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Hexagram 23 Splitting Apart
Expression Po indicates that (in the state which it symbolises) it will not be advantageous to make a movement in any direction whatever.
Judgement Splitting Apart. It does not further one To go anywhere.
Image The mountain rests on the earth: Image of Splitting Apart. Thus those above can ensure their position Only by giving generously to those below.
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  Expression: There is a large fruit still uneaten. The superior man receives a carriage. The house of the inferior man is split apart.
Image: 'The superior man finds himself in a carriage:'--he is carried along by the people. 'The small men (by their course) overthrow their own dwellings:'--they can. never again be of use to them.
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      Expression: A shoal of fishes. Favor comes through the court ladies. Everything acts to further.
Image: 'He obtains for them the favour that lights on the inmates of the palace:'--in the end there will be no grudge against him.
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      Expression: The bed is split up to the skin. Misfortune.
Image: 'He has overthrown the couch, and (proceeds to injure) the skin (of him who lies on it):'--calamity is very near at hand.
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      Expression: He splits with them. No blame.
Image: That 'there will be no error on the part of this one among the overthrowers' arises from the difference between him and the others above and below.
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      Expression: The bed is split at the edge. Those who persevere are destroyed. Misfortune.
Image: 'He destroys the couch by injuring its frame:'--(the superior man) has as yet no associates.
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      Expression: The leg of the bed is split. Those who persevere are destroyed. Misfortune.
Image: 'He overthrows the couch by injuring its legs:'--thus (he commences) his work of ruin with what is lowest (in the superior man).