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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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description: Three broken lines, three open doors — the ground that takes everything
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in and asks for nothing.
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source: obsidian-knowledge
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# Kun
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> *Three broken lines, three open doors — the ground that takes everything in and asks for nothing.*
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Kun is the pure yin trigram: three broken lines, ☷, each with its gap at the center, offering no resistance anywhere. It is **Earth**, the receptive ground that receives the sky's giving and turns it into form — soil, body, matter, the substance in which every seed must be planted before it can become anything. Where [Qian](/knowledge/trigrams/qian) initiates, Kun completes; where Qian is the will that decides, Kun is the patience that carries and brings to term. This is not weakness but a different strength: the yielding that outlasts the rigid, the softness that water uses to carve stone.
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Its action is receptivity, devotion, nourishing support — the capacity to hold and sustain. In the family of the eight, Kun is the **Mother**, the field into which the Father's energy descends and from which the six children are born. Among the [elements](/knowledge/elements) it maps cleanly onto Earth, cold and dark and fertile.
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In the **Earlier Heaven** arrangement Kun sits at the bottom, at the north, directly opposite [Qian](/knowledge/trigrams/qian) above it — the two poles between which all the other trigrams are strung. In the **Later Heaven** arrangement it takes the **Southwest**, the place of nourishment and the receptive mother-ground. In divination Kun counsels yielding rather than forcing, service rather than command, the wisdom of the one who supports and endures; its shadow is passivity that never acts at all, the ground that swallows what it was meant to grow.
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## The Figure
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| Attribute | Value |
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| Glyph | ☷ |
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| Image | Earth |
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| Attribute | Receptive, yielding |
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| Family | Mother |
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| Direction (Later Heaven) | Southwest |
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| Nearest Element | Earth |
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## Related
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- [Qian](/knowledge/trigrams/qian) — the creative pole; pure yang to Kun's pure yin
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- [Zhen](/knowledge/trigrams/zhen), [Kan](/knowledge/trigrams/kan), [Gen](/knowledge/trigrams/gen) — the three sons
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- [Xun](/knowledge/trigrams/xun), [Li](/knowledge/trigrams/li), [Dui](/knowledge/trigrams/dui) — the three daughters
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- [Elements](/knowledge/elements) — the Western elements, the trigrams' cousin
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- [Taoism](/knowledge/religions-of-the-world/taoism), [Trigrams](/knowledge/trigrams)
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