I Ching · Book of Changes
Chapter 11
Hexagram 11 · Tai · Peace
King Wen, Duke of Zhou, Confucius · Western Zhou (c.1000 BCE)
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Peace: the small departs, the great approaches. Good fortune. Success. 1. Pulling up ribbon grass — the sod comes too. Going: good fortune. 2. Bearing with the uncultured, fording rivers. Cliques vanish. 3. No plain without a slope, no going without return. Perseverance: no blame. 4. Fluttering down, not boasting. Sincere without warning. 5. The sovereign gives his daughter in marriage. Blessing. Supreme good fortune. 6. The wall falls back into the moat. Do not use the army. Humiliation.