Gua 31
☱DuiLake
☶GenMountain

— Fu Xi

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Receiving Advances

— King Wen of Zhou

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Ancient Comments on the Image

— Duke of Zhou

On the mountain there is a marsh: Receiving Advances.
The exemplary person thus receives others through emptiness.

Judgment

— King Wen of Zhou

Receiving Advances: Coming through. Benefit in steadfast alignment. Taking a woman is auspicious.

Moving Lines

— Duke of Zhou

1
Felt response at its big toe.
2
Felt response in the calves; harmful, staying is auspicious.
3
Felt response in the thigh; holding to its following, going forward is constricted.
4
Auspicious in steadfast alignment, regret disappears. Fluttering back and forth, companions follow your thoughts.
5
Felt response at its upper back; no regret.
6
Felt response reaches its cheekbones, cheeks, tongue.

Ancient Comments on the Moving Lines

— Confucius

1
Felt response at its big toe; the intention is outside.
2
Although harmful, staying is auspicious; following does not harm.
3
Felt response in the thigh: it also does not stay put. The intention is in following others; that which is held is below.
4
Auspicious in steadfast alignment, regret disappears: it has not yet felt harm. Fluttering back and forth: it is not yet radiant and great.
5
Felt response at its upper back; the intention is at the extremity.
6
Felt response in the cheekbones, cheeks, tongue: it is the surging of speech from the mouth.

Ancient Comments on the Judgment

— Confucius

Receiving Advances is felt response. Yielding above and firm below, two breaths feel-respond to associate with one another; stopping and delighting, man below woman—thus it is coming through, benefit in steadfast alignment, taking a woman is auspicious. Heaven and Earth feel-respond and the myriad things transform and are born; the sage influences human hearts and all under heaven is peaceful. Observing that which is felt, and the actual condition of heaven, earth, and myriad things can be seen!

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