Wu Wang
Uncorrupted Innocence
When you receive Hexagram 25, Wu Wang, the I Ching turns your attention to uncorrupted innocence. Wu Wang. Below is its judgment, its image, and the meaning of each changing line.
The Judgment
Wu Wang. Great progress and success through firm and correct. If action strays from what is correct, errors follow. No advantage in moving any direction.
Classical (Legge)Wu Wang indicates great progress and success, while there will be advantage in being firm and correct. If (its subject and his action) be not correct, he will fall into errors, and it will not be advantageous for him to move in any direction.
The Image
Thunder rolls beneath heaven, and all things come into being free from falseness. The ancient kings made their regulations in accordance with the seasons, nourishing all things.
Classical (Legge)The (trigram for) thunder rolls beneath the sky, and all things in consequence arrive at their being, free from insincerity. The ancient kings, in accordance with this, (made their regulations) in complete accordance with the seasons, thereby nourishing all things.
The Changing Lines
Free from all falseness. Advance brings good fortune.
Classical (Legge)He is free from all insincerity. His advance will be (accompanied with) good fortune.
Reaping without having plowed. Gathering the third year's harvest without having cultivated the first. Advantage in whatever direction he moves.
Classical (Legge)He reaps without having ploughed (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 may move.
Calamity falls on one free from falseness. An ox tied up is found by a passer-by and carried off. The people nearby bear the calamity of suspicion and accusation.
Classical (Legge)The calamity happens to one who is free from insincerity, (as in the case of) an ox that has been tied up. A passer-by finds it (and carries it off), while the people in the neighbourhood have the calamity (of being suspected and accused).
Remaining firm and correct, there will be no error.
Classical (Legge)If he can remain firm and correct, there will be no error.
One free from falseness falls ill. Let him take no medicine. He will have occasion for joy.
Classical (Legge)For one who is free from insincerity, and yet has fallen sick, let him not use medicine, and he will have occasion for joy (in his recovery).
Action here brings misfortune. No advantage in any movement.
Classical (Legge)Action (in this case) will be evil. There will be no advantage in any movement.
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