金
금(金)
the metal breath — cutting
What it means
金 is the breath of gathering and cutting.
In the seasons it is autumn; in the directions, the west.
It receives the bearing of 土 and bears 水; it receives the control of 火 and controls 木.
What the document says
The cutting breath runs over.
Decision and principle are strong.
Past measure it is cold and sharp, and it collides.
A warm word turns that hardness into grace.
The cutting breath is right.
Decision, loyalty and restraint are even.
It divides right from wrong without wounding the person.
The cutting breath is shallow.
The firmness to cut off and conclude is short, so it wavers.
Order, a plain standard and white light fill that breath.
The cutting breath holds the balance.
Decision, restraint and finishing lift the fortune.
White light and the west, order, and a plain standard are of use.
A record born in the cold season.
What this seat needs is not warmth but an edge.
To prune the crooked branch and open the dried spring comes first.
A record born in the hot season.
To call water in a dry season, there must first be metal to be its spring.
The place water rises from must be had before the water itself.
A record born in a season that does not lean.
The season gives no push, so its own standard becomes the direction.
Where it stands
- 第二卷 五氣the Five Breaths88% legible