{"collection":"The I Ching, Legge tr.","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic16_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic16_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_ich_ic16_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/ic16.htm","summary":"This is a classical Chinese divination text \u2014 a passage from the *I Ching* (Book of Changes) \u2014 presenting Hexagram 16 (Y\u00fc), along with its traditional commentary. The hexagram represents a condition of harmony, contentment, and joyful obedience throughout a kingdom, a state auspicious enough for military campaigns and political appointments. The core of the commentary explains each of the six lines in terms of how different figures \u2014 ministers, rulers, subjects \u2014 relate to this condition of pleasure: some are cautioned against boastfulness or passive dependence, while one strong minister (line 4) is identified as the source of the general harmony and urged only to maintain self-confidence. The fifth line's portrayal of a ruler who is weak, pleasure-prone, and overshadowed by his own minister is particularly notable, suggesting a chronic fragility that stops short of outright catastrophe. Even the topmost line, describing someone nearly lost in self-indulgent darkness, holds out the possibility of redemption through timely change. The text reflects the *I Ching*'s characteristic moral framework: fortune and misfortune hinge not on fate but on character, timing, and the willingness to correct one's course.","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":558}