訟 → 否
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 12: Standstill
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 2).
Line 2
九二 不克訟。歸而逋其邑。人三百戶。无眚。
Nine in the second place means: One cannot engage in conflict; One returns home, gives way. The people of his town, Three hundred households, Remain free of guilt.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
數窮廓落，困於歷室。卒登玉堂，與堯侑食。
Fortune exhausted and desolate, trapped in a bare chamber. In the end he ascends the Jade Hall, and dines beside Yao.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose, and fortune reaches its nadir. Destitute and forlorn, one is trapped in a bare cell. Yet the verse pivots: at last one ascends the Jade Hall and dines beside Emperor Yao. This is the pattern of reversal through extremity — when numbers are exhausted, a new cycle begins. From Conflict to Standstill, heaven and earth refuse to communicate, the worst possible configuration. Yet the verse sees beyond the blockage: precisely because Pi represents total stagnation, the only possible movement is upward. The man who dines with Yao has passed through the full measure of deprivation. Standstill's counsel is to preserve virtue in adversity, and this verse proves why — the jade hall awaits on the other side.
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