21. Biting · 噬嗑 上九

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In practice

Insisting on staying on the wrong path and refusing to hear advice or warnings will lead you to failure.

The poetry

A wooden collar on the neck, the ears lost from sight. Misfortune.

上九:何校滅耳,凶。

象曰:何校滅耳,聰不明也。

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