6. Conflict · 訟 上九

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In practice

Insisting on being right at this moment will only make you lose.

The poetry

Perhaps a belt of honor is bestowed; before the morning is out, it is stripped away three times.

上九:或錫之鞶帶,終朝三褫之。

象曰:以訟受服,亦不足敬也。

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