legge — The Yî King (James Legge, 1882) (1882). Public Domain. James Legge, The Sacred Books of the East vol. 16 (1882), public domain; the Text only (Legge's notes and the Appendixes left out); transcription from sacred-texts.com. Source