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    On May 16, 2010 at  1:58 PM 
  
  
    
how best to live?
  
  
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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 fourth line:
    A young bull's headboard.
Great fortune.  
     
   
 
    
  
  
 
  
   
  
    14 Great Holdings
  
  
    The Statement of the second hexagram
  
  
   Great hold_ings: 
supreme 
every_where.
  
   
 
     
    
        
    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
  
  
    Fire in heaven:
great holdings. 
The noble one 
curbs evil and fosters good, 
and is favored 
with heaven's blessings 
and commands.