Tun / Retreat

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

The third [nine], undivided, shows one retiring but not bound to his distress and peril. (If he were to deal with his binders as in) nourishing a servant or concubine, it would be fortunate for him.

Line 3 has no proper correlate in 6; and its subject allows himself to be entangled and impeded by the subjects of 1 and 2. He is too familiar with them, and they presume, and fetter his movements; - compare Analects, 17.25. He should keep them at a distance.