Hexagram 33 | Retreat | |||
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Dùn indicates successful progress (in its circumstances). To a small extent it will (still) be advantageous to be firm and correct.
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Judgement | Retreat. Success. In what is small, perseverance furthers. | |||
Image | Mountain under heaven. Image of Retreat. Thus the superior man keeps the inferior man at a distance, Not angrily but with reserve. | |||
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Expression: Cheerful retreat. Everything serves to further. | |||
Image: 'He retires in a noble way, and his doing so will be advantageous in every respect:'--he who does so has no doubts about his course. | ||||
95
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Expression: Friendly retreat. Perseverance brings good fortune. | |||
Image: 'He retires in an admirable way, and with firm correctness there will be good fortune:'--this is due to the rectitude of his purpose. | ||||
94
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Expression: Voluntary retreat brings good fortune to the superior man and downfall to the inferior man. | |||
Image: 'A superior man retires notwithstanding his likings; a small man cannot attain to this.' | ||||
93
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Expression: A halted retreat is nerve-wracking and dangerous. To retain people as men- and maidservants brings good fortune. | |||
Image: 'The peril connected with the case of one retiring, though bound,' is due to the (consequent) distress and exhaustion. 'If he were (to deal as in) nourishing a servant or concubine, it would be fortunate for him:'--but a great affair cannot be dealt with in this way. | ||||
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Expression: He holds him fast with yellow oxhide. No one can tear him loose. | |||
Image: 'He holds it as; by (a thong from the hide of) a yellow ox:'--his purpose is firm. | ||||
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Expression: At the tail in retreat. This is dangerous. One must not wish to undertake anything. | |||
Image: There is 'the perilousness of the position shown by the retiring tail:'--but if 'no movement' be made, what disaster can there be? | ||||