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Hexagram 33 Retreat
Expression Dùn indicates successful progress (in its circumstances). To a small extent it will (still) be advantageous to be firm and correct.
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.
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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.
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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.'
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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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      爻辭: 遯尾，厲，勿用有攸往。
象曰: 遯尾之厲，不往何災也。