大有 → 巽
Hexagram 14: Great Possession → Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5).
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 4
九四 匪其彭。无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: He makes a difference Between himself and his neighbor. No blame.
Line 5
六五 厥孚交如。威如。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: He whose truth is accessible, yet dignified, Has good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
天之奧隅，堯舜所居；可以存身，保我室家。
Heaven's hidden corner; where Yao and Shun once dwelt. One may preserve the body there; and protect our home and family.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
In the deep recess of heaven, where Yao and Shun dwell — there one may preserve one's life and protect one's household. The verse locates safety in a place both cosmic and intimate: the innermost corner of heaven, which is also where the sages reside. This is not a physical location but a moral-cosmological one — to dwell where Yao and Shun dwell is to align oneself with sage-virtue, and that alignment is the ultimate protection. From Great Possession to The Gentle, fire above heaven becomes doubled wind — penetrating, pervasive, repeated. The Gentle Wind enters everywhere, and the sage who has internalized its quality can take shelter within the cosmic order itself. Safety is not a fortress but a resonance with heaven's deepest pattern.
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