Hexagram 4: Méng (Youthful Folly) · Takashima Ekidan

山水蒙 · 第 4 卦 · 中文版

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Recorded Cases (8)

My relative, Mr. Tanaka Heihachi, came to me. His younger brother was dissipated, and he wanted him (Initial Six: Enlightening the unenlightened; it is beneficial to employ punishment, and to release them from fetters. If one proceeds, there will be regret.)
My friend, Mr. Yakushiji, came to tell me: “Since I was young, I have worked hard and devoted myself (Nine in the second place: Embracing the unenlightened is auspicious. Taking a wife is auspicious. The son is able to maintain the family.)
A certain eminent person left his domain before the Restoration and associated with wandering samura (Six in the third place: Do not take such a woman in marriage. She sees a man of wealth and loses herself; nothing is beneficial.)
The lay Buddhist Ubi Tokuan was someone I had long respected and trusted. In the twelfth month of th (Six in the fourth place: Trapped in ignorance; shame.)
At the winter solstice of the twenty-seventh year of Meiji, a divination was performed regarding the (Six in the fourth place: Trapped in ignorance; shame.)
My friend Mr. Fukuhara Minoru visited one day and told me that he had been honorably transferred to (Six in the fifth place: Childlike ignorance—auspicious.)
At the winter solstice of the twenty-seventh year of the Meiji era, I divined the situation of the H (Six in the fifth place: Childlike ignorance—auspicious.)
At the winter solstice of the twenty-seventh year of the Meiji era, divination was performed concern (Nine at the top: Strike ignorance. It is not beneficial to act as a bandit; it is beneficial to defend against bandits.)

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