晋
GUA 35 · JIN
EXPANSION
Overall Image (大象)
The light rises over the earth
Expansion
The noble young one, therefore,
naturally radiates clarity of character▼
Overall Image (大象)
The light rises over the earth
Expansion
The noble young one, therefore,
naturally radiates clarity of character
The cold but patient earth turns to greet another new day, and welcomes powerful stimulus from its warm and generous star. Light becomes heat and heat becomes activity. The markets and roads come alive. More than light is dawning here. This energy coming into the system not only powers the system: it will organize it too, in the same way that good health will clarify the mind. When energy can circulate freely it tends to articulate a natural order. When human behavior circulates freely it will tend to articulate a natural ethic. When resources and capital circulate freely things may appear like the work of invisible hands.* Light is free and pure income.
Main Judgment (Expansion) (卦辞)
The prosperous lord* uses grants of horses
to breed a multitude
And by the light of a day three times grants audience▼
Main Judgment (Expansion) (卦辞)
The prosperous lord* uses grants of horses
to breed a multitude
And by the light of a day three times grants audience
The long shadows withdraw, doubts go into hiding. All else has ventured out into the light, already knowing where best to go and what best to do. Economies thaw and the trade is set free. Stagnation burns off in the flames of new wealth. Wealth is now seen as the rate at which the fortunate can give themselves away. Now that which goes around circulates many times over, and all of it comes back multiplied. It’s a struggle now to find many losers. The people, now rallied to working together, find that their net is more than their sum. The character of the beings is also a flame. As it is fed and it prospers, the basic needs are met in due order and life is set free to move on to its higher purposes. The prince appears to be generous, giving freely of his wealth to stimulate the new growth, freely of his time to hear some new ideas. And yet his actions still spring from enlightened self-interest. His generosity pays. The culture will grow and evolve as long as the minds which create it stay open and free of censors and meddlers, as long as liberty teaches the ethics. Civilizations enter dark ages when the free flow of information has ceased. Light is the great antiseptic.
Key Words (关键词)
To advance, progress, develop, improve, grow, circulate, open, warm, thaw, dawn▼
Key Words (关键词)
To advance, progress, develop, improve, grow, circulate, open, warm, thaw, dawn
Acknowledge, demonstrate; energize; emergence, discovery, disclosure, exposure Enterprise, venture, free markets; learning by way of freedom, liberty, permission Overt, sunny, healthy, vibrant, generous, outgoing; daylight, daytime, sunshine Openness, assent, acknowledgment, opening up, glasnost; present, offer, promote Character, virtu, self-development; growth too temporary, healthy to be parasitic
Structure & Connections
Structure Class
No Family
This classification indicates the hexagram's role in the 12 Sovereign Cycle (Earthly Branches) or its structural family.
Astrology
note:Neptune in Fire
planet:Neptune
element:Fire
Tarot
card:Three of Wands
suit:Wands
Qabalah
note:Binah in Atziluth
sphere:Binah
The Lines
11st • YangSo far along to be so frustrated
But persistence is promising
Use wits for confidence
And be tolerant
Not a mistake▼
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1st • YangSo far along to be so frustrated
But persistence is promising
Use wits for confidence
And be tolerant
Not a mistake
35.1x So far along (to be) so frustrated:
All alone (but) advancing with integrity
* To be tolerant is not a mistake:
(Having) not yet been given orders
Someone needs to start forward here, simply to get things moving. Our hero is one of the first to go forward, a little ahead of his time. He advances to meet the prince, on triple audience day, but he carries no official charge, nor passport, nor invitation. He is halted in his progress, still outside of the kingdom’s border, by a guard whose mistrust is a duty. Without the license or status there is not enough light on him yet to be seen as more than a nobody. While he might think of himself as a diplomat, from a short time into the future, he knows that he won’t convince the guard that his borders are imaginary. And thus, when halted, he bows, with a sunny and plausible courtesy. He retreats three li.* Then roundabout, in broad daylight, he detours into the kingdom. It was too soon to get permission. Sometimes liberties must be taken.
22nd • YangSo far along to be so worried
But persistence is promising
Accept these present constraints
as if a blessing from one’s grandmother▼
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2nd • YangSo far along to be so worried
But persistence is promising
Accept these present constraints
as if a blessing from one’s grandmother
35.2x Accepting these present boundaries (as) a blessing:
Applying the central principle
No matter how sunny it is, or it might promise to be, we humans in gross are still in the dark about how light and bright we could be. When we speak of free markets and minds, free speech, the free exercise of a faith and even of freedom itself, we are still speaking of aims and ideals which only a few have attained yet, and not many more have even begun to grasp. We might be more evolved than those days when we plucked lice from each other’s fur, but we still have a long way to go. Present day limits aside, we will waste this fine daylight if we let our lack of advancement darken our spirits. To find the patience, we need we look back and see how far we have come. Why would we want to collect our rewards when the work and journey have only begun? We’ll take gratitude, strength and courage wherever we can get it.
33rd • YangMany liberties
Regrets pass▼
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3rd • YangMany liberties
Regrets pass
35.3x Many liberties extended:
(With) hope for superior conduct
There exist clear reasons why the people should seize and secure certain freedoms. It often seems less clear that this will serve the ruler as well. Liberty will even serve the ruler so well that he ought not to wait at all for his people to ask for their rights. There is no better teacher in life than the consequences of actions, so when actions are prohibited the teacher goes away, leaving rumors and laws in its place. Liberty teaches tolerance too. If we have a right which we treasure, we’ll gain a little respect for another’s right to treasure his own. Freedom then is not duty’s opposite: rather its reciprocal. Our duty is to your freedoms, that we might enjoy our own. Liberty helps us evolve as well. When the hundred flowers cannot contend in the garden, the struggle for existence no longer has selection to show which weeds are worthy.
44th • YangAdvancing like a squirrelly rodent
Persistence is dangerous▼
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4th • YangAdvancing like a squirrelly rodent
Persistence is dangerous
35.4x The squirrelly rodent’s persistence (is) dangerous:
The position is not appropriate
At night, in the dumps, he is king, but this time he goes too far. He is found out by the dawn and the daylight, in flagrante delicto, sneaking around on the palace lawn, disclosed and exposed to the public, barely a squeak ahead of the royal gardener’s shovel. He’ll be lucky to keep his ratty old tail. The rodents, of course, have their places, and specific kinds of wits evolved to go with it. But clever, stealthy, nosey, skulking and sly sorts of wits have no advantage, or less, in this bright light of day. And all that you’ll need to trap them is to understand what they crave. Self-interest is not their problem, only the unenlightened self-interest. He is stealing the things that he has today for the asking, just like a thief at a potlatch. Openness, light and fresh air restore the general welfare today. Good health is the parasite’s downfall.
55th • YangRegrets pass
Loss and gain are not to be taken to heart
Simply to go is promising
Nothing cannot be turned to advantage▼
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5th • YangRegrets pass
Loss and gain are not to be taken to heart
Simply to go is promising
Nothing cannot be turned to advantage
35.5x Loss (and) gain (are) not to be taken to heart:
(Simply) to go will be rewarding
Ebbs and flows, losses and gains, night’s re-radiation of heat and day’s solar gain: all of these are just properties of their systems. The system is the thing that remains. This means that one best adapts to the mean and the average conditions, not the most glorious ones. The entity which conditions itself to thrive on growth only is asking for death or extinction in any finite system. The one which lives inside its means will only require the average of losses and gains to get by. Then it is patient during the losing and grateful during the gaining. Look at one country which conquers another and then regards the plundered resources as income rather than capital. It can only fool itself for a time. Success and failure both teach. Living to learn might make its progress with either. Anything extra is blessing and anything less is a good appetite.
6Top • YangAdvancing those antlers
Limit the practice to discipline of the home town
That harshness is timely
Is not to be blamed
But to persist is a disgrace▼
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Top • YangAdvancing those antlers
Limit the practice to discipline of the home town
That harshness is timely
Is not to be blamed
But to persist is a disgrace
35.6x Limit (this) practice to subordinating the home town:
(This) course (is) less than enlightened
They are not yet exercising their freedoms in the way the herd’s leader approves of. He has given them their encouragements, to let conscience choose and consequence teach. He expected this to result in some kind of natural order. But what he’s so far denied them is the twenty full years that this will require to begin to show its value. Social climates like the general welfare or the public trust are as ecological systems. They take time to find the steadier states and integrate in their diversity. The show of horns comes too soon. He can save wear and tear on his great rack of antlers and act like someone worth looking up to, instead of a buck in a rut. To micromanage this thing is a setback, not progress. Benevolent rule becomes self-rule first. A discipline wants good disciples. A happy, self-possessed herd will make a lot more progress.
Reference in Original Text & Resources
This content is derived from Bradford Hatcher's THE BOOK OF CHANGES: Yijing, Word By Word.
Original text for Hexagram 35 begins on Page 270-278.
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