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Hexagram 5 Waiting (Nourishment)
Expression Hsu intimates that, with the sincerity which is declared in it, there will be brilliant success. With firmness there will be good fortune; and it will be advantageous to cross the great stream.
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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  Expression: Waiting in the meadow. It furthers one to abide in what endures. No blame.
Image: 'He is waiting in the (distant) border:'--he makes no movement to encounter rashly the difficulties (of the situation). 'It will be advantageous for him constantly to maintain (the purpose thus shown), in which case there will be no error:'--he will not fail to pursue that regular course.