I Ching hexagram 61
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I Ching hexagram 61, depicted ||::|| is named 中孚 (zhong1 fu2), Centre Confirming. Other translations: R. Wilhelm/C. Baynes, Inner Truth; E. Shaughnessy (Mawangdui), Central Return.
- Inner (lower) trigram is ☱ (||: 兌 dui4) Open = (澤) swamp
- Outer (upper) trigram is ☴ (:|| 巽 xun4) Ground = (風) wind
- The trigrams can be read bottom to top as "With self-reflection (lake in lower) comes becoming influential (wind in upper)"
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The Self-Referencing I Ching : using the I Ching to describe itself
The following material is drawn from analysis of the binary sequence of the hexagrams where the hexagrams are derived from recursion of yin/yang and so showing a property of the method - the hexagrams are all linked together and contribute to the expression of, the description of, each hexagram.
- The skeletal form of hexagram 61 is described by analogy to the under-exaggerated properties of hexagram 29 where we have a generic focus on issues of containment and control; in 61 there is a sense of a hard exterior within which is a soft interior and a source that can be yielding, sympathetic etc. There is an association with a judge being prepared to defend someone treated unjustly; consideration of the individual's story leads to a softening etc. and the judge attempts to influence the 'powers that be' to change the sentence etc.vi:Phong Trạch Trung Phu