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比 Hexagram 8
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above: K'an / The Abysmal, Water |
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below: K'un / The Receptive, Earth |
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CHANGING LINE:
Six at the beginning [yin at bottom] means:
Self portrait - Vincent van Gogh, 1887
'Still Life with Earthen Bowl and Potatoes' - Vincent van Gogh, 1885 |
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FUNDAMENTAL SINCERITY is the only proper basis for forming relationships. This attitude, symbolised by a full earthen bowl, in which the content is everything and the empty form nothing, shows itself not in clever words but through the strength of what lies within the speaker. This strength is so great that it has power to attract good fortune to itself from without.
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