泰 → 乾
Hexagram 11: Peace → Hexagram 1: The Creative
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).
Line 4
六四 翩翩。不富以其鄰。不戒以孚。
Six in the fourth place means: He flutters down, not boasting of his wealth, Together with his neighbor, Guileless and sincere.
Line 5
六五 帝乙歸妹。以祉元吉。
Six in the fifth place means: The sovereign I Gives his daughter in marriage. This brings blessing And supreme good fortune.
Line 6
上六 城復于隍。勿用師。自邑告命。貞吝。
Six at the top means: The wall falls back into the moat. Use no army now. Make your commands known within your own town. Perseverance brings humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
伯夷叔齊，貞廉之師；以德防患，憂禍不存。
Frost cannot break the bamboo; the winter plum blooms alone. Guarding one's purity, no ill wind can intrude.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above heaven, the mingling of Peace, anchors this verse in moral constancy. The original verse names Boyi and Shuqi, paragons of principled integrity who refused to eat Zhou grain after the Shang fell. They withdrew to Mount Shouyang and starved rather than serve a dynasty they deemed illegitimate. Their example stands as a 'teacher of chastity and probity' — virtue as prophylactic against calamity. When righteousness is internalized, external threats lose their power. From Peace to the Creative, the transformation reveals the deepest mechanism of self-generating strength: it is not imposed order but moral self-cultivation that sustains one through upheaval. Heaven's tireless motion begins within.
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