大有 → 恆
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 32: Duration
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 6).
Line 1
初九 无交害。匪咎。艱則无咎。
Nine at the beginning means: No relationship with what is harmful; There is no blame in this. If one remains conscious of difficulty, One remains without blame.
Line 6
上九 自天祐之。吉无不利。
Nine at the top means: He is blessed by heaven. Good fortune. Nothing that does not further.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
典冊法書，藏在蘭臺；雖遭亂潰，獨不遇災。
Sutras stored in a stone cave where fire cannot reach. Opened a thousand years later, the writing is fresh as new.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Official records and legal documents are stored in the Orchid Terrace — the Han dynasty's imperial archive. Though surrounded by chaos and upheaval, these writings alone escape disaster. The Lantai was the imperial library in the Southern Palace at Luoyang, where Ban Gu and other scholars compiled state histories. The verse marvels at how written tradition survives turmoil that destroys everything else. From Great Possession to Duration, fire above heaven becomes thunder and wind — enduring, directional forces. Duration's image text declares that the superior man stands firm and does not change his course. The archived documents embody exactly this: institutional memory that persists through upheaval, the written word as the ultimate vehicle of constancy.
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