Hexagram 32 · ䷟

Duration

恆 · Héng

Upper Thunder 震Lower Wind 巽

The Judgment · 卦辭

亨，无咎。利貞，利有攸往。

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.

The Image · 大象

雷風，恆；君子以立不易方。

(The trigram representing) thunder and that for wind form Hăng. The superior man, in accordance with this, stands firm, and does not change his method (of operation).

Plain-English Meaning

Duration. What lasts is steady commitment that still moves with life.

The Judgment

Perseverance without fault brings success; it favours having somewhere to go.

The Image

Like thunder and wind together, stand firm and do not change your direction.

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The Lines · 爻辭

初六 · Line 1
浚恆，貞凶，无攸利。
The first SIX, 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.
象曰：浚恆之凶，始求深也。
九二 · Line 2
悔亡。
The second NINE, undivided, shows all occasion for repentance disappearing.
象曰：九二悔亡，能久中也。
九三 · Line 3
不恆其德，或承之羞，貞吝。
The third NINE, 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.
象曰：不恆其德，无所容也。
九四 · Line 4
田无禽。
The fourth NINE, undivided, shows a field where there is no game.
象曰：久非其位，安得禽也。
六五 · Line 5
恆其德，貞，婦人吉，夫子凶。
The fifth SIX, divided, shows its subject continuously maintaining the virtue indicated by it. In a wife this will be fortunate; in a husband, evil.
象曰：婦人貞吉，從一而終也。夫子制義，從婦凶也。
上六 · Line 6
震恆，凶。
The topmost SIX, divided, shows its subject exciting himself to long continuance. There will be evil.
象曰：振恆在上，大无功也。

English: James Legge (1882), public domain · Text · Image (Appendix II), sacred-texts.com.

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