I CHING LEXICON heng2 R#:61 R: Strokes:6,9 Wade/Giles:hêng2 Freq:24 constant, persevering, permanent Legge: constantly, constancy. Wieger: #2F, Constancy, perseverance. The heart [abbrev. form.] xin1 (the will) crossing from the beginning till the end, as a zhou1 boat does from er4 one bank to the other; the moral trip continued till one reaches the harbour. Rather a well found simile. H1L4, WY, jin4 tui4 wu2 heng2 , fei1 li2 qun2 ye3 . Blofeld: "Neither advance nor retreat can go on indefinately; what matters is not to desert the others." Legge: "He may advance or recede;--there is no permanent place for him: but he does not leave his fellows." Wilhelm: "In advance or retreat no sustained perseverence avails, except that one must not depart from one's nature." H16L5, liu4 wu3: zhen1 ji2, heng2 bu4 si3 . Blofeld: "Illness is presaged, but it will not last long or cause death." Legge: "The fifth six, divided, shows one with a chronic complaint, but who lives on without dying." Wilhelm: "Persistently ill, and still does not die." H1 L4 WY H5 L1 H5 L1 Image H16 L5 H16 L5 Image H32 H32 H32 COTD

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