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Hexagram 32 Duration
Expression 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.
Judgement Duration. Success. No blame. Perseverance furthers. It furthers one to have somewhere to go.
Image Thunder and wind. Image of Duration. Thus the superior man stands firm And does not change his direction.
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      Expression: Restlessness as an enduring condition brings misfortune.
Image: 'The subject of the topmost line is exciting himself to long continuance:'--far will he be from achieving merit.
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      Expression: Giving duration to one's character through perseverance. This is good fortune for a woman, misfortune for a man.
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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  Expression: No game in the field.
Image: (Going) for long to what is not his proper place, how can he get game?
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  Expression: He who does not give duration to his character meets with disgrace. Persistent humiliation.
Image: 'He does not continuously maintain his virtue:'--nowhere will he be borne with.
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  Expression: Remorse disappears.
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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      Expression: Seeking duration too hastily brings misfortune persistently. Nothing that would further.
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).