[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":535},["ShallowReactive",2],{"yijing-article-en-mingyi":3,"yijing-articles-list-en":220},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":206,"date":207,"description":13,"extension":208,"image":6,"imageAlt":6,"meta":209,"navigation":210,"order":211,"palaces":6,"path":212,"seo":213,"series":6,"sitemap":214,"star":6,"stem":215,"tags":216,"__hash__":219},"content\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fmingyi.md","I Ching Ming Yi Meaning: Hexagram 36",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":195},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,25,33,38,44,47,51,54,57,60,67,73,79,85,91,95,98,101,104,107,113,117,120,123,126,129,148,152,157,160,165,168,173,179,184,187],[11,12,13],"p",{},"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.",[11,15,16],{},"Ming Yi is Earth over Fire, Kun above Li. Earth above, fire below. The sun has dropped under the ground: 「明入地中」— light entering the earth. People read it as Jin 晉, Fire over Earth: light coming out over the ground, ascent. Ming Yi is the reverse: injury, yi 夷. Flip above and below, and one tells you to appear, one tells you to hide. The full name must be said: Di Huo Ming Yi (地火明夷).",[11,18,19],{},"Yi means injury. The light is still there. It has been wounded and has gone into the soil. Not that there will never be a sun. For this stretch, brightness cannot hang on the face.",[21,22,24],"h2",{"id":23},"ming-yi-advance-must-bring-injury-after-injury-go-home","Ming Yi: advance must bring injury; after injury, go home",[11,26,27,28,32],{},"The ",[29,30,31],"em",{},"Xu Gua"," says: 「進必有所傷，故受之以明夷。夷者，傷也。」 Advance must bring some injury, so Ming Yi follows. Yi means injury. Before it is Jin. You advanced, you will be hurt. After rising, after being received, after the light has shown, the next hexagram is Ming Yi. For divination this is practical. What follows doing well is not punishment. It is a reminder: light will enter the earth. Learn to hide first.",[11,34,27,35,37],{},[29,36,31],{}," has another sentence that must be read with it: 「傷於外者必反於家，故受之以家人。」 What is wounded outside must return home, so Jia Ren 家人 follows. If there is no home, the wound has nowhere to rest. So when I draw Ming Yi I almost always teach Jia Ren with it. This stretch you hide the light — hide it where? Under the eaves, where inner civilization is still there and outer yielding is still there. If the home is also shouting, also in Kui 睽, Ming Yi injures with no way back.",[11,39,27,40,43],{},[29,41,42],{},"Tuan"," says: 「明入地中，明夷。內文明而外柔順，以蒙大難，文王以之。利艱貞，晦其明也。內難而能正其志，箕子以之。」 Light enters the earth, Ming Yi. Inner civilization, outer yielding, to cover a great difficulty: King Wen used it. Beneficial to persist through hardship: darken the brightness. Inner difficulty, and still able to keep the will correct: Jizi used it. Inside, Li remains: civilization. Outside, Kun: yielding. Use darkness and still be bright. Beneficial to persist through hardship. Hardship is difficulty; persistence is staying correct. If you can stay correct inside difficulty, this hexagram can be passed. King Wen and Jizi are this hexagram’s shadows: one keeping the will in a great difficulty, one pretending dullness to hide the light.",[11,45,46],{},"The judgment is three characters: 「利艱貞」. No “opening.” No “taking a wife is fortunate.” Draw Ming Yi and first change the hope from “this time I will shine” to “this time I will endure correctly.”",[21,48,50],{"id":49},"career-and-wealth-seek-hiding-first-brightness-second","Career and wealth: seek hiding first, brightness second",[11,52,53],{},"Ask about career and draw Ming Yi: as a whole, do not go high-profile, do not fight for credit, do not duel in the open. A cold market, a confused superior, an environment that will not let you finish a sentence: everyday faces of light entering the earth. The strategy is inner civilization and outer yielding: inside, keep the skill, the files, the judgment; outside, argue less, expose less, refuse to be the brightest person in the room.",[11,55,56],{},"This is not an order to abandon the craft. Use darkness and still be bright: what you darken is the way of showing, not the light itself. A product can be polished; an article can be finished and not published; people can be seen, words can be few. Ming Yi’s most expensive tuition is “I insist on proving I am right at this moment.” Right, and you will still be injured first.",[11,58,59],{},"In wealth, Ming Yi is not bankruptcy by necessity. In this stretch receipts are slow, titles are unclear, what you should receive is delayed, deducted, unseen. Large, high-visibility investments, standing on a stage, lending a name: mostly a red light. Hard persistence in wealth means guarding principal, keeping papers, not gambling against a confused field. Jizi lived to a later day not by winning the money back on the spot.",[11,61,62,66],{},[63,64,65],"strong",{},"Initial nine: 明夷于飛，垂其翼。君子于行，三日不食. Ming Yi in flight; the wings hang down. The superior person on the road, three days without eating."," To fly, first hang the wings. To go, you may go three days without food. Draw the first line and leaving is best — low, and bitter. Do not spread the wings for people to see. A post, a moment of fame, this meal: decline if you can. Hanging the wings is not surrender. It lets the arrow hit empty air first.",[11,68,69,72],{},[63,70,71],{},"Six in the second: 明夷，夷于左股，用拯馬壯，吉. Ming Yi, injured in the left thigh. Use a strong horse to rescue; fortunate."," Movement is impaired. Draw this line and the matter has already injured the power to act: body, transport, helpers. Do not walk hard. Find the able person, the able tool, to carry you out. Brace yourself and the thigh injures further.",[11,74,75,78],{},[63,76,77],{},"Nine in the third: 明夷于南狩，得其大首. Ming Yi on a southern hunt; capturing the great leader."," One of the few lines in Ming Yi that can strike, and it is still a hunt, not an argument in court. Draw nine in the third and you may deal with the key culprit, find the head of the problem — by the method of a hunt: prepared, directed, not calling out in public.",[11,80,81,84],{},[63,82,83],{},"Six in the fifth: 箕子之明夷，利貞. Jizi’s Ming Yi. Beneficial to persist."," Jizi, at the end of Yin, pretended dullness, suffered insult, hid the light, and later left the laws. Draw six in the fifth and you almost have the hexagram’s teaching itself: you may understand; do not perform understanding now. Pretend dullness to keep the body. That is not true dullness. True dullness puts the light out. Jizi’s light is still there; outside, it cannot be seen. Beneficial to persist: correctness is kept inside.",[11,86,87,90],{},[63,88,89],{},"Upper six: 不明晦。初登于天，後入于地. Not bright, only dark. First climbing to Heaven, later entering the earth."," Draw the upper line and beware: this is the kind of ending Jin walks into — bright first, buried after. If you ask about the other person or the environment, the upper six often points to someone who was once very bright and later very dark. If you ask about yourself, it is a warning: you have already climbed to Heaven; to shine still inside Ming Yi is to enter the earth. Not eternal darkness. For this stretch, stop the play of climbing to Heaven.",[21,92,94],{"id":93},"ming-yi-in-love-light-cannot-hang-on-the-face","Ming Yi in love: light cannot hang on the face",[11,96,97],{},"Ask about love and draw Ming Yi: there is injury in the bond, something that cannot be said in the open, outside pressure pushing the two of you under the ground. Not necessarily a breakup. Now is not the time for a public show, or to force a declaration everyone can see. Use darkness. If inner civilization is still there, there is still a way to save it. If the inside is also black, Ming Yi walks toward the reverse of Jia Ren.",[11,99,100],{},"If you are single and draw Ming Yi, this peach blossom should not shine. There may be a person; the occasion is wrong, or you yourself are coming back from an outside wound. Go home first, recover first. Do not use a new brightness to cover an old wound. It will not cover.",[11,102,103],{},"If you are already together, Ming Yi is common when: the family opposes, outside gossip, one side’s career is hurt and the qi is brought home. Hang the wings: drop the high posture. Three days without eating: this stretch can be a little bitter, a little less enjoyment, get the person out first. Six in the second’s injured thigh may be real difficulty of movement, a real need to be carried. A partner then most resembles the rescue horse. A strong horse: fortunate. If the horse is not strong, both people will be buried together.",[11,105,106],{},"A third party, or a bond that cannot see the light, also often draws Ming Yi. The light should not have been hung out in the first place. The hexagram does not encourage secret love. It tells you this brightness is already being injured. Hard persistence — persist in what? In whether you are still correct. If not correct, hiding only buries the wound deeper. If correct, hiding is to get through this stretch of dark.",[11,108,109,110,112],{},"If you are married and ask Ming Yi, always link Jia Ren. Wounded outside, go home. The lamp in the house must be lit: who cooks, who listens, who treats the wound as a wound and not as a handle. If the home uses Ming Yi as a courtroom, the person is injured a second time. The ",[29,111,42],{}," says inner civilization and outer yielding. The home may be bright; outside must be yielding. Turn the home into a battlefield, and Kui follows.",[21,114,116],{"id":115},"in-class-hiding-the-light-is-not-being-mute-forever","In class, hiding the light is not being mute forever",[11,118,119],{},"Students most easily hear Ming Yi as: these eight years are over. No. Light enters the earth; the earth turns, and light will come out again. The next lesson is Jia Ren; after that, Kui. What this stretch asks is hard persistence, not a career change into being a dark person.",[11,121,122],{},"I have students divide three layers. First, is the light still there? If you can still see the matter clearly, Li is still below. Second, how yielding must the outside be? Yielding enough not to argue, not to expose, not to deliver the right words into the wrong ears. Third, can the home hold it? If it can, the wound has a place to rest. If it cannot, first patch Jia Ren, then talk about the hunt outside.",[11,124,125],{},"Jizi’s line is the hardest to teach. Pretending dullness feels like shame to modern people. In Ming Yi’s environment, exposing cleverness is raising the wings for the bow. You may stay clear in a diary, with a few people who can be trusted. You need not light up confused people in a meeting. Lighting them up is not your job. Living through this stretch is.",[11,127,128],{},"Not eternal darkness: this stretch, hide the light. In Jin, make bright virtue shine. In Ming Yi, darken the brightness. The same lamp, opposite use. Get the place right, and the lamp will not burn itself.",[11,130,131,132,137,138,142,143,147],{},"Related: ",[133,134,136],"a",{"href":135},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjiaren","I Ching Jia Ren Meaning | Hexagram 37 How to Read: The Family, Marriage and Ordering the House",", ",[133,139,141],{"href":140},"\u002Fen\u002Fyijing\u002Farticles\u002Fjin","I Ching Jin Meaning | Hexagram 35 How to Read: Progress, How to Advance and Be Received",". 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If resigning or breaking up is to stay alive, to leave a field that injures, the first line allows walking. Speaking the full truth in public is mostly not this hexagram’s time. Jizi did not finish his speech in court. If you must hunt, look at nine in the third, and aim at the great leader, not at everyone.",[11,169,170],{},[63,171,172],{},"Why must Jia Ren always be linked?",[11,174,175,176,178],{},"Because the ",[29,177,31],{}," wrote it: what is wounded outside must return home. Ming Yi does not tell you to endure alone under the ground. Home is where civilization can still be held. If the home does not take it, the wound becomes Kui. Draw Ming Yi and still not go home, still not treat what is under the eaves as a matter: the hexagram has only been walked halfway.",[11,180,181],{},[63,182,183],{},"Original Jin, resulting Ming Yi: how do I read it?",[11,185,186],{},"You advanced; injury has come. What should have been received has been received. After that, hard persistence. You need not void Jin. Hold the name you should hold, then gather the light into the earth. Like a forecast of cloud: the brightness of daytime is still yours. 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Read the lines for the next move.",{},{"path":405,"title":406,"description":407,"meta":408},"\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":212,"title":5,"description":13,"meta":410},{},{"path":145,"title":412,"description":413,"meta":414},"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":416,"title":417,"description":418,"meta":419},"\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":421,"title":422,"description":423,"meta":424},"\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":426,"title":427,"description":428,"meta":429},"\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":431,"title":432,"description":433,"meta":434},"\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":436,"title":437,"description":438,"meta":439},"\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":441,"title":442,"description":443,"meta":444},"\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":446,"title":447,"description":448,"meta":449},"\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":451,"title":452,"description":453,"meta":454},"\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":456,"title":457,"description":458,"meta":459},"\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":461,"title":462,"description":463,"meta":464},"\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":466,"title":467,"description":468,"meta":469},"\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":471,"title":472,"description":473,"meta":474},"\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":476,"title":477,"description":478,"meta":479},"\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":481,"title":482,"description":483,"meta":484},"\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":486,"title":487,"description":488,"meta":489},"\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":491,"title":492,"description":493,"meta":494},"\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":496,"title":497,"description":498,"meta":499},"\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":501,"title":502,"description":503,"meta":504},"\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":506,"title":507,"description":508,"meta":509},"\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":511,"title":512,"description":513,"meta":514},"\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":516,"title":517,"description":518,"meta":519},"\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":521,"title":522,"description":523,"meta":524},"\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":526,"title":527,"description":528,"meta":529},"\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":531,"title":532,"description":533,"meta":534},"\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.",{},1787715770567]