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《否 - Pi》

English translation: James Legge [?] Library Resources
1 否:
否之匪人,不利君子貞。大往小來,則是天地不交,而萬物不通也;上下不交,而天下无邦也。內陰而外陽,內柔而外剛,內小人而外君子。小人道長,君子道消也。
Tuan Zhuan:
'The want of good understanding between the (different classes of) men in Pi, and its indication as unfavourable to the firm and correct course of the superior man; with the intimation that the great are gone and the little come:' - all this springs from the fact that in it heaven and earth are not in communication with each other, and all things in consequence do not have free course; and that the high and the low (superiors and inferiors) are not in communication with one another, and there are no (well-regulated) states under the sky. The inner (trigram) is made up of the weak and divided lines, and the outer of the strong and undivided: the inner is (the symbol of) weakness, and the outer of strength; the inner (represents) the small man, and the outer the superior man. Thus the way of the small man appears increasing, and that of the superior man decreasing.

URN: ctp:book-of-changes/pi1