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61) Zhongfu: Inner Truth/Faithfulness in the Center
Hexagram:
C: There is wind above a lake, with truthfulness between them; superior people consider judgments and postpone execution.
L: Faithfulness in the center is auspicious when it reaches pigs and fish. It is beneficial to cross great rivers. It is beneficial to be correct.
E: Avoidance of both obsession and negligence, seeking fulfillment by becoming empty.
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Lines:
1 Yang:
L: Forethought leads to good outcome. If there is something else, one is not at rest.
E: Having forethought before afterthought means that faithfulness to the path requires care in the beginning.
2 Yang:
L: A calling crane is in the shade, its fledging joins it; I have a good cup, which I will quaff with you.
E: This is faithfulness in the hidden practice of inner refinement.
3 Yin:
L: Finding enemies, sometimes drumming, sometimes stopping, sometimes crying, sometimes singing.
E: Taking false practices to be true practices turns faith into enmity.
4 Yin:
L: The moon approaches fullness. The pair of horses is gone. No fault.
E: This is the faithfulness of weakness seeking the strength in the fullness of heavenly yang.
5 Yang:
L: With faithfulness that is firm, there is no fault.
E: When faith in correct strength and flexibility unifies essence, vitality and spirit into the golden elixir, fate is dependent on free will and not on heaven.
6 Yang:
L: The voice of a pheasant reaches the skies; even if devoted, the outlook is bad.
E: When one indulges in guesswork, unable to humble oneself to seek true principles from others, one will advance and regress rapidly. This is faith that misuses intellect.