夬 → 中孚
Hexagram 43: Breakthrough → Hexagram 61: Inner Truth
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 6).
Line 3
九三 壯于頄。有凶。君子夬夬。獨行遇雨。若濡有慍。无咎。
Nine in the third place means: To be powerful in the cheekbones Brings misfortune. The superior man is firmly resolved. He walks alone and is caught in the rain. He is bespattered, And people murmur against him. No blame.
Line 4
九四 臀无膚。其行次且。牽羊悔亡。聞言不信。
Nine in the fourth place means: There is no skin on his thighs, And walking comes hard. If a man were to let himself be led like a sheep, Remorse would disappear. But if these words are heard They will not be believed.
Line 6
上六 无號。終有凶。
Six at the top means: No cry. In the end misfortune comes.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
淵泉溢出，為我邑祟。道路不通，孩子心憒。
The deep spring overflows, becoming a curse upon our town. The roads are cut off; the child's heart is bewildered.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Lake risen above heaven meets the wind over the lake, inner truth manifest. Deep springs overflow and become a curse upon the settlement. Roads are blocked; children's hearts are thrown into confusion. The underground water that should nourish instead erupts destructively, flooding paths and disorienting the young and vulnerable. From Breakthrough to Inner Truth, the decisive act should reach the condition of wind over lake — sincerity that moves even pigs and fish, credibility so deep it transforms. But the verse shows truth's dangerous excess: springs that breach their banks, sincerity that overwhelms its channels. Inner truth pushed past containment becomes the flood that blocks the very roads it should illuminate. Even genuine conviction, if it erupts without measure, brings chaos rather than clarity.
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