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Difficulty at the Beginning 63 象曰:'One pursues the deer without the (guidance of the) forester:'--(he does so) in (his eagerness to) follow the game. 'The superior man gives up the chase, (knowing that) if he go forward he will regret it:'--he would be reduced to extremity.
彖曰:Difficulty at the Beginning works supreme success, Furthering through perseverance. Nothing should be undertaken. It furthers one to appoint helpers.
Difficulty at the Beginning » 63Hexagram
2011/01/06 07:46
明治十八年(1885),應某顯官之招,顯官曰:「予今將為國家進有所謀也,請占其成否如何?」筮得屯之既濟。

屯者物之始生也,為勾萌未舒之象。陰陽之氣始交未暢,謂之屯;世間有難而未通,又謂之屯;又遇險不遽進,又謂之屯。以人事擬之,則內卦之雷有動之性,欲奮發而有為,以外卦坎水之性,陷下而危險,有動而陷險之象。人苟欲有為,以前有危險,必不能如志也。非其才之不足,實運當其屯之象也。

「即鹿無虞」者,欲入山中獵鹿,而無向導,致迷其途,必無所獲。蓋言此卦無陽爻之應比,其入於林中者,猶言貪位而前往,終不免羞吝也。

《象》曰「君子舍之」,為能見幾也;小人反是,「往吝窮也」。

二爻辭曰「十年乃字」,今得三爻,九年之後,氣運一變,必可達志也。

當時顯官不用此占,往干要路,終至辭職,不得其志,至二十五年,果見後用,再登顯要,計之恰好九年云。

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