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Youthful Folly

meng ·

NO
Misfortune

Interpretation

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Upper Trigram

Mountain

Lower Trigram

Water

The Judgment (King Wen)

Youthful Folly has success. It is not I who seek the young fool; the young fool seeks me.

The Image

A spring wells up at the foot of the mountain: the image of Youth. Thus the superior man fosters his character by thoroughness in all that he does.

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