Hexagram 11 · 地天泰

豫卦原文
豫。利建侯行师。

象曰：雷出地奋，豫。先王以作乐崇德，殷荐之上帝，以配祖考。

白话文解释
豫卦：有利于封侯建国，出兵打仗。
《象辞》说：本卦上卦为震，震为雷，下卦为坤，坤为地。春雷轰鸣，大地震动，催发万物，这是豫卦的卦象。先王观此卦象，取法于声满大地的雷鸣，制作音乐，歌功颂德，光荣归于上帝，光荣归于祖考。
《断易天机》解
豫卦震上坤下，为震宫初世卦。雷出地奋，象征春雷使万物苏醒，君王之威行于子民，因此有利于建候、行师。
家运:家庭和合，有通亨之象，凡事宜检点得失，不可胡为，否则招灾不利。
疾病:久病不利，注意肠肺及头部之症。
胎孕:生贵子。安而无灾。生女亦均无碍。
子女:亲子和睦，幸福圆满。留心教养，勿使太任性，否则沦于不幸之破运。
周转:可成。
买卖:交易有益，得利。
等人:会来。
寻人:在朋友或亲戚家里，有信息也。可寻。
失物:不会出现。
外出:一帆风顺。
考试:上榜有望，宜再努力勿懈。
诉讼:是非由小事化大，终可和解。
求事:吉利亨通。
改行:吉。
开业:开业者吉利之象。

第十一卦的哲学含义

为阴。本来乾为天，应该在上，坤为地，应该在下，但是，泰卦这种上坤下乾却很吉利。上卦为坤，为地，地属阴气;下卦为乾，为天，天为阳气。阴气凝重而下沉，阳气清明而上升，阴阳交感。阳气上升若无制约，就会耗尽能量，也不会产生结果，阴气下沉若无制约，也会耗尽能量，故阳气上升，有阴气覆护;阴气下沉，有阳气承托。阴阳交感，上下互通，天地相交，万物泰安。 《象》曰：天地交，泰;后以财成天地之道，辅相天地之宜，以左右民。 《象》中指出：泰卦的卦象为乾(天)下坤(地)上，地气上升，乾气下降，为地气居于乾气之上之表象，阴阳二气一升一降，互相交合，顺畅通达;君主这时要掌握时机，善于裁节调理，以成就天地交合之道，促成天地化生万物之机宜，护佑天下百姓，使他们安居乐业。 泰卦象征通达，启示了因时而变的道理，属于中中卦。《象》这样来断此卦：学文满腹入场闱，三元及第得意回，从今解去愁和闷，喜庆平地一声雷。 此卦的卦名为泰。《说文》中说，“泰，大也。”《礼记•曲礼上》疏，“泰者，大中之大也。”可见泰的意思是极其的博大。地大物博，人们自然就富裕，所以泰也有富裕、宽裕的意思。人们丰衣足食，社会就会和平安定，所以泰还含有平安、稳定的含义。

2 11.地天泰(䷊)-高岛易断
2.1 泰：小往大来，吉亨。
2.2 《彖传》曰：泰，小往大来，吉亨，则是天地交而万物通也，上下交而其志同也。内阳而外阴，内健而外顺，内君子而外小人。君子道长，小人道消也。
2.3 《大象》曰：天地交泰，后以财“成天地之道，辅相天地之宜，以左右民。
2.4 初九：拔茅茹以其汇，征吉。
2.5 九二：包荒，用冯河，不遐遗，朋亡，得尚于中行。
2.6 九三：无平不陂，无往不复，艰贞无咎。勿恤其孚，于食有福。
2.7 六四；翩翩不富，以其邻，不戒以孚。
2.8 六五：帝乙归妹，以祉元吉。
2.9 上六：城复于隍。勿用师，自邑告命。贞吝。
地天泰
  泰：小往大来，吉，亨。
《彖》曰：泰，小往大来。吉，亨。则是天地交而万物通也，上下交而其志同也。内阳而外阴，内健而外顺，内君子而外小人，君子道长，小人道消也。
《象》曰：天地交，泰。后以财成天地之道，辅相天地之宜，以左右民。

Judgment
Legge: Harmony shows the inferior departed and the great arrived. There will be good fortune with progress and success.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Peace. The small departs, the great approaches. Good fortune. Success.
Blofeld: Peace. The mean decline; the great and good approach -- good fortune and success! [In the following hexagram (Divorcement), where the trigrams symbolize heaven and earth in what would appear to be their normal positions, that arrangement is held to be disastrous; whereas here, where they seem to be upside down, everything is propitious. This may be because heaven above earth is held to imply that the two are existing separately without the intercourse which is the root of all growth; whereas here their intercourse is so absolute that heaven is actually supporting earth.]
Liu: Peace. The small is departing, the great is arriving. Good fortune. Success.
Ritsema/Karcher: Pervading. The small going, the great coming. significance Growing. [This hexagram describes your situation in terms of prospering and expanding. It emphasizes that continually spreading this prosperity through communicating is the adequate way to handle it...]
Shaughnessy: Greatness: the little go and the great come; auspicious; receipt.
Cleary (1): The small goes, the great comes. This is auspicious and developmental.
Cleary (2): Tranquility … Getting through auspiciously.
Wu: Prosperity shows that the small stays outside and the great stays inside. It will be auspicious and pervasive.

The Image
Legge: The intercourse of heaven and earth -- the image of Harmony. The wise ruler models his laws upon the principles of heaven and earth, and enforces them for the people's benefit.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Heaven and earth unite: the image of Peace. Thus the ruler divides and completes the course of heaven and earth; he furthers and regulates the gifts of heaven and earth, and so aids the people.
Blofeld: This hexagram symbolizes heaven and earth in communion. [The component trigrams illustrate the kind of close intercourse just alluded to. This is surely the only way of depicting it under the circumstances, for any mingling of their component lines would produce quite different trigrams having no reference to heaven and earth.] It is as though a mighty ruler, by careful regulation of affairs, has brought to fruition the way of heaven and earth. In harmony with the sequence of their motions, he gives help to people on every hand.
Liu: Heaven and earth are unified, symbolizing Peace. The ruler reforms and completes the way of heaven and earth; He observes the appropriate methods of heaven and earth to direct the people.
Ritsema/Karcher: Heaven and Earth mingling. Pervading. The crownprince uses property to accomplish Heaven and Earth's tao. The crown-prince uses bracing to mutualize Heaven and Earth's propriety. The crown-prince uses the left to right the commoners.
Cleary (1): When heaven and earth commune, there is tranquility. Thus does the ruler administer the way of heaven and earth and assist the proper balance of heaven and earth, thereby helping the people.
Cleary (2): … So as to influence the people.
Wu: Prosperity results from the interaction of heaven and earth. The king uses the wealth of the nation to achieve the ways of heaven and earth and to support their designs, so as to bring the sentiments of the people to the center.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: Harmony shows the union of heaven and earth, and all
things consequently united -- high and low, superior and inferior are all in accord. The lower trigram is made up of dynamic lines, and the upper of magnetic lines: strength is within, devotion is without; the superior man is inside and increasing, the inferior man is outside and decreasing.

Legge: The Judgment refers to the structure of the hexagram, with the three dynamic lines below, and the three magnetic lines above. The former are "the great," active and vigorous; the latter are "the inferior," passive and yielding. In many editions of the I Ching beneath the hexagram of Harmony there appears hexagram number fifty-four, Propriety, which becomes Harmony if the third and fourth lines exchange places. A situation in which the motive forces are represented by three dynamic, and the opposing by three magnetic lines, must be progressive and successful. Harmony is called the hexagram of the first month of the natural spring, when for six months the forces of growth are in ascendance.
Canon McClatchie translates: "The Image means that heaven and earth have now conjugal intercourse with each other, and the upper and lower classes unite together." Ch'eng-tzu says on the Image that a ruler should frame his laws to operate like the seasons, so that the people exist within the structure of a natural rather than an arbitrary order.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Judgment: Harmony depicts the waning of egotistical illusions and the waxing of true potential. The Superior Man allows his inner virtue to rule the psyche. Without changing lines, Harmony suggests a fruitful union of opposites and consequent state of balance in the matter at hand. Wilhelm translates the opening phrase of the Confucian commentary as: "Heaven and earth unite." Blofeld renders it: "The celestial and terrestrial forces have intercourse and all things are in communion with one another." Legge has already called attention to McClatchie's version of: "Heaven and earth have now conjugal intercourse with each other." This image is one of the most universal symbols produced by the human psyche: the sexual union of Spirit and Matter (heaven and earth). This is the hieros gamos or holy marriage of alchemy, the union of Shiva and Shakti in Hinduism, the conjoined male and female deities in tantric Buddhism, the syzygies of Gnosticism and the union of heaven and earth in the Kabbalah. The notions of the couple and the sacred marriage held a very important place in ancient Chinese religious thinking. Every sacred power was twofold, male and female; but since only one half of the sacred couple was generally enclosed in any one sanctuary, the ritual was directed at reconstituting the whole... The complete being is male and female; since most men neglect or repress their feminine nature, they are out of balance; their male aggressiveness comes to the fore, and their whole

vitality suffers. There can be no true Holiness without a prior revitalization of femininity.
M. Kaltenmark -- Lao Tzu and Taoism Psychologically, the condition pictured by this hexagram is a metaphor for a high state of integration within the psyche. Here it is described in alchemical and Jungian terminology: The hermetic vessel is oneself. In it the many pieces of psychic stuff scattered throughout one's world must be collected and fused into one, so making a new creation. In it must occur the union of the opposites called by the alchemists the coniunctio or marriage... (This union), in psychological terms corresponds to man with his feminine soul, the
anima, or to a woman with her masculine counterpart, the animus -- the union in each case constituting the inner marriage, the hieros gamos by which the individual must become whole.
M.E. Harding -- Psychic Energy To receive this hexagram does not necessarily mean that one has attained such a high integration, but it might indicate a step in that direction. The ultimate hieros gamos only occurs after all of the scattered and mismatched forces within
the psyche have been brought together in correct alignment -- in I Ching terms, when all of the lines are in their proper places with proper correlates as imaged in hexagram number 63, Completion. Until this final union there are innumerable
"lesser" conjunctions which must first take place -- a fact recognized in tantric yoga:
The final goal of the tantricist is to reunite the two contrary principles -Shiva and Shakti -- in his own body. When Shakti, who sleeps, in the shape of a serpent, at the base of his body, is awoken by certain yogic techniques, she moves through a medial channel by way of the chakras up to the top of the skull, where Shiva dwells, and unites with him. The union of the divine pair within his own body transforms the yogin into a kind of "androgyne." But it must be stressed that "androgynization" is only one aspect of a total process, that of the reunion of the opposites. Actually, Tantric literature speaks of a great number of "opposing pairs" that have to be reunited.
Mircea Eliade -- Myths, Rites, Symbols The establishment of the "Kingdom of Heaven on Earth" is yet another metaphor for this process of psychic unification. Here is the Kabbalistic version: It is by the establishment of the celestial on the terrestrial, or of heaven upon earth, that the house of the King (humanity) will become united and the King will rejoice thereat, for then the two kingdoms will become one and then the new and living way will become opened to those who make themselves susceptible and receptive of the Higher and Diviner life...

When these two worlds become united and blended together they are symbolized by the union of the male and female, the one being the complement of the other.
The Zohar
SUGGESTIONS FOR MEDITATION
Legge points out that many editions of the I Ching associate hexagram number fifty-four, Propriety, with this figure. What do the changing third and fourth lines of Propriety imply about the role of the ego in the Work? The
traditional name for Propriety is "The Marrying Maiden" -- how does that relate to the concept of the holy marriage in Harmony? Compare the Judgments and Images of the two hexagrams and the role of the superior man in each. Note also the lesson implied when lines two and five in Harmony unite to make hexagram number sixty-three, Completion.

周易第十一卦初九爻详解
初九爻辞
初九。拔茅茹，以其汇，征吉。
象曰：拔茅征吉，志在外也。
白话文解释
初九：连根拨掉茅草，及其同类。征伐敌人，吉利。
《象辞》说：连根拔掉茅草，彻底征服敌人，吉利，说明志在讨伐敌国。

北宋易学家邵雍解
吉：得此爻者，志同合谋，财利日增。做官的会逐步升迁。

台湾国学大儒傅佩荣解
时运：因人成事，逐步升迁。
财运：合伙有成，货财会聚。
家宅：团圆平安。
身体：相约运动。

初九变卦
初九爻动变得周易第46卦：地风升。这个卦是异卦（下巽上坤）相叠。坤为地、为顺；巽为木、为逊。大地生长树木，逐渐成长，日渐高大成材，喻事业步步高升，前程远大，故名“升”。

初九爻的哲学含义

在事业上，功名利禄不是第一位的，要更加注重人脉关系。与人交往时，不要吝惜财钱，如果与朋友吃饭，应该用最好的酒来招待。打下良好的人脉关系基础，做起事来才会吉祥如意。要开创一个事业，单靠自己的单枪匹马是难以成功的，应该找到志同道合的“同类”，一起来做，才有成功的可能。
《易经》在古代也被君王用来占卜。君王或领导人占得此卦，就要注意境内的腐败势力，应该将他们像拔草一样，连根除掉，这样才会大吉。
经文意思是：拔茅草，茅草长长的根将它的同类也带离了土地，征战吉祥象辞意思是：拔出茅草征战吉祥，是因为他的心志在向上进取。
拔茅草是古人的农业生产项目之一。有什么用呢?其一是将茅草从田间拔掉，利于庄稼的生长;其二是可以当作家畜的饲料;其三是可以用来作祭祀的物品，即将祭品垫在茅草上面。

初九：拔茅茹，以其汇。征吉。
《象》曰：拔茅征吉，志在外也。

Line-1
Legge: The first line, dynamic, suggests the idea of grass pulled up, and bringing with it other stalks with whose roots it is connected. Advance on the part of its subject will be fortunate.
Wilhelm/Baynes: When ribbon grass is pulled up, the sod comes with it. Each according to his kind. Undertakings bring good fortune.
Blofeld: When grass is uprooted, what is attached to it is pulled up as well. It is an auspicious time for advancing according to plan. [This would seem to mean that we are likely to get what we seek plus something more.]
Liu: When ribbon grass is pulled out, its roots come with it: they are of the same kind. Undertakings lead to good fortune.
Ritsema/Karcher: Eradicating thatch-grass intertwined. Using one's classification. Chastising significant.
Shaughnessy: Plucking the cogon-grass stem with its roots; to be upright is auspicious.
Cleary (1): When pulling out a reed by the roots, other roots come with it. It is auspicious to go forth.
Wu: Like pulling up reeds with all their connecting roots, advancing will be auspicious.

COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: His will is set on what is external to himself. Wilhelm/
Baynes: The will is directed outward. Blofeld: The mind is outward looking (i.e. fixed upon the people's welfare.) [This really means the mind of the Superior Man, whose duty it is to look after the people’s welfare. If he is truly a Superior Man, when his mind is turned inward it is to meditate upon and eradicate his faults; when outward turned, it is concentrated upon his duty to the ruler (provided the king is worthy) and his care of the people.] Ritsema/Karcher: Purpose located outside indeed. Cleary (2): Means focusing the will beyond.
Wu: Because the aspiration is to go upward.
Legge: The symbolism of the first line is suggested by the three dynamic lines of the lower trigram, all together, and all possessed by the same instinct to advance. The movement of the first line will be supported by the others, and will be fortunate. "He has his will set on what is external to himself" means that he is bent on going forward.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: At the outset, the man brings others of like mind with him as he enters public office during a period of prosperity.
Wing: Actions that you might now take, particularly those actions that are connected to the welfare of others, will meet with good fortune. You will attract others and find co- operation among those who have goals similar to your own.
Editor: This line changes the hexagram to number forty-six, Pushing Upward, another image of growth with a corresponding line which further reinforces the idea of upward progress: "Advancing upward with the welcome of those above him..." "Grass roots" are a foundation, source or essence, as in “grass roots support” in a political campaign. To "uproot" is to remove from a fixed or
entrenched position. "Other stalks" are analogous elements -- "fellow travelers." The image suggests the positive alteration of a heretofore static situation. When the shadow has been made conscious and has been accepted as part of the personality, its contents and part of its energies are added to those of the ego, so that a further development of the I results. Similarly, when the anima or animus has been united to the conscious psyche by a process described in many religious systems as an inner marriage, a further enlargement of consciousness results, and the conscious personality begins to display those qualities of dignity and stability which are the marks of the unique or individuated personality.
M.E. Harding -- Psychic Energy
A. Removal from an entrenched position advances the general welfare. Go beyond yourself.

B. A union of similar forces moves progressively.

周易第十一卦九二爻详解
九二爻辞
九二。包荒，用冯河，不遐遗，朋亡，得尚于中行。
象曰：包荒，得尚于中行，以光大也。
白话文解释
九二：用挖空的瓠瓜绑在身上渡河，不至于沉没。钱币丢失了，在半路上得到别人的帮助。
《象辞》说：其人度量弘大，深得同路人的赏识，这是由于他光明正大呀。

北宋易学家邵雍解
吉：得此爻者，会有好运，必遇尊贵，但要防长上有损，言语有伤。做官的会身居高位，功名显达。

台湾国学大儒傅佩荣解
时运：功名显达，海外亦宜。
财运：行商有利，国际贸易。
家宅：勿信仆从。
身体：疾病难治。

九二变卦
九二爻动变得周易第36卦：地火明夷。这个卦是异卦（下离上坤）相叠。离为明，坤为顺；离为日；坤为地。日没入地，光明受损，前途不明，环境困难，宜遵时养晦，坚守正道，外愚内慧，韬光养晦。

九二爻的哲学含义

从卦象上看，九二这一爻以阳爻居阴位，失位但居中。
在初九这一爻之中，提出要重视人脉，在九二这一爻，则强调在结交人的过程之中，要奉行不左不右不偏不倚的中庸之道，你应该具有包容一切的胸怀，并同各种类型的人都保持着良好的关系，这样可以拓宽自己的道路。
《象》曰：“包荒”，“得尚于中行”，以光在也。
这句话告诉人们，如果达到了爻辞之中所说的“有包容大川似的宽广胸怀”，“能够辅佐公正有道德的君主”，就要做到自己光明正大，道德高尚。
经文意思是：包容八荒，徒步涉河，不遗失偏远之地的朋友，不结党营私，这是中正的行为准则。
象舌辛意思是：包容八荒，以中正为行为准则，这说明九二的道德广大。

九二：包荒，用冯河，不遐遗。朋亡，得尚于中行。
《象》曰：包荒，得尚于中行，以光大也。

Line-2
Legge: The second line, dynamic, shows one who can bear with the uncultivated, will cross the river without a boat, does not forget the distant, and has no selfish friendships. Thus does he prove himself acting in accordance with the due mean.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Bearing with the uncultured in gentleness, fording the river with resolution, not neglecting what is distant, not regarding one's companions: thus one may manage to walk in the middle.
Blofeld: Supporting the uncultivated, crossing the river without boats, not retreating despite the distance from his base, not abandoning his comrades, he still manages to steer a middle course.
Liu: Bear with the undeveloped. Swim across the river decisively, not forgetting what is remote, nor disregarding one's friends. Thus one can gain the middle way.
Ritsema/Karcher: Enwrapping wasteland. Availing-of crossing the channel. Not putting-off abandoning. Partnering extinguished. Acquiring honor, tendingtowards centering moving.
Shaughnessy: Wrapped recklessness; herewith ford the river; not distantly leaving it behind and not forgetting it, gains elevation in the central ranks.
Cleary (1): Accepting the uncultivated, actively crossing rivers, not missing the remote, partisanship disappears, and one accords with balanced action.
Cleary (2): … Employing those who can cross rivers, not overlooking the remote, free from partisanship, one can seriously perform balanced action.
Wu: This is like the sky enveloping all corners of the earth. Walking along a riverbank, one will not lose the direction even going far. He will show no favoritism toward friends. He will maintain a course of centrality.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: His intelligence is bright and his capacity is great.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Because the light is great. Blofeld: A middle course can be steered because the situation is so brilliantly clear. Ritsema/Karcher: Using the shining great indeed. Cleary (2): Due to greatness of illumination. Wu: Indicate an ability to attain enlightenment.

Legge: The second line is dynamic, but in a magnetic place. This tempers his action and describes his first characteristic of forbearance. Because the place is central and has a proper correlate above in the fifth place, all the favorable images are manifested.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man observes the mean during times of peace. He is magnanimous toward the uncultivated, ready for necessary risks, watchful over future possibilities, and independent of cliques and factions.
Wing: During Prospering times it is important to hold to worthy attitudes and behavior in order to achieve your aim. You now have a responsibility to undertake difficult tasks, to be tolerant of all people, and to maintain far-reaching visions. Avoid getting involved in current factions and special-interest groups.
Editor: Wilhelm/Baynes translate "no selfish friendships" as: "not regarding one's companions." The idea is that correct behavior takes precedence over popular opinion. Thoreau's famous line: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer," is an analogous idea. The discipline of the Work immediately places one in this category. A complete understanding of this line depends upon what is said in line five, which see. From my point of view, he can be called a remarkable man who stands out from those around him by the resourcefulness of his mind, and who knows how to be restrained in the manifestations which proceed from his nature, at the same time conducting himself justly and tolerantly towards the weaknesses of others.
Gurdjieff
A. Turmoil is a fact of life. Unaffected by conventional norms, one bucks the current of ignorance and focuses on the goals of the Work. Cope competently.

周易第十一卦九三爻详解详解
九三爻辞
九三。无平不陂，无往不复。艰贞无咎。勿恤其孚，于食有福。
象曰：无往不复，天地际也。
白话文解释
九三：平地终将变成坡地，离去必定复返。卜问艰难之事，爻象显示必能渡过难关，不要担心被人虏去，而且在饮食上尚有口福。
《象辞》说：离去必定复返，这是天地间的法则。

北宋易学家邵雍解
平：得此爻者，须谨慎自持，宜保守，则安，不然会犯小人，事事遇阻。做官的会比较艰难，须防小人和别人的妒忌。

台湾国学大儒傅佩荣解
时运：谨慎保守，逸乐亡身。
财运：眼前失意，后有大利。
家宅：谨守先业。
身体：小孩没事，老人不吉。

九三变卦
九三爻动变得周易第19卦：地泽临。这个卦是异卦（下兑上坤）相叠。坤为地，兑为泽，地高于泽，泽容于地。喻君主亲临天下，治国安邦，上下融洽。

九三爻的哲学含义

从卦象上看，九三属于阳爻居于刚位，得位。但是其处于上下卦交接之处，
从此卦之中看就是乾卦与坤卦相交、天与地相交的地方，将会面临许多不测的变化。
占得此卦者，要明白人生的道理，如果你处于逆境之中，你要知道，没有爬不过去的坡，总会有峰回路转，一马平川的时候。相反，你若正处于一片坦途之中，也要当心会遇到险阻，可能会遇到沟沟坎坎的，没有谁是一帆风顺的。当然，也不会总是倒霉。
得此卦之人，虽然人生变幻莫测使你一度迷茫，但是只要坚守正道，只要心怀诚信，终会“守得云开见月明”的。
经文意思是：没有只有平地而没有斜坡的，没有只有往而没有返的。艰难而守正道不会有灾难。不必过分忧虑，内心要诚信，在饮食方面有福可享。

九三：无平不陂，无往不复。艰贞无咎。勿恤其孚，于食有福。
《象》曰：无往不复，天地际也。

Line-3
Legge: The third line, dynamic, shows that, while there is no state of peace that is not liable to be disturbed, and no departure of evil men so that they shall not return, yet when one is firm and correct, as he realizes the distresses that may arise, he will commit no error. There is no occasion for sadness at the certainty of such recurring changes; and in this mood the happiness of the present may be long enjoyed.
Wilhelm/Baynes: No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth; enjoy the good fortune you still possess.

Blofeld: Every plain is followed by a slope; every going forth is followed by a return. Persistence under difficulty will not lead to error. Do not lose faith, for an eclipse is sometimes a blessing. [The whole of this passage suggests present difficulties which we can surely overcome.]
Liu: No plain without a slope. No departure without a return. Continuing in a difficult situation. No blame. Do not fear; face the truth. One receives blessings.
Ritsema/Karcher: Without evening, not unevening. Without going, not returning. Drudgery, Trial: without fault. No cares: one's conforming. Tendingtowards taking-in possesses blessing.
Shaughnessy: There is no flat that does not slope, there is no going that does not return; in determination about difficulty, there is no trouble; do not pity his return; in eating there is good fortune.
Cleary (1): There is no levelness without incline, no going without returning. If one is upright in difficulty, there will be no fault. One should not grieve over one’s sincerity; there will be prosperity in sustenance.
Cleary (2): … Be upright in difficulty and you will be blameless, etc.
Wu: There are no level roads without inclinations and no past events without recurrences. In a difficult time, perseverance will bring no error. Do not pity, but be sincere. There will be happiness.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: "There is no going away so that there shall not be a return" refers to this as the point where the interaction of Heaven and Earth takes place.
Wilhelm/Baynes: This is the boundary of heaven and earth. Blofeld: ... Is a law of the universe. Ritsema/Karcher: Heaven and Earth, the border indeed.
Cleary (2): The border of heaven and earth. Wu: Is a condition prevailing between heaven and earth.
Legge: The symbolism of the third line shows the constant change that is taking place in nature and human affairs. As night becomes day, and winter becomes summer, so calamity may be expected to follow prosperity, and decay the flourishing of a state. The third is the last line in the lower trigram of Strength, by whose creative activity the happy state of Harmony has been produced. Another aspect of things may be expected, but by firmness and correctness the good estate of the present may be long continued.

NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Wing: You may see a decision approaching, for the laws of change are eternally active. Any difficulties can be endured with an inner faith in your own strength and perseverance. Meanwhile, enjoy fully the present.
Editor: There is a similarity between this line and line three of hexagram number twenty-six, Controlled Power. The idea is that one finds the peace and harmony one seeks in life by staying on the cutting edge of experience, by learning how to be content with what is as it continuously unfolds. This is the essence of existential beingness, of Zen-mind.
Regarding alike pleasure and pain,
Gain and loss, success and defeat, prepare
Yourself for battle. Thus you will Incur no sin.
Bhagavad-Gita
A. Change is inevitable: Trust the Work to guide you.

周易第十一卦九四爻详解详解
六四爻辞
六四。翩翩不富，以其邻，不戒以孚。
象曰：翩翩不富，皆失实也；不戒以孚，中心愿也。
白话文解释
六四：巧言欺人，将给邻邑带来灾难；不加警戒，即将遇难被虏。
《象辞》说：巧言欺人，祸及邻人，是说同受损失。不加警戒，遇难被虏，这是因为心地太忠厚了。

北宋易学家邵雍解
平：得此爻者，营谋失利，退守可平安。做官的进取难成，宜退守。

台湾国学大儒傅佩荣解
时运：朋友同心，诸事可谋。
财运：外强中干，同业相助。
家宅：亲友相助，暂时无虞。
身体：不必担心。

六四变卦
六四爻动变得周易第34卦：雷天大壮。这个卦是异卦（下乾上震）相叠。震为雷；乾为天。乾刚震动。天鸣雷，云雷滚，声势宏大，阳气盛壮，万物生长。刚壮有力故曰壮。大而且壮，故名大壮。四阳壮盛，积极而有所作为，上正下正，标正影直。

九四爻的哲学含义

果从一个国家的角度来看，六四这一爻讲的是大臣之间要相互谦恭，不以个人的富贵为目标，大家开诚相待，一起来支持君王，这样就会出现国泰民安的局面
从卦象上看，六四所处的位置是紧挨着九五之尊，位于上下两体阴阳交会之处，上有领导，下有部属。如果他既能尽忠道，又能尽公道，以谦虚的态度搞好与上层领导之间的团结，又能礼贤下士，那就会出现安泰祥和的局面。
对于个人来说，要注意与邻居同事搞好关系，既使是事业发展了，职位提升了，也不要得意忘形。
六四：翩翩不富，以其邻，不戒以孚。
象曰：翩翩不富，皆失实也。不戒以孚，中心愿也。
经文意思是：轻飘飘的不富足，与邻居来往，没有戒备，心存诚信。象辞意思是：轻飘飘的不富足，是因为他们都缺少殷实。不戒备而心存诚信，是因为心中愿意。
六四爻身为国家重臣，怎么会是轻飘飘的不富裕呢?原来呀，他是一个清官!太平盛世，没有清官怎么能行。如果国家重臣一个个既富又贪，百姓怎么能富足呢?怎么会出现太平盛世呢?所以说盛世不但需要好皇帝，也需要好官。六四这个大官就不错，平易近人，内心诚实讲信用，人们与他交往不必存有戒心。电视里演的纪晓岚、刘罗锅，就是这样的清官。

六四：翩翩，不富以其邻，不戒以孚。
《象》曰：翩翩不富，皆失实也。不戒以孚，中心愿也。

Line-4
Legge: The fourth line, magnetic, shows its subject fluttering down -- not relying on her own rich resources, but calling in her neighbors. They all come not as having received warning, but in the sincerity of their hearts.
Wilhelm/Baynes: He flutters down, not boasting of his wealth, together with his neighbor, guileless and sincere.
Blofeld: Running to and fro, kept from riches by those around him, he does not cease to put his trust in them. [He runs to and fro in his anxiety to be of service, whether people reward his kindness or not.]
Liu: One strives with a cheerful manner, not boasting of riches to a neighbor. One has full confidence without fear.
Ritsema/Karcher: Fluttering, fluttering. Not affluence: using one's neighbor.
Not warning: using conforming.
Shaughnessy: So fluttering, not wealthy together with his neighbors; not warned about his return.

Cleary (1): Unsettled, one is not rich, along with the neighbors, being loyal without admonition.
Cleary (2): Unsettled, not prosperous, one works with the neighbor. Sincerity is exercised, without caution.
Wu: Carefree like a flying bird, he is not in a position to accumulate wealth, but rather to share his affection with his neighbors. He is free from anxiety, for he has the confidence of others.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: Both she and her neighbors are out of their real place where they are. This is what they have desired in the core of their hearts. Wilhelm/
Baynes: All of them have lost what is real. He desires it in the depths of his heart. Blofeld: His running to and fro and his lack of riches are due to his idealism. He preserves his faith in others because in his heart of hearts he WANTS to trust them. Ritsema/Karcher: Altogether letting-go substance indeed. Centering the heart desiring indeed. Cleary (2): Being unsettled and not prospering are both due to loss of the real. Exercise of sincerity without caution is the heart’s true desire. Wu: He is destined to remain empty … Because his willingness to share comes from his heart.
Legge: The subjects of the fourth and other yin lines of the upper trigram are not to be seen as opponents of the yang lines in the lower trigram, but as their correlates. They are of one heart and mind to maintain the state of Harmony, and humbly and readily yield their power to the yang lines below. Chu Hsi says that the upper lines "have lost their substantiality." As magnetic lines, their proper place is below.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man of high rank joins with the lowly in an atmosphere of spontaneity and mutual confidence.
Wing: The important thing now is that you are sincerely united and communicating with people who are your superiors. Pay no thought to ultimate rewards but maintain a steady course toward your aim. Use the help of others, if offered.
Editor: None of the translations of this line say quite the same thing, yet the meaning is clear enough when interpreted in relation to the symbolism of the figure as a whole. This is the first magnetic line of the hexagram, and the message is stated in terms of a female sexual response. She doesn't rely upon her
"rich resources" -- she doesn't use her magnetic power aggressively, but willingly surrenders to dynamic initiative. Psychologically this means that Eros defers to

Logos, emotion to reason, ego to Self, or whatever the situation at hand suggests is a proper subordination of one principle to another. In every exposition of the Perennial Philosophy the human soul is regarded as feminine in relation to the Godhead, the personal God and even the Order of Nature. Hubris, which is the original sin, consists in regarding the personal ego as self-sufficiently masculine in relation to the Spirit within and to Nature without, and in behaving accordingly.
Aldous Huxley
A. The image suggests the voluntary surrender of power and position to create a higher alliance of forces.

周易第十一卦九五爻详解详解
六五爻辞
六五。帝乙归妹，以祉元吉。
象曰：以祉元吉，中以行愿也。
白话文解释
六五：殷帝乙嫁女于周文王，因而得福，大吉大利。
《象辞》说：得福大吉，因为六五之爻居上卦中位，像人行事得中正之道，所行必遂。

北宋易学家邵雍解
吉：得此爻者，会得到别人的赏识和抬举，或结婚生子，幸福安乐。做官的或能升迁，或有喜事。

台湾国学大儒傅佩荣解
时运：谦虚待人，万事皆吉。
财运：国际贸易，甚为有利。
家宅：有贤内助；远嫁远娶。
身体：必得神佑。

六五变卦
六五爻动变得周易第5卦：水天需。这个卦是异卦（下乾上坎）相叠，下卦是乾，刚健之意；上卦是坎，险陷之意。以刚逢险，宜稳健之妥，不可冒失行动，观时待变，所往一定成功。

九五爻的哲学含义

经文意思是：帝乙嫁妹，以此得福，大吉大利。
诸侯国富强了，盟主就该跟你拉关系了。怎么拉呢?就是把妹妹或女儿嫁给你。这是封建社会的经典治国方法。在秦朝以前，都是分封制，诸侯之间以联姻的方式加强团结，结果导致了窝里斗，窝里反。从黄帝时期至战国时代，大部分战争都是有血
缘关系的统治阶级的争权夺利之战。
在《易经》中，三番五次要提到“帝乙归妹”的事，可见周朝认为这是一件引以为荣的事情。殷商的天子帝乙将妹妹嫁给了周文王，这确实对周朝是一件大事。因为周朝正是因为沾上了殷商血缘关系的光而壮大了起来，并且纣王没杀文王，也与这血缘关系是有些关系的。因为文王是纣王的姑父，并且文王又比较老实，纣王
自然没有坚决要除掉文王的想法。
“帝乙归妹”的手段，在今天也存在“六五”阴柔得中，下应九二上下通泰。像着一定的意义。比如两个相互竞争的大公司，往往因为一桩婚事而化敌为友，化友为亲。解放前“宋氏三姐妹”的例子就是很成功的联姻典范，由于关于“宋氏三姐妹”的书籍很多，在此就不多说了。
占得此卦者，意味着经过痛苦和耐心的等待，实现了长期以来心中祈求的意愿，终于喜庆降临。

六五：帝乙归妹，以祉元吉。
《象》曰：以祉元吉，中以行愿也。

Line-5
Legge: The fifth line, magnetic, reminds us of king Ti-yi's rule about the marriage of his younger sister. By such a course there is happiness and there will be great good fortune.
Wilhelm/Baynes: The sovereign I gives his daughter in marriage. This brings blessing and supreme good fortune.
Blofeld: By giving his daughter in marriage, the Emperor attained felicity and extreme good fortune.
Liu: The Emperor I gives his daughter in marriage. This will bring blessings and great good fortune.
Ritsema/Karcher: The supreme burgeoning, converting maidenhood. Using satisfaction, Spring significant.
Shaughnessy: Di Yi marries off the maiden by age; prime auspiciousness.
Cleary (1): The emperor marries off his younger sister, whereby there is good fortune; this is very auspicious.
Wu: Di Yi married off his younger sister. The marriage was blessed with great happiness.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: She employs the virtues proper to her central position to carry her wishes into effect. Wilhelm/Baynes: Because he is central in carrying out what he desires. Blofeld: This was because of his impartiality in carrying out what he felt to be desirable. [This suggests a need for impartiality in conducting our affairs.] Ritsema/Karcher: Center uses moving desire indeed.

Cleary (2): The balanced carrying out of deliberate, purposeful undertakings.
Wu: It was done with a wish from a central position.
Legge: According to Ch'eng-tzu, Ti-yi was the first to enact a law that daughters of the royal house, in marrying princes of the states, should be in subjection to them, as if they were not superior to them in rank. Here line five, while occupying the place of dignity and authority in the hexagram, is yet a magnetic line in the place of a dynamic one. She accordingly humbly condescends to her dynamic and proper correlate in line two.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The example of King I's decree that his younger sister must obey her outranked husband is presented. The modest union of the high and the low brings real satisfaction.
Wing: You can achieve your aim and realize great good fortune by remaining impartial in your behavior. Humility and modesty will allow you to communicate with the sentiments of your followers in mind. You will then be supported in your endeavors.
Editor: The rulership of the hexagram is shared jointly by the second and fifth lines. In the situation symbolized here, the magnetic fifth line yields her authority
to the dynamic second line -- each is out of its "correct" place, and so they swap positions, so to speak. The meaning is that yin willingly defers to yang, female yields to male, emotions to intellect, feelings to principle, etc. It is significant to note that in a hexagram depicting a holy marriage, the perfect union of Heaven and Earth, that the only line mentioning marriage is this one. The marriage is between lines two and five, and when they both change the hexagram created is number 63, After Completion, the "perfect" or reference hexagram determining all correct relationships. Lines two and five are the only lines in the figure that are "out of place," and each takes its meaning from the other, which implies that they exchange places to create a perfect configuration. Implicit in all this is the idea of yin (emotion) being correct when it is alchemically conjoined with yang (reason). Emotion and intellect must blend into intuition. The ego can't "make" this happen, but it can help create the conditions which make it possible. When the understanding of truth which is with the man makes one with the affection of good which is with the woman, there is a conjunction of the two minds into one. This conjunction is the spiritual marriage from which conjugal love descends; for when the two minds are so conjoined that they become one mind, there is love between them.
Swedenborg -- Arcana Coelestia
A. Defer feelings to reason or principle.

B. Ego defers to the will of the Self.
C. A fundamental rule of the Work is to concede one's initiative to a higher principle.

周易第十一卦上九爻详解详解
上六爻辞
上六。城复于隍，勿用师。自邑告命，贞吝。
象曰：城复于隍，其命乱也。
白话文解释
上六：城墙攻破倒塌在护城濠里。“停止进攻”，从邑中传来命令。卜问得不祥之兆。
《象辞》说：城墙攻破倒塌在护城濠里（本应乘势攻击，反命停止进攻），这是邑中传来的命令错乱了。

北宋易学家邵雍解
凶：得此爻者，会有破损，有疾病，谨慎厚道者可免祸。做官的会被贬职。

台湾国学大儒傅佩荣解
时运：谨慎自守，须防小人。
财运：小试手气，等待时机。
家宅：小心守业。
身体：小心摔跤。

上六变卦
上六爻动变得周易第26卦：山天大畜。这个卦是异卦（下乾上艮）相叠。乾为天，刚健；艮为山，笃实。畜者积聚，大畜意为大积蓄。为此不畏严重的艰难险阻，努力修身养性以丰富德业。

上九爻的哲学含义

泰久而否，与否极泰来一样，是天理之必然也。在古代，每个城市修有高高的城墙，城墙下面有沟，这种城下沟，无水时称“隍”，有水时称“池”。人们为了保险，挖掘隍土来修建城墙，这就像治理之道，最后终于实现了安泰。可是到了“泰”之终，又回到了“否”上，就像城墙倒塌，城墙上的土又堆积回到了隍处。这就是“城复于隍”的道理。
《象》曰：城复于隍，其命乱也。
占得此卦者，要明白，自己的处境将向不好的方向转化。所以要注意约束自己，否则会给自己惹来麻烦。事态若不及时控制，可能会危及到自己的事业。

上六：城复于隍，勿用师，自邑告命。贞吝。
《象》曰：城复于隍，其命乱也。
  11.地天泰(䷊)-高岛易断
“泰”字，从大，从水。形以两手决水，取水从中分，流通无滞，水去而民得安居也。自昔中土，大禹治水，疏通九河，则土壤，教稼穑，奠厥民居，斯地平天成，而万民得生活于其间，永享泰平之福，是《泰》之义也。此卦《 坤》上《乾》下，《坤》阴也，《乾》阳也，是天地合气，阴阳爻和，资生资始，而民物咸亨，故名此卦曰《泰》。
泰：小往大来，吉亨。
篆书泰
《 彖传》曰：泰，小往大来，吉亨，则是天地交而万物通也，上下交而其志同也。内阳而外阴，内健而外顺，内君子而外小人。君子道长，小人道消也。
此卦《乾》天在下，《坤》地在上，就天地之形体言之，上下颠倒，如不得其义，然此卦所取，不在形而在气。乾为天之气，坤为地之精，天地之形，高卑隔绝，以气相交，乾气上腾，《坤》气下降，二气来往，能成雨泽，雨泽成而万物生育，因名此卦曰《泰》。泰者，通也，又安也，竟也，如《彖传》所言也。
以此卦拟人事，《乾》为夫，《坤》为妻，阴阳交和，定然家室和平安乐。《乾》阳《坤》阴，阴阳二气，包括甚广，天地间一物一事，莫不各有阴阳。就人身体而言，气为阳，血为阴，阴阳齐则血气自平；就人起居而言，静为阴，动为阳，阴阳交则动静自定。此卦以《乾》下《坤》，似乎阴阳倒置，然《彖传》曰“内阳而外阴”，盖以退阴进阳，重君子而抑小人也。《易》理于阴阳消长，防维甚严。人生涉世，是宜推崇阳刚，抑止阴柔，斯二气各得其正，而万事泰然矣。
以此卦拟国家，政府体天地造化之原理，公明正大，以布人民化育之政。《乾》者，君也；《坤》者，臣也。君礼其臣，推诚以任之；臣忠其君，尽诚以事之。圣主得贤臣，以弘功业；贤士得明主，以展才猷。于是万民感其德化，和亲康乐，一道同风，是诚天地交泰之世也，谓之“上下交而其志同”也。以上下二体言之，阳为君子，阴为小人，君子在内，布政施令，小人在外，安分服教，谓之“内君子而外小人”。盖天地之间，有阳即有阴，有君子即有小人。泰和极盛之世，不能无小人，但君子能善化夫小人，小人亦乐从夫君子，两不相害，而其情相通。自我出去者阴之小，自彼入来者阳之大，小人往而各安其生，大人来而乐行其道，是泰道之成也。道有消长，即时有否泰，总括天地阴阳之交，可见世运升降之会。“君子道长，小人道消”，消长之极，正国家治乱之大防也。此卦下三爻为天下治平之时，上三爻为自《泰》趋《否》之时，君子当玩味爻辞，深察气运之变迁，维持泰运于不替也。
圣人之序《易》也，以《乾》《 坤》为始，《乾》之后几十有一卦，而后始得《泰》。盖君之以《屯》，教之以《蒙》，养之以《需》，理之以《讼》，正之以《师》，和之以《比》，约之以《小畜》，礼之以《履》，而后始《泰》。故《乾》以下十卦，奇数之爻，凡三十；《坤》以下九卦，偶数之爻，亦三十，而后始得《乾》《坤》相交。开泰之运，其难如是，圣人之所以垂诫于后者深矣！
通观此卦，天气下降，地精上升，天地之气相交，始开造化之功。初九，君子得位，拔擢同气之贤者，共立朝廷，以勤劳国事，谓之“拔茅茹以其汇，征吉”。“汇”，类也，盖以同类而并进也。九二有刚中正之德，为济泰之大臣。“包荒”，谓能包容群才，即所谓“尊贤而容众”是也。然亦一于“包荒”，又必济以果决。“用冯河”取其勇敢，足以任事；“不遐遗”，谓其思虑之诚实，不惟留心于目前，且远及僻偏之域；不惟顾虑于方今，且远图长久之谋。至为国家选择人才，不涉私情，其可进者，虽仇怨而不弃，其不可用者，虽亲近而不举，谓之“朋亡”。九二之行为，公明正大，中正以应尊位，宜六五之信任不疑也，谓之“得尚于中行”。九三居阳之极，其位不中正，且值盛极将衰之时。以卦体见之，天气不能久居下，地气不能久居上，有各将复其本位之象，谓之“无平不陂，无往不复”。夫阴阳之消长，如寒暑之往来，时运使然，无如之何；然天定胜人，人亦足胜天，将陂而预防其陂，将复而预虑其复，克艰其心，贞固其守，尽其人事，以挽天运，是保泰之道也。如此则可永食其福矣。六四以阳居阴，逼近尊位，上三爻皆以虚谦接下，下三皆以刚直事上，四当上下之交，故“翩翩”相从，乐与共进，是以不徒富而从邻，不持戒而相孚也。志同道合，正《 彖传》所谓“上下交而其志同”也。六五温顺之君，虚已而信任九二，降其尊而从臣，有“帝乙归妹”之象焉。用此道而获福祉，则大吉而尽善矣。上六，《泰》之终，泰极而变，有“城复于隍”之象。当九二九三之时，尽人事之孚，可以维持泰运，然怠其道以至于是，虽天运循环之自然，亦人事之所自招。上六之时，失泰之道，上下睽隔，民情离散，以兵争之，盖乱之时耳，故曰“勿用师，自邑告命”焉。盖将守其城邑，明其政教，以挽天心，拨乱而返正，亦足以保泰之终也。“平”、“陂”、“城”、“隍”，其机甚捷，其象甚危，垂诫深哉！
爻辞，初曰“茅”地之象；二曰“荒”、曰“河”。亦地之象。三曰“陂”，地之形也，以内卦皆阴，为主《 坤》而客《乾》也。四日“富”、曰“实”，五曰“帝乙”，上曰“城”，皆阳之象，外卦皆阳，为主《乾》而客《坤》也。客还而主常住，其义可见矣。
《大象》曰：天地交泰，后以财“成天地之道，辅相天地之宜，以左右民。
此卦天地二气交通之活象，万物即受天地之化育也。圣人见此象以赞天地之化育，为天地之所不能为。盖天地之生万物，笼统无别，圣人能历象日月星辰，分别分至启闭而成岁功，相度东西南北山川道路，以定城邑，察天之时，辨地之利，春夏耕耘，秋冬收积，无非尽致泰之道也，谓之“财成天地之道，辅相天地之宜，以左右民”也。人民之生，必赖君上，斯得遂其生成。“财成”所以制其过，“辅相”所以补其不及也。
（附言）近年卫生之道普及，医学之研究，日益进步，种痘之法盛行，生民免夭折之患，皆足以燮理阴阳，参赞化育也。欧罗巴诸国，以土地之晓瘠，人畜之繁殖，众民生活之艰难，创举移民之略，还殖人民于南北亚米利加、亚弗利加、壕斯太刺利亚及亚细亚诸岛，维日不足。即如我国以土地与人口比较，统计前后数年，每年得四十万口之增加，生活不告不足者，抑有故也。我国之土地膏腴，全国中得米麦两作之暖地，殆居其半；维新以前，两作之地，不满十分之三，今渐增加，既居十分之七。是以人口虽见增加，而生活有资，故不忧其不足。然由今以往两作之地，所余仅居十分之三，人口增加，岁多一岁，朝野贤士，晏然犹未知预筹，不亦可忧？现今开铁路于北海道，渐次移住凡一千万人口，得减内地人民增加之半数，五十年间，犹可保国家之安泰也。其间当设殖民之地于海外各邦，以计国家永远策，谓之“左右民”。
【占】　问国家气运：正当君明臣良，黎民安泰，是全盛之时也。然盛之极即衰之渐，否泰在天，回挽在人，所当深虑，家道亦然。
○　问谋事：事必可成，后败须防。
○　问婚嫁：阴阳合体，大吉之象。
○　问商业：买卖均吉，然卖出利微，买入者利大，其象于“小往大来”见之。
○　问年成：雨水调和，丰登之象。
○　问六甲：有男女孪生之象。
○　问失物：须就左右近处，寻觅自见。
初九：拔茅茹以其汇，征吉。
《象传》曰：拔茅征吉，志在外也。
“茹”者，草根牵连之貌；“拔茅茹”者，谓拔茅之一根，其牵连者与之皆拔也。此爻具刚明之才德而居下，六四之大臣，阴阳相应，是在野之贤才，为大臣所荐举者也。以三阳同体，一阳进而众阳共进，犹拔一茅而其茹连类而起也，故设其象曰“拔茅茹”。自古君子得位，则贤士萃于朝廷，同心协力，以成天下之泰；小人在位，则不肖者立进，以启天下之乱，是各从其类也。今初九之“拔茅”，能引荐九二九三之贤士，相共并进，故曰“以其汇”。“汇”者，类也。初九为《泰》之始，得其正位，克履怀德之道，是以吉也，故曰“征吉”。《彖》曰“来”者，谓天气之下降；爻曰“征”者，谓君子之上进。卦以气交，自上而降；爻以位升，自下而升。凡君子之学道也，修之于身，以待其时，居天下之广阔，立天下之正位，行天下之大道，欲使其君为尧舜之君，使其民为尧舜之民，是学者之夙愿也。然天命不佑，不得其志，曲肱饮水，独居陋巷，是独善其身也。然其心要未尝一日忘天下也，《象传》“志在外也”者，谓初九贤士，身虽在下，志在泽民。“外”者，指天下国家也。此爻变则全卦为《升》，《升》初六之辞曰“允升，大吉”，可以卜贤者之升进也。
【占】　问时运：有因人成事之象。
○　问家宅：有家室团圆，人口平安之吉。
○　问营商：得主伙合志，货财汇萃之象。
○　问功名：有逐渐升迁之喜。
○　问战征：以进攻获胜。
○　问失物：宜于丛草处寻觅。
○　问六甲：初胎者生女，三四胎则男。
【例】　明治二年，某藩士氏来，请占从事商业之可否，筮得《泰》之《升》。
断曰：此卦其象为天气彻微地下，地气升腾天上；以人事言之，是被我相合，上下相通之会也，故谓之《泰》。今得初爻，其辞曰“拔茅茹”，夫茅之为物，其茎虽分生，其根则相连。想足下旧交，必有奉职宦途者，就其人而谋仕途，事可必成。余观足下之貌，适于为官，不适于为商。余据《易》理断之，知足下之人品才力，宜从友人而谋进身也。
后此人果从事仕官，渐得升迁。
九二：包荒，用冯河，不遐遗，朋亡，得尚于中行。
《象传》曰：包荒，得尚于中行，以光大也。
“荒”，如洪荒之荒，又兼荒野之义。“包”者，容也；“凭河”者，徒涉也；“不遐遗”者，不忘远也；“朋亡”者，犹 坤为地之“丧朋”也；“中行”，犹曰中道也。此爻具刚明之才，秉中正之德，与六五之君，阴阳正应，匡王佐霸，是有猷有为之荩臣也。盖其雍容大度，能包容荒远之细民，抚育教诲，使无一夫不得其所；且有冯河之果断，不流文弱，故曰“包荒”、“用凭河”。自来圣贤之心无弃物，非包荒不足示天地之慈祥，非冯河不能发天地之威怒，雨露雷霆，宽严兼济，而又不弃幽遐，不私习近。九二能体此刚中之德，光明正大，符合中道，故曰“不遐遗，朋亡，得尚于中行”。治泰之道，有此四者，所谓宽则得众，信则民任，敏则有功，公则众悦；诚不失中行之德也。而其要首在于宽，故《象传》统举“包荒”二字以括之，谓其得配中行，以光大也。旨深哉！
为活用占筮，姑就开拓之事而言之。“包荒”者，谓荒野也。“用冯河”者，谓开垦荒地，诱导无业贫民，开道架桥，以从公役。“不遐遗”者，谓极至深山幽僻之地，越险犯阻，而开拓之也。“朋亡，得尚于中行”者，谓无朋比之私，率众而举事，得天下之爱敬者是也。盖“包荒”，仁也；“冯河”，勇也；“不遐遗”，智也；“朋亡”，公也。备此四德治天下，尚有余力，若夫有包容而无断制，则非刚柔相济之才也。不遗遐远，而或阿私党类，则偏重而失公正之体。故必包容荒秽，而又果断刚决；不遗遐远，而又不私昵朋比，则不忘远，不狃迩，是合于中道者也。《象传》“以光大也”者，谓胸次宽阔，有容人之量。“光”则其明足以有照也；“大”则其器足以有容也。
【占】　问时运：目下正当功名显达之时，可以远游海外，创兴事业。
○　问仕途：有奉使远行，或从事军征之兆，均获吉也。
○　问商业：利在行商，贩运外物。
○　问失物：定坠落水中，恐难寻得。
○　问疾病：不吉。
○　问家宅：用人宜宽，处事宜决，不可专信仆从，致《损》家业。
○　问战征：有怀柔远人，征伐不庭，疆宇日辟之势。
○　问六甲：生男。
【例】　东京友人某氏，在常陆欲开垦沼地，请占吉凶。筮得《泰》之《明夷》。
断曰：“泰”古字，象人以左右手决大水之形。凡洲泽之地，由大雨骤降，山岳砂土，冲激崩坠，随流壅积而成，其中低所，或为湖水，或为沼陂。足下今欲开垦沼地，其有利益于社会，以助国家之经济，可知也。爻辞“拔茅茹”者，谓芟除芜草，播种五谷，开垦之好结果也。又“包荒”，谓买荒地之象；“用冯河”，谓尽力乎沟洫也。盖人有巨多之财产，往往以安乐送世为目的，使子孙可永享素餐，以为上策，而不知此真失策之大者。何则？凡世间富者，不计公益，贫者无由得衣食；贫者不得衣食，必至不顾礼义，败坏廉耻，其极至犯禁令而罹法网，谓之国家乱民，乱民之起，皆由游手坐食而来也。足下能包容此辈，奋发而抛资财，欲为众人开垦沼地，藉以赈济饥寒，其志气操行，光明正大，诚有超绝于朋侪者也，故谓“朋亡”。足下之为此事业，利己利人，谓之“尚于中行”，必光大也。友人曰：谨奉命。然余年老，不能亲至其地，监督工业，目今紧要事务，欲余所信任某氏为代理，委以此事，请筮以决之。筮得《 坤》之《豫》。
爻辞曰：“六四：括囊，无咎无誉。”
断曰：此卦全卦纯阴，无一阳爻。《易》之道，阳为尊，阴为贱，今筮得此卦，恐其人为卑贱之小人也。世之皮相者，皆就人之阶级，以别贵贱，余则专论心术。第一不为己谋而为人谋，众人之所喜，己亦喜之，众人之所恶，己亦恶之，其性情之所发，公正而无丝毫之私，是为上。第二，己之所欲，望人亦有之，万事以和衷相济，不任己之自由，是为其次。第三，专顾利欲，不顾亲戚朋友，苟所得利，遑知廉耻，是为最下。此余之平素所持论也。自来上智之人，生性完善，不见异而思迁，谓之贵人；下愚之人，其心残忍卑鄙，偏于不善，谓之贱人。《坤》之初爻曰，“履霜，坚冰至”，谓争利而至犯上作乱；上爻曰“龙战于野”，谋利而至相争相战，两家俱伤。如委此人以任事，犹售盗以键也，宜括财囊之口而戒于心焉，谓之“括襄，无咎无誉”。此事必当自任，未可委人也。
友人乃从予言。
九三：无平不陂，无往不复，艰贞无咎。勿恤其孚，于食有福。
《象传》曰：无往不复，天地际也。
“无平不陂，无往不复”者，时运变迁之常，犹月满则亏，花开则落。此爻以全卦见之，正当泰运全盛之时，然玩占爻位，为阳穷阴逼，《泰》之时将终，《否》之时将至也。凡物中则平，过中必倾，天数人事皆然。《泰》至九三，天道复其上，地道归其下，君子抚泰运之极，惟当尽人事以挽回天运，是以思患预防，常惕艰危，如是则可以无咎。此爻重刚不中，互卦有《震》，居健动不止之体，健进一步，即为陂复之象。是《乾》本上也，《坤》本下也，下交上，故《乾》居内而《 坤》在外。《乾》苟不安于下，必上而迫《坤》，《坤》苟不得安于上，必下而夺《乾》，故曰“无平不陂”。复而不听其复，持其平，守其往，防微杜渐，用保厥终，凡小人欲乘怠而入者，君子则弥思其难，小人欲伺隙而攻者，君子则必保其贞。其操心之危如此，则举动措置，必无有过咎也，故曰“艰贞无咎”。夫天下之事，未有不戒惧而能保其终者也，《易》之垂诫，于始终消长之机，最为深切。世运之陂复，犹日月之食也，当食霎时晦冥，过时而复光明，故曰“勿恤其孚，于食有福”。“食”即蚀也。以日月之食喻祸，而以食终而光明喻福。
按：六十四卦中，不拘爻之阶级，专以内外卦分时运之转迁者四卦：《泰》、《否》、《既济》、《未济》是也。此卦以内卦三阳，为《泰》中之《泰》，以外卦三阴，为《泰》中之《否》，盖以阳为有余，为实，为富，阴为不足，为虚，为贫。九三居内卦之极，遇六四而当《乾》《坤》二体之会，为《泰》中之《泰》将终，六四居外卦之始，为《泰》中之《否》将来，故于三四两爻，示时运之转变。《象传》曰“天地际也”者，“际”即交际之际，是阴阳之两交接也。
【占】　问时运：谨慎者昌，逸欲者败，最宜留意。
○　问商业：现虽失意，后必大利。
○　问战征：须防敌兵埋伏，宜固守，不宜进攻。
○　问失物：不久即得。
○　问生产：虽危无咎，必生福泽之儿。
○　问家业：宜谨守先业，可以永保富也。
○　问疾病：少者无咎，老者大限有阻。
【例】　明治十八年，奉故三条相公之命，占公气运于滨离宫，筮得《泰》之《大壮》。此时陪从者，为武者小路君、福泽重香君两氏。
断曰：此卦太阳之火气，透彻地下，地精为之蒸发，天地之精气相交，万物发育，国家安泰之象也。拟之国家，政府之恩惠，透彻下民，下民之情志，上达政府，君能信任臣，臣能服从君，故曰《泰》。然《泰》之极，变而为《否》，是阴阳消长，自然推移之运也，故有自《泰》趋《否》之时，又有自《否》趋《泰》之时。此卦内卦三阳，泰平最盛，外卦三阴，自《泰》趋《否》。今筮得三爻，第三爻内卦之极，《泰》中之泰既去，将移外卦之阴，将转入《泰》中之否也，故爻辞曰，平者无不遂陂，往者无不复返，喻时运变迁之义。在时运使然，原非人力所能争，然保其固然，防其未然，惕以艰危，矢以贞诚，人定亦可胜天，故谓之“艰贞无咎，勿恤其孚，于食有福”。阁下声名显赫，勋业崇隆，可媲尹周，小心翼翼，持盈保泰，自有鬼神默相呵护也，故《象传》曰“天地际也”。
后相公解显职，就内大臣之闲位，永矢尽诚，克光辅翼之业。
六四；翩翩不富，以其邻，不戒以孚。
《象传》曰：翩翩不富，皆失实也。不戒以孚，中心愿也。
“翩翩”者鸟刷羽之貌；“邻”者，指六五、上六而言。此爻在泰之时，上与二阴在外卦，皆与下应。阴柔之质，宜在下位，今居上体，志不自安，故上三爻相连，同欲下行，是上者以谦虚接下，不待告诫而自信孚，谓之“翩翩不富，以其邻，不诫以孚”。“不富”者，阴虚之象。此爻是运过中，《泰》将转《否》，为小人合志，谋害正道之时，君子所当戒也。五上皆阴，不富识量，故《象传》曰“翩翩不富，皆失实也”。“皆”者，指《 坤》之三阴；“实”者，指阳爻。阴之从阳，犹贫之依富，今三阴在外，失所依也。然当泰之时，阴气上升，阳气下降，上下不相疑，兴国利，植民福，谓之“不诫以孚，中心愿也”。
【占】　问时运：喜得朋友同心相孚，诸事可谋。
○　问商业：外则场面甚好，内实空虚，全赖同业相助，可以成事。
○　问战征：粮饷缺乏，当劫掠敌粮，以供军需。众心坚固，有胜无败。
○　问家业：本一富家，目下外强内弱，幸亲戚邻里，皆得有无相通，不忧匮乏。
○　问失物：主遗落比邻之家，问之即得。
【例】　东京豪商某氏甲干某来，告曰：维新以来，商况大变，主家遂赴衰运，欲建维持之策，不得方向，如何而可？请筮一卦。筮得《泰》之《大壮》。
断曰：此卦天气下降，地精上升，上下安泰，共守旧规而耽安乐，无事之时也。足下今所占问，无论主人及经理伙友，皆惟知株守旧法，依向来之规则，不知随时而变迁。近今宇内各国通商，商业亦随而更新，彼家信用旧人，不谙新法，又不雇用能才，于是商业日居人后，将数代之积产，遂至艰于接续。《泰》之四爻，泰既过半，将渐入衰运，正合彼家之运也。此时欲谋立维持之策，想旧时伙友，不富于经验，宜代以适任之人，委之事权，使众人投票推荐，以定其人，悉从其指挥。旧时伙友，亦不宜恋恋旧态，勤勉从事新业可也，谓之“翩翩不富，以其邻，不诫以孚”。如此则彼家之衰运，尚可得而维持也。
某氏从余言，奋然改革其家风，至仓监辈，使之投票推荐，果得适任之人。其家至今益致繁盛。
六五：帝乙归妹，以祉元吉。
《象传》曰：以祉元吉，中以行愿也。
“帝乙”者，殷纣之父也。此爻柔而居尊位，下与九二之刚，阴阳正应，恭己无为，虚心下贤，是当位之君，开太平之治者也。九二成卦之主，辅弼六五之君以成乃治，故引“帝乙归妹”，下嫁从夫，以喻圣君虚己，下礼贤臣，开国承家，永保福祉，故曰“帝乙归妹，以祉元吉”，“元吉”者，谓大吉而尽善者，即所以成治泰之功也。夫帝女之归也，非求胜其夫，将以祉之；《 坤》之复下也，非欲侵《乾》，将以辅之，《 彖传》曰：“上下交而其志同”者是也。又互卦有《归妹》，故与《归妹》之六五，爻辞相同。《象传》曰“中以行愿也”者，当《泰》之时，君虑《泰》极变《否》，谨慎恐惧，所愿保持之终，永享至治之福，是所谓“中以行愿也”。
【占】　问时运：目下亨通，宜谦虚柔顺，万事皆吉。
○　问商业：宜贸达海外。吉。
○　问家宅：得内助之贤。
○　问婚嫁：宜远嫁远娶，吉。
○　问六甲：主生贵女。
○　问疾病：必得神佑，吉。
○　问失物：拾者必自来归还。
【例】　有相识豪富某来，请占家政气运，筮得《泰》之《需》。
断曰：此卦上下通气之象，主从相应，家政安泰之时也。今筮得第五爻，尊府之财产，相承旧业，足下性质良善，家教完全，但于方今之时势，未免碍于通达。今得第二爻为之经理，能负担一切事务，忠实可靠，故家政整理，商运益盛。然旧时伙友，不免有阴相嫉妒，潜生谗毁者，好在二爻经理人，能如新婚之妇，柔顺相从，谗毁自消，得以十分尽力，克保其家，谓之“帝乙归妹，以祉元吉”。
上六：城复于隍。勿用师，自邑告命。贞吝。
《象传》曰：城复于隍，其命乱也。
“隍”者，城壕也，无水为隍，有水为池。“城”者，筑土所成，隍者辟土所成。“城复于隍”，谓其高城崩而复旧隍也。“自邑告命”，谓从下邑发命令，而告上国也。此爻《泰》之终，将转而为《否》，其象取阴弱之君，不能制阳刚之臣，而以时运之变革为辞，以示盛衰消长之机，曰“城复于隍”。当时运既衰，天命将革，君倦于政，臣工于谗，取民无制，贿赂公行，其极必起逆乱。且军旅之要，以人和为主，上六之时，世运方否，人心不和，犹冰炭之不相容也，若以兵争之，成败难知。且城已坏而不修，岂可据此以战斗乎？故戒之曰“勿用师”。至是而君德既衰，威权尽废，武功不可用，惟退而修文，远略不可图，惟退而治近，故曰“自邑告命”。盖固守城邑，明示政教，如孟子所谓效死勿去，冀得民心，以挽天运也。“贞吝”者，圣人谓其不告命于未否之前，而告命于将否之际，惜已晚矣，虽正犹可羞也，故曰“贞吝”。《象传》曰“其命乱也”者，是上下俱乱也。彼守成之君，生长深宫之中，与妇寺为伍，虽有师传，多非正士，君则骄奢淫佚，臣则阿谀逢迎，无所不至，于是下情抑郁，不通于上，君泽涸滞，不流于下，鬼蜮奸贼，惑乱其间，终至人心离散，国家倾覆，是之谓“其命乱也”。
【占】　问时运：目下气运颠倒，宜谨慎自守，须防小人播弄。
○　问商业：宜就小做，以待时运。
○　问战征：攻夺城地，必胜。
○　问家宅：防有颠覆破败，宜牢稳守业。
○　问生产：生女。
○　问失物：恐难复得。

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Legge: The sixth line, magnetic, shows us the city wall returned to the moat. It is not the time to use the army. The subject of the line may announce her orders to the people of her own city; but however firm and correct she may be, she will have cause for regret.
Wilhelm/Baynes: The wall falls back into the moat. Use no army now. Make your commands known within your own town. Perseverance brings humiliation.
Blofeld: The wall has tumbled into the moat; do not put up a fight, but just maintain order in the village. Although this is the right course blame cannot be avoided. [We shall be blamed for not being more aggressive even though circumstances more than warrant our failure to be so.]
Liu: The wall collapses into the moat. Do not use force. Make announcements to the people in your own town. Continuing brings humiliation.
Ritsema/Karcher: The bulwark returned tending-towards the moat. No availing of legions. Originating-from the capital, notifying fate. Trial: abashment.
Shaughnessy: The city wall falls into the moat; do not use troops; from the city announce the mandate; determination is stressful.
Cleary (1): The castle walls crumble back into dry moats. Don’t use the army. Giving orders in one’s own domain, even if right, there will be regret.
Cleary (2): … Announcing order in one’s own locality is shameful, in spite of correctness.
Wu: The moat around the city wall has dried. No military action is advisable. The local authority has given conflicting orders to the townspeople. The people should be persevering, but even so they may still feel humiliated.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: The governmental orders have long been in disorder.
Wilhelm/Baynes: His plans fall into confusion. Blofeld: This signifies a troubled destiny. Ritsema/Karcher: One's fate disarrayed indeed. Cleary (2): Order is in disarray. Wu: The orders have been contradictory.

Legge: The course denoted by Harmony has been run, and will be followed by one of a different and unhappy character. The earth dug from the moat had been built up to form a projecting wall, but it is now again fallen into the ditch. War will only aggravate the evil, and however the ruler may address good proclamations to the people of the capital, the coming evil cannot be altogether averted.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The government has long been in disarray. Despite all proclamations to the contrary, ill fortune is at hand. War will only aggravate the situation. The subject should submit to fate, keep inwardly free, and ameliorate the harm done to those nearest him. The bad time will pass.
Wing: A decline has begun. It is of the external world, and nothing can be done to hold it back. Such attempts will bring you humiliation. Instead, devote your time to strengthening your ties with those close to you.
Editor: A walled city is a concentration of similar elements in one place. Within its walls dwell all of the factors which go to make up whatever it is that the city represents-- perhaps an attitude or belief. For example: suppose I believe that the world is flat. All of the thoughts, feelings, attitudes and emotions which contribute to this belief live in "the city." If I have an experience which strongly challenges my belief--say, a photograph taken of the earth from outer space which definitely proves that my belief in a flat earth is incorrect--then one could say that the "walls of my city have collapsed." Now I could fight this and say that obviously the outer space photograph is a fake--I could try to maintain my belief regardless of all the evidence to the contrary. However, the realistic response to the situation would not be to "use the army" (defend the indefensible), but to just let the dust settle--inform the people in the city (the now outmoded thoughts and feelings) that the situation has changed and that the best response is to sit tight and see what emerges from the rubble. A community's conviction system is its castle, a walled city to protect it against alternative interpretations of the great and unknown reality in the midst of which it must somehow live.
B. Bruteau -- The Psychic Grid
A. A distinction is dissolved, a belief is shattered. Don't fight it -- let it be.
Change is in process and confusion prevails -- control your emotions and
maintain order within the psyche. Despite turmoil, take no action -- allow the transformation to complete itself.
May 26, 2001, 4/23/06