Hexagram 4
Youthful Folly
Also: Immaturity, Enveloping
☶ Mountain over ☵ Water
Youthful Folly has success. It is not I who seek the young fool; the young fool seeks me. At the first oracle I inform. If asked two or three times, it is importunity. I give no information to the importunate. Perseverance furthers.
A spring wells up at the foot of the mountain. Thus the superior person fosters character through thoroughness in all that is done.
To make a fool develop, it furthers one to apply discipline. The fetters should be removed. To go on in this way brings humiliation.
To bear with fools in kindliness brings good fortune. To know how to take women brings good fortune. The son is capable of taking charge of the household.
Take not a maiden who, when she sees a man of bronze, loses possession of herself. Nothing furthers.
Entangled folly brings humiliation.
Childlike folly brings good fortune.
In punishing folly, it does not further one to commit transgressions. The only thing that furthers is to prevent transgressions.
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