賁 → 大畜
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).
Line 2
六二 賁其須。
Six in the second place means: Lends grace to the beard on his chin.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
升輿中退，舉事不遂。哺麋毀齒，失其道理。
Mounting the carriage only to retreat; every undertaking fails to succeed. Feeding the elk ruins the teeth; one loses the proper way.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain falters. One mounts the carriage only to retreat midway; undertakings fail to reach completion. Feeding dried meat to a deer ruins the teeth — the wrong sustenance applied to the wrong creature destroys the instrument itself. Everything here is mismatched: advance turns to retreat, nourishment becomes damage, and the proper way is lost. From Grace to Great Taming, fire beneath the mountain transforms into heaven stored within the mountain. Great Taming accumulates and restrains powerful forces, but the verse shows what happens when accumulation is mismanaged: the stored energy turns self-destructive. The carriage that retreats and the teeth that crack warn that improper methods corrupt even what should be nourishing.
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