I Ching Consultation

51. Shock

Shock.
Progressing.
A shock comes, fright, fright!
Laughing and talking, ha, ha!
The shock startled in a hundred li,
but one did not lose the sacrificial wine in the ladle.

There is a shock that has a lot of impact. Although one is alarmed by the shock, there is no real harm done. When it's over one might even look back and make fun of it. Notwithstanding its force one does not allow it to break one's concentration.
(100 li is about 40 kilometer or 25 miles.)

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