巽 → 中孚
Hexagram 57: The Gentle Wind → Hexagram 61: Inner Truth
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 2 changing lines (lines 1, 3).
Line 1
初六 進退。利武人之貞。
Six at the beginning means: In advancing and in retreating, The perseverance of a warrior furthers.
Line 3
九三 頻巽吝。
Nine in the third place means: Repeated penetration. Humiliation.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
陰作大奸，欲君勿言。鴻鵠利口，發患禍端。荊季懷憂，張伯被患。
Yin works great treachery; wishing the lord to speak not. The swan-goose's cunning tongue; unleashes calamity and disaster. Jingji harbors grief; Zhangbo suffers affliction.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind upon wind transforms into wind over lake: the Gentle becomes Inner Truth. Yin forces work great treachery, bidding the ruler to keep silent. The swan's sharp beak stirs up disaster at its root. Lord Jing of Chu nurses hidden worry; Minister Zhang is stricken with calamity. The verse warns against eloquent deceit masked as loyalty. The 'swan's sharp beak' suggests a seemingly noble creature whose fine words inflict real damage — slander and manipulation disguised as advice. From The Gentle to Inner Truth, wind moves above the lake: the gentleman deliberates on capital cases and postpones executions. Inner truth demands hollow sincerity at the center, openness to what is real. But here the center is filled with treachery, and those who speak beautiful words engineer the ruin of others. Truth is precisely what this court lacks.
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