5. Inaction · 需 九三

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In practice

If you act in haste, you'll run into trouble.

The poetry

Waiting in the mud. It brings the raiders on.

九三:需于泥,致寇至。

象曰:需于泥,災在外也。自我致寇,敬慎不敗也。

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