The One I Ching by Lakshmi NarayanThe One I Ching: A Unitive Version of the Wilhelm-Baynes I Ching

03. Hexagram: Initial Difficulty

above  K’AN  THE ABYSMAL, WATER below  CHêN  THE AROUSING, THUNDER The name of the hexagram, Chun, really connotes a blade of grass pushing against an obstacle as it sprouts out of the earth–hence the meaning, “difficulty at the beginning.”...