大畜 → 需
Hexagram 26: Great Taming → Hexagram 5: Waiting
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 5, 6).
Line 5
六五 豶豕之牙。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: The tusk of a gelded boar. Good fortune.
Line 6
上九 何天之衢。亨。
Nine at the top means: One attains the way of heaven. Success.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
躬體履仁，尚德止訟。宗邑以安，三百無患。
In person he treads the path of benevolence, exalts virtue and halts disputes. The ancestral domain is set at peace; three hundred are without affliction.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven stored within the mountain transforms into clouds rising above heaven — Waiting. The gentleman practices benevolence in his own person, honors virtue, and thereby forestalls litigation. The ancestral domain rests secure; three hundred households live free of trouble. Great Taming accumulates moral capital; Waiting (water above heaven) is the patience to let that capital mature. The verse describes governance through personal example rather than coercion: when the ruler embodies righteousness, disputes dissolve before they arise. From Great Taming to Waiting, the mountain's stored heaven rises as nourishing clouds — virtue cultivated in private becomes the public peace that sustains an entire community without a single lawsuit filed.
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