剝 → 坤
Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 3).
Line 3
六三 剝之无咎。
Six in the third place means: He splits with them. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
從風縱火，荻芝俱死。三害集房，十子中傷。
Sending fire with the wind; rushes and angelica all die. Three harms gather in the house; ten sons are wounded.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain crumbles upon earth, yielding to doubled earth: from erosion to total receptivity. Fire is driven by wind, and both reed and magic fungus perish alike — no distinction is made when catastrophe sweeps through. Three calamities converge upon the household, and ten sons are wounded. The verse paints a scene of compound disaster: arson fanned by gale, destruction indiscriminate. The 'three harms gathering in one room' suggests a convergence of pestilence, fire, and human malice that leaves nothing standing. From Splitting Apart to the Receptive, the mountain's collapse does not find new ground but sinks into formless earth. When structure dissolves entirely, there is no foothold, only the vast patience of Kun — endurance without initiative, awaiting a leader who has not yet arrived.
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