Gua 4
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— Fu Xi

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Naive Immaturity

— King Wen of Zhou

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Ancient Comments on the Image

— Duke of Zhou

From beneath the mountain a spring emerges: naive immaturity
the gentleman thus acts decisively to nurture virtue.

Judgment

— King Wen of Zhou

Naive Immaturity: breakthrough. Not I seek the juvenile immaturity; the juvenile immaturity seeks me. First divination tells; again and a third time, profaned; if profaned, it does not tell. Beneficial to be steadfast.

Moving Lines

— Duke of Zhou

1
Opening immaturity; beneficial to use discipline on people, using the removal of shackles; going forward brings regret.
2
Embracing immaturity is auspicious; taking a wife is auspicious; the son is able to manage the household.
3
Do not marry this woman; seeing a golden man, she does not possess her own body; nothing is beneficial.
4
困蒙,吝。
Trapped immaturity, regret.
5
童蒙,吉。
Juvenile immaturity, auspicious.
6
Striking immaturity; not beneficial to be the raider, beneficial to resist the raider.

Ancient Comments on the Moving Lines

— Confucius

1
Beneficial to use discipline on people in order to set right the law.
2
The son manages the house: strength and softness connect.
3
Do not marry this woman: her conduct is not aligned.
4
The regret of trapped immaturity is being alone and far from substance.
5
The auspiciousness of juvenile immaturity is being compliant and yielding.
6
Beneficial to resist the raider: above and below are aligned.

Ancient Comments on the Judgment

— Confucius

Naive Immaturity: below the mountain there is danger; danger and stopping—this is naive immaturity. Naive immaturity breakthrough: acting with breakthrough is timeliness. Not I seek the juvenile immaturity, the juvenile immaturity seeks me—it is a correspondence of will. First divination tells because strength is centered. Again and a third time profaned; if profaned, it does not tell—that is profaning immaturity. Using immaturity to nourish correctness: sagely accomplishment.

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