56. The Traveler · 旅 上九
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In practice
If you relax too much, forgetting that you're only passing through, and stop tending to your ultimate purpose, you'll run into problems.
The poetry
The bird burns its nest. The traveler laughs first and wails aloud after. Loses the ox at Yi. Misfortune.
上九：鳥焚其巢，旅人先笑後號咷。喪牛于易，凶。
象曰：以旅在上，其義焚也。喪牛于易，終莫之聞也。
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