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52) Gen: Mountain

Hexagram:

• C: Joining mountains; superior people think without leaving their place.

• L: Stopping at the back, one does not have a body; walking in the garden, one does not see a person. No fault.

• E: Nurturing energy by quietude.

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Lines:

1 Yin:

• L: Stopping at the feet, there is no fault. It is beneficial to be always upright.

• E: Being humble and not daring to act arbitrarily, one stops improper advancement early on, and maintains correctness always.

2 Yin:

• L: Stopping at the calves doesn’t help out the following. The heart is unhappy.

• E: Being too yielding without strength, one must use forced effort to stop weakness.

3 Yang:

• L: Stopping at the waist breaks the backbone; danger inflames the heart.

• E: Being too strong without flexibility, one must stop strength with forced effort.

4 Yin:

• L: Stopping at the body, there is no blame.

• E: This is stopping that governs oneself in weakness.

5 Yin:

• L: Stopping at the jaws, one’s words are orderly. Regret vanishes.

• E: Being weak yet balanced, one practices stopping in which one helps people, with appropriate speech, in spite of weakness.

6 Yang:

• L: Careful stopping brings good fortune.

• E: Stopping inside and outside, sublimating strength and weakness, stabilizing essence and forgetting feelings, one is still in absolute correctness.