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    On June 26, 2010 at 11:26 PM 
  
  
    
Is it wrong to go on a press trip without my boss knowing?
  
  
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    28 Great Excess
  
  
    
      
      The Statement of the first hexagram
    
    
      The ridgepole sags. 
Gain by having a place to go. 
Continue.
    
   
  
    The changing lines
    
        
    The fourth line:
    An ample beam. Fortunate, 
unless there has been stinting.  
  
    The fifth line:
    Withered wood blooms with flowers.
An old woman takes a husband. 
Neither fault nor praise.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    46 Rising
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Rising. Great continuing. 
Act now to see the great person. 
Do not be distressed. Advance southward:
fortune.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    The Image of the first hexagram
  
  
    The lake overwhelms 
the trees: great excess. 
The noble one stands alone 
without fear, 
and can withdraw 
from the world 
without sorrow.  
      
      
      
      
     
    
        
    The Image of the second hexagram
  
  
    Wood growing in the 
center of the land: rising. 
The noble one is mild, 
gradually raising what is 
tiny into the tall and great.