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Nine in the third place means: Keeping his hips still. Making his sacrum stiff. Dangerous. The heart suffocates.
Shows its subject keeping his loins at rest, and separating the ribs (from the body below). The situation is perilous, and the heart glows with suppressed excitement.
52.3, 9 3rd
Setting those restrictions*
Enumerating those distances
Rigors choke the heart
52, Notes
* 52.3 I am not convinced that the primary meanings here continue the anatomical analogy, i.e. that xian should be glossed as loins or waist and yin as ribs, vertebrae, or a spinal muscle. These meanings, if they were original and not simply derived in an attempt to complete the analogy, did not survive in the Chinese language. Neither do they appear to be etymological in origin.
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