Hexagram #26 ䷙ Nurturance of the Great: This hexagram represents incubation nurturing the spiritual embryo. Hexagram #25 ䷑ Fidelity (No error): This hexagram represents vigorous advancement of yang. Hexagram #24 ䷗ Return: Return of consciousness of reality, activity obeying the mind. Hexagram #23 ䷖ Stripping Away Submission to desire, acquired mundanity dissolving away the celestial energy. Hexagram #22 ䷑ Adornment: This hexagram represents hidden practice and secret cultivation. Hexagram #21 ䷑ Biting Through: This hexagram represents the study of investigating things and finding out principle. Hexagram #20 ䷓ Observation: Alertness, gradually progressing through receptivity to the requirements of the time, inner vigilance. Hexagram #19 ䷒ Overseeing: Keeping watch over the restoration and growth of primal energy and repulsion of acquired energy of conditioning. Hexagram #18 ䷑ Degeneration: This hexagram represents abandoning the false and returning to the true. When true feeling returns to essence, it can be called restored elixir. Hexagram #17 ䷏ Following: This hexagram represents true feeling returning to essence. Hexagram #16 ䷏ Joy: This hexagram represents summoning yang by yin. Hexagram #15 ䷎ Humility: Inwardly firm, outwardly flexible, having personal attainment but not dwelling on it. Hexagram #14 ䷌ Great Possession: This hexagram represents wealth with daily renewal, governing the inward with strictness. Hexagram #13 ䷌ Sameness with People: This hexagram represents mixing in with the ordinary world, concealing one's illumination, skillfully assimilating to others. Hexagram #12 ䷋ Obstruction: Submitting inwardly to personal desire, acting aggressive outwardly. Hexagram #11 ䷊ Tranquility: Harmony of strength and flexibility. Hexagram #10 ䷉ Treading: Nurturing inner strength by outward submissiveness, being firm but not impetuous, growing through humility. Hexagram #9 ䷈ Nurturance by the Small: This hexagram represents nurturing the great by the small. Hexagram #8 ䷇ Accord: This hexagram, represents yin following yang. Hexagram #7 ䷆ Army/Discipline: Using the primordial to repel conditioning, using the real to get rid of the false. Hexagram #6 ䷅ Contention: This hexagram represents the downfall of truth and the contest for victory. Hexagram #5 ䷃ Attending: Waiting for the proper timing in gathering primal energy, gradually restoring the primordial in the midst of the temporal. Hexagram #4 ䷃ Darkness: This hexagram represents starting the operation of yin convergence. Hexagram #3 ䷂ Difficulty: Beginning of the process of fostering the strength of primal energy, the difficult process of breaking out of acquired temporal conditioning and bringing the primordial to the fore, the process known as "advancing the yang fire." Hexagram #2 ䷁ Earth: Pure yin represents receptivity, submission, humility, obedience, yielding, flexibility, stillness, essence, innate capacity. Hexagram #1 ䷀ The Creative: Pure yang, it represents strength, firmness, life, innate knowledge, primal unified energy. Liu Yiming, commentary on Understanding Reality Wherever you go, everywhere is the Tao - there is no need to cling to the hexagram symbols, for you spontaneously accord with them. If you understand the meaning of the hexagram symbols, the pivot of heaven is in your hand, the axis of earth depends on your mind. Understanding the symbol, forget the words - the idea is clear of itself. The meanings concealed in these hexagrams are the meanings of these four hexagrams considered in this light, the other sixty hexagrams are all permutations of yin and yang. Settled (hexagram #63 ䷾)and Unsettled (hexagram #64 ䷿) teach people that when yin and yang are joined, that is being settled, and when yin and yang have not yet joined, that is being unsettled. Nevertheless, the deluded who do not investigate this meaning instead cling to the symbols they do not know that when the adepts have spoken of Difficulty (hexagram #3 ䷂) in the morning and practising Darkness (hexagram #4 ䷃) at night, this is to teach people that the arising of yang is difficult and the falling of yang is darkness. If you understand the meaning of balance and imbalance of yin and yang, you can harmonize yin and yang, spontaneously fitting in with the symbols of the hexagrams. The sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching, with three hundred and eighty-four lines, only elucidate the modes of yin and yang, and the representations of balance and imbalance.
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