57. Gentleness · 巽 上九
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In practice
If you lose heart and drop the project because you don't see results yet, you'll lose what you've gained.
The poetry
Yielding beneath the bed. Loses goods and axe. Even with constancy, misfortune.
上九：巽在牀下，喪其資斧，貞凶。
象曰：巽在牀下，上窮也。喪其資斧，正乎凶也。
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