Six Doors · No. 43

第43卦夬 Guài · Breakthrough

Essence: Name the fault openly; break through without violence.

Judgment

Only a last remnant of the corruption remains, and it must be removed openly and completely. Declare the problem where everyone can see it and make its danger known; begin the cleanup with yourself and your own quarter, and on no account resort to force. And while removing the bad, keep growing the good—that is what truly starves it.

Sixty-four hexagrams, six doors each

Trigrams

Upper

兑 Lake

lake

Lower

乾 Heaven

heaven

III

The lines

Line 1Charging out on the strength of your toes alone, without the power to win, earns the blame you were courting.
Line 2Stay alert and sound the alarm early; even an attack in the night finds you ready and unafraid.
Line 3Resolve worn on the face invites trouble; better to walk on alone, rained on and resented, and remain blameless.
Line 4Restless and raw, unable to move well—being led like a sheep would end the misery, but the advice goes unheard.
Line 5Root out even the soft, persistent weed—decisively, but never straying from the middle path.
Line 6No cry of warning left, no vigilance—and the last seed of the trouble quietly undoes it all.

All the doors

Every single-step transition available from where you stand.

Inverse (綜) · Opposite (錯)

Inverse (綜)

Opposite (錯)

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