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James Legge, 1899 (public domain)
Tui intimates that (under its conditions) there will be progress and attainment. (But) it will be advantageous to be firm and correct.
Tui is the lake doubled — two waters lying together, each feeding the other. This is the hexagram of pleasure, and the oracle does not pretend pleasure is a small thing: where two friends speak across a shared surface, what is learned and what is said with a straight face will last. But every line in this hexagram is being tested on where its joy comes from. Joy arising from inward harmony carries good fortune; joy bought by gathering whatever smiles at you ends in evil; joy that trusts the one who would injure you walks into peril. Keep being firm and correct, the oracle repeats — the lake is sweetest when its banks hold.
Line 1
The first line, undivided, shows the pleasure of (inward) harmony. There will be good fortune.
Line 2
The second line, undivided, shows the pleasure arising from (inward) sincerity. There will be good fortune. Occasion for repentance will disappear.
Line 3
The third line, divided, shows its subject bringing round himself whatever can give pleasure. There will be evil.
Line 4
The fourth line, undivided, shows its subject deliberating about what to seek his pleasure in, and not at rest. He borders on what would be injurious, but there will be cause for joy.
Line 5
The fifth line, undivided, shows its subject trusting in one who would injure him. The situation is perilous.
Line 6
The topmost line, divided, shows the pleasure of its subject in leading and attracting others.