Flaking away, layer by layerSplitting Apart
Collapse rarely happens suddenly; it starts underneath.
Bo: five yin below, one lone yang above. The lines strip from the bed's foot to its frame to the flesh — damage approaches from afar, and by the time it hurts, the bottom has long been hollow. This hexagram offers no comfort; it only says: watch the bad news that does not yet hurt.
The answer to Bo is not endurance but seed-keeping. The great fruit is not eaten — keep the last fruit; do not eat it in panic. Bo ends by turning to the Return: a yang will be born again, provided the seed survived. Restraint now is not passivity; it is leaving possibility for the next cycle.
Practice In a contraction, first confirm the one thing that must never be touched — that is your seed. Everything else may be yielded.