The Master Therion I-Ching

Hexagram # 36

Hexagram 36. Ming I
Darkening of the Light  MING

Intelligence sore hurt; reflect
On the position rigidly correct.

Hurt? Droop thy wings and fast, while critics leager.  
A horse may save one wounded in the thigh.  
Thy great foe taken, be thou not over eager!  
Escape from night by mind's propriety. b  
Think how the court of Ki a met destiny.  
At last earth swallows him that trod the sky.

  

b  propriety: "correctness," "that which is suiting."
    a the court of Ki: This hexagram has a historical background: 
Prince Chi (Ki) lived under the tyrant Chou Hsin, and feigned madness to overcome the tyrant,
thus he kept himself in high spirits and survived. (Like the western Hamlet.)

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