64 Hexagrams
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Youthful Folly
Hexagram 4
Upper Trigram
☶ Mountain
Lower Trigram
☵ Water
The Judgment
Youthful Folly has success. It is not I who seek the young fool; the young fool seeks me.
The Image
A spring wells up at the foot of the mountain. Thus the superior person fosters his character by thoroughness in all that he does.
The Lines
Line 1
To make a fool develop it furthers to apply discipline.
Line 2
To bear with fools in kindliness brings good fortune.
Line 3
Take not a maiden who loses possession of herself.
Line 4
Entangled folly brings humiliation.
Line 5
Childlike folly brings good fortune.
Line 6
In punishing folly, it does not further to commit transgressions.