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Useful Boundaries
Upper trigram: Water · Lower trigram: Lake
Judgment
Useful boundaries enable movement; an unbearable limit cannot endure.
Image
Water above Lake; from bottom to top: yang, yang, yin, yin, yang, yin.
Test the rule's practicality as well as its strictness.
Six lines and their changes
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Stay within the near boundary while conditions remain unclear.
Move this line → Through Repeated Danger2 / 6
The same restraint becomes excessive when an opening is available.
Move this line → A Difficult Beginning3 / 6
Acknowledge the cost of excess instead of shifting blame.
Move this line → Waiting with Readiness4 / 6
A fitting limit can be lived with rather than fought constantly.
Move this line → Joy in Exchange5 / 6
Useful restraint need not prove itself through suffering.
Move this line → Drawing Near6 / 6
Reconsider a rule whose harshness makes it unsustainable.
Move this line → Trust from Within
Library links use the structural middle-four transform. Meihua casting applies its separate Heaven/Earth exception to a moving figure.
Useful Boundaries · Upper trigram / Lower trigram?
Water / Lake. Water above Lake; from bottom to top: yang, yang, yin, yin, yang, yin.
Useful Boundaries · 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.