38. K'uei; Opposition Above; Li the Clinging fire Below; Tui the Joyous lake |
21st Century | Comparisons |
| Opposition is determined by attitude. Opposition leads to
resistance. The antagonism between light and dark, female and male can be
seen as coefficients. When it is not possible to meet properly an informal
meeting may be called for. Formalities should not impede solutions.
To stand for principles will attract high minded assistance and together the opposition posed by a host of parties can be overcome. Determination and righteousness, how can you go wrong? When faced with the opposition it is too easy to portray is as pigs, and offal eating cretins without understanding the reasons for their opposition. Understand them and you my find they are not the enemy. |
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Below are the comparative interpretations of a) Legge, b) Willhelm, c) Riefler, d) Crowley
a) occasion for repentance will disappear. He has lost his horses, but let him not seek for them; - they will return of themselves. Should he meet with bad men, he will not err (in communicating with them).
b) Remorse disappears. if you lose your horse, do not run after it; It will come back of its own accord. When you see evil people, Guard yourself against mistakes.
c) He has lost his horses. He need not search for them; they will return by themselves. If he meets bad men he can speak with them. Guilt disappears.
d) Lost steeds return; bad men may yet take thy way;
a) happening to meet with his lord in a bye-passage. There will be nor error.
b) One meets his lord in a narrow street. No blame.
c) He meets his master in an alley. No mistakes.
d) Thy lord may chance to meet thee - in the bye-way.
a) one whose carriage is dragged back, while the oxen in it are pushed back, and he is himself subjected to the shaving of his head and the cutting off of his nose. There is no good beginning, but there will be a good end.
b) One sees the wagon dragged back, The oxen halted, A man's hair and nose cut off. Not a good beginning, but a good end.
c) They pull back his carriage and drive back his team of oxen. His head is shaved; his nose is cut off. A bad beginning; a good ending.
d) Baffled and punished? Bide time's amnesty.
a) solitary amidst the (prevailing) disunion. (But) he meets with the good man (represented by the first line), and they blend their sincere desires together. The position is one of peril, but there will be no mistake.
b) Isolated through opposition, One meets a like-minded man With whom one can associate in good faith. Despite the danger, no blame.
c) The man stands alone amid conflict. He meets good men and together they find common cause and sympathy. Peril, but no mistakes.
d) Alone and disunion? Friend's on highway.
a) occasion for repentance will disappear. With his relative (and minister he uniters closely and readily) as if he were biting through a piece of skin. When he goes forward ( with this help), what error can there be?
b) Remorse disappears. The companion bites his way through the wrappings. If one goes to him, How could it be a mistake?
c) He clings with his teeth to his friend and relation. Can you make a mistake advancing with such aid.
d) Joined with thy minister thy course is free.
a) solitary amidst the (prevailing) disunion. (In the subject of the third line, he seems to) see a pig bearing on its back a load of mud, (or fancies) there is a carriage full of ghosts. He first bends his bow against him, and afterwards unbends it, (for he discovers) that he not an assailant to injure, but a near relative. Going forward, he shall meet with (genial) rain, and there will be good fortune.
b) Isolated through opposition, One sees one's companion as a pig covered with dirt, As a wagon full of devils. First one draws a bow against him, Then one lays the bow aside. He is not a robber; he will woo at the right time. As one goes, rain falls; then good fortune comes.
c) The man stands alone amid conflict. Something approaches; a pig covered in mud; a carriage full of ghosts. He draws his bow and then relaxes it; it is not an assailant, but a close relative. Advance into the gentle rain. Auspicious.
d) Pigs? Ghosts? Foes? Nay! Go forward on the sky-way!