易I CHING · THE BOOK OF CHANGES

Hexagram 32 of 64 · King Wen sequence

Duration

恒 · héng

Above
Thunder
Below
Wind

Thunder above wind: constancy — a marriage that lasts, a character that holds, persistence in the right course without rigidity.

Thunder and wind endure together, each in its own role: Duration is the hexagram of what lasts — not by standing still, but by continuing in the right course through changing weather.

Its counsel is about the quality of the persistence: duration in the wrong course is only stubbornness, and the text watches the position before praising the endurance. Hold the course because the course is true — and let the roles, like the thunder and the wind, each keep doing their own work.

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