Keeping still — the mountain, rest and inner quiet.
Know when to stop and be still, freeing the mind from restless desire. Stillness at the right moment brings clarity and no blame. Act again only once stillness has done its work.
stillnessrestmeditationrestraint
Keeping Still (Mountain) places Mountain (still, resting) above Mountain (still, resting). The interplay of these two trigrams gives the hexagram its character.
The Classical Textoriginal Chinese
The Judgment · 卦辞
艮其背，不获其身，行其庭，不见其人，无咎。
The Image · 大象
兼山，艮；君子以思不出其位。
The Six Lines · 爻辞
- 初六艮其趾，无咎，利永贞。象曰：艮其趾，未失正也。
- 六二艮其腓，不拯其随，其心不快。象曰：不拯其随，未退听也。
- 九三艮其限，列其夤，厉薰心。象曰：艮其限，危熏心也。
- 六四艮其身，无咎。象曰：艮其身，止诸躬也。
- 六五艮其辅，言有序，悔亡。象曰：艮其辅，以中正也。
- 上九敦艮，吉。象曰：敦艮之吉，以厚终也。
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.