Nourishment — the open mouth, feeding body, mind, and others.
Attend to what you take in and what you give out, for both shape your character. Choose your nourishment wisely; right words and right food sustain. Care for what you cultivate.
nourishmentcarediscernmentsustenance
The Corners of the Mouth places Mountain (still, resting) above Thunder (arousing, moving). The interplay of these two trigrams gives the hexagram its character.
The Classical Textoriginal Chinese
The Judgment · 卦辞
贞吉。观颐，自求口实。
The Image · 大象
山下有雷，颐；君子以慎言语，节饮食。
The Six Lines · 爻辞
- 初九舍尔灵龟，观我朵颐，凶。象曰：观我朵颐，亦不足贵也。
- 六二颠颐，拂经，于丘颐，征凶。象曰：六二征凶，行失类也。
- 六三拂颐，贞凶，十年勿用，无攸利。象曰：十年勿用，道大悖也。
- 六四颠颐吉，虎视眈眈，其欲逐逐，无咎。象曰：颠颐之吉，上施光也。
- 六五拂经，居贞吉，不可涉大川。象曰：居贞之吉，顺以从上也。
- 上九由颐，厉吉，利涉大川。象曰：由颐厉吉，大有庆也。
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.