賁 → 恆
Hexagram 22: Grace → Hexagram 32: Duration
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 6).
Line 1
初九 賁其趾。舍車而徒。
Nine at the beginning means: He lends grace to his toes, leaves the carriage, and walks.
Line 2
六二 賁其須。
Six in the second place means: Lends grace to the beard on his chin.
Line 4
六四 賁如皤如。白馬翰如。匪寇婚媾。
Six in the fourth place means: Grace or simplicity? A white horse comes as if on wings. He is not a robber, He will woo at the right time.
Line 6
上九 白賁。无咎。
Nine at the top means: Simple grace. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
舍車而徒，亡其駮牛。雖喪白頭，酒以療憂。
Abandoning the cart to walk; losing the piebald ox. Though one has lost one's grey head, wine heals the sorrow.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Fire beneath the mountain fades as possessions are lost. Abandoning the carriage to walk on foot, one loses a piebald ox along the way. Though the white-haired elder suffers loss, wine soothes the grief. The progression descends: first the carriage gone, then the prized animal, then only the aging body and a cup of wine for consolation. Yet the verse is not purely tragic — wine as remedy suggests that acceptance, however bitter, brings its own relief. From Grace to Duration, the mountain's fire gives way to thunder and wind reinforcing each other. Duration's teaching is persistence through changing circumstances. The losses accumulate, but the enduring response — drinking to console rather than raging against fate — embodies Duration's steady stance.
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