兌 → 泰
Hexagram 58: The Joyous Lake → Hexagram 11: Peace
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 3, 4, 5).
Line 3
六三 來兌凶。
Six in the third place means: Coming joyousness. Misfortune.
Line 4
九四 商兌未寧。介疾有喜。
Nine in the fourth place means: Joyousness that is weighed is not at peace. After ridding himself of mistakes a man has joy.
Line 5
九五 孚于剝。有厲。
Nine in the fifth place means: Sincerity toward disintegrating influences is dangerous.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
子畏於匡，困厄陳蔡。明德不危，竟克免害。
The Master was imperiled at Kuang, trapped between Chen and Cai. Bright virtue is not endangered; in the end he escaped unharmed.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Paired lakes open into the free exchange of heaven and earth — the image of Peace. Confucius was besieged at Kuang, where hostile villagers mistook him for the tyrant Yang Hu, and later stranded between Chen and Cai, starving for seven days. Yet his luminous virtue kept him from true peril, and in the end he escaped unharmed. From The Joyous to Peace, the sage's equanimity in crisis itself becomes the mechanism of deliverance. When heaven and earth communicate freely, no obstruction can persist. The verse affirms that moral clarity, maintained through hardship, eventually unlocks the cosmic reciprocity that is Peace.
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