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- "Lu intimates that (in the condition which it denotes) there may be "
- "some little attainment and progress. If the stranger or traveller be "
- "firm and correct as he ought to be, there will be good fortune. "
- "1. The first line, divided, shows the stranger mean and meanly "
- "occupied. It is thus that he brings on himself (further) calamity. "
- " "
- "2. The second line, divided, shows the stranger, occupying his "
- "lodging-house, carrying with him his means of livelihood, and "
- "provided with good and trusty servants. "
- " "
- "3. The third line, undivided, shows the stranger, burning his "
- "lodging-house, and having lost his servants. However firm and correct "
- "he (try to) be, he will be in peril. "
- " "
- "4. The fourth line, undivided, shows the traveller in a resting "
- "place, having (also) the means of livelihood and the axe, (but still "
- "saying), I am not at ease in my mind. "
- " "
- "5. The fifth line, divided, shows its subject shooting a pheasant. "
- "He will lose his arrow, but in the end he will obtain praise and a "
- "(high) charge. "
- " "
- "6. The sixth line, undivided, suggests the idea of a bird burning its "
- "nest. The stranger, (thus represented), first laughs and then cries "
- "out. He has lost his ox (-like docility) too readily and easily. "
- "There will be evil. "
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- " Fire briefly lights up the mountain but it moves on from place to place"
- " as the fuel is exhausted. The wise man uses punishment in the same"
- " way - swift, clear and appropriate in severity to the transgression."
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