Tun / Retreat

above: Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven
below: K^ en Keeping Still, Mountain

The fifth [nine], undivided, shows its subject retiring in an admirable way. With firm correctness there will be good fortune.

In the Shu IV, v, Section 2.9, the worthy I Yin is made to say, 'The minister will not for favor or gain continue in an office whose work is done;' and the Khang-hsi editors refer to his words as an illustration of what is said on line 5. It has its correlate in 2, and its subject carries out the purpose to retire 'in an admirable way'.