I Ching hexagram 41
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I Ching hexagram 41, depicted ||:::| is named 損 (sun3), Diminishing. Other translations: R. Wilhelm/C. Baynes, Decrease; E. Shaughnessy (Mawangdui), Decrease.
- Inner (lower) trigram is ☱ (||: 兌 dui4) Open = (澤) swamp
- Outer (upper) trigram is ☶ (::| 艮 gen4) Bound = (山) mountain
- The trigrams can be read bottom to top as "With self-reflection (lake in lower) comes discernment - quality control (mountain in upper)"
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[edit] The Self-Referencing I Ching : using the I Ching to describe itself
The following material is drawn from analysis of the binary sequence of the hexagrams where the hexagrams are derived from recursion of yin/yang and so showing a property of the method - the hexagrams are all linked together and contribute to the expression of, the description of, each hexagram.
- The skeletal form of hexagram 41 is described by analogy to the under-exaggerated properties of hexagram 07 where we have a generic focus on establishing uniformity (the 'army' etc). There is an alchemical link here in that the 'decrease' etc reflects concentration, distillation of 'something' to a pure form - this of course can fail and we get 'true' decrease - a pile of 'waste'.
