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Adoptez l'humilité et l'équilibre ; laissez la modestie guider vos actions pour un progrès harmonieux.
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La véritable modestie n'est pas autoconsciente. Elle permet d'entreprendre de grandes tâches avec confiance et succès.
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Lorsque la modestie s'exprime naturellement, elle conduit à des résultats positifs et à un succès durable.
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Une personne qui allie modestie et compétence peut accomplir de grandes choses et mener des projets à bien.
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Évitez d'exhiber vos ressources. Utilisez-les plutôt de manière judicieuse et affirmée pour atteindre vos objectifs.
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Lorsque la modestie est évidente, il est approprié de prendre des mesures décisives pour corriger les problèmes internes et améliorer la communauté.
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La vérité intérieure et la sincérité mènent à l'harmonie et à la confiance. Une communication authentique favorise l'unité. Soyez honnête avec vous-même et avec les autres pour créer des liens significatifs.
Other titles: Modesty, The Symbol of Humility, Moderation, Humbling, Respectful/Humble, Yielding/Retiring. 1. Obtaining this hexagram implies that modesty is needed in our attitude, meaning, to allow ourself to be led without resistance. – C.K. Anthony. 2. A Humble or modest person is thought of as having an “empty or unoccupied” mind, meaning a mind without prejudice. – Chung Wu. 3. Only superior people who practice Tao know where to stop, disregard what they have and appear to have nothing. – T. Cleary.
Judgment
Legge:Temperance indicates successful progress. Temperancebrings a good issue to the superior man's undertakings.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Modesty creates success. The superior man carries things through.
Blofeld:Modesty brings success. The Superior Man is able to carry affairs through to completion.
Liu: Modesty: success. The superior man can continue to work to the end.
Ritsema/Karcher: Humbling, Growing. A chun tzu possesses completing. [This hexagram describes your situation in terms of the necessity to cut through pride and complication. It emphasizes that keeping your words unpretentious is the adequate way to handle it...]
Shaughnessy: Modesty: Receipt; the gentleman has an end.
Cleary (1):Humility is developmental. The superior person has a conclusion.
Cleary (2):Humility gets through. A leader has a conclusion.
Wu:Humility is pervasive. The jun zi will have grace in death.
The Image
Legge: A mountain hidden within the earth -- the image of Temperance. The superior man, in accordance with this, diminishes his excesses to augment his insufficiencies, thus creating a just balance.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Within the earth, a mountain: the image of Modesty. Thus the superior man reduces that which is too much, and augments that which is too little. He weighs things and makes them equal.
Blofeld: This hexagram symbolizes a mountain in the centre of the earth. The Superior Man takes from where there is too much in order to augment what is too little. He weighs things and apportions them fairly. [The component trigrams symbolize a mountain surrounded by flat earth, thus suggesting too much in one place and too little in others.]
Liu: The mountain within the earth symbolizes modesty. The superior man reduces the excess and increases the lacking; he weighs and then equalizes all things.
Ritsema/Karcher: Earth center possessing mountain. Humbling. A chun tzu uses reducing the numerous to augment the few. A chun tzu uses evaluating beings to even spreading-out.
Cleary (1): There are mountains in the earth; modesty. Thus does the superior person decrease the abundant and add to the scarce, assessing things and dealing impartially.
Cleary (2): … Leaders assess people and give impartially, by taking from the abundant and adding to the scarce.
Wu: There is a mountain inside earth; this is Humility. Thus the jun zi takes excess from the more to enrich the less and measures goods to ensure fair distribution. [To prepare oneself to accept what is fair among all his fellow men is the essence of humility.]
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: It is the way of heaven to dispense its blessings downwards, and the way of earth to radiate its influence upwards. Both heaven and earth diminish the full to augment the lowly. Spiritual beings inflict calamity on the proud and bless the meek, and men resent ostentation and love temperance. Temperanceenlightens an honorable office, and neither will men ignore it in lowly positions. Thus does the superior man attain his ends. [Emphasis editor's -- Ritsema/Karcher translate "spiritual beings" [Kuei Shen] as: "The whole range of imaginal beings both inside and outside the individual; spiritual powers, gods, demons, ghosts, powers, fetishes.”]
Legge: An essay on temperance rightly follows that on abundant possessions. The third line, dynamic among five magnetic lines, in the topmost place of the trigram of Keeping Still, is the ruler of the hexagram. He is the representative of Temperance -- strong, but self-effacing. The idea is that temperance is the way to permanent success.
The Confucian commentary deals generally with the subject of temperance, showing how it is valued by heaven and earth, by spirits and by men. The descent of the heavenly influences, and the low position of the earth are both symbolic of temperance. The heavenly influences are seen in the daily fluctuations of the sun and moon, and the fertility of the earth correspondingly waxes and wanes with the seasons.
The Daily Lecture says:"The five yin lines above and below symbolize the earth; the one yang line in the center is the mountain in the midst of the earth. The many yin lines represent men's desires; the one yang line represents the heavenly principle. The superior man, looking at this symbolism, diminishes the multitude of human desires within him, and increases the single shoot of the heavenly principle; so does he become grandly just, and can deal with all things evenly according to the nature of each. In whatever circumstances or place he is, he will do what is right.”
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Judgment:Temperance means maintaining a dynamic/magnetic balance of forces to attain success.
The Superior Man maintains equilibrium in all that he does.
The most common translation of the title for this hexagram is Modesty, but I have chosen Temperance as a title more expressive of the ideas in the Image and Confucian commentary. The words “modesty” and “humility” often carry a connotation of weakness in western usage, and “temperance,” meaning to temper or regulate, is more expressive of the dynamic strength of will required to restrain and modulate the drive to dominate every situation.
The Image shows a mountain hidden beneath the earth--the quiet, invincible power of sheer will is hidden from view, yet it influences everything. Who observing such a level surface would know that the bulk of Mt. Everest was buried beneath it? Temperance means that one's power is hidden, that the fluctuations of heaven and earth are kept in such dynamic/magnetic balance as to be invisible to ordinary vision. The temperate person is strong enough to bear the weight of the world when that is necessary for the Work.
Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic Roman Emperor, was arguably the most powerful man of his time, yet his temperance and modesty showed him to fulfill the ideal of the superior man. Only the truly strong can be truly modest.
And let this truth be present to thee in the excitement of anger, that to be moved by passion is not manly, but that mildness and gentleness, as they are more agreeable to human nature, so also are they more manly; and he who possesses these qualities possesses strength, nerves and courage, and not the man who is subject to fits of passion and discontent. For in the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength. Marcus Aurelius
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Legge: The first line, magnetic, shows us the superior man who adds temperance to his temperance. Even the great stream may be crossed with this, and there will be good fortune.
Wilhelm/Baynes: A superior man modest about his modesty may cross the great water. Good fortune.
Blofeld: The Superior Man, ever modest and retiring, fords the great river -- good fortune! [Any journey undertaken at this time will bring good fortune.]
Liu: The superior man is modest in his modesty. It is favorable to cross the great water. Good fortune.
Ritsema/Karcher: Humbling, Humbling: chun tzu. Availing-of wading the Great River. Significant.
Shaughnessy: So modest is the gentleman; herewith ford the great river; auspicious.
Cleary (1): Humble about humility, the superior person thereby crosses great rivers. This is auspicious.
Cleary (2): Extreme humility. It is fortunate if leaders use this to cross great rivers.
Wu: Being humble about his humility, the jun zi can make use of this virtue to cross the big river. It will be auspicious.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: The superior man who adds temperance to his temperance is one who nourishes his virtue in lowliness. Wilhelm/Baynes: The superior man is lowly in order to guard himself well. Blofeld: He shows humility in disciplining himself. Ritsema/Karcher: Lowliness uses originating-from herding indeed. Cleary (2): In extreme humility, leaders manage themselves with lowliness. Wu: The jun zi uses humility for self-discipline.
Legge: A magnetic line at the lowest place in the figure is the fitting symbol of the superior man adding temperance to his temperance. The phrase "nourishes his virtue” in the Confucian commentary is literally: "pastures himself.” He is all temperance -- that is what makes him who he is.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: At the outset, the man retains his humility and does not press any claims. As a result he is free from challenges and does not encounter resistance. Difficult enterprises can be undertaken successfully.
Wing: If you can carry out your proposed endeavor quietly, competently, and thoroughly, without obvious announcements of your intentions, you can achieve even significant aims. With a modest and disciplined attitude, you do not create resistance or invite challenge.
Editor: Wilhelm translates the Confucian commentary in terms of lowliness as a technique of self-protection. Blofeld renders it as showing humility in one's self-discipline. Ritsema/Karcher render the verb MU, Herd, as: “tend cattle; watch over, superintend; ruler, teacher;” which recalls Legge's rendering of: "pastures himself.” The idea is to use the discipline of will to keep oneself under control. The line is conceptually a kind of "shadow” to line one of the following hexagram of Enthusiasm, which see. Sometimes it can have the meaning of "reserve” or "reservations,” as in "taking something with a grain of salt.”
The signs of one who is making progress are these: he censures no man, he praises no man, he blames no man, he accuses no man, he says nothing about himself as if he were somebody or knew something: when he is impeded at all or hindered, he blames himself ... he removes all desire from himself, and transfers aversion only to those things within his power which are contrary to nature: he employs a moderate movement towards every thing: whether he is considered foolish or ignorant, he cares not: and in a word he watches himself as if he were an enemy and lying in ambush. Epictetus
A. If you can maintain perspective, an advance is warranted.
B. A double portion of temperance: preserve your reserve, or your reservations about the matter at hand.
C. The ego undertakes responsibility for the Work with the full awareness that it is only the instrument of a higher intelligence within the psyche. This requires a servant's sense of reserve.
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Legge: The second line, magnetic, shows us temperance that has made itself recognized. With firm correctness there will be good fortune.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Modesty that comes to expression. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Blofeld: Modestly crows the cock. Righteous persistence brings good fortune.
Liu: Modesty is expressed. Continuing brings good fortune.
Shaughnessy: Calling modesty; determination is auspicious.
Cleary (1): Expressing humility is upright and good.
Cleary (2): Expressing humility is good if correct.
Wu: The subject rolls about humility. With perseverance there will be auspiciousness.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: She has the virtue in the core of her heart. Wilhelm/ Baynes: He has it in the depths of his heart. Blofeld: The cry reaches the depths of our hearts. Ritsema/Karcher: Centering the heart acquiring indeed. Cleary (2): Good if correct in the sense of attainment of the heart. Wu: Because it comes from the heart.
Legge: Line two is magnetic, central, and in her proper place. She represents temperance that has "crowed” -- that is, has proclaimed itself.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: Modesty is at the core of the man's being and reveals itself in his outward behavior.
Wing: By maintaining a careful inner Moderation, your outward actions gain influence and weight. You will now be entrusted with responsibilities. A thoroughness in your actions brings good fortune.
Editor: Temperance that "crows” seems to be a contradiction in terms; nevertheless, the image suggests the expression of temperance in one's behavior. A certain sacrifice of autonomy is implied.
The greater you are, the more you should behave humbly, and then you will find favor with the Lord. Ecclesiasticus 3: 19
A. Submit to the requirements of the time.
B. "Modesty is the best policy."
C. Show a little temperance in your behavior, or maintain your temperate attitude.
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Legge: The third line, dynamic, shows the superior man of acknowledged merit. He will maintain his success to the end, and have good fortune.
Wilhelm/Baynes: A superior man of modesty and merit carries things to conclusion. Good fortune.
Blofeld: The Superior Man, exceedingly hard-working yet modest, brings his affairs to fruition -- good fortune!
Liu: The superior man works in a modest way to conclusion. Good fortune.
Ritsema/Karcher: Toiling Humbling: chun tzu. Possessing completing significant.
Shaughnessy: Toiling modesty; the gentleman has an end; auspicious.
Cleary (1): Working with humility, the superior person has a conclusion. This bodes well.
Cleary (2): Leaders who work and achieve yet are humble have an auspicious conclusion.
Wu: Working hard toward humility, the jun zi will have grace in death. This will be auspicious.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: The myriads of the people will submit to him. Wilhelm/ Baynes: All the people obey him. Blofeld: The people most willingly submit to him. Ritsema/Karcher: The myriad commoners submitting indeed. Cleary (2): The people submit to leaders who work and achieve yet are humble. Wu: Because he has the support of all the people.
The Master said:"He toils with success, but does not boast of it; he achieves merit, but takes no virtue to himself from it; this is the height of generous goodness, and speaks of the man who with great merit yet places himself below others. He wishes his virtue to be more and more respectful, he who is so modest, carrying his respectfulness to the utmost, will be able to preserve himself in his position.”
Legge: Line three is dynamic, and occupies his proper place. He is the lord of the hexagram, to whom all represented by the lines above and below turn.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man disregards his fame and acknowledged merit but toils on laboriously and unpretentiously. He is supported by all the people in bringing his works to a successful conclusion.
Wing: With an unwavering commitment and hard work, you gain honor and fame. Do not allow such recognition to lead you astray or put you in a compromising position. Maintaining the perseverance that brought you prominence will win you continued support. You can then bring your work to completion.
Editor: The key idea here is the notion of inferior elements submitting to a calmly devoted superior element. The inferior elements acknowledge their superior and willingly submit to him.
Plans for control of the evil forces that have been loosed in the world, attempts to compensate the evil- doing by good works or sympathy for the victims, efforts to safeguard the peace or to effect ideal solutions of all the material problems involved, can do little to change the nature of the situation. The real problem, namely, the question of what can be done for civilization in face of the nonhuman forces arising from the collective unconscious in thousands or rather millions of individual persons, will remain untouched. However, if only one human being has met and solved the problem in himself, he will be a living demonstration of a solution. Such an individual carries with him the germ of a renaissance of the spiritual values of mankind. M.E. Harding -- Psychic Energy
A. The ego fulfills its role by bringing disparate elements (emotions, desires, appetites, etc.) into willing compliance with the goals of the Work.
B. A strong stance inspires obedience.
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Legge: The fifth line, magnetic, shows one who, without being rich, is able to employ her neighbors. She may advantageously use the force of arms. All her movements will be advantageous.
Wilhelm/Baynes: No boasting of wealth before one's neighbor. It is favorable to attack with force. Nothing that would not further.
Blofeld: In treating his neighbors, he is modest about his wealth. If he now attacks the rebels, everything will contribute to his success.
Liu: Do not show off your riches to your neighbor. It is beneficial to attack with force. It is favorable for everything.
Ritsema/Karcher: Not affluence: using one's neighbor. Harvesting: availing-of encroaching subjugating. Without not Harvesting.
Shaughnessy: Not wealthy together with his neighbors; beneficial herewith to invade and attack; there is nothing not beneficial.
Cleary (1): Not enriching oneself, one shares with the neighbors. It is beneficial to make an invasion, which will profit all.
Cleary (2): Not rich, employing the neighbors, it is beneficial in invasion and attack; all will profit.
Wu: He is capable of influencing his neighbors, despite his lack of wealth. It will be advantageous to take military actions. [Military actions are advantageous only if used to quell an insurrection, but certainly not to launch an aggression.]
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: She may use the force of arms to correct those who do not submit. Wilhelm/Baynes: "It is favorable to attack with force” in order to chastise the disobedient. Blofeld: Such an attack is warranted if the purpose is to chastise those who do not submit to virtuous laws. [This is not an invitation to use force in any circumstances, but only if its use is directed at what is truly perverse or evil.] Ritsema/Karcher: Chastising, not submitting indeed. Cleary (2): In the sense of overcoming the unruly. Wu: Because they are taken against the insurrection.
Legge: Men honor temperance in itself, whether or not it has the power to command obedience and respect. Hence her neighbors follow the ruler in the fifth line, though she may not be very rich or powerful. Her temperance need not prevent her from asserting her rights, even by the force of arms. Any refusal to submit makes an appeal to force necessary. Even the best and most temperate ruler bears the sword, and must not bear it in vain.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man acts energetically with the use of arms, when necessary, in correcting those who do not submit. Even in severity, however, he retains a considerate demeanor, which attracts devoted followers.
Wing: Despite the mild balance that is reached in Moderation, it may be necessary to take forceful action to accomplish your aims. This should not be done with a boastful display of power but with firm, decisive, and objective action. There will be improvement in whatever you undertake.
Editor: Legge's translation differs from the others, stating that one obtains allies from a position of poverty or relative weakness. Wilhelm, Blofeld and Liu all warn about not touting one's wealth (advantage, strength) to one's neighbors -- using them as allies is not specifically mentioned. On the other hand, Ritsema/
Karcher say: "Not affluence: using one's neighbor...” Implicit is the idea that you are in a strong position and needn't belabor the point. The "force of arms” is the use of power, and here we have one able to exercise power through a possible alliance with others like herself (neighbors are peers). Psychologically, it suggests an ego able to discipline and unite most of its inner forces in the furtherance of the Work: one summons up an alliance of power to tame recalcitrant elements within the psyche. If this is the only changing line, the hexagram becomes #39, Obstruction (Impasse) the corresponding line of which portrays the arrival of “friends” (allies), thus reinforcing the concept of obtaining some kind of assistance in the matter at hand.
Only a unified personality can experience life, not that personality which is split up into partial aspects, that bundle of odds and ends which also calls itself "man." Jung --Psychology and Alchemy
A. Do what needs to be done without making a big deal out of it.
B. Image of a proper alliance of forces able to correct the situation without exceeding the mean. A temperate attitude is not inconsistent with the maintenance of strict discipline.
C. “The force of arms” = self-discipline. Pull yourself together to harmonize recalcitrant forces within the psyche.
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Legge: The sixth line, magnetic, shows us temperance that has made itself recognized. The subject of it will with advantage put her army in motion, but she will only punish her own towns and state.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Modesty that comes to expression. It is favorable to set armies marching to chastise one's own city and one's country.
Blofeld: Modestly crows the cock. Now is the time to set armies marching to subdue the cities and the countries of the empire.
Liu: Modesty is expressed. It is favorable to use the army to chastise the city and country.
Ritsema/Karcher: Calling Humbling. Harvesting: availing-of moving legions. Chastising the capital city.
Shaughnessy: Calling modesty; beneficial herewith to move troops to campaign against city and state.
Cleary (1): Trumpeting humility, it is profitable to use the army to conquer one’s land.
Cleary (2): Expressing humility, one profits from military operations attacking the country.
Wu: The subject rolls about humility. It will be advantageous to use the armies to chasten the seditious state.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: All her aims have not yet been attained. She may employ the force of arms only to correct her own towns and state. Wilhelm/ Baynes: The purpose is not yet attained. Blofeld: Because the ruler's will has yet to be carried out, it is proper to do so. [This omen can be taken to indicate that we can afford to go forward boldly with our plans, but only if their fruition will tally with the general good. "The ruler's will” in this case is roughly synonymous with the public good.] Ritsema/Karcher: Purpose not-yet acquired indeed. Permitting availing-of moving legions. Chastising the capital city indeed. Cleary (2): The aspiration has not been attained. Wu: His aspirations have not been fulfilled … The purpose is to chasten the seditious state.
Legge: The subject of the magnetic sixth line is outside a game that has been played out. She will use force, but only within her own sphere and to assert what is right. She will not be aggressive. Chu Hsi bases all that is said under line six on its being a magnetic line, so that the temperate ruler is unable even at the close of the action to accomplish all her objects, and must limit her field even in appealing to arms.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: Even though the man's probity is recognized, his aims are not yet achieved. True modesty begins by disciplining one's own ego and the character of one's immediate circle, without being aggressive beyond.
Wing: Your inner development is not yet complete. The time calls for self-discipline. When difficulties arise, do not place the blame upon others. Once you begin to take responsibility for your own destiny you can bring order to your environment.
Editor: The ruler uses force to attain order in both this and the previous line, but here her influence is confined to immediate objectives. Temperance in this instance is expressed in her awareness of a lack of wholeness in the matter at hand, and of her own limitations in being able to effect completion. Psychologically, to "punish your own towns and state:” is to confine your action to the proper discipline of inner responses: emotions, drives, temptations, etc.
Better an equable man than a hero, a man master of himself than one who takes a city. Proverbs 16: 32
A. Recognize the limitations inherent in the situation and confine your action to objectives within your own sphere of control.
B. A modest, although incomplete, achievement. Confine your activity to controlling personal responses.
C. Don't get carried away with a modest achievement.
Autres titres : Le Symbole de la Sincérité Centrale, Confiance Intérieure, Vérité Intérieure, Sincérité, Centrage-Conformité, Retour Central, Fidélité au Centre, Sincérité au Centre, Perspicacité, Compréhension, La Psyché, "Prenez la voie du milieu et évitez les extrêmes." -- D.F. Hook
Jugement
Legge : Vérité Intérieure émeut même les cochons et les poissons, et conduit à la bonne fortune. Il y aura un avantage à traverser le grand fleuve. Il y aura un avantage à être ferme et correct.
Wilhelm/Baynes :Vérité Intérieure. Cochons et poissons. Bonne fortune. Il est favorable de traverser la grande eau. La persévérance est bénéfique.
Blofeld : Confiance et Sincérité Intérieures. Dauphins -- bonne fortune ! Il est avantageux de traverser le grand fleuve (ou la mer). La persistance dans une voie juste apporte une récompense.
Liu :Vérité Intérieure. Lions de mer -- bonne fortune. Il est bénéfique de traverser la grande eau.
Ritsema/Karcher :Centrage Conformité, poisson-cochon significatif. Récolte : traverser le Grand Fleuve. Récolte d'essai. (Poisson-cochon, T’UN YU : mammifères aquatiques ; marsouin, dauphin ; animaux aquatiques intelligents dont le développement est parallèle à celui de l'homme ; signe d'abondance et de bonne chance.) [Cet hexagramme décrit votre situation en termes de la relation entre votre noyau intérieur et les circonstances de votre vie. Il souligne que mettre en accord sincère et fiable vos préoccupations centrales et votre situation de vie est la manière adéquate de la gérer...]
Shaughnessy :Retour Central : le porcelet et le poisson sont de bon augure ; harmonieux : bénéfique de traverser le grand fleuve ; bénéfique de déterminer.
Cleary (1) : Fidélité au centre est de bon augure lorsqu'elle atteint même les cochons et les poissons. Il est bénéfique de traverser les grands fleuves. Il est bénéfique d'être correct.
Cleary (2) : Sincérité au centre est de bon augure quand simple d'esprit ... etc.
Wu :Sincérité émeut les porcelets et les poissons. De bon augure. Il sera avantageux de traverser le grand fleuve avec persévérance.
L'Image
Legge : Bois sur un Marais -- l'image de Vérité Intérieure. L'homme supérieur délibère sur les cas de litige et retarde l'infliction de la mort.
Wilhelm/Baynes : Vent sur le lac : l'image de Vérité Intérieure. Ainsi l'homme supérieur discute des affaires criminelles pour retarder les exécutions.
Blofeld : Cet hexagramme symbolise le vent soufflant sur un lac marécageux. L'Homme Supérieur consacre une réflexion attentive à ses jugements et tarde à condamner les gens à mort.
Liu : Le vent sur le lac symbolise Vérité Intérieure. L'homme supérieur juge les criminels et reporte la peine capitale.
Ritsema/Karcher : Au-dessus du marais possédant le vent. Centrage Conformité. Un chun tzu utilise la délibération des litiges pour retarder la mort.
Cleary (1) : Il y a du vent au-dessus d'un lac, avec vérité entre eux. Ainsi les personnes supérieures considèrent les jugements et reportent l'exécution.
Cleary (2) : Il y a du vent sur un lac, avec sincérité au centre. Les vrais leaders considèrent les jugements et reportent l'exécution.
Wu : Il y a du vent au-dessus du marais : c'est Sincérité. Ainsi, le jun zi délibère sur les verdicts et enjoint la peine de mort.
COMMENTAIRE
Confucius/Legge :Vérité Intérieure montre deux lignes magnétiques occupant la partie la plus intérieure de l'hexagramme, avec des lignes dynamiques au centre des trigrammes. Nous voyons les attributs de la Joie et de la Pénétration Flexible -- la sincérité ainsi symbolisée atteint même les cochons et les poissons et transformera le pays. Nous voyons quelqu'un chevauchant le symbole du Bois, qui forme un bateau vide -- d'où l'avantage de traverser le grand fleuve. La vertu de Vérité Intérieure nécessite une fermeté correcte et montre la réponse appropriée de l'homme au ciel.
Legge : Vérité Intérieure dénote la plus haute qualité de l'homme, donnant à son possesseur le pouvoir de prévaloir avec les êtres spirituels, avec les autres hommes et avec les créatures inférieures. Il y a deux lignes magnétiques au centre et deux lignes dynamiques au-dessus et en dessous d'elles. Les lignes magnétiques représentent le cœur et l'esprit libres de toute préoccupation, sans aucune conscience de soi. Les deux lignes dynamiques immédiatement au-dessus et en dessous d'elles sont chacune au centre de leur trigramme respectif, et dénotent la vertu solide de celui qui est ainsi libre de tout égoïsme.
Le trigramme du Bois au-dessus du trigramme pour un Lac ou un Marais suggère un bateau traversant le grand fleuve. Les cochons et les poissons symbolisent les hommes les plus grossiers et les plus obstinés. Ch'eng-tzu observe : "Nous avons dans la sincérité montrée dans le trigramme supérieur des supérieurs condescendant à ceux qui sont en dessous d'eux en fonction de leurs particularités, et nous avons dans celle du trigramme inférieur ceux qui sont en dessous ravis de suivre leurs supérieurs. La combinaison de ces deux choses conduit à la transformation du pays et de l'État."
NOTES ET PARAPHRASES
Jugement : C'est un grand accomplissement lorsque Vérité Intérieure modifie les forces archétypales au sein de la psyché. La dévotion de l'ego au Travail est le moyen d'atteindre cet objectif.
L'Homme Supérieur différencie soigneusement ses options et évite les mesures drastiques. (Peut parfois signifier : "N'agissez pas tant que vous n'êtes pas sûr de tous les faits.")
Quiconque surveille ses rêves et autres images sait que l'inconscient est une source continue d'énergie psychique. Jung a observé que nous rêvons probablement tout le temps -- la seule raison pour laquelle nous ne le remarquons généralement pas est que l'esprit conscient est si puissant que les manifestations plus subtiles de la psyché sont éclipsées. Puisque la conscience consiste uniquement en les couches supérieures d'un continuum profond de conscience, il est évident que nous sommes continuellement "créés de l'intérieur." La source ultime de notre être n'est pas facilement accessible, mais toutes les preuves empiriques pointent vers un "Soi" qui transcende le continuum espace-temps -- c'est-à-dire, vit dans une autre "dimension."
La capacité de neutraliser l'espace et le temps doit d'une manière ou d'une autre résider dans la psyché, ou, pour le dire autrement, la psyché n'existe pas entièrement dans le temps et l'espace. Il est très probable que seule ce que nous appelons la conscience est contenue dans l'espace et le temps, et que le reste de la psyché, l'inconscient, existe dans un état de relative absence d'espace et de temps. Jung --Lettres
Ce concept apparemment exotique a été écrit par Jung en 1939, et pourtant aujourd'hui les théories des physiciens quantiques approchent du point où la conscience elle-même sera reconnue comme transcendant l'espace-temps.
Dans la théorie moderne de Kaluza-Klein, toutes les forces de la nature, pas seulement la gravité, sont traitées comme des manifestations de la structure de l'espace-temps. Ce que nous appelons normalement la gravité est une déformation dans les quatre dimensions de l'espace-temps de nos perceptions, tandis que les autres forces sont réduites à des déformations spatiales de dimensions supérieures. Toutes les forces de la nature sont révélées comme rien de plus que de la géométrie cachée à l'œuvre ... Il y a une profonde compulsion à croire en l'idée que l'univers entier, y compris toute la matière apparemment concrète qui assaille nos sens, n'est en réalité qu'une joyeuse complexité de néant convoluté, que finalement le monde se révélera être une sculpture de pure vacuité, un vide auto-organisé. Paul Davies -- Superforce
Les physiciens émettent maintenant l'hypothèse d'un univers à onze dimensions, et déclarent que les sept dimensions "supplémentaires" sont d'une manière ou d'une autre "enroulées à une très petite taille" de sorte qu'elles ne sont pas apparentes à nos sens. Si nous allons émettre l'hypothèse de tels royaumes fantastiques, il est plus élégant d'hypothétiser la conscience elle-même comme émanant d'une source extra-dimensionnelle. C'est le Plérôme des Gnostiques et des Alchimistes, les mondes supérieurs et inférieurs du chamanisme, ou en termes jungiens : la Psyché Objective ou l'Inconscient Collectif.
L'espace-temps familier de notre expérience consciente se compose de trois dimensions linéaires, plus le temps. Le temps est considéré comme une dimension, mais pas comme les trois autres -- on peut aller en haut, en bas, en avant et en arrière, à gauche ou à droite à volonté, mais on ne peut pas revenir à ce matin ou avancer jusqu'à jeudi après-midi prochain. La dimension du temps est un "maintenant" continu et nous l'expérimentons ainsi que les trois autres dimensions à partir du point de référence de la conscience -- nous sommes le centre à partir duquel toutes les dimensions rayonnent. La conscience est comme le temps en ce qu'elle est toujours "maintenant", et puisque la conscience émerge de l'intérieur dans un flux continu et autonome, nous pouvons légitimement émettre l'hypothèse que nous émanons d'une source de puissance dans une autre dimension. Nous sommes une sorte d'explosion continue de l'intérieur -- une version microcosmique du "Big Bang" qui a donné naissance à l'univers, et qui, incidemment, explose encore en s'étendant vers l'extérieur dans l'espace.
Si tout ce qui est reconnaissable l'est uniquement parce qu'il s'est séparé du "tout et du néant", laissant sa moitié complémentaire derrière dans l'état non manifesté, alors la terre aussi doit avoir sa moitié complémentaire dans l'état non manifesté, et la force de gravitation qu'elle exerce sur toutes les créatures et objets vivant sur elle est la quête de réunification entre la terre et sa moitié complémentaire non manifestée qui a été laissée derrière dans le vide comme son reflet négatif. L'attraction gravitationnelle de la terre attire donc toute la terre vers le vide qui se tient au-delà du temps et de l'espace, afin de réaliser cette réunion. Si la terre devait céder, toute la terre et tout ce qui s'y trouve disparaîtraient dans le centre, dans le vide. Mais ce serait un retour à l'unité paradisiaque -- à Dieu -- à la félicité ! Elisabeth Haich -- Initiation
L'image de l'hexagrammeVérité Intérieure nous donne l'idée d'un centre "vide" -- aussi bonne image que l'on pourrait concevoir à partir des composants structurels des trigrammes pour montrer la source intérieure de la conscience humaine. Les cochons et les poissons du Jugement sont les complexes archétypaux qui doivent être apprivoisés par le processus du Travail, et "traverser le grand fleuve" avec une fermeté correcte est accomplir cette tâche sacrée.
À travers tous les âges, les hommes ont cherché, et certains ont trouvé ; il y a une porte par laquelle nous pouvons passer sur les plans supérieurs, mais cette porte est à l'intérieur de l'âme, c'est un élargissement de la conscience par lequel nous percevons ces choses auxquelles nous avons été jusqu'ici aveugles, et de cette perception vient le sens de la réalité qui manque lorsque nous ne percevons rien d'autre que des apparences. Quiconque a cette vision élargie est libéré des limitations des cinq sens physiques ; sa mémoire s'étend au-delà de la naissance, et ses espoirs vont au-delà de la mort ... Ayant tous les aspects de sa propre nature harmonieusement développés, il est en accord avec tous les aspects de l'univers, rien ne lui est étranger, et aucune forme d'existence n'est hostile. Le chemin de la vie est ouvert devant lui et il le parcourt avec joie. D. Fortune -- La Philosophie Ésotérique de l'Amour et du Mariage