Hexagram 52

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="03fa11c3.gif"> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="45a80520.jpg" border=0 width="128" height="82" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The Youngest Son is also known as "Linked Mountains," it signifies an </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" ><B>Insurmountable Obstacle</B></FONT><B> necessitating stillness.</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>"The Youngest Son represents a guardian, his direction is in the Northeast.  It is the mysterious place where all things begin and end, where birth and death pass into one another."  </B><I>Book III, The Commentaries</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" >The Hexagram turns on </FONT><I>the problem of achieving a quiet heart</I>.<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" > It is difficult to bring quiet to the heart.   But, when a person has accomplished  this she no longer sees the outside world as the struggle and tumult of individual beings.  She has achieved true peace of mind and understands the great laws of the universe and for acting in harmony with them.</FONT></div> <div> <I>Book I, The Text</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The earliest I Ching that we know about is called <I>Lianshan , </I>meaning "linked mountains,'" a reference to the doubled mountain image of Hexagram 52.  Another name given  for the <I>Lianshan</I> was <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Manifestation of Change in the Mountains</B></I>.</FONT>   </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="68040400.gif" border=0 width="64" height="64" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Faithful, kind, loving and protective is the Youngest Son.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="737504d0.gif" border=0 width="80" height="77" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#99CC00" FACE="Arial" ><B>The Online Journal of the I Ching, Yi Jing</B></FONT>     <FONT 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HREF="page_of_the_youngest_daughter.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hexagram 58"><U>Hexagram 58</U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="03ef4010.gif" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Hexagram 52</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>The Page of the Youngest Son Ken,</B></div> <div> <B>   The Mountain</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="42d36b90.jpg" border=0 width="310" height="185" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div>   <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" > Mountains standing close together:</FONT></div> <div>    The image of Keeping Still</div> <div>    Thus the Superior Person</div> <div>     Will not allow his thoughts</div> <div>     To go beyond his situation.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="47c66660.gif" border=0 width="102" height="102" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Hexagram 52</B></div> <div> <B> The Image of The Mountain, doubled</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="45880a40.gif" border=0 width="128" height="164" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>        Ken </B>also stands for stillness,  the body is still and the spine straight as in sitting meditation.  By keeping the spine straight and remaining still one imitates a mountain.  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >Keeping Still means stopping and withdrawing into seclusion in order to cultivate the spirit.  </FONT>Ken represents a faithful guardian.  His symbol is the faithful dog, a protector and companion or a watchman. He stands guard at the pathway to higher realms.  He acts as a shepherd or helper to seekers but guards against the unworthy.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>   <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" ><B>Understanding the Book of Changes</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" >    </FONT>   The holy sages concentrated their thoughts in holy meditation for the purpose of attaining the necessary power and fullness of being.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" > Understanding the Book of Changes calls for similar concentration and meditation</FONT>.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Consulting the Oracle:  The Divine Echo</B></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" ><B>  <IMG SRC="48f41700.gif" border=0 width="65" height="112" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" >The superior person when consulting the oracle formulates his question precisely in words, and regardless of whether it concerns something distant or near, secret or profound, she receives - </FONT>as though it were an  <A NAME="echo"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>echo<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" > - the appropriate oracle which enables her to know the future.  <I>Book II, The Material</I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div>    <IMG SRC="48c8d8b0.gif" border=0 width="141" height="139" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">    Mathematical formulas and probabilities will not assist you as much as your intuition. Have faith in the <I>Changes </I>but blind or empty faith is not necessary:  Understand that the <I>Changes</I> will respond to the questions you put to it. Above, the<I> Great Treatise</I>  describes the phenomena as an "echo." The ancients knew that the universe is deeply responsive to our thoughts. The cosmic energy the Greeks called "meta," meaning "matter" is everywhere present. It is an impersonal force but it has intelligence and its power is available to all. It is deeply responsive to our thoughts.  Some metaphysicians call this divine presence "The Universal Subjective" for it automatically answers the question, indeed it cannot help but do so. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The Great Mind</B></div> <bR> <div>      Hindu yogis, especially of the gnani yoga sects see the Universal Divine One as a Great Mind.  For them the Universal Mind is a subjective entity always responding to our thoughts.  Gnani yoga, ("Yoga," of course, meaning "union with god.") seeks to influence the Great Mind or co-create with the universe by secret meditation techniques. Appropriately, this yoga emphasizes the use of intellect as a path to higher spiritual realizations.</div> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> <B> Suggested Reading </B></div> <bR> <div> <I> Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism</I> by Yogi Ramacharaka, The Yoga Publication Society, Chicago, IIlinois, published 1903. The booi discusses Gnani Yoga. Online is the Yoga Publications Society's discussion of <A HREF="http://spiritweb.org/Spirit/karma-yoga-01.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://spiritweb.org/Spirit/karma-yoga-0"><U>Karma Yoga</U></A>. </div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><IMG SRC="70969670.gif" border=0 width="105" height="103" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="68191910.gif" border=0 width="145" height="145" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Divine Mystery</B></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" >     </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" ><B> I Ching practitioners co-create with the universe when they, by divination, change the outcome of things</B></FONT><B>. </B><I><B> The Great Treatise</B></I><B> explains it thus:   </B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>"...[the Changes] reveals the meaning of events in the universe and thereby </B></FONT><I><B>imparts a divine mystery</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><B> to the nature and action of the person who puts his trust in it, so that he or she is enabled to meet every event in the right way and</B></FONT><B> </B><I><B>even to aid the gods in governing the world</B></I><I><B>.</B></I><I><B>"</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>How Does It Work?</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div>       The  theory below explains the interplay of "law" and "energy."  The theory, although with different terminology, is basically the same as the " meta" theory of the Divine Intelligence: <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" > The Universe is an impersonal energy yet it has intelligence and responds to our thoughts.</FONT> <I> The idea of having to explain  the mechanism as to how the </I><I>Yi</I><I> works is basically alien to the Chinese mind and there is very little discussion of it in Chinese philosophy. </I></div> <bR> <div>       The explanation is given by <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >Wang Fu-chih</FONT>, the great I Ching scholar of the Ch'ing era (c.1l00  AD).  Wang sees the interplay of  law and energy as forming the image and hexagram number.  To Wang, however, moral integrity is a prerequisite :</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>Between heaven and earth there exists nothing but <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" >law</FONT> and <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" >energy</FONT>.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" >The</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" >energy carries the law</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" >and the</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" >law regulates the energy</FONT>.  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" >Law</FONT> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" >has no form.</FONT>  It is only through the energy that the image is made manifest...      </div> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" >This reveals itself in great things and small things.  </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" >Only a person of highest moral integrity can understand this </FONT>interaction of law and energy<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" > and basing himself on its manifestation, he can grasp the </FONT>symbols, images, and hexagrams...</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0099FF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>By observing its small expressions, he can understand the auguries. In this way, consulting the oracle comes about by itself.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>   Based on  <I>Eight Lectures on the I Ching, </I>by Helmut Wilhelm, son of Richard Wilhelm, and translanted by Cary F. Baynes, 1960.  The lectures were a series of eight lectures given to German audiences living in Peking in 1943 when China was under Japanese occupation.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The Divine Echo</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div>        Understand that the Changes, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >the divine echo, </FONT>inevitably answers the questions that are put to it. This working of <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >energy</FONT> is automatic and its manifestation through the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >law </FONT> in images and hexagrams is inevitable.  When you comprehend these simple facts you have arrived at a sufficient understanding of how the <I>Changes</I> itself works in the world. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Bringing One's Life Into Harmony with Tao</B></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" >           The Holy Sages throughout time have looked to the earth for the images and symbols of the hexagrams.  They have looked to heaven in order to know proper conduct is relation to the hexagrams and images. In the line statements  of each hexagram they have shared their own experience with the oracle. The line statements or texts, therefore act as a guide to illumine the auspicious and inauspicious in order  </FONT>to <I>change the future whenever possible </I>in order to escape danger and misfortune<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" >.</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >* </FONT></div> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >*</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" >T</FONT>he future is not immutable. YOU CAN CHANGE THE FUTURE!!</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><I>The Great Treatise </I>or <I>Ta Chuan</I><I> </I>explains it thus:</div> <bR> <div>  ",,,with the help</div> <div>  of the Book of Changes it is possible to arrive at a</div> <div>  complete realizationof [a human's] innate capacities [since </div> <div> she is a microcosm of heaven and earth] and these laws are</div> <div>  reproduced in the Book of Changes, man is provided with the </div> <div> means of shaping his own nature."  </div> <bR> <div> This creates a person whose</div> <div>  life is permeated with wisdom and love that excludes no one.  Then </div> <div> he can penetrate and understand the secrets of the cosmos, life and death and achieve <I>mastery over his own fate</I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT>for he sees that </div> <div> Tao underlies all the events of life.<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="33364640.gif" border=0 width="100" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div>       The conscious application of the principles of the Book of Changes thus assures mastery over the self , the knowledge of the great principles that underly the workings of yin and yang and for bringing one's life into harmony with them. </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="33364640.gif" border=0 width="100" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div>      The <I>Changes</I> is therefore a guide not only to the future but how to bring one's life into harmony with Tao.  Indeed, the Changes was written to make Tao accessible to </div> <div> humankind. </div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="33364640.gif" border=0 width="100" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div>       A life that is in harmony with Tao escapes many of  the misfortunes of life. (Misfortune is never the will of heaven.) A life that is in harmony with Tao ultimately achieves Tao.  This precious legacy is what gives the <I>Changes</I> it's power.</div> <bR> <div>  </div> <div>       </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>   <IMG SRC="7a67d7d0.gif" border=0 width="125" height="125" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The Power of the Book of Changes</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div>       <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >The Changes is the gift of the holy sages to you in order that you might  know the future, understand the cosmos, find the holy Tao, bring your life into harmony with it, and make your life divinely clear. </FONT></div> <bR> <div>       The proper attitude for such a gift is profound gratitude. In all your meditations and prayers you should never forget their great kindness in bequeathing this treasure to you and the world.  You repay their great kindness by engaging in meditation before divining and by faithfully studying its spiritual lessons.</div> <bR> <div>       In doing so you will become a person of great spiritual achievement.  One day you will enter the higher spiritual realms and eventually become an enlightened being.  Be an example of a sage who reveres the <I>Changes</I> and be a source nourishment to others!</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>     <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" >" Be guided by the fourfold Tao of the holy sages:</FONT></div> <div>   In speaking, be guided by its judgments. </div> <div>  In action, be guided by its changes. </div> <div>  In making objects be guided by its images;</div> <div>  In seeking the oracle, be guided by its pronouncements." </div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><I>Book II, The Material</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="33364640.gif" border=0 width="100" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I>Whoever approaches the Changes from these profound levels </I></div> <div> <I>makes no mistakes.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#3399FF" FACE="Arial" ><B>                                                 </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#3399FF" FACE="Arriba Arriba LET" ><B>   </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#3399FF" FACE="Arriba Arriba LET" ><B>   </B></FONT><B>    </B><I><B> </B></I><I><B> </B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Guatemala" ><I><B>Midaughter</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div>  T'ai Chi Ch'uan and the I Ching </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >     </FONT>  Dai Lu, the teacher of this method says: " T'ai Chi Ch'uan and the I Ching allow one to discover the most precious jewel, the nature of Tao."<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#3399FF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" ><I>They do this by revealing the secrets of the Circulation of Light, the circulation of psychic energy in meditation</I><I>. </I></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" >Master Dai Lu began his studies in 1928 under the famous teacher, Sun Lu-tang, who founded the Sun School of T'ai-chi Ch'uan.  He later traveled to southwest China and studied the Yang style, the style Master Dai Lu was teaching when his book, </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><I>T</I></FONT><I>'ai Chi Ch'uan and I Ching</I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" >  was published in 1971.</FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" ><I>      </I></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" >The explanations are also an excellent way to see a hexagram by its component parts: The upper and lower trigrams and the nuclear trigrams are shown in the diagrams below.  </FONT>Dai Lu, a Chinese American, also wrote <I>I Ching Coin Prediction </I>(1975). </div> <bR> <div> <B>Recommended Reading</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="7e6544b0.gif" border=0 width="84" height="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><I>I Ching Coin Prediction </I>and</FONT> <I>T'ai Chi Ch'uan and the I Ching </I> by Dai Lu.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="#echo" TITLE="Hexagram 52"><U><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>   </div> <bR> <div> A trigram means any three adjacent lines of a hexagram.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4fd0b1c0.gif" border=0 width="267" height="284" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The Eight Trigrams:  All Hexagrams are derived from a combination of the trigrams above.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Dai Lu explains Hexagram 52:  </B><B>The Hexagram by its image is</B>:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>  </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" ><B>"Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain"</B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4bb49490.gif" border=0 width="73" height="73" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Hexagram 52, Ken</div> <bR> <div>       <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >Both the upper and lower trigrams, above, are Ken (Hexagram 52)</FONT> and can signify an arm or a hand.   </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >     The trigram Ken (Hexagram 52), also means tiger or mountain.</FONT>  <B>Thus the image is of  "embracing" a tiger and then returning to the Mountain or the state of stillness.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="4b947500.gif" border=0 width="71" height="80" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </div> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" > The upper nuclear  trigram is Chien, The Eldest Brother (Hexagram 51)</FONT>. He represents the beginning of movement by the player. The lower trigram also means Chien, (Hexagram 51) which also means embracing. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <IMG SRC="4ba454c0.gif" border=0 width="69" height="76" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT>The lower nuclear trigram is Kan, The Middle Brother, (Hexagram 29) meaning<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>danger, or entrapment. Kan also means water and  <A NAME="moon_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>moon.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" ><B>Dai Lu's Interpretation of Hexagram 52:</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> The T''ai Chi player must face danger and throw the tiger by means of an  "embrace" and then Return to the Mountain or Keeping Still.  Otherwise there is danger.  The Commentary on the decision says:<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> When it is time to stop, stop.</div> <div> When it is time to advance, then advance.</div> <div> Thus movement and rest do not miss the right time.</div> <div>  </div> <div>                                                                               </div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >    </FONT>This also illustrates that the brothers of the I Ching, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" > Kan, (Hexagram 29), Ken, (Hexagram 52), and Chien, (Hexagram 51)</FONT> appear as inner or nuclear trigrams of the other brothers.<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div>  Inner or Nuclear Trigrams, Guides to Interpretation</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4bc3c3c0.gif" border=0 width="60" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">       <IMG SRC="4bd3e3e0.gif" border=0 width="62" height="62" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <bR> <div> <B>Inner or Nuclear Trigrams, above</B></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >     </FONT>Nuclear, also called "inner" trigrams are guides to interpreting I Ching hexagrams.  Here the first nuclear trigram, left, is the trigram Kan (Hexagram 29) usually meaning danger or entrapment.  The second nuclear trigram, right is Chien (Hexagram 51) meaning initiating or beginning and also shock and arousing.    <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" >Inner trigrams mean they are found </FONT><I>within</I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" > the hexagram.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4e63e400.gif" border=0 width="62" height="64" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                                                     <IMG SRC="4e83e400.gif" border=0 width="62" height="64" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">    </div> <div> Outer lower trigram in <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >yellow</FONT>                        Outer upper trigram in <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >yellow</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Outer Trigrams, above</B></div> <bR> <div>       <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" >Outer trigrams</FONT> are also guides to interpretation.  An outer trigram is one in which one of the lines of trigram are found at the first or last line.  (Hexagrams are read from the bottom up.)  Outer trigrams are not discussed here because in all the brother and sister hexagrams the outer trigrams are the same.  For example, Ken (Hexagram 52) is the doubling of two outer trigrams which are the same:   <IMG SRC="4de23120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  +   <IMG SRC="4de23120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >The Sister Hexagrams</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="4d6616f0.gif" border=0 width="97" height="111" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Hexagram 30, Li</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" >  <IMG SRC="4f020200.gif" border=0 width="32" height="32" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </FONT>Hexagram 30, Li<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>The Middle Daughter, above, signifies the eye, light, the sun, clinging (as fire clings to the object that is burning), intellect, war, weapons, and spiritual attainment and also the element fire.  The two trigrams, doubled, traditionally represent the movement of the sun across they sky, twice, or two days of sunrise and sunset. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="4dd5f6b0.gif" border=0 width="95" height="107" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div>   </div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" >An analysis of the Hexagram 30,  Li, The Middle Daughter, above, shows the lower nuclear or inner  trigram to be Sun, The Eldest Daughter (Hexagram 57) </FONT></div> <bR> <div>   <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" >As a trigram, Sun (Hexagram 57) can signify the wind or a favorable wind, conscience, crouching, or penetration, or hidden designs. She also means  the element wood.</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="4da656f0.gif" border=0 width="101" height="111" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div>   </div> <div> <IMG SRC="7a7272b0.gif" border=0 width="39" height="43" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Tui, The Youngest Daughter, (Hexagram 58) is the upper nuclear trigram of Hexagram 30. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" >The upper nuclear trigram, Tui, can signify mouth, persuasive speech, smiling, a lake or other still water,  joy,  or a tiger,  the element metal and also arguments.  </FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Summary:</B></div> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" > Each female hexagram, </FONT>Li (Hexagram 30),  Sun (Hexagram 57), and Tui (Hexagram 58)<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" > has as nuclear trigrams the other two sisters</FONT>. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" >The brothers of the I Ching, </FONT> Kan, (Hexagram 29), Ken, (Hexagram 52), and Chien, (Hexagram 51)<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Arial" > appear as nuclear trigrams of the other two brothers.</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> Recommended Reading</B></div> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="7e6544b0.gif" border=0 width="84" height="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT>       Wilhelm /Baynes is an excellent source of images for the trigrams and often discusses the components of a hexagram in terms of the inner and outer trigrams.  <I>cf.</I>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><I>Book III, The Commentarie</I>s</FONT>.  John Blofeld's<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><I> I Ching</I></FONT><I> </I> also has a good classic commentary.  Albert Huang's<I> </I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><I>I Ching, the Definitive Translation</I></FONT> and <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><I>I Ching</I></FONT><I> </I>by Rudolf Ritsema and Stephen Karcher both have interesting discussions of the hexagrams, especially in terms of Chinese writing or ideograms.  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#66CCFF" FACE="Arial" ><I>The I Ching Workbook</I></FONT><I>, </I>by R. L. Wing is good for beginners as a guide to understanding the structure of the hexagrams although the commentary is rather poor.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="4a623120.gif" border=0 width="35" height="18" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>T'ai-chi Ch'uan</B></div> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="85d96680.gif" border=0 width="150" height="104" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">    <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#00CCFF" FACE="Arial" > This moving meditation was originated by Chang San-feng during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD). Connected with the Clear Reality School, It is famous for the slow-moving postures that cultivate health and circulate the body's internal energies. The movements often mimic that of wild creatures such as the crane, snake, and tiger. The movements are calming and exquisitely appropriate as the dance magnifies and purifies the body's energies.  Chang also wrote many treatises on herbal medicine and internal alchemy.  In China this ancient sect is primarily located in Hupei and Shensi Provinces of central China. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="755796b0.gif" border=0 width="121" height="107" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Recommended Reading</B></div> <div>      </div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="7e6544b0.gif" border=0 width="84" height="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT>    For an style of T'ai-chi that is based on playfulness, dance, and intuition see <I>Tai Ji, Beginner's Tai Ji Book</I> by Chungliang Al Huang who describes Tai Ji as " a dance of life to be treasured."</div> <bR> <div> "Stretch your arms.  Open your legs.  Open your eyes, your throat.</div> <bR> <div>      Breathe.</div> <bR> <div>           Open your heart and your mind.</div> <div>             Relax and breathe.</div> <bR> <div>                You will find your horizons expanding,</div> <div>                    your vision improving...</div> <bR> <div>                         Enjoy this open arm, open-mind,</div> <div>                             open-heart position.</div> <bR> <div>                                      Tai Ji is Joy and Happiness."</div> <bR> <div>                                              Chungliang Al Huang</div> <div>       </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#CCFF00" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="228782c0.gif" border=0 width="120" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="5c1a2c90.gif" border=0 width="162" height="201" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="eldest_daughter.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hexagram 57"><U><B>Next</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="midaughter_s_i_ching.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Online Journal of the I Ching"><U>Home</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>