Innocence — spontaneous, natural, unselfish integrity.
Act from sincere motives and stay aligned with what is natural. Calculated cleverness brings trouble, while the innocent and true are favored. Do not scheme against the flow of things.
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Innocence places Heaven (strong, creative) above Thunder (arousing, moving). The interplay of these two trigrams gives the hexagram its character.
The Classical Textoriginal Chinese
The Judgment · 卦辞
元亨利贞。其匪正有眚，不利有攸往。
The Image · 大象
天下雷行，物与无妄；先王以茂对时，育万物。
The Six Lines · 爻辞
- 初九无妄，往吉。象曰：无妄之往，得志也。
- 六二不耕获，不菑畲，则利有攸往。象曰：不耕获，未富也。
- 六三无妄之灾，或系之牛，行人之得，邑人之灾。象曰：行人得牛，邑人灾也。
- 九四可贞，无咎。象曰：可贞无咎，固有之也。
- 九五无妄之疾，勿药有喜。象曰：无妄之疾，不可试也。
- 上九无妄，行有眚，无攸利。象曰：无妄之行，穷之灾也。
The judgment, image and line texts above are quoted from the original Zhou Yi. A modern Chinese translation of the full classic is available on the original-text page.