坤 → 中孚
Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 61: Inner Truth
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 5, 6).
Line 1
初六 履霜堅冰至。
Six at the beginning means: When there is hoarfrost underfoot, Solid ice is not far off.
Line 2
六二 直方大。不習无不利。
Six in the second place means: Straight, square, great. Without purpose, Yet nothing remains unfurthered.
Line 5
六五 黃裳。元吉。
Six in the fifth place means: A yellow lower garment brings supreme good fortune.
Line 6
上六 龍戰于野。其血玄黃。
Six at the top means: Dragons fight in the meadow. Their blood is black and yellow.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
安如泰山，福喜屢臻。雖有豺虎，不致危身。
Secure as Mount Tai; blessings and joy arrive in abundance. Though wolves and tigers prowl, they do not endanger one’s person.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Earth upon earth yields to wind above lake — Inner Truth. Secure as Mount Tai; blessings and joys arrive in abundance. Though jackals and tigers prowl, they cannot endanger one's person. Mount Tai, the Eastern Sacred Mountain, is the holiest of the Five Sacred Mountains — site of the imperial feng and shan sacrifices, symbol of absolute stability and cosmic authority. Wind above lake, the image of Zhongfu, depicts the empty center — inner sincerity that moves even pigs and fish. The verse declares that when one is grounded in inner truth as firmly as Mount Tai, even predators pose no threat. From the Receptive to Inner Truth, the earth's passive stability is refined into the active, unshakable confidence of zhongfu. Tai's massiveness comes not from rigidity but from the authenticity that makes it immovable.
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