Exact classical source
明出地上，晋。君子以自昭明德。
Yarrow editorial translation. Brightness emerges above the earth: Progress. Thus the noble person makes bright conduct visible.
Yarrow / Source Notes / 2026-07-17
Yarrow Image-to-Action note · 2026-07-17
Show the Change Before Claiming Progress
Read Hexagram 35 Jin through light emerging above the earth, then make a progress claim visible from prior state to credited result.
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Hexagram 35 · Jin · Progress
This page studies a supplied Xiang image. It does not claim this hexagram was cast for the modern scene.
Source image
Light rises from below the horizon and progressively exposes the field that had previously remained unseen.
Concrete tension
A team announces progress publicly without showing the prior state, what changed, the resulting state, or who contributed.
Visible modern action
Before publishing a progress claim, post one dated four-row record: prior state, change made, resulting state, and named contributors. Link the claim to that record and leave the earlier evidence visible so the audience can inspect how the result emerged.
Why this action comes from this source
The source makes progress an emergence into visible light and asks conduct to illuminate itself. The prior state and resulting state show the emergence, the change made explains it, and named contributors prevent brightness from becoming an unsupported institutional claim.
Reflection question
What progress claim still lacks a visible before, change, after, and contributor?
Audience value
Informative and caring: the method makes progress inspectable while preserving credit for the people who produced it.
Source boundary
The Chinese quotation is checked against Yarrow's bundled Yang Tiancai and Zhang Shanwen source text. Where that OCR witness substitutes a character, the page discloses the raw reading and checks the correction against a second classical witness. The English translation, objects, tension, and action are modern Yarrow editorial work. This is not a fresh cast, prediction, or promised outcome.