无妄 → 睽
Hexagram 25: Innocence → Hexagram 38: Opposition
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 5).
Line 2
六二 不耕穫。不菑畬。則利有攸往。
Six in the second place means: If one does not count on the harvest while plowing, Nor on the use of the ground while clearing it, It furthers one to undertake something.
Line 5
九五 无妄之疾。勿藥有喜。
Nine in the fifth place means: Use no medicine in an illness Incurred through no fault of your own. It will pass of itself.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
顏淵：閔騫，以禮自閑。君子所居，禍災不存。
Yan Hui, Min Qian; restraining themselves with ritual propriety. Where the noble man dwells; calamity and disaster do not abide.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Yan Yuan and Min Qian — Yan Hui and Min Ziqian, the two paragons of moral conduct among Confucius's disciples — restrain themselves through ritual propriety. Where the noble person dwells, calamity and disaster simply do not exist. From Innocence to Opposition, the transformation is paradoxical: Kui's image of fire above and lake below shows two forces moving apart, seeing the same thing differently. Yet the verse insists that moral self-discipline dissolves opposition entirely. Yan Hui's legendary poverty and contentment, Min Ziqian's filial piety under a cruel stepmother — both exemplify virtue so internalized that external conflict finds no foothold. When innocence is armored by ritual, even opposition's divisive energy cannot penetrate.
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