原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
Reader's edition
含詞賦 With rhapsody
坎離既濟 Water And Fire After Completion
誠所謂：诚所谓：
坎離既濟真元合，水火均平大道成。坎离既济真元合，水火均平大道成。
逐句解 Line by line
誠所謂：
诚所谓：
It is truly what is meant by:
The plainest and shortest of the chapter's verse cues, three characters standing alone. What follows is a single couplet, the chapter's briefest verse after six long ones.
坎離既濟真元合，水火均平大道成。
坎离既济真元合，水火均平大道成。
Kan and Li in After Completion, and the True Origin is joined; water and fire in even balance, and the Great Way is made.
坎 and 離 are the trigrams of water and fire, and 既濟 is the hexagram they make when water stands above fire — the sixty-third, After Completion. The couplet closes a figure the chapter has built three times: 用芭蕉，為水意，焰火消除成既濟 in the alchemical poem, 水火相聯性自平 in the last regulated poem, and now 水火均平大道成. A fan, a mountain of fire and a hexagram, stated at last as one thing.
The chapter's seventh and last verse is two lines. After two long battle poems, an alchemical reading of a fight, a third battle poem running two hundred and thirty-five characters, two verse speeches, a quatrain and a regulated eight-line poem, it closes on a single couplet introduced by three characters.
What the couplet does is finish a figure the chapter has built three separate times. 用芭蕉，為水意，焰火消除成既濟 in the alchemical poem; 水火相聯性自平 in the regulated one; and now 坎離既濟真元合，水火均平大道成. Kǎn above Lí, water over fire, hexagram sixty-three. A banana-leaf fan, a burning mountain and a diagram from the Changes, stated at last as one thing.