中孚 → 豐
Hexagram 61: Inner Truth → Hexagram 55: Abundance
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
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 4
六四 月幾望。馬匹亡。无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: The moon nearly at the full. The team horse goes astray. No blame.
Line 5
九五 有孚攣如。无咎。
Nine in the fifth place means: He possesses truth, which links together. No blame.
Line 6
上九 翰音登于天。貞凶。
Nine at the top means: Cockcrow penetrating to heaven. Perseverance brings misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
常得自如，不逢禍災。
Always finding things as wished; not meeting with calamity.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Wind stirs above the lake, and all unfolds as it should — one remains at ease, encountering neither calamity nor disaster. The verse is the shortest in this hexagram's set: just two lines of pure auspice, no allusion, no narrative, only the serene declaration that things are well. From Inner Truth to Abundance, sincerity meets thunder and lightning arriving together — the fullness of power and illumination at their peak. The brevity is itself the message: when inner truth is genuine and Abundance's conditions are met, there is nothing more to say. No drama, no struggle, no complication. The wind on the lake stirs gently; the thunder and fire blaze in harmony; one simply lives without obstruction.
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