Hexagram 4 · line 6
Youthful Folly
蒙Méng
Correcting ignorance by force. Acting as an aggressor is not beneficial; resisting aggression is beneficial.
Line statement
上九
擊蒙，不利為寇，利禦寇。
Correcting ignorance by force. Acting as an aggressor is not beneficial; resisting aggression is beneficial.
The distinction between striking and defending appears at the firm top line. Changing it to yielding makes the entire upper trigram earth and produces Hexagram 7.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: responsive
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two have opposite polarities and can be read as responsive.
One line changes