concept

Perseverance

Beliefs & concepts

The named virtue of lasting in the good through long difficulty. Not fortitude as enduring hardness alone, and not patience as waiting without rage.

Chinese tradition

  • Perseverance appears in Chinese tradition.

    Wilhelm’s Yijing seats Duration / Persevering (Héng) among the sixty-four hexagrams as lasting-through counsel. A named perseverance in that classic’s hexagram counsel world, not fortitude as bare hardness alone and not patience as the waiting-counsel row already walked.

    from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950

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sources

  • I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)

    The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.