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THE APPENDIXES.
XXIII. (The trigrams representing) the earth, and (above it) that for a mountain, which adheres to the earth, form Po. Superiors, in accordance with this, seek to strengthen those below them, to secure the peace and stability of their own position.
I. 'He overthrows the couch by injuring its legs:' -thus (he commences) his work of ruin with what is lowest (in the superior man).
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2. 'He destroys the couch by injuring its frame:'(the superior man) has as yet no associates.
3. That 'there will be no error on the part of this one among the overthrowers' arises from the difference between him and the others above and below.
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4. He has overthrown the couch, and (proceeds to injure) the skin (of him who lies on it):'-calamity is very near at hand.
5. 'He obtains for them the favour that lights on the inmates of the palace:'-in the end there will be no grudge against him.
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6. The superior man finds himself in a carriage:'-he is carried along by the people. The small men (by their course) overthrow their own dwellings :'-they can never again be of use to them.
might change and transform manners and customs;'-it is a small matter to say of him that he affords occasion for joy.
The subject of line 6 has more of the spirit of the hexagram than in most hexagrams. His being clothed in simple white crowns the lesson that ornament must be kept in a secondary place.
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XXIII. 'A mountain,' says Yu Fan (towards the end of the Han dynasty), stands out high above the earth; here it appears as lying on the earth :-plainly it has been overturned.'
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Legge |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1882 |
| Total Pages | 2405 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 43 MB |