巽 → 否
Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 12: Standstill
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4).
Line 2
九二 巽在牀下。用史巫。紛若。吉。无咎。
Nine in the second place means: Penetration under the bed. Priests and magicians are used in great number. Good fortune. No blame.
Line 3
九三 頻巽吝。
Nine in the third place means: Repeated penetration. Humiliation.
Line 4
六四 悔亡。田獲三品。
Six in the fourth place means: Remorse vanishes. During the hunt Three kinds of game are caught.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
爭雞失羊，利得不長。陳蔡之患，賴楚以安。
Fighting over the chicken, losing the sheep; profit gained does not last. The troubles of Chen and Cai; they relied on Chu for safety.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind upon wind transforms into heaven over earth: the Gentle becomes Standstill. Squabbling over a chicken, one loses a sheep — profits gained do not last. Then Confucius's hardship between Chen and Cai: besieged and starving, he depended on Chu's intervention for relief. The verse pairs two warnings: petty quarrels that forfeit greater goods, and the sage himself trapped in political deadlock. From The Gentle to Standstill, the meaning crystallizes. Heaven and earth do not communicate; high and low are severed. Wind's gentle persuasion has ceased to penetrate. Even Confucius, whose moral influence should move kingdoms, found himself blocked between hostile states — and had to rely on an external power to break the impasse.
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