Ch'ien / Modesty

K'un
Ken

Fifteenth Hexagram

The Mountain does not overshadow the Plain surrounding it: Such modest consideration in a Superior Person creates a channel through which excess flows to the needy.

Success if you carry things through.

Changing Lines

Line Six
Modesty is the best face when correcting the errors of your own allies.

Line Five
Modest yet firm resistance against an oppressor will end the aggression and win concessions.

Line Four
Progressive modesty continues to gain.

Line Three
The Superior Person modestly brings things to completion. Great success.

Line Two
Modesty that radiates This course brings good fortune.

Line One
The Superior Person is modest about his modesty, and thus may cross to the far shore. Good fortune.

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