7. The Army · 師 六五

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In practice

Choosing the situations you're able to face will keep you out of useless fights.

The poetry

There is game in the field. It is favorable to seize it. No fault. The eldest son leads the army; the younger son hauls corpses. Even with constancy, misfortune.

六五:田有禽,利執言,无咎。長子帥師,弟子輿尸,貞凶。

象曰:長子帥師,以中行也。弟子輿尸,使不當也。

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