臨 → 泰
Hexagram 19: Approach → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 3).
Line 3
六三 甘臨。无攸利。既憂之。无咎。
Six in the third place means: Comfortable approach. Nothing that would further. If one is induced to grieve over it, One becomes free of blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
員怨之吳，畫策闔閭；鞭平服荊，除大咎殃。威震敵國，還受上卿。
Yuan, bearing his grudge against Wu, devised strategy for King Helu; he whipped and subdued Jing, removing the great calamity. His might shook the rival state -- he returned to receive the rank of high minister.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above the lake opens into heaven and earth in communion — the great Peace of Tai. Wu Yuan, consumed by resentment, offered his counsel to King Helu of Wu and devised the strategy to punish Chu. He whipped and subdued the kingdom of Jing, removing a great scourge. His power shook the enemy state, and upon return he was honored as a senior minister. Wu Yuan is Wu Zixu, whose father and brother were murdered by King Ping of Chu. He fled to Wu, helped Helu seize the throne, then led Wu's armies into Chu's capital in 506 BC, reportedly whipping King Ping's corpse. From Approach to Peace, devastating vengeance paradoxically restores cosmic balance — heaven descends, earth rises, and the wronged minister's fury becomes the instrument through which order is reestablished.
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