Hexagram 51 · Line 2
The Arousing — 二六
Zhen · Er Liu
The Line
Shock comes with danger. A hundred thousand times you lose your treasures and must climb the nine hills. Do not go after them. After seven days you will get them back.
Interpretation
A situation is depicted in which through a shock one comes into danger and suffers great losses. The conditions are such that resistance is against the direction of the time-movement and therefore has no success. Therefore one should simply withdraw to heights that are inaccessible to the threatening dangers. The losses in possessions one must take into the bargain and should not concern oneself excessively about them. Without chasing after possessions, one will regain them of oneself when the time has passed whose shocks have robbed one of the possessions.