無妄

25. Innocence

wúwàng · Heaven ☰ over Mountain ☶

Acting without hidden motives or calculation.

The Leader's Path

Thunder rolling beneath heaven, natural and unplanned. This is an image of governing in accordance with the natural order of things, not with calculation.

The Lesson

Be honest with yourself and others. If your actions aren't driven by calculation, you don't need to fear their consequences.

A question to sit with

In this situation, am I trying to gain something, or am I simply doing what I believe is right?

Related hexagrams

In the I Ching no hexagram stands alone. Each one enters into relationships with others, and those relationships show the situation seen from the other side, in its opposite, and in its hidden tendency.

53. Gradual development

漸

易

The classical deep dive for this hexagram — the Judgment and the Image after Richard Wilhelm — along with the texts of all six changing lines, is in the book. Get the book

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