The I Ching Speaks!



     51.  Ch^en / The Arousing (Shock, Thunder)

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          ---- ----     above     Ch^en   The Arousing, Thunder
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     The Judgement

          Shock brings success.
          Shock comes--oh, oh!
          Laughing words--ha, ha!
          The shock terrifies for a hundred miles,
          And he does not let fall the sacrificial spoon and chalice.

     The Image

          Thunder repeated: the image of Shock.
          Thus in fear and trembling
          The superior man sets his life in order
          And examines himself.