Jie
Wise Limitation
When you receive Hexagram 60, Jie, the I Ching turns your attention to wise limitation. Jie. Below is its judgment, its image, and the meaning of each changing line.
The Judgment
Jie. Limitation brings progress and attainment. If the limits imposed are severe and bitter, they cannot endure.
Classical (Legge)Kieh intimates that (under its conditions) there will be progress and attainment. (But) if the regulations (which it suggests) be severe and difficult, they cannot be permanent.
The Image
Water over the lake. Jie. The centered one establishes measures of number and proportion, and reflects on virtue and conduct.
Classical (Legge)(The trigram representing) a body of water and (that representing) water again over it form Kieh. The superior man, in accordance with this, constructs his (methods of) numbering and measurement, and discusses (points of) virtue and conduct.
The Changing Lines
He does not leave the courtyard before his door. There will be no error.
Classical (Legge)He does not quit the courtyard before his door. There will be no error.
He does not leave the courtyard inside his gate. There will be misfortune.
Classical (Legge)He does not quit the courtyard inside his gate. There will be evil.
Without observing proper limits, he will have occasion to lament. There will be no one to blame but himself.
Classical (Legge)In the (negligence of) observing his (proper) regulations, he will have occasion to bewail and lament. But there will be no one to blame (but himself).
He is quietly and naturally attentive to all limits. Progress and success.
Classical (Legge)He is quietly and naturally (attentive to all) regulations, and there will be progress and success.
Sweet and acceptable limits. Good fortune. Going forward, he will be praised.
Classical (Legge)Sweet and acceptable regulations — there will be good fortune. Going forward, he will be approved and praised.
The limits are severe and bitter. Even with firm and correct there will be misfortune. Yet occasion for regret will in time disappear.
Classical (Legge)The regulations are severe and difficult. Even with firm correctness there will be evil. But occasion for repentance will (by and by) disappear.
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