The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 4

What does I Ching hexagram 4, Not Yet Knowing, mean?

The judgment

蒙：亨。匪我求童蒙，童蒙求我。初筮告，再三瀆，瀆則不告。利貞。Not yet knowing: success. I do not seek out the young and ignorant; they seek me. The first asking gets an answer. Asking twice and three times is disrespect, and disrespect gets no answer. It pays to hold firm.Zhou Yi 周易, 蒙, judgment. Source

The image

山下出泉，蒙；君子以果行育德。A spring comes out under a mountain. The noble person acts with resolve and feeds their character.Zhou Yi 周易, 蒙, 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 lineLeft out: this line speaks of a subject this site doesn't read.
2. Second line九二：包蒙吉，納婦吉，子克家。
3. Third line六三：勿用取女，見金夫，不有躬，无攸利。
4. Fourth line六四：困蒙，吝。
5. Fifth line六五：童蒙，吉。
6. Top line上九：擊蒙，不利為寇，利禦寇。

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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