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33) Dun: Withdrawal

Hexagram:

• C: There are mountains under heaven, which are inaccessible; superior people keep petty people at a distance, being stern without ill will.

• L: Withdrawal is developmental. The small is beneficial and correct.

• E: Storing positive energy, subduing energy, exercising strength with restraint, not using power arbitrarily.

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Lines:

1 Yin:

• L: Withdrawing the tail is dangerous; don’t go anywhere with this.

• E: In the beginning, when one’s inner stability is weak, it is beneficial to use caution against external influences.

2 Yin:

• L: Use the hide of a yellow ox to fasten this; no one can loosen it.

• E: When flexible receptivity is properly balanced, external influences do not penetrate and internal thoughts do not arise. This is withdrawal not losing control.

3 Yang:

• L: Entangled withdrawal has affliction, but it is lucky in terms of feeding servants and concubines.

• E: Withdrawal that has personal entanglement, is getting entangled with the artificial (servant: acquired energy), and thus damaging the real (master: original energy), is dangerous.

4 Yang:

• L: A superior person who withdraws well is fortunate, an inferior person is not.

• E: Good withdrawal is storing yang (true) and repelling yin (artificial), with flexible strength.  Withdrawal should be rid of personal entanglements for good fortune.

5 Yang:

• L: Excellent withdrawal; correctness is auspicious.

• E: Withdrawal that is correctly balanced associates with the positive and repels the negative.

6 Yang:

• L: Rich withdrawal is wholly beneficial.

• E: Firmness and flexibility merge into one, heaven and earth are transcended, and withdrawal is wholly beneficial.