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№ 12 · learning and not-knowing

Standstill

Standstill shows exchange between levels is broken: words do not arrive, efforts are not received.

closureblocked exchangepause

Zhouyi Core · 周易

Ancient source, separate from translation and interpretation

450/450 Zhouyi records have product-level record adjudication; 0/450 are academic VERIFIED. Translation and interpretation may not rewrite the Chinese source.

450/450 product adjudicated · OmenHall editorial review 450/450

卦辭 · hexagram statement

否之匪人，不利君子贞，大往小来。

Translation · final OmenHall editorial review, not independent-human/academic verified

Standstill: it is not of people. The noble person’s constancy is not beneficial. The great goes, the small comes.

否之匪人 is notoriously compact; the draft avoids pretending its grammar is uncontested.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
Evidence / provenance
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: novariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-12-guaci · sha256:e4d145e2f2ff437c0e8853b81c1479ff25ef28d3b1da3c3ca7055334567721e3

translation corpus: ICHING_ZHOUYI_EDITORIAL_TRANSLATION_CORPUS_V1_20260827 · final review: OMENHALL_FINAL_EDITORIAL_REVIEW_V1_20260828 · method: AI_ASSISTED_DIRECT_FROM_ADJUDICATED_CHINESE_20260827

Line 1 · 爻辭

初六，拔茅茹以其汇，贞吉。亨。

Initial Six: pulling up cogon grass, its roots come with their kind. Constancy is auspicious. Free passage.

拔茅茹以其彙 uses a clustered-root plant image: pulling one draws its kind. The exact botanical gloss is secondary to the linked-cluster image and should remain reviewable.

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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH

zhouyi-12-line-1 · sha256:58759b5d3bd1511a1e4f8629d0f71c02476a73fdde2ecc3874ef92d1de0a548c

Line 2 · 爻辭

六二，包承，小人吉，大人否。亨。

Six in the Second: embracing and bearing. For the small person, auspicious; for the great person, standstill. Free passage.

包承 is compact; “embracing and bearing” remains an editorial draft.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
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zhouyi-12-line-2 · sha256:216f9eabb0fe63a9ba4143a173ce98332c2abf3076cb155a7facd65fce897704

Line 3 · 爻辭

六三，包羞。

Six in the Third: embracing shame.

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zhouyi-12-line-3 · sha256:26fcac92161fbe81a86389d6f8ff9c7c417ad903e65234d4079f0ccb972e4466

Line 4 · 爻辭

九四，有命，无咎，畴离祉。

Nine in the Fourth: there is a mandate. No blame. Those of one’s kind attach to blessing.

畴离祉 is lexically compact; the draft should remain visible beside the Chinese.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
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ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: yesvariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION

zhouyi-12-line-4 · sha256:bc9c95bc2127aa3fdb523356dc9f4ad6fb266797003f8d168d92253a7cb105e2

Line 5 · 爻辭

九五，休否，大人吉。其亡其亡，系于苞桑。

Nine in the Fifth: bringing standstill to rest. For the great person, auspicious. “May it perish, may it perish” — tied to a clump of mulberry.

The repeated 其亡其亡 is retained as an alarmed formula; 苞桑 as a clumped mulberry image.

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zhouyi-12-line-5 · sha256:56b33b879a68963fffc20924da803b205a4132a14f037f984aca16b2674a1a09

Line 6 · 爻辭

上九，倾否，先否后喜。

Top Nine: overturning standstill. First standstill, afterward joy.

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zhouyi-12-line-6 · sha256:1b9b8c98bcae74a1d919a3305a63b1c3981ccf06fe5cfe462e2acadfeb02a470

Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳上 · Tuan Commentary I象傳上 · Image Commentary I

Ten Wings: 10/10 segments have pinned remote source identity, while validated local text remains 0/10. This reading therefore exposes provenance/context mapping only and inserts no commentary text. Tuan/Xiang/Wenyan remain separate from Zhouyi Core; Xici/Shuogua/Xugua/Zagua are not presented as if they directly comment on this specific cast.

Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

registry: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_SOURCE_REGISTRY_V2_20260827

context map: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_CONTEXT_MAP_V1_20260827

Association of the Ten Wings with Confucius may be described as traditional attribution, not as an established modern historical fact.

Wikisource currently presents 彖 in one page and splits 象 as 大象/小象. Those web-page divisions are not adopted as OmenHall canonical wing boundaries. OmenHall keeps traditional 彖上/下 and 象上/下 by upper/lower hexagram canon, while 大象/小象 remain internal Xiang subtypes.

The attribution/ShareAlike engineering path is prepared for 10/10 segments, but the owner's license-path acceptance remains pending. Kanseki's published label is retained as “CC BY SA” without inventing an unstated version.

OmenHall completed its own AI-assisted editorial review of 450/450 source-bound RU/EN translations and applied 13 final corrections. This is a product editorial baseline, not independent human or academic verification: human sign-off 0/450, academic VERIFIED 0/450. Philological notes remain visible for 353/450 higher-risk passages.

Ten Wings: 10/10 remote source identities are pinned and canonical segmentation is mapped; validated local text 0/10. This is a separate later scholar/commentary layer. Until a local validated corpus exists it stays fail-closed and does not block the core Zhouyi content/logic freeze.

OmenHall modern interpretation must be labeled as modern application, never as translation or ancient commentary.

OmenHall modern interpretation · the section below is modern application. It is not a translation of the Zhouyi and it is not the Ten Wings.

Situation

Better not spend strength on a door that does not open now.

Advice

Keep dignity, reduce investment, wait for signs of movement.

Caution

Do not confuse temporary standstill with eternal verdict.

How to read lines

  • • First read Standstill as the state of the question, not as a promise of an event.
  • • If there are changing lines, they show not a second prediction, but the place where the situation has begun to move.
  • • The resulting hexagram is read as the direction of transformation, not as a guaranteed outcome.

A changing line does not cancel the main hexagram. It shows the seam through which the old form is already turning into a new one.

For day and decision

Daily I Ching

On a Standstill day, look for one small step that fits the rhythm of the moment. Do not turn the whole day into a hexagram test.

I Ching for decisions

For a decision, Standstill asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • • Where did exchange break?
  • • What can I preserve?
  • • Which contact is barren now?

Small practice

  • • Write the question in one line without naming another person if it can be phrased through your own choice.
  • • Mark what is already fact, what is fear, and what is still only assumption.
  • • After the reading, choose one step for the next 24 hours, not a plan for your entire fate.

Journal

  • • Where does the theme of “Standstill” appear in my situation?
  • • What fact must I accept before asking for a sign?
  • • Which step is small enough not to break the balance?

Reading boundary

I Ching in OmenHall does not diagnose, replace professionals, or guarantee the future. It is a language of timing, choice, and proportion.

The best ending for an I Ching reading is to name one fact, one risk, one step, and one time when you will return to the question without compulsive repetition.

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