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14. Great Gifts. Supreme success. The yielding gains the place of honor at the center, in harmony with above and below. This is called great gifts. One realizes Dao through persisting strength and brilliant clarity. Attaining heaven and flowing with the time, using one's great gifts. One who follows the Way cuts through antagonism to spread renewal, yields to heaven and does not worry over the future.
Line 1: From the start, not associating with what is harmful, not inviting injury. Then difficulties will cause no error or harm.
Line 2: A chariot bearing a heavy load. One has a goal. No error or harm. Piling the load in the center will avoid an upset.
Line 3: A noble one makes the most of success, using it to support the highest ideals of human development. A small person could not give such a gift.
Line 4: Not seeking power and position. No error or harm. One's sharp words are clear and illuminate the darkness.
*Line 5: You are sincere. Joining with others, leaving a mark. Good fortune. With integrity, shooting forth one's will, able to handle sudden changes with ease and without prearrangement.
Line 6: One is protected by heaven. Good fortune. Nothing can go wrong. Great gifts are a blessing from above.

>The Changes is a book from which one may not hold aloof. Its dao [i.e., pattern] is forever changing—alternating, movement without rest, flowing through the six empty places [of a hexagram]; rising and sinking without fixed law, firm and yielding transform each other. They cannot be confined within a rule; it is only change that is at work here. They move inward and outward according to fixed rhythms. Without and within, they teach caution. They also show care and sorrow and their causes. Though you have no teacher, approach them as you would your parents. (“Xici” II: 7; WB: 348–49, with modifications)

Seen in this light, the 64 hexagrams are no longer oracles. They become symbols of the constant movements in the universe and the ceaseless changes in one’s life. More important, they point to the intricate networks of factors or forces—from near to far away, from simple to complicated, from visible to invisible—that shape movements and changes.
https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2019/entries/chinese-change/

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