Gua 33
Ancient Comments on the Image
Judgment
Moving Lines
3
Bound withdrawal; there is affliction and peril; keeping servants and concubines is auspicious.
Ancient Comments on the Moving Lines
3
The peril of bound withdrawal is having affliction and exhaustion. Keeping servants and concubines is auspicious, [for] great affairs are not possible.
5
Excellent withdrawal is auspicious in steadfast alignment, [this is] to set the intention right.
Ancient Comments on the Judgment
Withdrawal flourishes; it is by withdrawing that one flourishes. The firm occupies its fitting position and responds; it proceeds with the time. Small benefit in steadfast alignment; it gradually grows and increases. The fittingness of the time of withdrawal—how great it is!