臨 → 大畜
Hexagram 19: Approach → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 6).
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.
Line 6
上六 敦臨。吉。无咎。
Six at the top means: Greathearted approach. Good fortune. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
齎金買車，失道後時；勞罷為會，我心則休。
Spending gold to buy a cart, one misses the road and the hour; laboring in vain for the meeting, my heart then finds its rest.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth above the lake rises to heaven stored within the mountain — Great Taming's accumulated power. Spending gold to buy a carriage, one loses the way and misses the season. Exhausted from laboring toward the gathering, one's heart finally finds rest. The verse traces a costly detour: resources spent, timing lost, energy depleted in pursuit of an assembly or market. Yet the ending is peace — the heart rests despite the inefficiency. From Approach to Great Taming, the lake's open accessibility gives way to the mountain containing heaven: not everything that approaches should pass through freely. The gold spent on the wrong carriage and the missed timing are the price of learning what to store and what to release. Taming requires expensive lessons.
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