Hexagram 6: Sòng (Conflict) · Takashima Ekidan

天水讼 · 第 6 卦 · 中文版

06 Water over Heaven, Conflict The character “Conflict” is composed of “speech” ...

Recorded Cases (6)

A certain friend came to tell me: “I intend to seek government employment and have asked a certain b (First yin: Do not perpetuate the affair. There is a little verbal injury; in the end, good fortune.)
My friend Mr. Kitazawa Masanobu, a retainer of the Matsushiro domain in Shinano, busied himself with (Nine in the second place: Unable to carry on the conflict, he returns and flees. The people of his town, three hundred households, suffer no calamity.)
A certain friend came to tell me: “I formerly served in a certain bureau and diligently performed my (Six in the third place: Feeding on inherited virtue; perseverance amid danger; ultimately auspicious. Perhaps following the king’s affairs; no achievement.)
A friend of mine, a senior manager at Store A, came to tell me one day: “From the time the proprieto (Nine in the fourth place: Unable to prevail in litigation; return and comply with the mandate; change course; remain secure and steadfast—auspicious.)
A certain official of the Hokkaido Government came to tell me: “The governor is constantly worried t (Nine in the fifth place: Litigation—supremely auspicious.)
In the twenty-third year of the Meiji era, someone from Aichi Prefecture came and said: “The Nagoya (Upper Nine: Perhaps he is granted a ceremonial sash, but before the day is over it is stripped from him three times.)