I Ching - Enveloping, Meng (MĂNG)
Hexagram Number 04
Keyword(s): Youth
Symbolic of: being caught
THE MĂNG
HEXAGRAM
The General Meaning
Măng (indicates that in the
case which it presupposes) there will be progress and success. I do
not (go and) seek the youthful and inexperienced, but
he comes and seeks me. When he shows (the sincerity that marks) the
first recourse to divination, I instruct him. If he apply a second
and third time, that is troublesome; and I do not instruct the
troublesome. There will be advantage in being firm and correct.
Explanation of the
separate lines
1. The first SIX, divided, (has respect to) the dispelling of ignorance. It will be advantageous to use punishment (for that purpose), and to remove the shackles (from the mind). But going on in that way (of punishment) will give occasion for regret.
2. The second NINE, undivided, (shows its subject) exercising forbearance with the ignorant, in which there will be good fortune; and admitting (even the goodness of women, which will also be fortunate. (He may be described also as) a son able to (sustain the burden of) his family.
3. The third SIX, divided, (seems to say) that one should not marry a woman whose emblem it might be, for that, when she sees a man of wealth, she will not keep her person from him, and in no wise will advantage come from her.
4. The fourth SIX, divided, (shows its subject as if) bound in chains of ignorance. There will be occasion for regret.
5. The fifth SIX, divided, shows its subject as a simple lad without experience. There will be good fortune.
6. In the topmost NINE, undivided,
we see one smiting the ignorant (youth). But no advantage will come
from doing him an injury. Advantage would come from warding off
injury from him.
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