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Knowing Where to Stop
Upper trigram: Mountain · Lower trigram: Mountain
Judgment
Stopping in the right place preserves timing without freezing all life.
Image
Mountain above Mountain; from bottom to top: yin, yin, yang, yin, yin, yang.
Set a boundary for a particular action rather than suppress everything.
Six lines and their changes
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Stop the impulse before the first step makes it harder.
Move this line → Form and Adornment2 / 6
Limited control cannot rescue every movement you follow.
Move this line → Repairing Decay3 / 6
Rigidly forcing the body still creates strain, not calm.
Move this line → Erosion at the Base4 / 6
Keep your own conduct within bounds rather than freeze everyone.
Move this line → Away from Home5 / 6
Order speech before it leaves the mouth.
Move this line → Progress by Stages6 / 6
A settled pause knows its boundary without timidity.
Move this line → Modesty in Action
Library links use the structural middle-four transform. Meihua casting applies its separate Heaven/Earth exception to a moving figure.
Knowing Where to Stop · Upper trigram / Lower trigram?
Mountain / Mountain. Mountain above Mountain; from bottom to top: yin, yin, yang, yin, yin, yang.
Knowing Where to Stop · 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.