The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 25

What does I Ching hexagram 25, No Falseness, mean?

The judgment

无妄：元亨。利貞。其匪正有眚，不利有攸往。No falseness: great success. It pays to hold firm. Whoever is not upright meets trouble, and it doesn't pay them to set out.Zhou Yi 周易, 无妄, judgment. Source

The image

天下雷行，物與无妄；先王以茂對時，育萬物。Thunder moves under heaven, and everything is without falseness. The old kings matched the season and reared all things.Zhou Yi 周易, 无妄, 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初九：无妄，往吉。
2. Second line六二：不耕穫，不菑畬，則利有攸往。
3. Third line六三：无妄之災，或繫之牛，行人之得，邑人之災。
4. Fourth line九四：可貞，无咎。
5. Fifth lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
6. Top line上九：无妄，行有眚，无攸利。

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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