晉 → 頤

Commentary

Fire rises above the earth, but this figure crouches and slinks, stealing glances in every direction. There is something to fear and avoid — eyes shielded, body pressed flat in hiding, treating darkness as an ally. The verse depicts someone moving through hostile territory: a fugitive, a spy, or a disgraced official reduced to creeping through shadows. Every movement is furtive, every glance a calculation of threat. From Progress to Nourishment, the transformation is paradoxical. The mountain above thunder suggests careful attention to what one takes in — guarding speech and regulating appetite. The fugitive who hides by night survives by controlling intake: eating little, speaking less, consuming only what sustains flight. In extremity, nourishment reduces to bare survival.