離 → 賁
Hexagram 30: The Clinging Fire → Hexagram 22: Grace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 4).
Line 4
九四 突如其來如。焚如。死如。棄如。
Nine in the fourth place means: Its coming is sudden; It flames up, dies down, is thrown away.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
平公有疾，迎醫秦國，和不能知，晉人赴國。
Duke Ping falls ill; a physician is summoned from the state of Qin. Doctor He cannot discern the cause; the men of Jin hasten back to their state.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Doubled fire meets fire beneath the mountain: brilliance adorns the surface but cannot penetrate the illness within. Duke Ping of Jin falls ill and summons a physician from Qin. Doctor He (Yi He) diagnoses the duke's condition but ultimately cannot cure it; the Jin people rush to report the crisis across the state. According to the Zuo Zhuan (Duke Zhao Year 1, 541 BC), Doctor He declared the illness came from excessive indulgence with women, producing a condition 'like bewitchment, neither from ghosts nor food.' From The Clinging to Grace, fire illuminates the mountain's surface with elegant pattern. Yet adornment cannot heal what festers within. The most brilliant physician may see the disease clearly, but when the patient has corrupted himself from the inside, clarity of diagnosis is not the same as cure.
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