艮 → 恆
Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain → Hexagram 32: Duration
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 6).
Line 2
六二 艮其腓。不拯其隨。其心不快。
Six in the second place means: Keeping his calves still. He cannot rescue him whom he follows. His heart is not glad.
Line 4
六四 艮其身。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: Keeping his trunk still. No blame.
Line 6
上九 敦艮吉。
Nine at the top means: Noblehearted keeping still. Good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
弱足刖跟，不利出門。賈市无盈，折亡為患。
Weak-footed, heel cut short; unfit to pass through the gate. At market, no profit gained; loss and ruin become the affliction.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Twin mountains stand still, but the feet are crippled and the heels are cut — one cannot step outside the door. Trade yields no profit; loss and ruin become constant afflictions. The injury evokes the punishment of yue (刖) — amputation of the foot, one of the Five Punishments of antiquity. A merchant who cannot walk cannot trade; a traveler who cannot travel cannot gain. From Keeping Still to Duration, mountain should yield to thunder above wind, the enduring constancy of complementary forces. Yet the verse presents Duration's shadow: a condition of permanent impairment that endures not as strength but as suffering. What should be steady persistence becomes an unbreakable cycle of deficit.
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