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Enthousiasme16
L'inspiration alimente l'énergie ; alignez l'enthousiasme avec le but pour avancer efficacement.
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La fermeté et la patience sont nécessaires. En tenant bon, le succès viendra en temps voulu.
↓ Line 3
Dépasser les limites ou hésiter peut mener au regret. Il est important de trouver un équilibre et d'agir avec confiance.
↓ Line 6
Un enthousiasme malavisé peut conduire à des erreurs, mais les reconnaître et les corriger évitera les reproches.
↓ Le Chaudron50
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Other titles: The Symbol of Harmonious Joy, Repose, Happiness, Providing-for/Provision, Excess, Merriment, Self-confidence, Contentment, Harmonize, Excitement, Intemperance, Self-deception "Repose in the absolute confidence that the action now being taken is right. Also refers to music." -- D.F. Hook
Judgment
Legge: Enthusiasm indicates that feudal princes may be set up and the army advantageously mobilized.
Wilhelm/Baynes:Enthusiasm. It furthers one to install helpers and to set armies marching.
Blofeld:Repose profits those engaged in building up the country and sending forth armies. [This means that perfect certainty as to the rightness of our cause is of great value under the conditions mentioned. The usual meaning of this character is "beforehand" or "happiness." In the English translation of Wilhelm's version, it appears as "enthusiasm." "Repose" was suggested by the Chinese experts who kindly vetted this manuscript. At first I felt hesitant about adopting it, until I realized that, where it is used favorably, it must be understood as the kind of mental repose which follows absolute confidence that the action now being taken is the right one. In lines one, three and six, however, it clearly means failure to act when action is essential; in line five, failure to act owing to incapacity.]
Liu:Happiness. It is of benefit to build up the country (or business), and send the army forth. [Receivers of this hexagram should be wary of exhibiting excessive enthusiasm when beginning a new undertaking. If they are not, there will be misfortune. The hexagram also advises that everything necessary for advancement should be made ready. Then if an opportunity presents itself, it should be seized immediately, without hesitation.]
Ritsema/Karcher: Providing-for , Harvesting: installing feudatories to move legions. [This hexagram describes your situation in terms of what is needed to meet the future. It emphasizes that accumulating strength through foresight and prudence so things can be fully enjoyed is the adequate way to handle it. To be in accord with the time, you are told to: provide-for!]
Shaughnessy: Excess: Beneficial to establish a lord and to move troops.
Cleary (1):Joy. It is advantageous to set up a ruler and mobilize the army.
Wu:Merriment indicates the advantage of establishing principalities and taking military actions.
The Image
Legge: Thunder exploding out of the Earth -- the image of Enthusiasm. The ancient kings, in accordance with this, composed their music and honored virtue, offering it especially to God when they worshipped him at the service of their ancestors.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Thunder comes resounding out of the earth: the image of Enthusiasm. Thus the ancient kings made music in order to honor merit, and offered it with splendor to the Supreme Deity, inviting their ancestors to be present.
Blofeld: This hexagram symbolizes thunder over the earth. The ancient rulers venerated heaven's gifts with solemn music and they sacrificed abundantly to the Supreme Lord of Heaven in order to be worthy of their ancestors.
Liu: Thunder arising from the earth symbolizes Happiness. The ancient kings composed music to honor virtue, offering it to God and the spirits of their ancestors.
Ritsema/Karcher: Thunder issuing-forth-from earth impetuously. Providing-for. The Earlier Kings used arousing delight to extol actualizing-tao. Exalting worship's Supreme Above. Using equalizing the grandfather predecessors. [Actualize-tao:ability to follow the course traced by the ongoing process of the cosmos... Linked with acquire, TE: acquiring that which makes a being become what it is meant to be.]
Cleary (1): When thunder emerges the earth stirs: Thus did the kings of yore make music to honor virtue, offering it in abundance to God, thereby to share it with their ancestors.
Wu: Thunder breaks out above the earth with a boom; this is Merriment. Thus the ancient kings used music to praise virtuous accomplishments and made grand offerings to the Supreme Being to be accompanied by their ancestors.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: Enthusiasm shows one dynamic line inspiring responsive obedience in all the others: devoted obedience takes action. Such obedient action conforms to natural law and creates order and discipline in the people. The planets and the seasons follow their natural cycles. The sages similarly obey the laws of their nature and the people acknowledge their regulations and punishments as just.
Legge:Enthusiasm shows harmony and contentment throughout the kingdom -- a time when the people rejoice in their sovereign and readily obey him. At such a time his appointments and any military undertakings would be hailed and supported. Because he is close to the fifth place of dignity, the dynamic fourth line is seen as the chief executive officer of the ruler. The ruler has confidence in him, and all of the magnetic lines yield their obedience. Obedience is the attribute of the lower trigram which here takes the initiative and uses Movement, which is the attribute of the upper trigram.
The symbolism of the Image is more obscure than usual. The use of music at sacrifices is supposed to assist in producing the union between God and his worshippers as well as the present and past generations.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Judgment: Delegate authority and gather your forces.
The Superior Man synchronizes his will with the intent of the Self via the principles of the Work.
Enthusiasm is the reverse of the preceding hexagram of Temperance. In Temperance we saw the calm strength of a mountain concealed within the earth. In Enthusiasm we see thunder exploding out of the ground into the sky: the strength that was formerly tempered and restrained is now released. It is significant to note that while every line of Temperance is more or less "favorable,” every line of Enthusiasm is either negative or cautionary -- even the generally positive fourth line carries a hint of warning about “doubt.”
Negatively, Self-Deception (the passion of True Believers) seems to be what this hexagram is portraying. The figure often suggests a callow or deluded buoyancy -- the kind of outlook associated with romantic idealists. In its most negative aspect, Enthusiasm is Intemperance -- the exact opposite of the moderation and restraint shown in the preceding hexagram. The behavior of an untrained Great Dane puppy suddenly bursting into a formal dinner party could be described as "enthusiasm,” but hardly a desirable form thereof. The lower trigram of Obedient Devotion has suddenly employed the action and energy of the upper trigram of Thunderous Shock to express itself. This is inconsistent with the code of the superior man.
Conversely, in its most positive sense, Enthusiasm suggests the surety of total self-confidence. Blofeld translates this as Repose, explaining that the name was suggested to him by his Chinese advisors. We begin to understand this subtle distinction when we compare the seemingly obscure connection with music in the Image with a passage from Chuang- tse:
He who understands the music of heaven lives in accordance with nature in his life and takes part in the process of change of things in his death. In repose, his character is in harmony with the yin principle; in activity, his movement is in harmony with the yang principle. Therefore he who understands the music of heaven is not blamed by heaven or criticized by men ... It is said, "In action he is like heaven. In repose he is like the earth ... Because his mind has found repose, therefore the creation pays homage to him.”
To understand “the music of heaven” is to attain Repose, which is another way of describing the tranquility that comes with furthering the intent of the Self. The only dynamic line in the hexagram is in the minister's place just below the fifth-line ruler. He has the confidence of his sovereign and his actions therefore accord with heaven. We can turn to the Stoics to find an illustration of this idea:
My will is simply that which comes to pass. For I esteem what God wills better than what I will. To Him will I cleave as His minister and attendant; having the same movements, the same desires, in a word the same will as He. -- Epictetus
Thus we see that the hexagram can describe either one of two opposite conditions -- the intemperate Enthusiasm of ego-confidence (a synonym for Self-Deception), or the calm Repose of true SELF-confidence. The fifteenth and sixteenth hexagrams, each the inverse of the other, represent magnetic and dynamic aspects of the same general idea: Enthusiasm, when it emanates from the Self, is just Temperance in action.
Line 2
Legge: The second line, magnetic, shows one who is firm as a rock. She sees a thing without waiting till it has come to pass; with her firm correctness there will be good fortune.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Firm as a rock. Not a whole day. Perseverance brings good fortune.
Blofeld: Unmoved as a rock; before the end of day, righteous persistence will bring good fortune. [Unmoved as a rock because of the repose which results from absolute confidence in a decision already taken.]
Liu: Firm and stable like a rock. Do not wait a whole day. Continuing brings good fortune.
Ritsema/Karcher: Chain-mail tending-towards petrification: Not completing the day. Trial: significant.
Shaughnessy: Scratched on a rock; not to the end of the day; determination is auspicious.
Cleary (1): Firm as a rock, not procrastinating, rectitude is good.
Wu: He is upright like a rock. In less time than the passing of the day, he discriminates the good from the bad. To be persevering is auspicious.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: This is shown by the central and correct position of the line. Wilhelm/Baynes: Because it is central and correct. Blofeld: This is indicated by the suitable position of this line which is central to the lower trigram. Ritsema/Karcher: Using centering correcting indeed. Cleary (2):
It is balanced in the right way. Wu: Because he is central and correct.
The Master said:"Does not he who knows the inception of things possess spirit-like wisdom? The superior man, in his intercourse with the high, uses no flattery, and, in his intercourse with the low, no coarse freedom: does not this show that he knows the inception of things? Those beginnings are the slight stirrings of movement, and the earliest indications of good fortune or ill. The superior man sees them, and acts accordingly without waiting for the delay of a single day. As is said in the I Ching, `He is firm as a rock, and acts without waiting for the delay of a single day. With firm goodness there will be good fortune.' Firm as a rock, how should he have to wait a single day to ensure his knowing those beginnings and his course? The superior man knows the minute and the manifested; he knows what is weak, and what is strong: he is a model to ten-thousand."
Legge: The magnetic second line is in her correct central position in the lower trigram. Quietly and firmly she is able to abide in her place and exercise a far-seeing discrimination. All is indicative of good fortune.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man is quiet, but firm as a rock, yet sensitive to the first imperceptible signs of impending changes. He does not delay in taking action.
Wing: To be able to recognize the early signs of a change in fortune is a tremendous gift. While others may be swept away by compelling rhythms and fads, you adhere firmly to the underlying principles of your nature and react appropriately to the demands of the time. Such is the behavior of leaders.
Editor: All translations except Legge and Cleary's render the second sentence in the imagery of "not waiting for a whole day to pass,” which suggests action taken on the basis of foresight, premonition or intuition. This line is sometimes an injunction to follow your common sense -- saying in effect, that an oracle is unnecessary to proclaim the obvious.
You don't need a weatherman to know
which way the wind blows.
-- Bob Dylan
A. Proper discrimination knows when to act, and when to refrain from action.
B. Your own intuition already knows the answer to your query.
Line 3
Legge: The third line, magnetic, shows one looking up for favors, while she indulges the feeling of pleasure and satisfaction. If she would understand! If she be late in doing so, there will indeed be occasion for repentance.
Wilhelm/Baynes:Enthusiasm that looks upward creates remorse.
Shaughnessy: A bowl's excess; regret; being slow there is regret.
Cleary (1): Looking up to joy, if repentance is tardy, there will be regret.
Cleary (2): Looking up in joy, repent. If too late, there is regret.
Wu: Gazing at merriment will bring regret. Loitering about will bring regret.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: This is intimated by the position not being the appropriate one. Wilhelm/Baynes: The place is not the appropriate one. Blofeld: This is indicated by the line's unsuitable position. Ritsema/ Karcher: Situation not appropriate indeed. Cleary (2): Wu: Because his position is improper.
Legge: Line three is magnetic in a dynamic place. She looks upward and depends upon the ruling line above while she does nothing herself but indulge in pleasure. Unless she changes her attitude, the auspice is bad.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man looks upward for favors and continues his dependency upon others. He indulges in visions of pleasure and affluence. Unless he changes immediately, he will be sorry.
Wing: You have waited complacently for a cue from someone else to motivate you. Whatever the reasons for your hesitation, whether it is idle pleasure in the present or simply inertia, you are losing your independence and self-reliance. You can still save yourself. Move.
Editor: This line is magnetic when the times call for dynamic action, giving us an image of indolent dependency. Without doing anything, she wants to "have her cake and eat it too.” Sometimes one receives this line when in a state of despair: feeling as if abandoned to one's fate by an incomprehensible cosmos. The idea is that fate isn't going to make the transition for you: you must do it yourself.
To those who are self-conceited and vain of their imaginary knowledge of exterior things, having no real wisdom, nothing can be shown, because the perverted action of their own minds opposes the harmonious action of the Universal Mind and repulses it. The spheres of their souls become narrow and contracted, and cannot expand towards the whole. They rest self-satisfied, buried in the shadow of their own ignorance, and are inaccessible to the light of Nature. Paracelsus -- Philosophia Sagax
A. Stop indulging yourself and do what you know to be correct in the matter at hand.
B. Your confidence is misplaced.
C. The image suggests weakness and dependency.
Line 6
Legge: The sixth line, magnetic, shows its subject with darkened mind devoted to the pleasure and satisfaction of the time. But if she changes her course even when it may be considered as completed, there will be no error.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Deluded enthusiasm. But if after completion one changes, there is no blame.
Blofeld: Madcap repose. Fortunately a change takes place, so no blame is involved. [Madcap repose implies being tardy to the point of extreme rashness in the face of approaching danger or of a need to act.]
Liu: Deluded happiness. Change after completion. No blame.
Ritsema/Karcher: Dim Providing-for. Accomplishment: possessing denial. Without fault.
Shaughnessy: Dark excess; if complete perhaps you will be informed; there is no trouble.
Cleary (1): Oblivious in joy. What comes about has change; there is no blame.
Cleary (2): … What has come about changes, etc.
Wu: Merriment is obscured. There may be success, but changes are pending. There will be no error.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: How can one in such a condition continue for long? Wilhelm/Baynes: Deluded enthusiasm in a high place: how could this last? Blofeld: Since this is a top line, the state of madcap repose cannot possibly last long. Ritsema/Karcher: Dim Providing-for located above. Wherefore permitting long-living indeed? Cleary (2): Oblivion in joy is at the top. What can last? Wu: How can the situation continue for long?
Legge: The magnetic sixth line at the end of the hexagram is all but lost.
The action of the figure is over, and if she postpones changing her evil ways any longer, there is no hope remaining for her. However, there is still a chance of safety if she will but change.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man is distracted by pleasure and satisfaction. If he changes after the events of the day have run their course, however, the sober awakening will prevent future errors.
Wing: The person in this position is lost in the memory of a compelling and harmonious experience. The time is past, and what is left is empty egotism. Fortunately, reform is possible. There is an opportunity to move on to a situation of new growth.
Editor: This line has a similar auspice as that of its (improper) correlate in line three. Wilhelm's commentary states: "A sober awakening from false enthusiasm is quite possible and very favorable." Note that “no blame” is mentioned, suggesting that you are more ignorant than culpable in the situation at hand.
While he is in a state of bondage, that is while lusts and falsities rule, the man who is subjected by them supposes that he is in a state of freedom; but it is a gross falsity, for at the very time he is carried along by the delight of his lusts and of the pleasures derived from them, that is, by the delight of his loves; and because it is by a delight it appears to him as free. Everyone thinks himself free while he is being led by some love -- so long as he follows whithersoever it leads. Swedenborg -- Arcana Coelestia
A. Conquer your illusions and change your ways.
B. Illusions are shattered when pursued to their logical conclusions.
Autres titres : Le Chaudron, Le Récipient, Réjuvénation, Ordre Cosmique, Le Récipient Alchimique, "Une transformation complète d'une personne ou d'une circonstance." -- D.F. Hook
Jugement
Legge : Le Récipient Sacrificiel signifie un grand progrès et succès.
Blofeld : Un Récipient Sacrificiel -- succès suprême !
Liu :Le Chaudron. Grande bonne fortune. Succès.
Ritsema/Karcher :Le Récipient, Printemps significatif. Croissance. [Cet hexagramme décrit votre situation en termes de la capacité imaginative d'un récipient sacré. Il souligne que sécuriser et transformer de manière imaginative le matériel à disposition est la manière adéquate de le gérer. Pour être en accord avec le temps, on vous dit de : tenir et transformer les choses dans le récipient !]
Shaughnessy :Le Chaudron : Prime auspiciousness; réception.
Cleary (1) :Le chaudron est fondamentalement bon ; il est en développement.
Cleary (2) :Le Chaudron est très favorablement en développement.
Wu :Le Chaudron indique une grande auspiciousness et une pervasiveness.
L'Image
Legge : Du bois sous un feu -- l'image d'un Récipient Sacrificiel. L'homme supérieur maintient sa rectitude dans chaque situation pour sécuriser la nomination du ciel.
Wilhelm/Baynes : Feu sur bois : l'image du Chaudron. Ainsi l'homme supérieur consolide son destin en rendant sa position correcte.
Blofeld : Cet hexagramme symbolise le feu sur le bois. L'Homme Supérieur, prenant sa position comme l'exige la droiture, adhère fermement aux décrets du ciel.
Liu : Le feu au-dessus du bois symbolise le Chaudron. L'homme supérieur rend son destin ferme avec une position correcte.
Ritsema/Karcher : Au-dessus du bois possédant le feu. Le Récipient. Un chun tzu utilise la correction de la situation pour solidifier le destin.
Cleary (1) : Il y a du feu sur le bois ; un chaudron. Ainsi les personnes supérieures stabilisent la vie dans la position correcte.
Cleary (2) : Feu sur bois -- Le Chaudron. Les leaders stabilisent leur mandat en corrigeant leur position.
Wu : Il y a du feu sur le bois ; c'est Le Chaudron. Ainsi le jun zi rectifie sa position et consacre le mandat.
COMMENTAIRE
Confucius/Legge : L'image du Récipient Sacrificiel nous montre du bois entrant dans un feu, ce qui suggère l'idée de cuisiner. Les sages cuisinaient leurs sacrifices à Dieu et nourrissaient leurs ministres capables avec des festins. Nous avons les trigrammes de l'Obéissance Flexible et de l'Intelligence Rapide, avec la ligne magnétique avancée à la place du dirigeant et répondue par son corrélat dynamique en dessous. Toutes ces choses donnent l'auspice d'un progrès réussi.
Legge : Le caractère chinois écrit pour Récipient Sacrificiel représente un chaudron à trois pieds et deux "oreilles" utilisé pour cuisiner et préparer la nourriture pour la table et l'autel. L'hexagramme représente ce récipient -- la première ligne divisée représente les pieds, les trois lignes non divisées au-dessus représentent le corps, la cinquième ligne divisée montre les oreilles (ou anneaux de transport), et la ligne supérieure est la poignée par laquelle le récipient est transporté ou suspendu à un crochet.
La leçon de l'hexagramme est que le nourrissement des hommes de talent et de vertu indique un grand progrès et succès. Les éditeurs de K'ang-hsi soulignent que la distinction entre l'hexagramme numéro quarante-huit, Le Puits, et celui-ci est la différence entre le nourrissement des gens en général et le nourrissement spécifique des hommes dignes. Ils ajoutent que la réalité du sacrifice est nourrissante à cet égard.
NOTES ET PARAPHRASES
Jugement : Vous êtes le Récipient Sacrificiel.
L'Homme Supérieur adhère aux principes du Travail pour atteindre la transcendance.
Le nom habituel de cet hexagramme est Le Chaudron -- spécifiquement, un type de récipient contenant de la nourriture qui était utilisé dans la Chine ancienne pour les sacrifices religieux. Je préfère le titre de Blofeld de Récipient Sacrificiel comme plus évocateur des idées présentées dans la figure.
Lorsque le quarante-neuvième hexagramme de Transformation est retourné, il devient le cinquantième hexagramme du Récipient Sacrificiel, nous donnant ainsi des aperçus précieux des nuances de signification dans chacune des figures. Les idées combinées de transformation et d'un chaudron utilisé pour les sacrifices nous rappellent le récipient alchimique ou le réacteur qui "cuisait" son contenu et le transformait en un état supérieur de matière -- transformait le plomb en or dans la conception populaire. Bien sûr, le véritable but ésotérique de l'alchimiste était psychologique, non physique.
Le récipient des alchimistes, comme le cercle de la psyché et le mandala, doit être fermé si le processus de transformation doit se dérouler de manière satisfaisante. Pour les alchimistes, le processus se déroulait dans les substances matérielles collectées dans le réacteur. Pour nous, c'est un symbole représentant un processus similaire se déroulant à l'intérieur de la psyché. Ainsi, il est dit qu'un mur doit être solidement construit autour de la psyché avant que la réconciliation des opposés puisse avoir lieu en elle, et avant que le nouveau centre de l'individu puisse être créé. ... Car si quelque chose est perdu, le processus est annulé et le produit final sera incomplet, imparfait. Tant que, par exemple, l'individu continue de projeter ses déficiences, ou ses valeurs, sur les circonstances ou sur un autre, il n'a pas un récipient imperméable ... Ainsi, les contenus essentiellement impliqués dans la transformation sont vus comme étant les facteurs irrationnels, instinctuels, pas encore humains de la psyché, le non-moi. Les facteurs humains et civilisés, ceux soumis à la volonté, constituent le mur du récipient. M.E. Harding -- Énergie Psychique
Maintenant, un ancien chaudron chinois utilisé pour contenir de la nourriture destinée aux sacrifices religieux n'est pas la même chose qu'un réacteur alchimique hermétiquement scellé fait pour résister à des pressions extrêmes, mais symboliquement, ce sont des images identiques. L'ego sacrifie son autonomie pour le bien du Travail de la même manière que l'alchimiste consacre toute sa vie à la transformation du métal de base en or -- c'est-à-dire, pour transformer sa psyché en suivant la discipline extrême du Travail. Le Taoist I-Ching de Thomas Cleary nous dit explicitement que c'est le sens voulu ici :
Le travail de raffinement est le moyen de sublimer l'énergie terrestre et de stabiliser l'énergie céleste, faisant mûrir le brut et renouveler l'ancien, par lequel il est possible d'illuminer l'esprit et de solidifier la vie. Par conséquent, le chaudron est fondamentalement bon et il a un chemin de développement. La base est le potentiel de vie éternelle de la bonté ; la cuisson du grand médicament dans le chaudron est l'allumage de ce potentiel vivant pour le rendre incorruptible et permanent. Mais dans ce chemin, il y a un processus et une procédure ; même la moindre déviation et l'élixir d'or ne se formera pas. Par conséquent, les gens doivent d'abord enquêter à fond sur le véritable principe. Liu I-ming
SUGGESTIONS POUR LA MÉDITATION
Dans son commentaire, Legge mentionne que les Chinois voient une analogie entre cette figure et l'hexagramme numéro quarante-huit, Le Puits. Comparez les deux figures, en notant les similitudes entre les première, troisième, cinquième et sixième lignes. Les trigrammes composants du Récipient Sacrificiel apparaissent en séquence inverse dans l'hexagramme numéro trente-sept, Famille. Quelles autres similitudes y a-t-il dans les deux figures ? Comment l'idée d'une famille est-elle analogue à l'idée d'un récipient sacrificiel ?