47. Overwhelmed · 困 初六

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In practice

In these hard times, above all, keep your inner strength: it will be your support.

The poetry

Buttocks caught on a tree stump. Goes into a dark valley; for three years, not seen.

初六:臀困于株木,入于幽谷,三歲不覿。

象曰:入于幽谷,幽不明也。

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