否 → 巽
Hexagram 12: Standstill → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).
Line 2
六二 包承。小人吉。大人否。亨。
Six in the second place means: They bear and endure; This means good fortune for inferior people. The standstill serves to help the great man to attain success.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
杜口結舌，言為禍母；代伯受患，無所禱冤。
Mouth shut, tongue tied; words are the mother of disaster. Bearing another's punishment; there is no one to whom to plead.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and earth refuse to communicate as one shuts the mouth and ties the tongue — speech itself becomes the mother of disaster. Taking blame on behalf of the elder brother, one has nowhere to present a grievance. From Standstill to The Gentle, Pi's blockage meets doubled wind — Xun's image of penetrating influence, commands issued and carried out. Yet the verse shows penetration's dark side: when words are dangerous, silence becomes survival, but silence under injustice is its own form of suffering. Xun's wind should carry the ruler's commands to all four corners, but here the wind carries only the warning that speech kills. The sealed mouth is both prison and shield, and the one who bears another's punishment has no wind to carry their plea.
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