40. Deliverance (Hsieh)
Thunder over water. Represents release from tension and resolution of difficulties.
Changing Lines
- Line 1: Without blame.
- Line 2: One kills three foxes in the field and receives a yellow arrow. Perseverance brings good fortune.
- Line 3: If a man carries a burden on his back and nonetheless rides in a carriage, he thereby encourages robbers to draw near. Perseverance leads to humiliation.
- Line 4: Deliver yourself from your great toe. Then the companion comes, and him you can trust.
- Line 5: If only the superior man can deliver himself, it brings good fortune. Thus he proves to the inferior man that he is in earnest.
- Line 6: The prince shoots at a hawk on a high wall. He kills it. Everything serves to further.