Combination

9. Passive Restraint to 60. Limitation

Changing lines

Line 3
The third line, dynamic, suggests the idea of a carriage, the strap beneath which has been removed, or of a husband and wife looking on each other with averted eyes. Line three, though dynamic and in its proper place, is not in the center and therefore is less able to resist the restraint of the fourth line.
Line 6
The sixth line, dynamic, shows how the rain has fallen, and the onward progress is stayed; so must we value the full accumulation of the virtue of humble service. But a wife exercising restraint, however firm and correct she may be, is in the position of peril, and like the moon approaching to the full. If the superior man prosecutes his measures in such circumstances, there will be evil. In line six the idea of the hexagram has run its course. The harmony of nature is restored. The rain falls, and the onward march of the dynamic lines should now stop. But passive restraint that has achieved such a result, if it plume itself on it, will be in the perilous position of the full moon which can now only wane. Let the superior man, when he has attained his end, remain in quiet. Restraint is at its height and the restrained should keep still for a time. The paragraph is metrical, and we have a couplet:

Passive Restraint brings about progress and success. We see dense clouds, but no rain coming from our western borders.

Restrictive Regulations bring progress and success, but if they are severe and difficult they cannot be permanent.

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