蒙 → 履
Hexagram 4: Youthful Folly → Hexagram 10: Treading
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5).
Line 1
初六 發蒙。利用刑人。用說桎梏。以往吝。
Six at the beginning means: To make a fool develop It furthers one to apply discipline. The fetters should be removed. To go on in this way bring humiliation.
Line 4
六四 困蒙。吝。
Six in the fourth place means: Entangled folly bring humiliation.
Line 5
六五 童蒙。吉。
Six in the fifth place means: Childlike folly brings good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
踝踵足傷，右指病癰。失旅後時，利走不來。
Ankle, heel, foot all injured; the right finger festers. Missing the company, behind the hour; profit runs but does not arrive.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A spring beneath the mountain stumbles on rocky ground. Ankles bruised, heels wounded, the right finger swollen with an abscess — the body fails at every joint. The traveler misses the caravan and falls behind schedule; profit flees and refuses to return. Every image is one of impaired movement: the foot that cannot step, the hand that cannot grasp, the journey that cannot keep pace. From Youthful Folly to Treading, the irony is sharp. Treading means walking carefully upon the tiger's tail, yet this figure cannot walk at all. The naif who ventures forward without adequate preparation does not even reach the point of danger — they collapse before the tiger is met.
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