{"collection":"The I Ching, Legge tr.","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic03_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic03_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic03_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/ich/ic03.htm","summary":"This is a classical Chinese divination text paired with interpretive commentary, drawn from the *I Ching* (Book of Changes) \u2014 specifically Hexagram 3, *Kun* (\"Difficulty at the Beginning\"). The hexagram presents a series of oracular statements about a moment of initial struggle and disorder, advising caution, steadfastness, and the delegation of authority to capable leaders rather than hasty action. Each of the six lines offers a distinct symbolic scenario \u2014 a woman resisting an unsuitable marriage, a hunter losing his way in a forest, a ruler unable to dispense great favors \u2014 all circling the theme of navigating perilous beginnings with patience and correct conduct. The accompanying commentary, in the voice of a 19th-century Western scholar (likely James Legge), interprets the hexagram as reflecting King Wen's historical situation amid dynastic disorder, arguing that the text's \"unspoken context\" is a political vision: proper governance, entrusted to virtuous men, will eventually prevail over chaos. A distinctive claim the commentary makes is that readers must reconstruct this implicit political situation to make sense of the lines at all \u2014 the symbols are not free-floating but anchored to a specific, unstated historical crisis. The work thus sits at the intersection of divinatory practice, political philosophy, and textual interpretation.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The I Ching, Legge tr.: The Y\u00ee King Text: Section I...","tradition":"The I Ching, Legge tr.","translated_text":null,"word_count":914}