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kennethreitz ce93f429a2 Add Knowledge: the vault's reference shelf, crosslinked across the site
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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One broken line resting atop two solid — the still lake open to the sky, joy that comes from an unguarded surface. obsidian-knowledge

Dui

One broken line resting atop two solid — the still lake open to the sky, joy that comes from an unguarded surface.


Dui is the trigram of the Lake, ☱: two solid yang lines below and a single broken yin line laid open across the top. That yielding line at the surface is the whole image — the calm, receptive face of a lake that lies open to the heavens, gathering their light and giving back reflection. Dui is the Joyous, the trigram of pleasure, openness, and glad exchange: the serenity of still water, the delight of easy conversation, the satisfaction of a thing that is complete and at peace with being seen.

As the last of Qian's daughters — receiving her yin line in the topmost place — Dui is the Youngest Daughter, the counterpart to Gen the youngest son, whose solid top she inverts into an open one. Its images gather around Metal and Water: the lake's still pool and the bright clarity often associated with metal in the Chinese phases, sitting a little aslant of the Western Elements. The Later Heaven arrangement places it in the West, the direction of autumn, harvest, and the mellow contentment of the year's gathering-in.

In divination Dui brings gladness, communication, and the pleasure of open hearts — but a lake's openness can also become mere surface, delight untethered from depth. Its counsel is that true joy is receptive and shared rather than grasped, the calm surface that reflects because it has nothing to hide.

The Figure

Attribute Value
Glyph ☱
Image Lake
Attribute Joyous, open
Family Youngest daughter
Direction (Later Heaven) West
Nearest Element Metal / Water
  • Gen — the youngest son, its counterpart among the sons
  • Xun, Li — the eldest and middle daughters
  • Qian, Kun — the father and mother of the eight
  • Elements — the Western elements, the trigrams' cousin
  • Taoism, Trigrams