否 → 剝
Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5, 6).
Line 3
六三 包羞。
Six in the third place means: They bear shame.
Line 4
九四 有命无咎。疇離祉。
Nine in the fourth place means: He who acts at the command of the highest Remains without blame. Those of like mind partake of the blessing.
Line 5
九五 休否。大人吉。其亡其亡。繫于苞桑。
Nine in the fifth place means: Standstill is giving way. Good fortune for the great man. "What if it should fail, what if it should fail?" In this way he ties it to a cluster of mulberry shoots.
Line 6
上九 傾否。先否後喜。
Nine at the top means: The standstill comes to an end. First standstill, then good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
桃李花實，累累日息；長大成就，甘美可食。
Peach and plum bear flower and fruit, swelling day by day. Growing large and ripening; sweet and delicious, fit to eat.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and earth refuse to communicate, yet peach and plum trees flower and fruit, growing abundantly day after day. They mature and ripen until the fruits hang sweet and ready to eat. From Standstill to Splitting Apart, Pi's stagnation meets the mountain crumbling upon the earth — the progressive stripping away of structure. Yet the verse speaks only of ripening and sweetness. The paradox resolves through Bo's hidden logic: what is stripped away is the husk, not the fruit. The tree that loses its leaves in Bo's autumn has already set its harvest. Splitting Apart removes what is no longer needed so the essential sweetness can be consumed. Even in decay, the fruit persists.
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