شش خطی 30
روشنایی، همکاری درخشان، آتش (Li)

Fire is clinging, and it is illuminating. In the body of the hexagram, one yin is stuck between two yangs; this represents illumination with inner openness. As for the qualities of the hexagram, above is fire , luminous, and below is also fire , luminous; by inner illumination reaching outer illumination, by outer illumination perfecting inner illumination, illumining inside and illumining outside, inwardly illumined and outwardly illumined—a thousand illuminations, myriad illuminations, are all two illuminations, inward illumination and outward illumination, which in totality are one illumination; therefore it is called fire.

This fire embraces the female within it; the hexagram symbolizes the presence of yin within yang, and follows on the preceding hexagram excess of the great. In excess of the great, there is too much yang strength, exercising creativity at will, misusing its light. Illumination is the energy of open awareness in the palace of fire (the heart); it is the spirit of humans, the master of mind. When the mind is open it is aware; the original spirit is in charge of affairs, and illumination is managed properly. One can thereby balance yang. When the mind is unruly, it wanders; the discriminatory consciousness handles affairs, and illumination is not properly directed. This is sufficient to damage yang. Therefore fire is beneficial to correctness and development.

However, although fire is beneficial to correctness and development, if you only know how to use illumination and do not know how to nurture illumination, you will not attain development. Using illumination means outer illumination; nurturing illumination means inner illumination. Outer illumination has to be based on inner illumination; using illumination requires that one first nurture illumination: Therefore “raising a cow brings good fortune.” Raising means nurturing; the cow is a symbol of receptivity. The cow does not use its strength; its nature is most docile. If people can nurture illumination with flexible receptivity, turning the light of consciousness around to shine inward, shutting out deviation and preserving truthfulness, first illumining inside, then illumining outside, then inside and outside will both be illumined, open awareness will be clear; nothing can deceive it, nothing can influence it—naturally illumining the qualities of enlightenment and resting in the highest good, what can compare to that fortune?

But the path of illumination and production of good fortune has a process, a course of work; if there is the slightest carelessness, illumination will not develop. Therefore illumination must reach inside and outside, so that both are illumined and both are correct; only this is the benefit of illumination, the development of illumination, the good fortune of illumination.

Fire refers to the light of the sun. Above and below is fire , associated with the sun. The sun goes in at night and comes out in the daytime; this pattern represents inner illumination and outer illumination, one light having a dual function. This is the image of fire.

What great people see in this is that if people are incapable of illuminating the inner, they will be incapable of illuminating the outward; first illuminating the inner, then illuminating the outward, as is inner illumination, so also will be outward illumination. Therefore after they have illumined the inward, they then continue the enlightenment to illumine the four quarters.

"Light" is inner illumination, "continuing light" is outward illumination. What does light illumine? It simply illumines the inherent quality of open awareness without obscurity. When one is open and aware, this inner quality or virtue is already illumined, and truthfulness within reaches outside, so that nothing can deceive one, nothing can burden one; one illumines the four quarters and sees everything as clearly as if it were in the palm of one's hand. The "yellow sprouts" of living potential cover the earth, the "golden flowers" of spiritual energy bloom throughout the world. Whichever way one turns, everywhere is the Tao. Thoroughly lucid inside and out, that illumination never ceases. Then one has clarified the quality of illumination and rests in the highest good.

But continuing the enlightenment to illumine the four quarters cannot be accomplished by idleness and inaction; it involves adjustment through effort. Illumination by enlightenment means perception with clarity; if the enlightenment cannot illumine the four quarters, that light is not great, and cannot be considered continuing light. Once one illumines the inward and also illumines the outward, the light must be like the sun climbing into space, illumining all things, such that nothing can block that light. Only then is it true enlightenment, only then is it continuing light. If there is any shortfall of perceptivity, that means the light is blocked to some extent. When the light can illumine everywhere, and nothing can obstruct that perception under any circumstances, so that it reaches everywhere without becoming defective anywhere, then the work of clarifying the quality of illumination is complete.