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A Dispute
Upper trigram: Heaven · Lower trigram: Water
Judgment
Blocked trust becomes dispute; measured adjudication is better than total escalation.
Image
Heaven above Water; from bottom to top: yin, yang, yin, yang, yang, yang.
Clarify the issue and its standard without making victory the whole relationship.
Six lines and their changes
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End the quarrel before it hardens; a brief disagreement need not become a campaign.
Move this line → Treading Carefully2 / 6
Withdrawing from an unwinnable dispute also shelters those who depend on you.
Move this line → Blocked Exchange3 / 6
Rely on established obligations, accepting a supporting role without competing for distinction.
Move this line → An Unexpected Encounter4 / 6
Give up the contest and return to agreed standards; changing course resolves more than escalation.
Move this line → Dispersing Division5 / 6
A sound judgment belongs to the impartial deciding position, not to endless litigation.
Move this line → Before the Crossing6 / 6
A ceremonial belt repeatedly taken away shows how unstable a victory-built status can be.
Move this line → Constrained Resources
Library links use the structural middle-four transform. Meihua casting applies its separate Heaven/Earth exception to a moving figure.
A Dispute · Upper trigram / Lower trigram?
Heaven / Water. Heaven above Water; from bottom to top: yin, yang, yin, yang, yang, yang.
A Dispute · Move this line?
Change exactly one line, numbered from the bottom. Each of the six links below leads to the resulting figure.
Classical source · Traditional symbols offer a perspective for reflection, not a prediction of inevitable events.