Hexagram 60 of 64 · King Wen sequence
节 · jié
Water above the lake: the marsh held by its banks — limitation as the structure that lets water have power.
A lake held by banks: without them it is a swamp. Limitation is the hexagram of boundaries as enablement — the gates and bars that are not bitter when they are true. The text is precise: limitation cannot be practised with rigour forever; it must be aligned with the season and the reality of what it governs.
Its two lines are a complete philosophy: bitter limitation (accepted grudgingly) ends in regret, and sweet limitation (chosen, aligned) ends in praise. The discipline is to build banks that fit the water — rules that match the reality they govern, and seasons of release built in.
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