Classic of Changes

易
經
Yì
jīng
~800 BCE
恆 第三十二
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恆 第三十二 Hexagram 32 · Héng

恆:亨,无咎。利貞,利有攸往。

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Hăng 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.

初六:浚恆,貞凶,无攸利。

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The first line, divided, shows its subject deeply (desirous) of long continuance. Even with firm correctness there will be evil; there will be no advantage in any way.

九二:悔亡。

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The second line, undivided, shows all occasion for repentance disappearing.

九三:不恆其德,或承之羞,貞吝。

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The third line, undivided, shows one who does not continuously maintain his virtue. There are those who will impute this to him as a disgrace. However firm he may be, there will be ground for regret.

九四:田无禽。

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The fourth line, undivided, shows a field where there is no game.

六五:恆其德,貞,婦人吉,夫子凶。

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The fifth line, divided, shows its subject continuously maintaining the virtue indicated by it. In a wife this will be fortunate; in a husband, evil.

上六:振恆,凶。

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The topmost line, divided, shows its subject exciting himself to long continuance. There will be evil.