山泽损 · Legge: Sun · Mountain above, Lake below
What is given up: two baskets of grain offered honestly outweigh an expensive sacrifice; hold the anger down.
In Sǔn, if there be sincerity, there will be great good fortune: freedom from error; firmness and correctness that can be maintained; and advantage in every movement that shall be made. In what shall this be employed? In sacrifice two baskets of grain, may be presented.
In (what is denoted by) Sun, if there be sincerity (in him who employs it), there will be great good fortune: - freedom from error; firmness and correctness that can be maintained; and advantage in every movement that shall be made. In what shall this (sincerity in the exercise of Sun) be employed? (Even) in sacrifice two baskets of grain, (though there be nothing else), may be presented.
XLI. (The trigram representing) a mountain and beneath it that for the waters of a marsh form Sun. The superior man, in accordance with this, restrains his wrath and represses his desires.
山下有泽，损；君子以惩忿窒欲。
The first line, undivided, shows its subject suspending his own affairs, and hurrying, away. He will commit no error, but let him consider how far he should contribute of what is his.
The first nine, undivided, shows its subject suspending his own affairs, and hurrying, away (to help the subject of the fourth line). He will commit no error, but let him consider how far he should contribute of what is his (for the other).
The second line, undivided, shows that it will be advantageous for its subject to maintain a firm correctness, and that action on his part will be evil. He can give increase without taking from himself
The second nine, undivided, shows that it will be advantageous for its subject to maintain a firm correctness, and that action on his part will be evil. He can give increase (to his correlate) without taking from himself
The third line, divided, shows how of three men walking together, the number is diminished by one; and how one, walking, finds his friend.
The third six, divided, shows how of three men walking together, the number is diminished by one; and how one, walking, finds his friend.
The fourth line, divided, shows its subject diminishing the ailment under which he labors by making hasten, and make him glad. There will be no error.
The fourth six, divided, shows its subject diminishing the ailment under which he labors by making (the subject of the first line) hasten (to his help), and make him glad. There will be no error.
The fifth line, divided, shows parties adding to the stores of its subject ten pairs of tortoise shells, and accepting no refusal. There will be great good fortune.
The fifth six, divided, shows parties adding to (the stores of) its subject ten pairs of tortoise shells, and accepting no refusal. There will be great good fortune.
The topmost line, undivided, shows its subject giving increase to others without taking from himself. There will be no error. With firm correctness there will be good fortune. There will be advantage in every movement that shall be made. He will find ministers more than can be counted by their clans.
The topmost nine, undivided, shows its subject giving increase to others without taking from himself. There will be no error. With firm correctness there will be good fortune. There will be advantage in every movement that shall be made. He will find ministers more than can be counted by their clans.
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