第4卦 · 山水蒙

亨。匪我求童蒙，童蒙求我。初筮告，再三渎，渎则不告。利贞。
蒙象征蒙昧待启。通过教育与信息对齐可达通达。但学习须由求知者主动（童蒙求我）；初次诚问则告，反复无意义地纠缠（再三渎）则不再相告。守正有利。
初六 发蒙，利用刑人，用说桎梏，以往吝。
九二 包蒙，吉。纳妇，吉。子克家。
六三 勿用取女，见金夫，不有躬，无攸利。
六四 困蒙，吝。
六五 童蒙，吉。
上九 击蒙，不利为寇，利御寇。

亨。匪我求童蒙，童蒙求我。初筮告，再三渎，渎则不告。利贞。
Growth is possible here. The teacher does not chase down the untutored student — the student must come seeking guidance. A first honest question earns a clear answer; asking the same thing over and over out of restlessness earns silence instead. Firm, patient resolve pays off.
Initial Six: To dispel folly, discipline is useful — to remove fetters. To proceed in this way alone, however, brings humiliation.
Nine in the second: Bearing fools with patience brings good fortune. To take a wife brings good fortune. The son carries the house.
Six in the third: Do not take such a maiden — the instant she sees a man of wealth, she abandons all sense of herself. This path leads nowhere good.
Six in the fourth: Trapped inside your own ignorance with no way out -- that isolation is its own humiliation.
Six in the fifth: Staying open and unassuming like a child, even here, is exactly what brings good fortune.
Nine at the top: To strike against folly. Committing an offense is not favored; warding off offenses is favored.