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From the Wilhelm/Baynes,
"Even a single passion still lurking in the heart has power to obscure reason."
This seems a particularly Western reading, for only in the West are passion and reason seen as antithetical forces in opposition. This walk through the hexagrams has as one of it's goals a removal of such biases. Where reason kills passion then reason should be shunned. Where passion kills reason, there passion is to be shunned. Whenver one seems to come to dominance it is in truth at the beginning of its decay, and only by working wisely with the rise and fall of each can the superior person benefit from the wisdom of the hexagrams.
"Passion and reason cannot exist side by side---therefor fight without quarter is necessary if the good is to prevail."
Again, this seems born of the same kind of Western thinking that pits lightyangmalecreativemanifest energy against darkyinfemalereceptivepotential energy, rather than recognizing them as necessary facets of a single unity.
The mis-casting as enemies of the complements reason and passion need not obscure that the Judgment for this hexagram refers to a time when reason must rise to balance a previously overdeveloped passion.
"...resolution must be based on a union of strength and friendliness."
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"...the best way to fight evil is to make energetic progress in the good."
Next, from the Image we read:
"The lake has risen up to heaven..."
This is the final hexagram of the Tui cycle, the last where we see the joyous lake/youngest daughter raised above the others. The trigram of the lake is the outer face, joyous, over the a lower trigram of the Father, the all-solid-lines of Ch'ien.
"All gathering is followed by dispersion...remain receptive to impressions by help of strict and continuous self-examination."
Soon it will change.
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