Hexagram 52 of 64 · King Wen sequence
艮 · gèn
Mountain doubled: stillness in the spine — stopping where it is right to stop, in every part of the body at once.
A mountain doubled: Keeping Still is the hexagram of stopping as a discipline — the back held still so the body forgets it has parts that want to move. Its insight is anatomical: you cannot stop by gripping the hands; you stop in the spine, and the whole stops.
The counsel is about where and when: stop in your courtyard (your own ground, not the neighbour’s); stop in the right moment (no fault); and the final line, the point of it all — the still one becomes great in his heart. Stillness is not the absence of motion. It is the presence of a spine.
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