36. Darkness · 明夷 上六
Line 6 of hexagram 36
In practice
If you keep persevering, quietly and without drawing attention, the bad situations and the people behind them will fall under their own weight.
The poetry
No light, darkness. First it climbs to heaven; later it goes into the earth.
上六：不明晦，初登于天，後入于地。
象曰：初登于天，照四國也。後入于地，失則也。
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