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37)  Jiaren: Family/People in the Home

Hexagram:

• C: Wind emerges from fire, members of a family; superior people are factual in their speech, and consistent in their deeds.

• L: For people in the home it is beneficial that the women be chaste.

• E: Governing the inner: refining the self, mastering the mind, turning the attention inward.

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Lines:

1 Yang:

• L: Guarding the home, regret vanishes.

• E: When one is firm in refining the self, so that the mind becomes empty and clear, no thoughts arise inside and no influences penetrate from outside. 

2 Yin:

• L: Not concentrating on anything, being chaste in the kitchen is auspicious.

• E: Turning the concentration inward to quiet the mind, controlling movement through stillness, preventing fragmentation by practicing unity, is refinement of the self with gentility.

3 Yang:

• L: People in the home are strict. Conscientious sternness bodes well. If the women and children are too frivolous, it will end in humiliation.

• E: Strict, careful diligence in self-refinement is required to eliminate the desire to indulge in emotions, and to reach selflessness.

4 Yin:

• L: A rich home is very fortunate.

• E: When flexibility uses firmness for guidance in self-refinement, the attainment of celestial treasure goes beyond selflessness.

5 Yang:

• L: The king comes to have a home; no worry- it is fortunate.

• E: When positive strength is balanced, the mind is correct and the body is disciplined, good fortune comes naturally. This is the unification of flexibility with firmness in self-refinement.

6 Yang:

• L: There is trustworthiness, dignified; it turns out well.

• E: Being disciplined in the beginning of refinement yet ending up gentle (wind), concludes that the self-refinement process has dignity.