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22) Bi: Adornment
Hexagram:
C: There is fire below the mountain, adorning it; superior people clarify government affairs, without presumptuous adjudication.
L: Adornment is developmental. It is beneficial to go somewhere in a minimal way.
E: Private cultivation, without ostentation, is the mutual complementing of clarity and stillness.
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Lines:
1 Yang:
L: Adorning the feet, leaving the car and walking.
E: This is adornment firmly preserving rectitude.
2 Yin:
L: Adornment is seeking.
E: Having the humility to seek the guidance from others to expand one’s own knowledge, is the adornment of weakness borrowing strength.
3 Yang:
L: Adorned and luxuriant, perpetual rectitude is auspicious.
E: When firm clarity is excessive, one cannot transform understanding into application. This is interior adornment without exterior adornment. Constant interior adornment is auspicious.
4 Yin:
L: Adorned or plain? A white horse runs swiftly. It is not an enemy but a mate.
E: When one is unashamed to humble oneself to inquire, adornment of the weak seeks clarity.
5 Yin:
L: Adornment in the hills and groves, the roll of silk is small; there is shame, but it turns out well.
E: Being flexible but not firm, keeping to quietude and isolation, brings shame. Balanced flexibility, the adornment of flexibility and self-sufficiency, is auspicious.
6 Yang:
L: Adornment by simplicity is impeccable.
E: Firmness and flexibility merge, and effortlessly clarify illumination. Plain adornment unifies clarity and stillness. Energy and substance integrate with the celestial principle of the spirit.