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Buttocks without flesh. He limps haltingly, like an animal led on a leash. The cause for sorrow will disappear. When you hear people’s words, do not trust them. You have been punished or hurt and feel isolated. See this as a gift from fate. Do not believe what people tell you and keep your own speech guarded. You are waiting in blood so get out of the cave. You need the power and the insight of the ancient sages. Take heart and fight your way through even though your social duties may suffer. Step outside the norms. Co-operate with the on-going process of change.

九四, 臀无膚, 其行次且, 牽羊悔亡, 聞言不信.

There is no skin on his thighs, And walking comes hard. If a man were to let himself be led like a sheep, Remorse would disappear. But if these words are heard ##### Comments They will not be believed. Here a man is suffering from inner restlessness and cannot abide in his place. He would like to push forward under any circumstances, but encounters insuperable obstacles. Thus his situation entails an inner conflict. This is due to the obstinacy with which he seeks to enforce his will. If he would desist from this obstinacy, everything would go well. But this advice, like so much other good counsel, will be ignored. For obstinacy makes a man unable to hear, for all that he has ears.