

Mang (indicates that in the case which it presupposes) there will be progress and success. I do not (go and) seek the youthful and inexperienced, but he comes and seeks me. When he shows (the sincerity that marks) the first recourse to divination, I instruct him. If he apply a second and third time, that is troublesome ; and I do not instruct the troublesome. There will be advantage in being firm and correct.



(The trigram representing) a mountain, and beneath it that for a spring issuing forth from Mang. The superior man, in accordance with this, strives to be resolute in his conduct and nourishes his virtue.