[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":551},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-dun":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":236},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":221,"date":222,"description":223,"extension":224,"image":6,"imageAlt":6,"meta":225,"navigation":226,"order":227,"palaces":6,"path":228,"seo":229,"series":6,"sitemap":230,"star":6,"stem":231,"tags":232,"__hash__":235},"content\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdun.md","I Ching Dun Meaning: Hexagram 33 Explained",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":209},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,28,33,39,42,48,52,55,58,61,64,68,71,74,77,80,83,87,90,97,103,109,115,121,127,130,134,137,140,143,146,165,169,174,177,182,185,190,193,198,201],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Draw Dun 遯 and the first thing students say is: do I have to run? Is it over?",[11,15,16],{},"Correct that first. Dun is Heaven over Mountain, Qian above Gen. Heaven above, mountain below. The mountain stops underneath; Heaven is far above. The two cannot meet, and yang gathers upward. That is retreat, not defeat. Defeat means you have already been caught and blocked. Dun means you can still see the road, and you pull the body out in time.",[11,18,19],{},"Do not reverse above and below. Reverse it and you have Da Xu 大畜, mountain over Heaven: storing and stopping, not retreating. Dun is Qian above, Gen below: Tian Shan Dun (天山遯). Mix the positions and every word of advice about advancing or withdrawing flips.",[11,21,22,23,27],{},"The ",[24,25,26],"em",{},"Xu Gua"," says: 「物不可以久居其所，故受之以遯。遯者，退也。」 Things cannot stay forever in one place, so Dun follows. Dun means retreat. Before it is Heng 恆. Stay too long and duration turns to stickiness; stickiness turns to injury. When it is time to withdraw and you do not, that is how the damage starts.",[29,30,32],"h2",{"id":31},"dun-遯而亨-retreat-so-that-things-can-open","Dun: 遯而亨 — retreat so that things can open",[11,34,22,35,38],{},[24,36,37],{},"Tuan"," says: 「遯亨，遯而亨也。剛當位而應，與時行也。」 Retreat, and then it opens. The firm is still in position and still answers. Yang above can still take charge. You go with the time; you are not being driven out.",[11,40,41],{},"Among the twelve message hexagrams, Dun is the second step of yin rising from below. The first two lines are yin; the upper four are still yang. Yin is still underneath; yang is still plentiful. In class I say: yang is still long, yin is still below — there is still room. Wait until Pi 否, Heaven and Earth not exchanging, three yin against three yang, and it is no longer Dun. It is blockage. Dun asks you to leave while leaving is still possible. Do not wait for the door to shut and then smash it.",[11,43,22,44,47],{},[24,45,46],{},"Xiang"," says: Heaven has a mountain under it, Dun. The superior person keeps distance from petty people — not with hatred, but with severity. You do not scold them away. You open the distance. Severity is a boundary. Hatred is emotion. If the boundary is enough, you need not perform dislike.",[29,49,51],{"id":50},"career-and-wealth-first-ask-what-you-are-still-stuck-to","Career and wealth: first ask what you are still stuck to",[11,53,54],{},"Ask about career and draw Dun: as a whole, do not open a new battlefield, and do not double down to prove yourself. This is a time to gather in, to hand over, to take your name off the front line. It is not an order to quit naked. Naked resignation is often running away. Dun is extracting yourself: pass the responsibility on, let contracts run to term, lift your mood off this table.",[11,56,57],{},"In wealth, Dun is not bankruptcy by necessity. It is a stretch when you should not chase highs or add positions for face. Stop the project that should stop. Move cash away from what is dangerous. If you ask “shall I borrow one more round to get through,” Dun mostly shakes its head. The far side of “getting through” is often Dun at the tail: you flee later, and it is harsher.",[11,59,60],{},"Workplace relations under Dun: keep distance from petty people, without hatred, with severity. Sit at fewer tables, join fewer groups, take fewer late-night talks of “only you understand me.” You need not break in public. A public break is hatred. Refusing to play along is severity.",[11,62,63],{},"Nine in the third: 「係遯，有疾厲，畜臣妾吉。」 Bound Dun. There is illness and danger. Keeping servants and concubines is fortunate. You want to leave, but you are still tied. The trouble is real. Small ties may stay; the main body must pull out. Draw this line and you often still have staff to settle, or a small income you cannot drop yet. Keep the small. Do not let the small keep the whole person.",[29,65,67],{"id":66},"dun-in-love-not-always-a-breakup-first-untie-the-stickiness","Dun in love: not always a breakup — first untie the stickiness",[11,69,70],{},"Ask about love and draw Dun: there is a qi of “open a little distance.” Heat may have gone too far; the other person’s field may be one you should not enter again; the bond may have been built from the start on an irregular Xian 咸.",[11,72,73],{},"If you are single and draw Dun, do not chase peach-blossom luck in this stretch. If someone appears, first ask whether you are fleeing the last chapter and using this one as an exit. Dun’s peach blossom is very good at disguising itself as rescue. Step back into your own life before you talk about meeting or not meeting.",[11,75,76],{},"If you are already together, Dun has three layers. First, space. Sticking back together the moment a fight ends is bound Dun. A few days of clean distance works better than a night of interrogation. Second, the form of the relationship. Living apart, a pause, splitting a joint account — all may be Dun, and none of them has to be a rupture. Third, actually leaving. Leaving like nine in the fourth, nine in the fifth, and the upper nine — calm, complete — is extraction. Leaving like the initial six, at the tail, usually means you waited until the other person flipped the table, and then you ran as a reaction.",[11,78,79],{},"A third party, or a bond that should not continue, is Dun’s proper subject. Hao Dun, Jia Dun, Fei Dun: all mean leaving clean. “One last time” is the tail. The tail is the most dangerous exit. Flee late, and face, body, and name are all caught together.",[11,81,82],{},"If you are married and ask Dun, I do not start by announcing divorce. First ask which end of the house: is it an outside field that should retreat, or is the home itself driving people out. 「傷於外者必反於家」— what is wounded outside must return home. Retreating from outside is for the sake of going home. If the home is already in Kui 睽, Dun only spreads the split into the open. Those two retreats are not the same practice. Do not mix them.",[29,84,86],{"id":85},"the-lines-of-dun-each-step-calmer-than-the-last","The lines of Dun: each step calmer than the last",[11,88,89],{},"The line you must memorize is this sequence: tail, bound, good, admirable, fat. The higher you go, the more the retreat looks like a person. The lower you are, the more it looks like a foot still being bitten.",[11,91,92,96],{},[93,94,95],"strong",{},"Initial six: 遯尾，厲，勿用有攸往. Dun at the tail. Danger. Do not use it to go somewhere."," The tail is last to leave. Danger. Do not charge forward, and do not make a large decision from this place. Draw the first line and you are already late. Stop first. Guard the body. Speak less. Negotiating, going public, or adding one more stake now is handing people the tail to grab.",[11,98,99,102],{},[93,100,101],{},"Six in the second: 執之用黃牛之革，莫之勝說. Held with the hide of a yellow ox; nothing can loosen it."," Not that you cannot leave — the stickiness is too high: feeling, shares, face, who you have let down, all wound together. Untie the rope before you talk Dun. Yank hard and hide and flesh come off together.",[11,104,105,108],{},[93,106,107],{},"Nine in the third: 係遯，有疾厲，畜臣妾吉."," Bound, as above. You look back while trying to go. Small ties may stay. Do not let the ties become the main work.",[11,110,111,114],{},[93,112,113],{},"Nine in the fourth: 好遯，君子吉，小人否. Hao Dun — a good retreat. Fortunate for the superior person; closed for the small person."," Hao is fondness. Even what you like, you can set down: fortunate. The small person cannot put down that bit of sweetness, that bit of name: closed. Draw nine in the fourth and the question is rarely whether you will leave. It is whether you can bear to. Bear to, and it is fortunate. Cannot, and this hexagram will not open for you.",[11,116,117,120],{},[93,118,119],{},"Nine in the fifth: 嘉遯，貞吉. Jia Dun — an admirable retreat. Persistence is fortunate."," Jia is beauty, fitness. You leave with method: the time is right, the wording is right, the place is right. Persistence is fortunate. Ask about resigning, pulling out of a share, or cooling a relationship, and this line most resembles “you can go, and go well.” Not sneaking. A clean, open withdrawal.",[11,122,123,126],{},[93,124,125],{},"Upper nine: 肥遯，無不利. Fei Dun — a fat retreat. Nothing is unfavorable."," Fat is plenty, no baggage. At the top, there is no rope on the body. Nothing is unfavorable. This is Dun’s calmest line. People who reach it have usually already untied the ropes of the earlier lines. Fantasizing Fei Dun while the ropes are still on is self-deception.",[11,128,129],{},"Hao, Jia, Fei: each calmer than the last. In class I have students name themselves: am I the tail, bound, or already admirable? If they can say it, retreat will not turn into running away.",[29,131,133],{"id":132},"in-class-extraction-and-running-away-differ-by-three-things","In class, extraction and running away differ by three things",[11,135,136],{},"First, did you hand over what should be handed over. Keys, accounts, the child’s schedule, the clients in your hands. Handed over is Dun. Thrown away is flight.",[11,138,139],{},"Second, did you open the distance into a boundary, not into humiliation. Not hatred, but severity. A long post settling scores is hatred. Staying out of that game is severity.",[11,141,142],{},"Third, after you retreat, where do you go. Above Dun is Qian. Heaven is still there. You retreat so yang can be kept, not so you become empty. Spending the whole day after leaving refreshing the other person’s feed is bound Dun unfinished.",[11,144,145],{},"Yang is still long, yin is still below: retreat when it is time. Wait until Pi arrives, and the cost is written in another article.",[11,147,148,149,154,155,159,160,164],{},"Related: ",[150,151,153],"a",{"href":152},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fdazhuang","I Ching Da Zhuang Meaning | Hexagram 34 How to Read: The Power of the Great, How to Hold Force",", ",[150,156,158],{"href":157},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fpi","I Ching Pi Meaning | Hexagram 12 How to Read: Getting Through Standstill",". After you withdraw, if the house still has to hold: ",[150,161,163],{"href":162},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjiaren","I Ching Jia Ren Meaning | Hexagram 37 How to Read: The Family, Marriage and Ordering the House",".",[29,166,168],{"id":167},"i-ching-dun-faq","I Ching Dun FAQ",[11,170,171],{},[93,172,173],{},"If I draw Dun, must this job or this relationship end?",[11,175,176],{},"The name need not end. The stickiness must. Some people Dun overtime, that circle, that irregular Xian — not the whole marriage, not the whole post. Read the question, and read which line you are on. Tail and fat are whole situations apart.",[11,178,179],{},[93,180,181],{},"Can I hold on a little longer — until year-end, until the other person changes?",[11,183,184],{},"The initial six already said do not use it to go somewhere. Holding on often turns Jia Dun into Dun at the tail. Year-end, or whether they change, can be a calendar for handing over. It cannot be a reason to add more.",[11,186,187],{},[93,188,189],{},"Hao Dun is fortunate for the superior person, closed for the small person. How do I know which I am?",[11,191,192],{},"Look at what you put down. Putting down the right distance and keeping your part is the superior person. Unable to put down the feeling of being needed, or that small advantage, is the line calling you the small person. The hexagram does not care whether you think of yourself as kind. It cares whether you can bear to let go.",[11,194,195],{},[93,196,197],{},"Original hexagram Heng, resulting hexagram Dun: how do I read it?",[11,199,200],{},"What has lasted now needs extraction. It does not deny the Heng that came before. Things cannot stay forever in one place. 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Read the lines for the next move.",{},{"path":418,"title":419,"description":420,"meta":421},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmeng","I Ching Meng Meaning: Hexagram 4 Explained","Draw Meng 蒙 and students love to hear two sentences. One: I am stupid. The other: I am not ready, so I should learn nothing.",{},{"path":423,"title":424,"description":425,"meta":426},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmingyi","I Ching Ming Yi Meaning: Hexagram 36","Draw Ming Yi 明夷 and the room often goes quiet for half a second. Not to paint darkness. The picture is very straight: light has been buried.",{},{"path":157,"title":428,"description":429,"meta":430},"I Ching Pi Meaning: Hexagram 12 Explained","Draw Pi 否 and class often goes quiet for half a second. Not to paint tragedy. Because this hexagram is straight: not open.",{},{"path":432,"title":433,"description":434,"meta":435},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fqian","I Ching Qian Meaning: Hexagram 1 Explained","Draw Qian 乾 and the first sentence people say is: great luck, go for it. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":437,"title":438,"description":439,"meta":440},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fqian_modesty","I Ching Qian (Modesty) Meaning: Hexagram 15","Among the sixty-four hexagrams, the one that truly deserves “every line still gets through” is Qian (Modesty) 謙, the most famous.",{},{"path":442,"title":443,"description":444,"meta":445},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsheng","I Ching Sheng Meaning: Hexagram 46 Explained","Cui 萃 is gathering. Gathered, things go up. Going up is Sheng 升. Students drawing Sheng easily hear promotion, a flying dragon. Too early.",{},{"path":447,"title":448,"description":449,"meta":450},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fshi","I Ching Shi Meaning: Hexagram 7 Explained","Draw Shi 師 and students often hear it as war, as unlucky, as “who do I have to fight.” Shi does have the image of troops.",{},{"path":452,"title":453,"description":454,"meta":455},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fshihe","I Ching Shi He Meaning: Hexagram 21","Draw Shi He 噬嗑 and some think it is a hexagram of eating, some a hexagram of quarreling. Both touch it; both are not accurate.",{},{"path":457,"title":458,"description":459,"meta":460},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsong","I Ching Song Meaning: Hexagram 6 Explained","Draw Song 訟 and some people are excited: at last I can get justice. Some are afraid: am I going to court. Both feelings are too full.",{},{"path":462,"title":463,"description":464,"meta":465},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsui","I Ching Sui Meaning: Hexagram 17 Explained","Draw Sui 隨 and students often take it as: following along is right, go with the flow, go with fate. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":467,"title":468,"description":469,"meta":470},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fsun","I Ching Sun Meaning: Hexagram 41 Explained","Hear Sun 損 and students wrinkle the face. The character looks like taking a loss, broken wealth, being shaved. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":472,"title":473,"description":474,"meta":475},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ftai","I Ching Tai Meaning: Hexagram 11 Explained","Tai 泰 is the hexagram in a reading that lets people exhale. Not because it is mysterious. Because the picture is clear: Earth above, Heaven below — Peace.",{},{"path":477,"title":478,"description":479,"meta":480},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Ftongren","I Ching Tong Ren Meaning: Hexagram 13","Draw Tong Ren 同人 and students often automatically translate: there is a patron, there are partners, this time we can do it together.",{},{"path":482,"title":483,"description":484,"meta":485},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fweiji","I Ching Wei Ji Meaning: Hexagram 64","Wei Ji 未濟 is the last of the sixty-four hexagrams. Fire above, water below: Fire over Water, Wei Ji. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":487,"title":488,"description":489,"meta":490},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fwuwang","I Ching Wu Wang Meaning: Hexagram 25","Draw Wu Wang 無妄 and students often split in two camps. Use it to interpret an online hexagram reading. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":492,"title":493,"description":494,"meta":495},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxian","I Ching Xian Meaning: Hexagram 31 Explained","Draw Xian 咸 and in class someone’s eyes often light: love is coming. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":497,"title":498,"description":499,"meta":500},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxiaoguo","I Ching Xiao Guo Meaning: Hexagram 62","Xiao Guo 小過 is not as simple as a small fault, and still less “the sin is small, it does not matter.” Guo 過 is going beyond, slightly past the usual line.",{},{"path":502,"title":503,"description":504,"meta":505},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxiaoxu","I Ching Xiao Xu Meaning: Hexagram 9","Draw Xiao Xu 小畜 and students often have two kinds of haste. One: store means save, I will save hugely and do something huge.",{},{"path":507,"title":508,"description":509,"meta":510},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxie","I Ching Xie Meaning: Hexagram 40 Explained","Jian 蹇 is difficulty. Xie 解 is difficulty beginning to loosen. Students drawing Xie easily breathe out, as if they can celebrate. Too early.",{},{"path":512,"title":513,"description":514,"meta":515},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxu","I Ching Xu Meaning: Hexagram 5 Explained","Draw Xu 需 and students most often hear “wait” as two extremes. One: then I lie down and wait for luck. Apply the lines to love, career, and decisions.",{},{"path":517,"title":518,"description":519,"meta":520},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fxun","I Ching Xun Meaning: Hexagram 57 Explained","Xun 巽 does not sound like Qian 乾, with force at the first hearing. It is wind, entering, going in through a crack. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":522,"title":523,"description":524,"meta":525},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyi","I Ching Yi (Nourishment) Meaning: Hexagram 27","Draw Yi (Nourishment) 頤 and students often first think of the mouth. What to eat, can I lose weight, does this job feed me. The mouth is not wrong.",{},{"path":527,"title":528,"description":529,"meta":530},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyi_increase","I Ching Yi (Increase) Meaning: Hexagram 42","After Sun 損 comes Yi 益. Students drawing Yi light up: finally it is my turn to receive. This hexagram does have receiving.",{},{"path":532,"title":533,"description":534,"meta":535},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fyu","I Ching Yu Meaning: Hexagram 16 Explained","Draw Yu 豫 and a student’s face lights. Yu is joy, smoothness, the matter finally going smoothly, a chance to breathe. Learn the key context before applying it.",{},{"path":537,"title":538,"description":539,"meta":540},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhen","I Ching Zhen Meaning: Hexagram 51 Explained","Zhen 震 appears, and the matter is rarely still. It is thunder, movement, that sudden strike. Compare the image, judgment, and changing lines.",{},{"path":542,"title":543,"description":544,"meta":545},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhongfu","I Ching Zhong Fu Meaning: Hexagram 61","Zhong Fu 中孚, split, is easy: in the middle there is fu 孚. Fu is trust, something like an egg, inside and outside one, that can hatch.",{},{"path":547,"title":548,"description":549,"meta":550},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fzhun","I Ching Zhun Meaning: Hexagram 3 Explained","Students who draw Zhun 屯 often react in one of two ways: it is over, I cannot start — or beginnings are hard, so I will do it another day.",{},1787715768575]