天泽履 · Legge: Lu · Heaven above, Lake below
Walking behind a tiger: keep your manners, keep your distance, and the progress is real.
Lǚ. One treading on the tail of a tiger, which does not bite him. There will be progress and success.
(Li suggests the idea of) one treading on the tail of a tiger, which does not bite him. 'I'here will be progress and success.
X. (The trigram representing) the sky above, and below it (that representing the waters of) a marsh, form Lu. The superior man, in accordance with this, discriminates between high and low, and gives settlement to the aims of the people.
上天下泽,履;君子以辨上下,定民志。
The first line, undivided, shows its subject treading his accustomed path. If he go forward, there will be no error.
The first nine, undivided, shows its subject treading his accustomed path. If he go forward, there will be no error.
The second line, undivided, shows its subject treading the path that is level and easy; a quiet and solitary man, to whom, if he be firm and correct, there will be good fortune.
The second nine, undivided, shows its subject treading the path that is level and easy;-a quiet and solitary man, to whom, if he be firm and correct, there will be good fortune.
The third line, divided, shows a one-eyed man can see; a lame man can walk well; one who treads on the tail of a tiger and is bitten. Ill fortune. We have a bravo acting the part of a great ruler.
The third six, divided, shows a one-eyed man (Who thinks he) can see; a lame man (who thinks he) can walk well; one who treads on the tail of a tiger and is bitten. (All this indicates) ill fortune. We have a (mere) bravo acting the part of a great ruler.
The fourth line, undivided, shows its subject treading on the tail of a tiger. He becomes full of apprehensive caution, and in the end there will be good fortune.
The fourth nine, undivided, shows its subject treading on the tail of a tiger. He becomes full of apprehensive caution, and in the end there will be good fortune.
The fifth line, undivided, shows the resolute tread of its subject. Though he be firm and correct, there will be peril.
The fifth nine, undivided, shows the resolute tread of its subject. Though he be firm and correct, there will be peril.
The sixth line, undivided, tells us to look at the whole course that is trodden, and examine the presage which that gives. If it be complete and without failure, there will be great good fortune.
The sixth nine, undivided, tells us to look at (the whole course) that is trodden, and examine the presage which that gives. If it be complete and without failure, there will be great good fortune.
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