大畜 → 損

Commentary

Heaven stored within the mountain descends into the mountain above the lake — Decrease. Two tigers battle each other, tearing wounds across their bodies with nowhere left unscathed. Yet the fight does not harden into lasting enmity; instead, they separate and walk away. The verse captures the paradox of Decrease: what is lost in the struggle ultimately reduces the conflict itself. Two equally matched forces exhaust themselves, and the exhaustion becomes the resolution. From Great Taming to Decrease, the mountain's accumulated power is spent in mutual destruction. But Decrease is not pure loss — the mountain above the lake gives to the lake by diminishing itself. Sometimes the cost of fighting is exactly what ends the fight.