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35) Jin: Advance/Progress

Hexagram:

• C: Light emerges over the earth, advancing; superior people by themselves illumine the quality of enlightenment.

• L: Advancing, a securely established lord presents many horses, and grants audience three times a day.

• E: Clear-minded sincerity advancing illumination.

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Lines:

1 Yin:

• L: Advancing impeded, rectitude is good. Lacking confidence, become fulfilled, and there will be no fault.

• E: When principles are unclear in the beginning of illumination, it is beneficial to be still and thoroughly investigate the principles of illumination.

2 Yin:

• L: Advancing, grieving, rectitude is good; this great blessing is received from the grandmother.

• E: It is correct not to rush to promote illumination when in the midst of darkness.

3 Yin:

• L: The group concurs, regret vanishes.

• E: It is correct to be humble, enhancing another’s yang, and borrow the illumination (yang) of another to cure one’s own ignorance.

4 Yang:

• L: Advancing like a squirrel, even if correct it is dangerous.

• E: When light is concealed in darkness, the false and the true are not clearly separated. This is strong illumination but nonobjective.

5 Yin:

• L: Regret vanishes. Loss or gain, don’t worry. It is good to go: Everything will benefit.

• E: When one borrows strength from others to cure one’s weakness, regret vanishes. This is the illumination of having an empty mind, to bring on fulfillment of the belly.

6 Yang:

• L: Advancing the horns; this requires conquering one’s domain. There is danger, but it bodes well, so there will be no blame. But even though correct it is humiliating.

• E: Knowing how to advance illumination without emptying it, or conquering the human mind, is illumination in which one is strong but too proud.