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Entering into a pit With no invitations extended to visitors, three people arrive To attend to them will end in good fortune

Not capable of contending Capitulate and take refuge One’s home town’s people, three hundred households, Will escape suffering

If somehow one is awarded the leather belt and ribbons By the end of the morning they will be three times stripped away

At the heart of the militia Promising Not a mistake The sovereign three times grants commissions

Belonging exemplified: The sovereign employs only three game flushers Letting go of the forward game His district’s inhabitants will not be coerced Promising

Caching weapons in the underbrush Climbing one’s highest hill Three years without rising up

Most fulfilling Worthwhile to cross the great stream Before the beginning, three days After the beginning, three days

Inexperience At the foot of the mountain are hazards (To be) at risk and yet remain still (Shows) inexperience Inexperience (is) fulfilled: According to fulfillment’s conduct at the heart of the time It is not I (who) seeks the young (and) inexperienced, The young (and) inexperienced seek me: The objectives (are) complementary The first consultation informs: According to the firmness within The second (and) third (show) disrespect Disrespect deserves no information: Disrespect (shows) immaturity Inexperience (is) the way to cultivate uprightness (This is) a sacred task

07.2x At the heart of the militia (is) promise: Upholding heaven’s favor * The sovereign three times grants commissions: Embracing the myriad realms

13.3x Caching weapons in the underbrush: The rivalry (is) strong * Three years with no exuberance: Security in action

Detoxifying The firm (is) above while the flexible (is) below Adaptive and yet motionless Fixations Detoxifying (is) most fulfilling: As all under heaven (is) healed Worthwhile to cross the great stream: (In) moving on there is work to do Before the beginning, three days, After the beginning, three days: In the end, in due order, there will be a beginning As heaven behaves

Bound up with braided rope and stranded cord Put away inside a thicket of thorny brambles Three years without gains Unfortunate

29.6x Top six loses the way: An unfortunate three years

The prosperous lord* uses grants of horses to breed a multitude And by the light of a day three times grants audience

Expansion (Means) progress The light rises over the earth Compliance along with reliance upon great clarity The flexible advances, but with superior conduct And so it is that the prosperous lord uses grants (of) horses To breed a multitude (And) by the light of a day three times grants audience

Brightness obscured during flight* Dragging one’s wing The noble young one in traveling Goes three days without a meal When there is somewhere to go Those in power would gossip

On the hunt, taking three foxes Claiming the golden arrow Persistence is timely

Three people set out And in due order lose one member A single person sets out And in due order finds a companion

41.3x One person sets out: The third gives rise to uncertainties

With bottom belabored by a wooden cane Going into the valley of gloom For three years not seen face to face

To expedite has pitfalls Commitment is difficult When talk of change has circled three times Then be sure

49.3x (When) change (is) discussed three times all around: Given that, where is this?*

The wild geese advance by degrees to higher ground The wife is three years without conceiving In the end nothing overcomes her Promising

So rich are their dwellings Screening away their own families Peering through their doorways Desolate in their want of others Three years not seen face to face Unfortunate

Regrets pass In the field take three kinds of game

57.4x (In) the field take three kinds (of game): This will be an accomplishment

Persistence is promising Regrets pass Nothing cannot be turned to advantage Regardless of beginning, there will be an outcome Before reforming, three days After reforming, three days Opportune

The illustrious ancestor subjugated barbarian country It took three years to conquer them Lesser people were not at all useful

63.3x Three years to conquer them: Exhausting

Persistence is promising while regrets pass Force was spent to subjugate the barbarian country Though three years brought rewards of great domains