Enrich the base, and plenty followsIncrease
True abundance flows toward the low places.
Yi is wind over thunder — the upper bestows, the lower receives. Opposite in direction to Decrease, identical in essence: energy in motion. Its enrich-the-below means giving benefit to the foundation, to those beside you, to concrete things. It looks like outlay; actually it thickens the whole field. All who are abundant long-term know: plenty begins by flowing out.
A line: someone brings a great tortoise worth ten pairs of shells, and it cannot be declined. When increase ripens, good things come looking for you — and then the question inverts: do I deserve this weight? Receiving well is harder than obtaining.
