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Hexagram 32
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Duration
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Expression
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Héng indicates successful progress and no error (in what it denotes). But the advantage will come from being firm and correct; and movement in any direction whatever will be advantageous.
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Judgement
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Duration. Success. No blame. Perseverance furthers. It furthers one to have somewhere to go.
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Image
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Thunder and wind. Image of Duration. Thus the superior man stands firm And does not change his direction.
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66
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Expression:
Restlessness as an enduring condition brings misfortune.
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Image:
'The subject of the topmost line is exciting himself to long continuance:'--far will he be from achieving merit.
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65
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Expression:
Giving duration to one's character through perseverance. This is good fortune for a woman, misfortune for a man.
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Image:
'Such firm correctness in a wife will be fortunate:'--it is hers to the end of life to follow with an unchanged mind. The husband must decide what is right, and lay down the rule accordingly:--for him to follow (like) a wife is evil.
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94
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Expression:
No game in the field.
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Image:
(Going) for long to what is not his proper place, how can he get game?
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93
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Expression:
He who does not give duration to his character meets with disgrace. Persistent humiliation.
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Image:
'He does not continuously maintain his virtue:'--nowhere will he be borne with.
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92
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Expression:
Remorse disappears.
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Image:
'All occasion for repentance on the part of the subject of the second NINE, (undivided,), disappears:'--he can abide long in the due mean.
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16
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Expression:
Seeking duration too hastily brings misfortune persistently. Nothing that would further.
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Image:
The evil attached to the deep desire for long continuance (in the subject of the first line)' arises from the deep seeking for it at the commencement (of things).
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