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Hexagram 5 | Waiting (Nourishment) | ||
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| Judgement | Waiting. If you are sincere, You have light and success. Perseverance brings good fortune. It furthers one to cross the great water. | |||
| Image | Clouds rise up to heaven: The image of Waiting. Thus the superior man eats and drinks, Is joyous and of good cheer. | |||
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Expression: One falls into the pit. Three uninvited guests arrive. Honor them, and in the end there will be good fortune. | |||
| Image: 'Guests come unurged (to give their help), and if (the subject of the line) receive them respectfully, there will be good fortune in the end:'--though the occupant and the place are not suited to each other, there has been no great failure (in what has been done). | ||||
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Expression: Waiting at meat and drink. Perseverance brings good fortune. | |||
| Image: 'The appliances of a feast, and the good fortune through being firm and correct,' are indicated by (the position in) the central and correct place. | ||||
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Expression: Waiting in blood. Get out of the pit. | |||
| Image: 'He is waiting in (the place of) blood:'--he accommodates himself (to the circumstances of the time), and hearkens to (its requirements). | ||||
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Expression: Waiting in the mud. Brings about the arrival of the enemy. | |||
| Image: 'He is waiting in the mud:'--calamity is (close at hand, and as it were) in the outer (trigram). 'He himself invites the approach of injury:'--if he be reverent and careful, he will not be worsted. | ||||
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Expression: Waiting on the sand. There is some gossip. The end brings good fortune. | |||
| Image: 'He is waiting on the sand:'--he occupies his position in the centre with a generous forbearance. Though 'he suffer the small injury of being spoken (against),' he will bring things to a good issue. | ||||
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爻辭: 需于郊。利用恆，無咎。 | |||
| 象曰: 需于郊，不犯難行也。利用恆，無咎﹔未失常也。 | ||||
