恆 → 大壯
Hexagram 32: Duration → Hexagram 34: Great Power
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 1).
Line 1
初六 浚恆貞凶。无攸利。
Six at the beginning means: Seeking duration too hastily brings misfortune persistently. Nothing that would further.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
朽根枯株，不生肌膚，病在心腹，日以焦勞。
Rotten roots and withered trunk; no flesh or skin will grow. The sickness lodges in heart and belly; day by day, scorching toil.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Thunder above wind, Duration's life-sustaining rhythm, erupts into thunder above heaven — Great Power's overwhelming force. A rotted root on a dead stump cannot generate new flesh. The illness lodges in the heart and belly, growing daily into a consuming anxiety. Duration here has run past its expiry: what should endure is already dead at the root, and no amount of persistence can revive it. The disease at the center — heart and belly — represents a corruption of the vital organs of a state or body that no external remedy can reach. From Duration to Great Power, the thunder doubles its force above heaven, but power applied to a rotten foundation only accelerates collapse. Great strength without living substance is merely great destruction.
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