師 → 升
Hexagram 7: The Army → Hexagram 46: Pushing Upward
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 1 changing line (line 3).
Line 3
六三 師或輿尸。凶。
Six in the third place means: Perchance the army carries corpses in the wagon. Misfortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
耳目盲聾，所言不通。佇立以泣，事無成功。
Ears and eyes deaf and blind; words do not get through. Standing still to weep; affairs come to nothing.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water hidden within the earth should speak through clear command, but here the senses fail entirely. Ears deaf and eyes blind, one's words cannot get through. Standing still, one can only weep; nothing undertaken succeeds. The verse captures total communicative collapse: the commander who can neither perceive nor be understood, paralyzed in futile grief. From The Army to Pushing Upward, wood grows steadily within the earth in gradual ascent. Yet the verse denies this upward movement — the subject cannot even begin the climb. Pushing Upward requires clear perception of the path; without eyes or ears, even the gentlest ascent is impossible.
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