Divination

Tui

The Joyous

Lake

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True joy rests on firmness and strength within, manifesting itself outwardly as yielding and gentle.

THE JUDGMENT

THE JOYOUS.  Success.

Perseverance is favorable.

The joyous mood is infectious and therefore brings success.  But joy. must be based on steadfastness if it is not to degenerate into uncontrolled mirth./. Truth and strength must dwell in the heart, while gentleness reveals itself in social intercourse.  In this way one assumes the right attitude toward God and man and achieves something.  Under certain conditions, intimidation without gentleness may achieve something momentarily, but not for all time.  When on the other hand, the hearts of men are won by friendliness, they are led to take all hardships upon themselves willingly, and if need be will not shun death itself, so great is the power of joy over men.  

THE IMAGE

Lakes resting one on the other:

The image of THE JOYOUS.

Thus the superior man joins with his friends

For discussion and practice.

A lake evaporates upward and thus gradually dries up; but when two lakes are joined they do not dry up so readily, for one replenishes the other.  It is the same in the field of knowledge.  Knowledge should be a refreshing and vitalizing force  It becomes so only through stimulating intercourse with congenial friends with whom  one holds discussion and practices application of the truths of life.  In this way learning  becomes many-sided and takes on a cheerful lightness, whereas there is always something ponderous and one-sided about the learning of the self taught.

THE LINES

Six in the third place means:

Coming joyousness.  Misfortune.

The joy must spring from within.  But if one is empty within and wholly given over to the world, idle pleasures come streaming in from without.  this is what many people welcome as diversion.  Those who lack inner stability and therefore need amusement, will always find opportunity of indulgence.  They extract external pleasures by the emptiness of their natures.  Thus they lose themselves more and more, which of course has bad results.

Six at the top means:

Seductive joyousness.

A vain nature invites diverting pleasures and must suffer accordingly.  If a man is unstable within, the pleasures of the world that he does not shun have so powerful an influence that he is swept along with them.  Here it is no longer a question of danger, or good fortune or misfortune.  He has given up direction of his own life, and what becomes of him depends upon chance and external inflluences.