The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 15

What does I Ching hexagram 15, Modesty, mean?

The judgment

謙：亨，君子有終。Modesty: success. The noble person carries it through to the end.Zhou Yi 周易, 謙, judgment. Source

The image

地中有山，謙；君子以裒多益寡，稱物平施。A mountain within the earth. The noble person takes from too much to add to too little, and weighs things to share them evenly.Zhou Yi 周易, 謙, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初六：謙謙君子，用涉大川，吉。
2. Second line六二：鳴謙，貞吉。
3. Third line九三：勞謙君子，有終吉。
4. Fourth line六四：无不利，撝謙。
5. Fifth line六五：不富，以其鄰，利用侵伐，无不利。
6. Top line上六：鳴謙，利用行師，征邑國。

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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