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Hexagram 58
Tui - The Joyous, Lake

yin
yang above: Tui / The Joyous, Lake
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yin
yang below: Tui / The Joyous, Lake
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CHANGING LINE:

Hexagram Fifty-Eight/Line Three


Six in the third place means:
Coming joyousness. Misfortune.


Romans of the Decadence

'The Romans of the Decadence' - Thomas Couture, 1847


True joy must spring from within. But if one is empty within and wholly given over to the world, idle pleasures come streaming in from without. This is what many people welcome as diversion. Those who lack inner stability and therefore need amusement, will always find opportunity of indulgence. They attract external pleasures by the emptiness of their natures. Thus they lose themselves more and more, which of course has bad results.


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