Interpretation of the Book of Changes (the Fifteenth Gua) —— Gangua

Fifteen, modest, name. This divination is a different divination (on top of Kun). In this divination, the divination is the root and the root is the mountain; The external divination is Kun, and Kun is the land. Modesty is the only one of the sixty-four hexagrams, and all six hexagrams are auspicious. Its divination is Qianshan, with mountains on the ground and mountains below. The mountain used to be higher than the ground, but now it lives underground. This is a sign of modesty. The only yang hexagram is Jiu San hexagram, and Jiu San hexagram lives under three yin hexagrams, which also shows modesty.

Modesty is modesty, not complacency, virtue, not self-assertion, merit, not conceit, tolerance and generosity. The preface to the hexagrams said: "The great one cannot be profitable, so he is modest." Modesty without complacency is a necessary condition to maintain greatness, and there is a road to success, which is a virtue that a gentleman should pursue all his life. To tell the truth, this modesty is not only a virtue confined to the personnel level, but also a way that runs through the three talents of heaven and earth, which embodies the objective law of natural creation and has universal philosophical significance, and should be promoted to the level of cosmology to deepen understanding.

As far as heaven is concerned, its execution track is "helping the economy and being clear" and "losing money and being modest". Although it is high but not self-righteous, it must descend and intersect with the ground to show its light. Although the surplus is not self-righteous, the surplus will be lost to make up for the shortage. This is from modesty to prosperity. As far as the tunnel is concerned, its spirit is "humble and upward". Although humble and upward intersect with the weather, its terrain is "profitable and modest", and the high shore is the valley, and the rivers are paying attention to it, but it is also modest and constant.