乾 → 无妄
Hexagram 1: The Creative → Hexagram 25: Innocence
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 3).
Line 2
九二 見龍在田。利見大人。
Nine in the second place means: Dragon appearing in the field. It furthers one to see the great man.
Line 3
九三 君子終日乾乾。夕惕若厲。无咎。
Nine in the third place means: All day long the superior man is creatively active. At nightfall his mind is still beset with cares. Danger. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
傳言相誤，非干徑路。鳴鼓逐狐，不知迹處。
Rumor misleads; it strays from the straight path. Beating drums to chase the fox, its tracks cannot be found.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Rumors are passed along and garbled in transmission — they never traveled the direct path. Drums beat to chase a fox, but no one knows where its tracks lead. From Creative to Innocence, thunder moves beneath heaven, all things partake of the unexpected. Wu Wang's very name means 'without falsehood' — yet this verse shows a world drowning in it. False reports corrupt the message; the fox-hunt based on distorted intelligence chases shadows. The drums are loud but misdirected. When heaven's thunder strikes without warning, it demands sincerity as the only adequate response. Those who act on rumor rather than truth embody the opposite of Innocence, and their pursuits find nothing.
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