Wu Wang / Innocence (The Unexpected)
above:Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven
below:Ch^ en The Arousing, Thunder
The second [six], divided, shows one who reaps without having plowed (that he might reap), and gathers the produce of his third year's fields without having cultivated them the first year for that end. To such a one there will be advantage in whatever direction he move.
Line 2 is weak, central, and in its correct place. The quality may be predicated of it in its highest degree. There is an entire freedom in its subject from selfish or mercenary motive. He is good simply for goodness' sake. And things are so constituted that his action will be successful.