Keeping Still

Hexagram 52 · (Gèn)

Upper: Mountain · Lower: Mountain

Judgment (卦辞)

Keeping Still. Keeping one's back still so that one no longer feels one's body. One goes into the courtyard and does not see the people.

Image (象辞)

Mountains standing close together: the image of Keeping Still. Thus the superior person does not permit their thoughts to go beyond their situation.

Structure

Upper Trigram

Mountain

Lower Trigram

Mountain