无妄 → 中孚
Hexagram 25: Innocence → Hexagram 61: Inner Truth
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 2, 4).
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 4
九四 可貞。无咎。
Nine in the fourth place means: He who can be persevering Remains without blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
有兩赤鷂，從五隼噪。操矢無括，趣釋爾財。扶伏聽命，不敢動搖。
Two red hawks appear; five falcons screech around them. Grasping arrows without nocks; hasten to surrender your wealth. Prostrate and obedient; not daring to stir.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Two red sparrowhawks follow five shrieking falcons — predators in formation, a hunting party of raptors. Below, a bowman holds an arrow without a nock — useless, unable to fire. The command comes: surrender your valuables immediately. The victim prostrates and obeys, not daring to move. From Innocence to Inner Truth, the transformation exposes sincerity under coercion. Zhongfu's image of wind above the lake penetrates to the heart of things, testing what is truly held within. Here the test is brutal: faced with overwhelming force and a weaponless bow, one can only submit with perfect compliance. The inner truth revealed is not noble conviction but raw vulnerability — the honest recognition that resistance is impossible.
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