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Gate 63: Doubt

Doubt as the beginning of logic.

When it overshoots

Suspicion of everything, including yourself.

At its best

Doubt that asks a good question.

Carried and open

In a chart that carries it

Natally present, questioning runs strong; aim it at the theory before aiming it at yourself.

In a chart where it is open

Where it is open, someone else’s scepticism can unsettle; let it sharpen the thinking instead.

When it is in the sky

Doubt is in the air, and doubt is where good logic begins.

The six lines

1. Line 1, The InvestigatorDoubt needs a target, so aim it at a specific claim rather than at everything.
2. Line 2, The HermitQuestions come readily, and the people asked find their own thinking sharpened by the exchange.
3. Line 3, The MartyrDoubting everything at once is exhausting, and the exhaustion teaches how to doubt well.
4. Line 4, The OpportunistDoubt is most useful among friends who can turn it into a good question together.
5. Line 5, The HereticHunting the flaw in everything helps nobody; finding the one flaw that matters helps a great deal.
6. Line 6, The Role ModelThe doubts worth having led somewhere better understood, and the rest simply wore the mind out.

Channels through this gate

• Logic · 4-63Mental ease mixed with doubt. Doubt looking for a formula. Answers are hypotheses until tested. With Gate 4, Formulization.

The same figure in the Book of Changes

Gate 63 is hexagram 63, After Completion, read by an older tradition.