Kong Anguo

Stay in your lane.

So let's spend a minute and take a look at that line, the strangely still mountain hexagram it's tied to, and why centuries of commentators couldn't resist softening what sounds like a very strict rule.

[gong] Exploring the Analects, Episode 26.

Passages 8.14 and 14.26.

He said, to hold a low position, but to speak of lofty matters, is a crime.

So at first glance, the tradition agrees with Confucius completely.

But read a little further, and the commentators start to make a bit of room.

It starts off with a single word, mo, which I translated as direct.