Hexagram 25 无妄, Line 2
无妄
Hexagram 25 · second line, divided (six)
不耕穫，不菑畬，則利有攸往。
The second line, divided, shows one who reaps without having ploughed (that he might reap), and gathers the produce of his third year's fields without having cultivated them the first year for that end. To such a one there will be advantage in whatever direction he may move.
James Legge (1882), public domain.
Small image (小象)
不耕穫，未富也。
If only this line changes, hexagram 25 becomes hexagram 10.
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Character glossary
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 耕gēngto plow, to cultivate
- 穫huòto get, to obtain, to receive, to sieze
- 菑zāito weed grass; land which has been under
- 畬shēa field reclaimed by burning the forest
- 則zérule, law, regulation; grades
- 利lìgains, advantage, profit, merit
- 有yǒuto have, to own, to possess; to exist
- 攸yōudistant, far; adverbial prefix
- 往wǎngto go, to depart; past, former
- 未wèinot yet; 8th terrestrial branch
- 富fùabundant, ample; rich, wealthy
- 也yěalso, too
Data: English Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0); Chinese Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.