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19) Lin: Overseeing

Hexagram:

• C: Above the lake there is the earth, overseeing; superior people use inexhaustibility of education and thought to embrace and protect the people without bound.

• L: Overseeing is creative and developmental, beneficial if correct. In the eighth month there is misfortune.

• E: Keeping watch over the restoration and growth of primal energy and repulsion of acquired energy of conditioning.

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Lines:

1 Yang:

• L: Sensitive overseeing leads to good results when correct.

• E: Being careful when watching over the new yang furnace. Correct perception of reality is good.

2 Yang:

• L: Sensitive overseeing is good, of unfailing benefit.

• E: Persisting in observation of the growing yang energy to eventually become completely pure without yin is good.

3 Yin:

• L: Presumptuous overseeing is of no benefit.  If one is troubled over this, there is no blame.

• E: Talking the talk, but not walking the walk. If one recognizes this and seeks guidance, it is blameless.

4 Yin:

• L: Consummate overseeing is blameless.

• E: Persevering in the refinement of the mind, even if one is weak, is blameless.

5 Yin:

• L: Knowing overseeing is appropriate for a great lord, and is auspicious.

• E: Seeking fulfillment by practicing emptiness is knowing overseeing, and letting the mind (lord) be clear, bright, peaceful, and whole.

6 Yin:

• L: Attentive overseeing is good and blameless.

• E: Unconsciously following the laws of the cosmic integrity, beyond ultimate attentiveness, to attain the ‘original face.’