訟 → 大畜
Hexagram 6: Conflict → Hexagram 26: Great Taming
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 3, 4, 5).
Line 1
初六 不永所事。小有言。終吉。
Six at the beginning means: If one does not perpetuate the affair, There is a little gossip. In the end, good fortune comes.
Line 3
六三 食舊德。貞。厲終吉。或從王事。无成。
Six in the third place means: To nourish oneself on ancient virtue induces perseverance. Danger. In the end, good fortune comes. If by chance you are in the service of a king, Seek not works.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
口啄卒卒，憂從中出。喪我寶貝，妻妾失位。
Mouths chattering ceaselessly; worry springs from within. Losing my treasures; wife and concubine lose their place.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Heaven and water oppose, and anxiety gnaws from within. Mouths peck and chatter ceaselessly — worry erupting in compulsive speech. Treasures are lost; wife and concubines are displaced from their positions. The verse maps a household unraveling under internal discord: the conflict is not external but domestic, corroding from the center outward. From Conflict to Great Taming, heaven is stored within the mountain — accumulated power held in check. Yet what should be tamed here has already broken loose. Great Taming's mandate to 'study the words and deeds of the ancients to accumulate virtue' stands as the remedy this household has failed to apply. Without inner cultivation, even stored wealth scatters.
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