剝 → 大畜
Hexagram 23: Splitting Apart → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3).
Line 1
初六 剝牀以足。蔑貞凶。
Six at the beginning means: The leg of the bed is split. Those who persevere are destroyed. Misfortune.
Line 2
六二 剝牀以辨。蔑貞凶。
Six in the second place means: The bed is split at the edge. Those who persevere are destroyed. Misfortune.
Line 3
六三 剝之无咎。
Six in the third place means: He splits with them. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
百足俱行，相輔為強。三聖翼事，王室寵光。
Dead trees lean on each other, wind and snow cannot break them. Their roots connect underground, drinking from the same spring vein.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Mountain upon earth erodes into heaven stored within the mountain — Great Taming, where accumulated wisdom restrains creative force. The original verse reads: 'A hundred legs walk together, supporting each other to strength. Three sages wing the enterprise, and the royal house glows with favor.' The 'hundred feet moving in concert' is the centipede, whose synchronized movement symbolizes coordinated collective effort. The 'three sages' likely refers to the Duke of Zhou, Taigong, and the Duke of Shao, who together stabilized the early Zhou dynasty. From Splitting Apart to Great Taming, the crumbling mountain transforms into one that holds heaven within it. What was eroding is now accumulating: the three sages store virtue and knowledge as the mountain stores heaven, building institutional strength that outlasts any individual crisis.
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