巽 → 恆
Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 32: Duration
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 4, 5, 6).
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.
Line 5
九五 貞吉悔亡。无不利。无初有終。先庚三日。後庚三日。吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse vanishes. Nothing that does not further. No beginning, but an end. Before the change, three days. After the change, three days. Good fortune.
Line 6
上九 巽在牀下。喪其資斧。貞凶。
Nine at the top means: Penetration under the bed. He loses his property and his ax. Perseverance brings misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
破筐敝筥，棄捐於道，不復為寶。
Broken basket, tattered hamper; discarded on the road—no longer treasured.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind upon wind transforms into thunder over wind: the Gentle becomes Duration. A broken basket and a tattered hamper, cast aside upon the road, no longer considered treasure. What was once a useful container — holding grain, carrying goods — has been discarded when it wore out, left on the roadside for anyone to ignore. The verse is a meditation on obsolescence and ingratitude. From The Gentle to Duration, thunder and wind together establish constancy: the gentleman stands firm and does not change course. The irony cuts deep: Duration demands permanence, yet here nothing endures. The container that served faithfully is abandoned the moment it breaks. True duration would mean maintaining what has value, not discarding it when novelty fades.
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