噬嗑 → 賁
Hexagram 21: Biting Through → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 3, 4).
Line 3
六三 噬腊肉。遇毒。小吝。无咎。
Six in the third place means: Bites on old dried meat And strikes on something poisonous. Slight humiliation. No blame.
Line 4
九四 噬乾胏。得金矢。利艱貞。吉。
Nine in the fourth place means: Bites on dried gristly meat. Receives metal arrows. It furthers one to be mindful of difficulties And to be persevering. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
智不別揚，張狂妄行；蹈淵仆顛，傷殺伯身。
Wisdom fails to discern or judge; reckless and wild in conduct. Treading the abyss, stumbling and falling -- wounding and killing the elder.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire and thunder deliver judgment, and here the verdict falls on reckless folly. Wisdom fails to distinguish right from wrong, and wild arrogance rushes headlong into disaster. The fool stumbles into an abyss, falls and tumbles, and the eldest son is wounded and killed. The verse condemns the failure of discernment that leads to physical destruction — not external enemies but one's own unexamined recklessness. From Biting Through to Grace, fire illuminates the mountain with refined beauty. Yet the verse shows what happens when one lacks the discrimination that Grace demands: unable to see clearly, rushing where elegance requires careful perception, the graceless fool destroys himself.
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