訟 → 坤
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 4, 5, 6).
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.
Line 4
九四 不克訟。復即命。渝安貞。吉。
Nine in the fourth place means: One cannot engage in conflict. One turns back and submits to fate, Changes one's attitude, And finds peace in perseverance. Good fortune.
Line 5
九五 訟。元吉。
Nine in the fifth place means: To contend before him Brings supreme good fortune.
Line 6
上九 或錫之鞶帶。終朝三褫之。
Nine at the top means: Even if by chance a leather belt is bestowed on one, By the end of a morning It will have been snatched away three times.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
日入望東，不見子家。長女無夫，左手搔頭。
At sunset, gazing east, the child's home unseen. The eldest daughter has no husband; her left hand scratches her head.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose each other, and here the scene is pure desolation. At sunset one gazes eastward but cannot see the beloved's home. The eldest daughter has no husband; she scratches her head with her left hand in lonely frustration. Every image in the verse faces the wrong direction — looking east at sundown, when the light falls behind. From Conflict to the Receptive, heaven's assertive drive dissolves into earth's yielding emptiness. The Receptive is pure yin, vast and dark, generative only when it receives. Without a counterpart, the eldest daughter waits in vain, and the watcher at dusk stares into gathering darkness. Conflict's opposition has collapsed into absence itself.
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