Hexagram 38 · Kui · Opposition

King Wen, Duke of Zhou, Confucius · Western Zhou (c.1000 BCE)

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Opposition: in small matters, good fortune. 1. Remorse disappears. Lost horse — don't chase; it returns. See evil men: no blame. 2. Meeting the lord in a narrow street. No blame. 3. Wagon dragged, ox halted, man with shorn head and cut nose. No beginning, but an end. 4. Isolated through opposition — meeting a true man. Sincere — danger, no blame. 5. Remorse disappears. The companion bites through the skin — going: what blame? 6. Isolated — seeing a pig covered with dirt, a wagon full of devils. First drawing bow, then laying it aside. Not robbers — a suitor. Rain: good fortune.