Conflict
Judgment
— I Ching · classical
有孚，窒惕，中吉，终凶。利见大人，不利涉大川。
You are sincere, yet you are obstructed. A cautious halt midway brings good fortune; carrying the conflict to the end brings misfortune. It furthers one to see a great person. It does not further to cross the great water.
Image
— Great Image
天与水违行，讼，君子以作事谋始。
Heaven and water go against each other: the image of conflict. The superior person, in conducting affairs, considers the beginning carefully.
Six Lines
— Bottom to top
Modern Readings
— Interdisciplinary
Career & Management
Partnership disputes, contractual breach, cross-department blame games. Operating principle: 'no winners in litigation'; settle in the middle, refuse the marathon.
Psychology & Cognition
Defeat the 'competitive ego bias' and the sunk-cost fallacy. Separate the emotional charge from the actual material cost.
Decision Guidance
Find a neutral arbiter. Do not launch new ventures while in conflict (the great water is closed). Settle, save the core, and exit.
Western Parallels
— Cross-cultural
Game theory's 'tit-for-tat with forgiveness' (Axelrod); Sun Tzu's 'highest victory wins without battle'; Ury & Fisher's 'Getting to Yes' on principled negotiation; Stoic emotion-regulation; the legal principle 'a bad settlement is better than a good lawsuit'.
· English renderings and modern readings are original editorial writing, cross-checked against public-domain and classical commentary lineages.
· Anygua does not predict, score, schedule, ward, or recommend rituals.
· Modern inputs are reproducible; traditional casts can be audited line by line from the stored coin/yarrow trace.