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Sixth Hexagram
The high Heavens
over a yawning
Deep chasm:
an expansive void
where nothing can dwell.
Even though
he sincerely knows
he is right,
the Superior Person
anticipates opposition
and carefully prepares
for any incident.
Good fortune
if your conflict
results in compromise.
Misfortune
if your conflict
escalates to confrontation.
Seek advice.
Postpone your crossing
to the far shore.
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Changing Lines
Line Six
You can certainly win
this conflict.
Such a victory, though,
will bring a lifetime
of defending your prize
against thieves and challengers.
Line Five
Bring the conflict
before a just authority.
If you are truly in the right,
justice will bring good fortune.
Line Four
Realizing the very root of conflict
lies within his own heart,
he lays down his arms
and resolves to accept
the things he cannot change.
Line Three
He stands on his integrity,
no matter what ill winds
may blast him.
Stand or fall,
in the end he will remain
exactly who he is.
Line Two
Knowing
his comrades would be annihilated
against their much stronger foe,
he orders a full retreat,
retires into seclusion,
and is condemned by the very neighbors
he saved from ruin.
Line One
No quarrel will blossom,
unless you let your pride
fertilize this budding conflict.
Let the one who insults you
expose himself for what he is.
Don't fight this battle
until you've already won it.
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