Hexagram 12, Pǐ (Standstill): Line 2
否卦六二 · 天地否 · 中文版
六二：包承。小人吉，大人否亨。
The line (Legge)
The second SIX, divided, shows its subject patient and obedient. To the small man (comporting himself so) there will be good fortune. If the great man (comport himself) as the distress and obstruction require, he will have success.
Small Image commentary
'The great man, comporting himself as the distress and obstruction require, will have success: - 'he does not allow himself to be disordered by the herd (of small men).
象曰：大人否亨，不乱群也。
In plain words
Bearing and going along: good fortune for petty people; for the great person, holding firm through the blockage brings success. "Going along" means deferring to and flattering those above. The Small Image says the great person succeeds in the blockage by not mixing with the crowd of petty people.
Applying it to your situation
If everyone around you is flattering and pleasing, this line suggests you can choose not to join in. What kind of going along are you unwilling to do right now?
Position
A broken (yin) line in the second place, which is a yin (even) place, so it is in its proper place. It holds the centre of the lower trigram. Its partner is line 5; one is yin and the other yang, so they respond to each other.
If this line moves
With this line moving alone, Pǐ changes into Hexagram 6 Sòng (Conflict). The Jiaoshi Yilin verse for this change (Chinese): 焦氏易林·否之讼.
The hexagram
Hexagram 12 Pǐ (Standstill). The Judgment: In Pi there is the want of good understanding between the (different classes of) men, and its indication is unfavourable to the firm and correct course of the superior man. We see in it the great gone and the little come.
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English text: James Legge, The Yi King (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 16, 1882), public domain, as transcribed by the Chinese Text Project. Chinese: the received text. Offered for study and reflection, not as prediction. Plain-English readings and position notes by this site.