復 → 節

Commentary

Thunder returns beneath the earth, but the figure is wasted and diminished. The hairpin has fallen, the belt hangs too long on a shrunken frame. Secluded thoughts turn to anguish, the body grows gaunt and thin, and illness presses the spirit downward. Every detail maps physical decline: ornaments that no longer fit a body reduced by suffering, mental torment manifesting as bodily wasting. The hairpin's fall suggests loss of status or composure; the overlong belt reveals how much the wearer has shrunk. From Return to Limitation, water above lake, measured restraint. The transformation reframes the suffering: limitation, consciously applied, prevents excess — but limitation imposed by disease and grief is a different order of reduction, one that demands compassion rather than discipline.