Pure Simplicity

Adorned in white. This is not a mistake. Bring out the essentials. Be clear and pure. Adorn yourself in real virtue. Trying to control the situation prematurely, you were locked up and could not move. This was for your own good. Have no fear. The time of darkening is coming to an end. You will soon emerge and be recognized. These goings and comings release the energy now bound up in the past. Co-operate with the ongoing process of change.

上九, 白賁, 无咎.

Simple grace. No blame. ##### Comments Here at the highest stage of development all ornament is discarded. Form no longer conceals content but brings out its value to the full. Perfect grace consists not in exterior ornamentation of the substance, but in the simple fitness of its form.