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.
明從地上出——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（賢能諸侯）獲賜眾多馬匹，一日之內被天子三次接見。晉升之卦，賢能受重用。
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）上出，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。受到大福於其「王母」（祖母輩之尊長）。
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，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（貪而多疑之鼠）——守此有險。剛在陰位，貪而多畏。
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（極致）——只可用以伐邑（小規模征伐），厲而吉，無咎，但守此吝。
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/gain
晉卦最大的應用：「自昭明德」+「失得勿恤」。前進的根本是自我顯揚的德性，不是貪取的位置。最忌九四「晉如鼫鼠」（既想要又怕失）。最高境是六五的「不執著得失」。
Jin's deepest applications: 'self-illuminating virtue' + 'no anxiety over loss/gain'. True advance is illumination of inner virtue, not grasping at position. Worst: line 4's 'marmot' — wanting and fearing simultaneously. Peak: line 5's non-attachment.
九四「鼫鼠」是現代職場最常見的失——既想晉升又怕失去現有的，左右為難而停滯。讀此爻記住：要前進就要敢於放下，否則就成鼫鼠。
Line 4 'marmot' — the modern career's most common failure. Wanting promotion but fearing to lose the present, paralyzed in between. To advance, dare to release — otherwise you're the greedy rat.
王弼以為晉卦之義在「明出地上」——日出之時，自然光明。康侯之德如此。讀此卦最該記住大象「自昭明德」——不是別人讓你光明，是自己顯揚自己的德性。
Wang Bi holds that Jin's meaning lies in 'brightness coming forth above the earth' — at sunrise, light comes of itself; such is the virtue of the Marquis Kang. What most deserves remembering is the Da Xiang's 'making one's own bright virtue shine' (zi zhao ming de 自昭明德) — no one else makes you luminous; you display your own virtue yourself.
程子強調晉之為晉是「依時而進」，不是強進。彼以六五「失得勿恤」為全卦之主——能放下計較得失的人才能真正前進。
Cheng Yi stresses that the advance of Jin is '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」是反例，貪進而多疑必凶。學者觀此知：真進是有德而進，不是貪進。
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 leads surely 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賬，算得越勤，步子越亂；把賬放下，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 — there's always 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 — the more carefully you keep it, the more your steps stumble. Put the ledger down and walk out, and everything goes smoothly.
To advance; promotion, rising — the sun coming up over the earth.
The Marquis Kang — a capable lord who secures the people's peace.
To bestow, confer (the old graph for 賜 — not 'tin').
Numerous, abundant.
Not, without.
A large rat, proverbially greedy and suspicious — able at many things, master of none.
To worry over, fret about.
Horns — the furthest tip; advance at its very limit.
第 35 晉（日出）與第 36 明夷（日入）為一對綜卦。卦序揭示：升降循環是常態——既然能晉升，就也會有明夷。
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」一句是《大學》「明明德」的源頭。修身的根本不是被別人發現，是自己顯揚自己內在的德性。
The Da Xiang's 'the superior man makes his own bright virtue shine' is the source of the Great Learning's 'making bright virtue brilliant' (ming ming de 明明德). The root of self-cultivation is not being discovered by others; it is displaying the virtue within you yourself.
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」皆與此呼應。
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「鼫鼠」這種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。是六十四卦中最具象的人性反例。
Line 4's 'advancing like a marmot' uses the shishu 鼫鼠 — a large rat, proverbially greedy and suspicious — as the image of advance gone wrong: wanting to grasp everything while fearing every loss. It is the most concrete portrait of human failing in all 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.