30. The Flame · 離 九四
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In practice
A quick rise, unless your inner strength and steadiness feed it, will be short-lived.
The poetry
Suddenly, so it comes: blazing, dying, cast away.
九四：突如其來如，焚如，死如，棄如。
象曰：突如其來如，无所容也。
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