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Reducing with Care
Upper trigram: Mountain · Lower trigram: Lake
Judgment
Reduction works through sincerity; modest means can fulfill the real purpose.
Image
Mountain above Lake; from bottom to top: yang, yang, yin, yin, yin, yang.
Remove obstruction and display before cutting essential support.
Six lines and their changes
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Help promptly, but measure the reduction you can sustain.
Move this line → Learning from Uncertainty2 / 6
Benefit another without damaging the basis of your own support.
Move this line → Sources of Nourishment3 / 6
Changing the group's size changes its pattern of companionship.
Move this line → Strength Held in Reserve4 / 6
Remove the fault that obstructs connection, not useful capacity.
Move this line → Different Directions5 / 6
Accept sound assistance without forcing its arrival.
Move this line → Trust from Within6 / 6
Seek a benefit that does not require weakening another party.
Move this line → Drawing Near
Library links use the structural middle-four transform. Meihua casting applies its separate Heaven/Earth exception to a moving figure.
Reducing with Care · Upper trigram / Lower trigram?
Mountain / Lake. Mountain above Lake; from bottom to top: yang, yang, yin, yin, yin, yang.
Reducing with Care · Move this line?
Change exactly one line, numbered from the bottom. Each of the six links below leads to the resulting figure.
Classical source · Traditional symbols offer a perspective for reflection, not a prediction of inevitable events.