節 → 坎

Commentary

Water over lake should regulate passage, but here the waterways have been overrun. Packs of tigers and wolves prey upon cattle and sheep; roads are blocked; farmers and merchants alike suffer. The verse paints a frontier or hinterland fallen to brigandage — organized predators controlling the routes that sustain civilian life. From Limitation to the Abysmal, the transformation plunges from regulated flow into doubled peril. Water upon water, danger compounded — the regulated channel becomes a flood of hazard. Where Limitation once kept predators at bay through measured governance, the Abysmal reveals what happens when those barriers dissolve: danger repeats itself without end, and the traveler finds no safe passage. The disciplined merchant's road becomes the bandit's hunting ground.