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59) Huan: Dispersal

Hexagram:

• C: Wind blows above water, segregated; ancient kings honored god and set up shrines.

• L: In dispersal there is development. The king comes to have a shrine. It is beneficial to cross great rivers. It is beneficial to be correct.

• E: Confusion of yin and yang followed by reordering.

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Lines:

1 Yin:

• L: Act to save the horse; vigor will have good results.

• E: Before the mind of Tao is far gone, and the human mentality has grown to full strength, vigor can be used to quickly save it. This is resolving dispersal at beginning of the dispersal.

2 Yang:

• L: Running to support upon dispersal, regret vanishes.

• E: When yang falls into yin, one acts through the human mentality, within a state of dispersal, and regret appears. If the mind of Tao is stable when the human mentality arises, dispersal can be supported and regret will be eliminated. This is remaining secure in dispersal.

3 Yin:

• L: Dispersing the self, there is no regret.

• E: In extreme danger, if one follows the mind of Tao by dispersing the self, or human mentality, regret will be prevented. This is being able to escape dispersal on encountering it.

4 Yin:

• L: Dispersing the crowd is very auspicious. On dispersal there is gathering, inconceivable to the ordinary.

• E: By yielding but maintaining correctness to refine the mind to emptiness, there is gathering of true yang on the dispersal of false yin.  When true yin and true yang unite, and the five elements aggregate, this is the return to unification after dispersal.

5 Yang:

• L: Dispersing defilement  that is a great directive. The dispersing king remains impeccable.

• E: When strength is correctly balanced to disperse the false and complete the true, the mind-lord is peaceful and calm, integrated with natural principle, resting in the realm of ultimate good, without blame.

6 Yang:

• L: Dispersing the blood, going far away, there is no fault.

• E: When strength and flexibility are integrated into the mind of Tao, it can repulse the human mentality to avoid injury. This is the regaining of the integration of the golden elixir when dispersal ends.