困 → 大過
Hexagram 47: Oppression → Hexagram 28: Great Exceeding
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 3).
Line 3
六三 困于石。據于蒺蔾。入于其宮。不見其妻。凶。
Six in the third place means: A man permits himself to be oppressed by stone, And leans on thorns and thistles. He enters the house and does not see his wife. Misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
雷行相逐，无有休息。戰于平陸，為夷所覆。
Thunder rolls on without rest, chasing and never ceasing. Battling on the open plain, they are overwhelmed by the barbarians.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
A lake without water, and thunder rolls relentlessly, chasing itself with no rest. The army fights at Pinglu and is overwhelmed by the barbarian Yi. The verse combines cosmic exhaustion with military catastrophe: thunder that cannot stop echoing mirrors an army that cannot stop marching, until fatigue invites annihilation. Pinglu was a frontier region vulnerable to nomadic incursion. From Oppression to Great Exceeding, the lake drowns the trees beneath, the ridgepole sags under impossible weight. The gentleman stands alone without fear and withdraws from the world without resentment. When the structure is overloaded to the point of collapse, when even thunder exhausts itself, the only dignified response is solitary endurance. The system has exceeded its capacity and must break before it can be rebuilt.
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