H^ eng / Duration
above:Tui The Joyous, Lake
below:K^ en Keeping Still, Mountain
The third [nine], undivided, shows one who does not continuously maintain his virtue. There are those who will impute this to him as a disgrace. However firm he may be, there will be ground for regret.
Line 3 is strong and in its proper place; but being beyond the center of the trigram, its subject is too strong, and coming under the attraction of his correlate in 6, he is supposed to be ready to abandon his place and virtue. He may try to be firm and correct, but circumstances are adverse to him.