I Ching hexagram 47

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I Ching hexagram 47, depicted :|:||: is named 困 (kun4), Confining. Other translations: R. Wilhelm/C. Baynes, Oppression (Exhaustion); E. Shaughnessy (Mawangdui), Entangled.

• Inner (lower) trigram is ☵ (:|: 坎 kan3) Gorge = (水) water
• Outer (upper) trigram is ☱ (||: 兌 dui4) Open = (澤) swamp
• The trigrams can be read bottom to top as "With containment (water in lower) comes intensity in express (lake in upper)"

I Ching hexagrams
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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 47 is described by analogy to the under-exaggerated properties of hexagram 10 where we have a generic focus on carefully following a path due to being 'watched' as we do it; thus the focus in 10 on conduct/treading etc. Thus the general sense of 'enclosure' in 10 (the sides of the path) seed this focus in 47 on a 'forced' enclosure. This can be willing or not in that the enclosure forces integration with the context - the traditional symbol is of a fenced-in tree where that will force the roots to go deep and so 'dig in' to the context. In the binary sequence 47 pairs with 06 and its sense of 'compromise' (seen as legal 'conflict'). Both share the base trigram of water and so the sense of issues of containment/control - be they willing or not (and so the association to oppression/exhaustion etc but there is also a positive aspect as well).