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    On December  4, 2010 at  1:09 AM 
  
  
    
what is the lesson i can learn from this situation?
  
  
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    26 Great Restraint
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      Gain by being upright. 
Not eating at home brings fortune. 
Advance across the great river.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The fifth line:
    A gelded hog's teeth. 
Favorable.  
  
    The sixth line:
    Where is heaven's thoroughfare? 
Go through it.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    5 Waiting
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Waiting. Stay confident: 
there is light everywhere. 
Pure fortune. 
Advance across the great river.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    The Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    Heaven in the center of a 
mountain: great restraint. 
The noble one 
frequently studies 
the words and prophesies 
of the past, and thereby 
nourishes virtue.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Clouds rising to heaven: 
waiting. The noble one 
drinks, eats, 
and feasts with joy.