{"id":5640,"date":"2011-12-16T16:26:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T14:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astredamus.com\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2014-10-06T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T14:00:17","slug":"hexagram-27-i-the-corners-of-the-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astredamus.com\/?p=5640","title":{"rendered":"Hexagram 27 \u2013 I \u2013 The Corners of the Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5641\" alt=\"Hexagram-27-I\" src=\"https:\/\/astredamus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Hexagram-27-I.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astredamus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Hexagram-27-I.jpg 200w, https:\/\/astredamus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Hexagram-27-I-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The trigram above \u2013 KEN \u2013 Keeping Still, Mountain<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The trigram below \u2013 CHEN \u2013 The Arousing, Thunder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>General:<\/strong>\u00a0Spiritual discrimination is as important as physical discrimination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Love:<\/strong>\u00a0Choose your thoughts and words wisely in your<!--more--> relationship and remember to be tolerant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Business:<\/strong>\u00a0Use the right words and you will help sustain and nourish your business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Personal:\u00a0<\/strong>Now is a good time to clear out all that is not worthy from your life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This hexagram is a picture of an open mouth; above and below are the firm lines of the lips, and between them the opening. Starting with the mouth, through which we take food for nourishment, the thought leads to nourishment itself. Nourishment of oneself, specifically of the body, is represented in the three lower lines, while the three upper lines represent nourishment and care of others, in a higher, spiritual sense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In bestowing care and nourishment, it is important that the right people should be taken care of and that we should attend to our own nourishment in the right way.<\/strong> If we wish to know what anyone is like, we have only to observe on whom he bestows his care and what sides of his own nature he cultivates and nourishes. Nature nourishes all creatures. The great man fosters and takes care of superior men, in order to take care of all men through them. Mencius says about this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>If we wish to know whether anyone is superior or not, we need only observe what part of his being he regards as especially important.<\/strong> The body has superior and inferior, important and unimportant, nor must we injure the superior parts for the sake of the inferior. He who cultivates the inferior parts of his nature is an inferior man. He who cultivates the superior parts of his nature is a superior man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trigram above \u2013 KEN \u2013 Keeping Still, Mountain The trigram below \u2013 CHEN \u2013 The Arousing, Thunder General:\u00a0Spiritual discrimination is as important as physical discrimination. Love:\u00a0Choose your thoughts and words wisely in your<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4159],"tags":[3969,4383,4162,4163,4385,3956,4381,4386,3945,3682,3947,3967,699,4382,4384],"class_list":["post-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-ching-hexagrams","tag-changes","tag-corner","tag-hexagrams","tag-i-ching","tag-inferior","tag-love","tag-mouth","tag-nature","tag-opportunities","tag-quality","tag-sequence","tag-solve","tag-superior","tag-the-corners","tag-wish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astredamus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astredamus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astredamus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astredamus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astredamus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/astredamus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5643,"href":"https:\/\/astredamus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions\/5643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astredamus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astredamus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astredamus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}