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New growth out of maturity.
6. - - yin (top) 5. - - yin 4. - - yin 3. --- yang 2. --- yang 1. - - yin (bottom)
The only yang lines, 2 and 3, are our first interpretation and the outer action of the life force. All the top three lines are yin so we accept whatever the tao brings; it brings an activity (line 1) that we do not interpret by feeling and do not act out. The common name of the hexagram is “pushing upwards” or “ascending”; it is activity coming to fruition that is not yet recognized.
This structured emerging life force (Sun) is hardly visible outside (Tui) but causes a great change (Chên) in our identity which is accepted by our inner being (K’un).
So this is about something happening in ourselves, though it will naturally be reflected in our outer actions later; it is a growth in our reality state because when accepting the energy into our inner being we become one with it rather than separating ourselves and trying to get what we want from it.
> Ascending.
> Greatest success.
> It is necessary to see the great man
> to get rid of anxiety.
> Movement towards the south
> brings good fortune.
In this tao it is the forces within us that are ascending, not we ourselves as identity. It is these forces that create success, not we ourselves in identity. It is necessary to see this widely (the great man) if we are not to become anxious about how well we will do, for when we own the life force we feel responsible for what is done, for what happens. Movement towards the south is towards the sun’s zenith or the full activity of the day and this brings good fortune, for the activity will be carried by the forces now ascending within us.
After accumulation
there is much power
for activity later on.
He has gathered
and assimilated experience.
He can now
turn this into many forms.
He is mature yet young.
When roots are strong in the earth
they push up great growth.
New shoots from old stock.
Wealth has been made.
How to use it wisely?
Nature makes growth
in new directions.
When we are fully accepting our situation this acceptance remains even when there is no activity; identity is naturally activity-seeking so accepting inactivity involves a faith that activity will return.
> Confidence in the ascent.
> Great good fortune.
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We feel the movement of inner energies by direct experience of intuitive feeling, so for this feeling to become more active is a natural outcome of the energies ascending within us.
> Genuine involvement in the sacrifice.
> No error.
To be in our feelings is to be genuinely involved, and the sacrifice in which we are involved is of the ownership of the ascent; we recognize that it is the life force which ascends and this is no error.
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When ascending energy reaches outer action there is no longer any doubt even in a doubting mind, for there it is for all to see.
> He ascends into a more spacious city.
The life force moves outwards into the world and spreads out there. When this happens we in identity have a feeling of release, of enlargement we sometimes call our success; even if we do think of it in this narrow way we move with the life force.
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When we concern ourselves less with an outer experience which is inactive (line 3 is yang) we are taking it as the manifestation of the life force and not our own creation. In this way we offer something to the whole by sacrificing our attachment.
> The king sacrifices on mount Chi.
> Great good fortune and no error.
Mount Chi was in the homeland of King Wên, who is reputed to have put the Chinese oracle images in their present form. If King Wên sacrificed up mount Chi it was on the height of his homeland; innerly the height of our homeland is our mind reality, our separated position or point of view, and giving up our separateness is our ultimate sacrifice and good fortune.
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Here we no longer accept the absence of interpretation of the life force (the yang line 2), but the energy cannot ascend unchanged if we interpret it so the ascent is checked.
> Continuance in the way
> brings good fortune.
> The ascent is by steps.
It is in steps if we do not continue in the way without stopping, as in the case of this line.
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When we try to fix our reality, narrow it to something that we can grasp, we feel more secure in our identity but we become more unaware of our actual situation (the movement of the life force).
> A dark ascent.
> Great continuance in the way
> is needed.
The energy of the life force ascends in us but we are not aware of it now so it is “dark”.
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