中孚 → 艮
Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 52: Keeping Still Mountain
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 5).
Line 1
初九 虞吉。有他不燕。
Nine at the beginning means: Being prepared brings good fortune. If there are secret designs, it is disquieting.
Line 2
九二 鳴鶴在陰。其子和之。我有好爵。吾與爾靡之。
Nine in the second place means: A crane calling in the shade. Its young answers it. I have a good goblet. I will share it with you.
Line 3
六三 得敵。或鼓或罷。或泣或歌。
Six in the third place means: He finds a comrade. Now he beats the drum, now he stops. Now he sobs, now he sings.
Line 5
九五 有孚攣如。无咎。
Nine in the fifth place means: He possesses truth, which links together. No blame.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
機父不賢，朝多讒臣。君失其政，保家久貧。
The father of schemes lacks virtue; the court is full of slanderers. The lord loses his governance; the house is kept in lasting poverty.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind stirs above the lake, but the father of the house is unworthy, and the court swarms with slanderous ministers. The ruler has lost his grip on governance; the family endures poverty for generations. The 'unworthy father' (機父不賢) suggests a patriarch — whether a literal father or a ruler conceived as father of the state — whose moral failure poisons everything downstream. Slander flourishes in the vacuum his weakness creates. From Inner Truth to Keeping Still, sincerity meets the doubled mountain. Keeping Still's image is the mind that does not stray beyond its proper station. Yet here stillness is not wisdom but stagnation: a house frozen under incompetent leadership, unable to reform, unable to move, locked in inherited poverty.
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