I Ching · #61
䷼
Inner Truth
風澤中孚
sincerity
trust
centredness
The Judgment
中孚，豚魚吉，利涉大川，利貞。
Inner Truth. Pigs and fishes are favoured. Good fortune. It furthers one to cross the great water.
The Image
澤上有風，中孚；君子以議獄緩死。
Wind over the lake: the image of Inner Truth. Thus the superior person discusses criminal cases, delaying executions.
In one line
Sincerity at the centre moves things that argument cannot.
Trigrams
Lower (inner)
☱
Lake
a lake · Metal
Upper (outer)
☴
Wind
wind · Wood