Duration — constancy that endures through time.
Lasting success comes from steady persistence in a settled course. Endure without rigidity, holding your direction while adapting in the details. What lasts is what is continually renewed.
enduranceconstancyperseverancestability
Duration places Thunder (arousing, moving) above Wind (gentle, penetrating). The interplay of these two trigrams gives the hexagram its character.
The Classical Textoriginal Chinese
The Judgment · 卦辞
亨，无咎，利贞，利有攸往。
The Image · 大象
雷风，恒；君子以立不易方。
The Six Lines · 爻辞
- 初六浚恒，贞凶，无攸利。象曰：浚恒之凶，始求深也。
- 九二悔亡。象曰：九二悔亡，能久中也。
- 九三不恒其德，或承之羞，贞吝。象曰：不恒其德，无所容也。
- 九四田无禽。象曰：久非其位，安得禽也。
- 六五恒其德，贞，妇人吉，夫子凶。象曰：妇人贞吉，从一而终也。夫子制义，从妇凶也。
- 上六振恒，凶。象曰：振恒在上，大无功也。
The judgment, image and line texts above are quoted from the original Zhou Yi. A modern Chinese translation of the full classic is available on the original-text page.