Hexagram 41 · 損 sǔn
Reduction · line 1
初九:已事遄往,无咎,酌損之。
The first line, undivided, shows its subject suspending his own affairs, and hurrying away (to help the subject of the fourth line). He will commit no error, but let him consider how far he should contribute of what is his (for the other).
James Legge, 1882
Hexagram 41 Reduction · Judgement
損:有孚,元吉,无咎,可貞,利有攸往。曷之用?二簋可用享。
In (what is denoted by) Sun, if there be sincerity (in him who employs it), there will be great good fortune:—freedom from error; firmness and correctness that can be maintained; and advantage in every movement that shall be made. In what shall this (sincerity in the exercise of Sun) be employed? (Even) in sacrifice two baskets of grain, (though there be nothing else), may be presented.
James Legge, 1882