明出地上，自昭明德
先看圖像，再讀文字。Read the image before the words.
明出地上，晉
(The trigram representing) the earth and that for the bright (sun) coming forth above it form Jin.
君子以自昭明德。
The superior man, in accordance with this, gives himself to make more brilliant his bright virtue.
明從地上升起，是晉之象。君子由此體會：要自我顯揚明德。
(The trigram representing) the earth and that for the bright (sun) coming forth above it form Jin. The superior man, in accordance with this, gives himself to make more brilliant his bright virtue.
先讀經文，再讀《彖傳》如何解釋卦辭。The received text, then the Tuan commentary on it.
晉：康侯用錫馬蕃庶，晝日三接。
晉卦，康侯（賢能的諸侯）獲賜眾多馬匹，一日之內被天子三次接見。晉升之卦，說的是賢能受到重用。
In Jin we see a prince who secures the tranquillity (of the people), presented on that account with numerous horses (by the king), and three times in a day received at interviews.
晉，進也，明出地上，順而麗乎大明，柔進而上行，是以康侯用錫馬蕃庶，晝日三接也。
晉就是進。明（離）從地（坤）上升起，順而附麗於大明，柔爻（六五）進而上行，所以康侯獲眾馬之賜，一日三接。
In Jin we have advance. (We see in it) the bright sun coming forth above the earth; (the symbol of) docile submission cleaving to that of the Great Brightness.
六條線各有一句判斷。閱讀次序初→上；卦象由下而上，看左側的卦。One statement per line, read from the first line to the top. The figure is drawn bottom-up — watch the rail.
晉如摧如，貞吉。罔孚，裕無咎。
前進又被挫折，守正則吉。沒有信任時，寬裕等待則無咎。
The first SIX shows one wishing to advance, and (at the same time) kept back. Let him be firm and correct, and there will be good fortune. If trust be not reposed in him, let him maintain a large generosity, and there will be no error.
晉如摧如，獨行正也。裕無咎，未受命也。
晉而被挫，是獨行正道。裕無咎，是因為尚未受命。
晉如愁如，貞吉。受茲介福，于其王母。
前進有憂愁，守正則吉。受大福於其「王母」，即祖母輩的尊長。
The second SIX shows one advancing, but with sorrow and anxiety. Let him be firm and correct, and there will be good fortune. He will receive the great blessing from his grandmother.
受茲介福，以中正也。
受大福，是因為中正之德。
眾允，悔亡。
眾人都允許，悔消失。陰柔得志於眾人，借勢而進。
The third SIX shows one trusted by all (around). All occasion for repentance disappears.
眾允之志，上行也。
眾人允許之志，是向上而行。
晉如鼫鼠，貞厲。
前進像鼫鼠，貪而多疑的鼠類，守此有險。剛爻居陰位，貪心又多畏懼。
The fourth NINE shows one advancing like a marmot. However firm and correct he may be, the position is one of peril.
鼫鼠貞厲，位不當也。
鼫鼠貞厲，是位置不當。
悔亡，失得勿恤。往吉，無不利。
悔消失，得失不必憂慮，前往吉，無不利。柔爻得尊位，能放下計較。
The fifth SIX shows how all occasion for repentance is gone (from its subject). (But) let him not concern himself about whether he shall fail or succeed. To advance will be fortunate.
失得勿恤，往有慶也。
失得不憂慮，前往有福慶。
晉其角，維用伐邑，厲吉，無咎，貞吝。
進到犄角，也就是極致之處，只可用以伐邑，也就是小規模的征伐，厲而吉，無咎，但守此則吝。
The topmost NINE shows one advancing his horns. But he only uses them to punish the (rebellious people of his own) city. The position is perilous, but there will be good fortune. (Yet) however firm and correct he may be, there will be occasion for regret.
維用伐邑，道未光也。
用以伐邑，是其道尚未光大。
把象套到你的情境，取一個可行的下一步。Apply the image to your situation; take one practical step.
晉·自昭·失得勿恤
Progress · self-illuminating · no fear of loss or gain
晉卦教人怎麼前進。根本在「自昭明德」：自己顯揚德性，不是貪圖位置。最忌九四「晉如鼫鼠」，既想要又怕失去，進退兩頭都不安穩。六五「失得勿恤」是全卦的高點，放得下計較，纔走得踏實。
Jin teaches how to advance well. The root is 'making your own virtue shine': displaying character, not grasping at position. The worst case is line 4's marmot, wanting and fearing at once, uneasy whichever way it moves. Line 5's 'do not fret over loss and gain' is the hexagram's high point: only by setting down the reckoning can you walk forward steadily.
九四「鼫鼠」是職場裡常見的失誤，既想晉升又怕失去現有的，左右為難而停滯不前。讀此爻要記住：想前進就要敢於放下，否則就成了鼫鼠。
Line 4's marmot is a common failure in career life: wanting promotion but afraid to lose what you already have, stuck paralyzed in between. To advance, you have to dare to let go; otherwise, you become the greedy rat.
王弼以為晉卦之義在「明出地上」，日出之時，自然而然發光，康侯之德也是如此。讀此卦最該記住大象「自昭明德」：光亮不必等別人給，要靠自己顯揚自身的德性。
Wang Bi holds that Jin's meaning lies in 'brightness coming forth above the earth': at sunrise, light comes of itself, and such is the virtue of the lord in this hexagram. What most deserves remembering is the Da Xiang's 'making one's own bright virtue shine' (zi zhao ming de): light does not wait on others to grant it; you display your own virtue yourself.
程子強調晉之為晉，是「依時而進」，不是強行求進。他以六五「失得勿恤」為全卦之主，認為能放下計較得失的人，才能真正前進。
Cheng Yi stresses that the advance of Jin means advancing with the time, not forcing one's way forward. He takes line 5's 'do not fret over loss and gain' as the master of the whole hexagram: only one who can set down the reckoning of gain and loss can truly advance.
朱子直言：晉者，進也。卦象明出地上，是日出之時。但晉之卦並非全吉，九四「鼫鼠」便是反例，貪進而多疑必凶。學者由此可知，前進要有德而進，不是一味貪進。
Zhu Xi puts it plainly: Jin means advance. The image is brightness coming forth above the earth, the hour of sunrise. Yet the hexagram is not wholly auspicious: line 4's 'marmot' is the counter-case, advancing out of greed and full of suspicion, which surely leads to harm. The student learns from this that true advance is advance with virtue, not advance out of greed.
晉是日出：明出地上，天亮了，該往前走。怎麼走，大象一句定調，「君子以自昭明德」，光從自己身上發出來，把德性亮給人看見；靠人引薦、等人提攜，終究隔了一層。卦裡的反例是九四「晉如鼫鼠，貞厲」，鼫鼠樣樣會一點又樣樣不精，貪著往上爬，心裡又多疑，爬得越高越危。全卦的頂點在六五「失得勿恤，往吉，无不利」：升進途中最纏人的就是得失這筆帳，算得越勤，步子越亂；把帳放下，走出去反而樣樣順。
Jin is sunrise: brightness comes out above the earth, day has broken, time to move forward. How to move, the Da Xiang settles in one line: 'the superior man makes his own bright virtue shine.' The light comes from you; you show your character to people directly. Relying on introductions, waiting to be pulled up, always leaves a layer in between. The counter-example is line 4, 'advancing like a marmot: peril.' The marmot can do a bit of everything and nothing well, greedy to climb and suspicious at heart, and the higher it climbs the more dangerous the footing. The hexagram peaks at line 5, 'do not fret over loss and gain; going forward is auspicious, nothing fails to profit': on the way up, nothing tangles you like the ledger of gains and losses, and the more carefully you keep it, the more your steps stumble. Put the ledger down and walk out, and everything goes smoothly.
前進、上升，字形取太陽躍出地面之象。卦名「晉」即晉升、晉見之意。
To advance, to rise in rank. The image is the sun coming up over the earth.
安民的賢侯，一說即指周初的康叔。此卦以他受賜馬匹、一日三次覲見天子，作為晉升之象。
A lord who brings the people peace; some read it as a proper name, the Marquis Kang, possibly Kang Shu of the early Zhou.
賜予、給予，是「賜」的古字，不是金屬錫的意思。「用錫馬蕃庶」即賜予眾多馬匹。
To bestow, confer: the old graph for 賜, not the metal 'tin.'
眾多、繁盛，形容賜馬數量豐厚。
Numerous, abundant.
沒有、不。「罔孚」即尚未獲得信任。
Not, without.
一種貪心又多疑的大鼠，樣樣略通卻無一精熟。九四以牠比喻貪進而心懷疑懼的處境。
A large rat, proverbially greedy and suspicious: able at many things, master of none.
憂慮、掛心。「勿恤」是說不必為得失掛心。
To worry over, fret about.
獸角，取其最外、最尖之處，比喻晉升到了極限、無可再進的地方。
Horns, the furthest tip of the body: advance pushed to its very limit.
第三十五卦晉（日出）與第三十六卦明夷（日入）為一對綜卦。卦序在此透露：升降循環是常態，能晉升，就也會有明夷之時。
Hexagram 35 Jin (sunrise) and Hexagram 36 Ming Yi (sunset) form an inverse pair. The sequence teaches that the cycle of rising and falling is the norm: since one can rise, there will also be a darkening of the light.
大象「君子以自昭明德」一句，用詞與《大學》「明明德」相近，後世常將兩者相提並論。修身的根本在於自己顯揚內在的德性，不必等別人發現。
The Da Xiang's 'the superior man makes his own bright virtue shine' uses language close to the Great Learning's 'making bright virtue brilliant' (ming ming de), and later readers often set the two side by side. The root of self-cultivation is displaying the virtue within you yourself, not waiting to be discovered.
六五「失得勿恤」一句頗有道家底色，能放下得失計較的人才能真正前進，後世「不以物喜，不以己悲」也與此相呼應。
Line 5's 'do not fret over loss and gain' carries a distinctly Daoist undertone: only one who can drop the calculus of gain and loss can truly advance. The later maxim 'neither delighted by things nor grieved for oneself' echoes it.
九四「晉如鼫鼠」用貪而多疑的大鼠比喻錯誤的晉進，既想拿到一切又害怕失去，是六十四卦裡少見這麼具體的人性寫照。
Line 4's 'advancing like a marmot' uses the shishu, a large rat proverbially greedy and suspicious, as the image of advance gone wrong: wanting to grasp everything while fearing every loss. It is one of the more vividly concrete portraits of human failing among the sixty-four hexagrams.
「自昭明德」之意？這如何成為《大學》的源頭？
What does 自昭明德 (zi zhao ming de) mean? How is it a source of the Great Learning (Da Xue)?
為何六五「失得勿恤」是晉卦之至高境？
Why is line 5's 'no worry over loss/gain' Jin's highest state?
用九四「晉如鼫鼠」評論一個你曾既想要又害怕的時刻。
Use line 4 to comment on a time of wanting and fearing simultaneously.