M^ eng / Youthful Folly
above: K^ en Keeping Still, Mountain
below: K'an The Abysmal, Water
Six in the third place means:
Whoever hunts deer without the forester
Only loses his way in the forest.
The superior man understands the signs of the time
And prefers to desist.
To go on brings humiliation.
If a man tries to hunt in a strange
forest and has no guide, he loses his way. When he finds himself in
difficulties he must not try to steal out of them unthinkingly and
without guidance. Fate cannot be duped; premature effort, without the
necessary guidance, ends in failure and disgrace. Therefore the
superior man, discerning the seeds of coming events, prefers to
renounce a wish rather than to provoke failure and humiliation by
trying to force its fulfillment.