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 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 4
Legge: The fourth line, dynamic, shows him from whom the harmony and satisfaction come. Great is the success which he obtains. Let him not allow suspicions to enter his mind, and thus friends will gather around him.
Wilhelm/Baynes: The source of enthusiasm. He achieves great things. Doubt not. You gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair.
Blofeld: From repose, great results accrue. Harbor no doubts. Why should it be harmful to befriend this official? [The meaning of this terse question is not obvious; but the enquirer may find it apt in the context either of his question or of subsequent events.]
Liu: The source of happiness. One receives great gain without hesitation. Your friends are already successful.
Ritsema/Karcher: Antecedent Provision. The great possesses acquiring. No doubting. Partners join-together suddenly.
Shaughnessy: Really excess; if one greatly has gain, do not doubt; cowries and shells slander.
Cleary (1): Being the source of joy, there is great gain. Do not doubt. Companions gather.
Wu: Let merriment have its way. There is much to gain. No doubt about it. Friends will unite their hairpins.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: His aims take effect on a grand scale. Wilhelm/Baynes:
His will is done in great things. Blofeld: The first sentence indicates the fullest attainment of our will. Ritsema/Karcher: Purpose: the great moving indeed. Cleary (2): The aspiration is carried out greatly. Wu: His aspirations are fully realized.
Legge: The dynamic subject of line four is the agent to whom the happy condition is owing, and it is only necessary to caution him to maintain his confidence in himself and his purpose. His adherents and success will continue.
Anthony: The source of enthusiasm is in believing in our path and its ultimate success, because it is correct. We gather friends and helpers when this belief is strong enough that we do not try to convince people or contend with them. Contending comes from the ego, which secretly disbelieves.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man is confident, free of suspicions of others, and sincere in his dedication. He instills harmony and satisfaction among his associates. People gather around him in effective cooperation.
Wing: Harmonious times are approaching. It is safe to exhibit your confidence in the future. Your attitude will attract others to you, who will co-operate in your endeavors. In this way you can accomplish great deeds.
Editor: As the only dynamic line in the hexagram, line four is considered to be its ruler. When we note that Legge mentions "harmony and satisfaction" instead of "enthusiasm," we begin to see the meaning behind Blofeld's title of Repose. Indeed, his translation of the line begins: "From repose, great results accrue..." Wilhelm's version gives the idea of consolidating forces "as a hair clasp gathers the hair." Psychologically interpreted, a process of integration is symbolized. The line can sometimes be a gentle admonition to have faith in your own unconscious processes to advance the Work.
The One does not aspire to us, to move around us; we aspire to it, to move around it. Actually, we always move around it; but we do not always look. We are like a chorus grouped about a conductor who allow their attention to be distracted by the audience. If, however, they were to turn towards their conductor, they would sing as they should and would really be with him. We are always around The One. If we were not, we would dissolve and cease to exist. Yet our gaze does not remain fixed upon the One. When we look at it, we then attain the end of our desires and find rest. Plotinus -- The Enneads
A. A powerful force calmly organizes separate elements to effect a synthesis.
B. Quiet SELF-confidence inspires the allegiance of inner forces, accumulating energy for transformation.
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 : Montagne, Immobilité, Le Symbole de la Vérification et de l'Arrêt, Cessation, Calme, Immobilité, Arrêt, Lié, Repos, Méditation, Non-action, Arrêt, Arrêt du Mouvement, "Se réfère à la méditation et au yoga." -- D.F. Hook
Jugement
Legge : Quand son repos est comme le dos, et qu'il perd toute conscience de soi ; quand il marche dans sa cour et ne voit pas les gens, il n'y aura pas d'erreur.
Wilhelm/Baynes : Immobilité. Gardant son dos immobile de sorte qu'il ne sente plus son corps. Il entre dans sa cour et ne voit pas ses gens. Pas de blâme.
Blofeld : Gardant le dos si immobile qu'il semble pratiquement sans corps, ou marchant dans la cour sans remarquer les gens là-bas, cela n'implique pas d'erreur !
Liu : Immobilité. Gardant le dos immobile -- on a l'impression que le corps n'existe plus. Même quand on marche dans la cour, on ne voit pas de gens. Pas de blâme.
Ritsema/Karcher : Lié : son dos. Ne pas attraper son individualité. Déplaçant ses chambres. Ne pas visualiser ses gens. Sans faute. [Cet hexagramme décrit votre situation en termes de confrontation à une limite ou un obstacle. Il souligne que s'arrêter et reconnaître la limite, l'action de Lié, est la manière adéquate de la gérer. Pour être en accord avec le temps, on vous dit de vous arrêter !]
Shaughnessy : Immobilisant son dos, mais pas son corps : Marchant dans sa cour, mais ne voyant pas sa personne ; il n'y a pas de problème.
Cleary (1) :Arrêt au dos, on n'a pas de corps ; marchant dans le jardin, on ne voit pas de personne. Pas de faute.
Cleary (2) :Immobilisant le dos, on ne trouve pas le corps, etc.
Wu :Arrêt indique que, reposant sur son dos, il ne trouve pas son corps et marchant dans sa cour, il ne voit personne. Sans faute.
L'Image
Legge : L'image d'une montagne sur une autre forme Immobilité. L'homme supérieur, en accord avec cela, ne permet pas à ses pensées d'aller au-delà des devoirs de ses circonstances immédiates.
Wilhelm/Baynes : Montagnes se tenant proches l'une de l'autre : l'image de l'Immobilité. Ainsi l'homme supérieur ne permet pas à ses pensées d'aller au-delà de sa situation.
Blofeld : Cet hexagramme symbolise deux montagnes conjointes. L'Homme Supérieur réfléchit pour éviter d'avoir à bouger de sa position.
Liu : Montagne à côté de montagne symbolise l'immobilité. Les pensées de l'homme supérieur ne vont pas au-delà de sa position.
Ritsema/Karcher : Montagnes jointes. Lié. Un chun tzu utilise la réflexion pour ne pas sortir de sa situation.
Cleary (1) :Montagnes jointes. Ainsi les personnes supérieures pensent sans quitter leur place.
Cleary (2) :Les montagnes sont immobiles. Ainsi les pensées des personnes développées ne sont pas déplacées.
Wu : Une montagne chevauchant une autre fait Arrêt. Ainsi le jun zi ne contemple pas des choses au-delà de sa position. [Confucius a dit : “Si vous n'occupez pas un poste, ne donnez pas de conseils sur son administration.” Ce qu'il voulait dire, c'est : ne pas donner de conseils librement. D'un autre côté, si on vous le demande, alors donnez le meilleur de vous-même.]
COMMENTAIRE
Confucius/Legge :Immobilité signifie arrêt : On se repose quand il est temps de se reposer, et on agit quand il est temps d'agir. Quand l'action et le repos se produisent aux moments appropriés, le comportement est éclairé. Gardant son dos immobile, il se repose à sa place appropriée. Les lignes supérieures et inférieures de l'hexagramme se reflètent toutes, mais sans aucune interaction : D'où il est dit qu'il n'a pas de conscience de [l'ego]. Il ne voit pas les personnes dans sa cour, et il n'y aura pas d'erreur.
Legge : Deux trigrammes symbolisant la Montagne composent l'hexagramme de l'Immobilité. Les montagnes s'élèvent grandement de la surface de la terre, leurs énormes masses reposant sur elle dans une majesté calme et solennelle. Elles sont des barrières à la progression du voyageur. Les attributs de cet hexagramme sont à la fois le repos et l'arrêt. Il dénote la caractéristique de se reposer dans ce qui est juste en principe, juste à l'échelle la plus large possible -- dans la conception absolue de l'esprit et dans chaque position possible dans laquelle un homme peut être placé. Comme dans l'hexagramme numéro trente et un, Initiative, le symbolisme est tiré des différentes parties du corps humain.
Selon les éditeurs de K'ang-hsi, la deuxième phrase de l'Image devrait être traduite : "L'homme supérieur, en conséquence de cela, pense anxieusement à comment il ne doit pas aller au-delà des devoirs de sa position."
NOTES ET PARAPHRASES
Jugement :"Effacez l'imagination : vérifiez le désir : éteignez l'appétit : gardez la faculté dirigeante dans son propre pouvoir.” -- Marc Aurèle
L'Homme Supérieur élimine toute distraction et se concentre sur la question à portée de main.
Une grande partie du Travail consiste en rien de plus que la volonté de rester immobile. Quiconque a déjà essayé peut attester que l'Immobilité, ou ne rien faire, est probablement la chose la plus difficile qu'un humain puisse être invité à faire. Nous sommes une fontaine toujours en mouvement de désir agité -- les sens sont programmés sans réfléchir pour rencontrer leurs objets, et quand nous les empêchons de faire cela, une grande agitation se produit dans la psyché. Nous sommes tellement habitués à ressentir nos désirs, pulsions, instincts et appétits comme intégrés à notre conscience, que nous sommes rarement conscients du fait qu'ils sont en réalité des forces autonomes -- aussi séparées de l'ego, ou du complexe de prise de décision, que nous le sommes des autres personnes, créatures ou objets dans le monde physique. Essayez de contrôler une habitude enracinée, comme fumer, et observez à quel point il est difficile d'imposer votre volonté dessus. Qui contrôle qui ?
Le pouvoir de voir ne vient pas de l'œil, le pouvoir d'entendre ne vient pas de l'oreille, ni le pouvoir de sentir des nerfs ; mais c'est l'esprit de l'homme qui voit à travers l'œil, et entend avec l'oreille, et sent par les nerfs. La sagesse et la raison et la pensée ne sont pas contenues dans le cerveau, mais elles appartiennent à l'esprit invisible et universel qui ressent à travers le cœur et pense par le cerveau. Tous ces pouvoirs sont contenus dans l'univers invisible, et se manifestent à travers des organes matériels, et les organes matériels sont leurs représentants, et modifient leur mode de manifestation selon leur construction matérielle, car une manifestation parfaite du pouvoir ne peut avoir lieu que dans un organe parfaitement construit, et si l'organe est défectueux, la manifestation sera imparfaite, mais pas le pouvoir original défectueux. Paracelse -- De Viribus Membrorum
L'ego n'a qu'une seule fonction légitime -- faire des choix : c'est le central téléphonique dans la psyché qui dirige où l'énergie des pouvoirs instinctuels doit aller. Si ces forces autonomes sont plus fortes que la volonté de l'ego, elles apprennent rapidement à obtenir ce qu'elles veulent aussi souvent que possible. La principale différence entre un homme inférieur et un homme supérieur est que ce dernier a appris à contrôler et diriger ses énergies pour un but plus élevé. L'un des meilleurs moyens d'acquérir cette capacité est d'apprendre les leçons inhérentes à l'Immobilité.
La psychanalyse a démontré que le pouvoir de ces images et complexes réside principalement dans le fait que nous en sommes inconscients, que nous ne les reconnaissons pas comme tels. Lorsqu'ils sont démasqués, compris et résolus en leurs éléments, ils cessent souvent de nous obséder ; en tout cas, nous sommes alors beaucoup mieux à même de nous défendre contre eux. Roberto Assagioli -- Psychosynthèse
Les lignes des trigrammes supérieurs et inférieurs sont des images miroir les unes des autres, mais aucune d'elles n'a de corrélat approprié : elles ne se connectent pas entre elles. Cela suggère la séparation des sens de leurs objets. Par exemple, les globes oculaires sont des récepteurs sensoriels conçus pour la perception de la lumière et de la forme -- fermez les yeux, et ils sont empêchés de contacter les phénomènes qu'ils ont été créés pour percevoir. Que les entités psychiques attachées à ce désir de percevoir des phénomènes puissent résister à la restriction est une conclusion prévisible, mais l'ego a le contrôle des paupières -- ou devrait l'avoir. “Ne pas voir les gens dans sa propre cour” signifie qu'on ignore ses impulsions autonomes.
La régulation des manifestations autonomes de la psyché conformément à la volonté du Soi a pour but de gagner une influence contrôlante sur son karma. Comme indiqué ici à maintes reprises, vous, en tant qu'ego, n'êtes rien de plus qu'un outil créé par le Soi pour la direction de son propre destin.
La théorie du karma et la mécanique quantique refusent d'accepter que les observateurs puissent exister indépendamment des systèmes qu'ils observent. La science spirituelle va jusqu'à prendre l'univers interne de l'observateur et ses états comme son champ expérimental. Car c'est dans ce champ que le karma est produit et stocké …La “matière” à partir de laquelle nous et nos obstructions sommes créés inclut à la fois le matériau physique dense à partir duquel nos corps sont construits et les pensées, attitudes et émotions qui composent nos esprits. La pratique tantrique est une ingénierie karmique dans ce champ de nom et de forme, l'orchestration de la substance et de l'action en résultat. D'abord, vous dirigez de nouvelles causes contre les effets précédents pour annuler les influences défavorables sur votre conscience, puis vous déclenchez encore d'autres actions pour annuler l'influence des actions annulantes. Robert Svoboda –Aghora III, La Loi du Karma
Comment un ego pourrait-il s'attaquer à de telles responsabilités avec un espoir de progrès est impossible à imaginer sans la direction du Soi. Immobilité a certainement ses propres conséquences karmiques, mais lorsque le “non-choix” impliqué dans cet hexagramme est fait conformément à la volonté et à l'intention du Soi, les résultats mènent lentement à des niveaux de conscience toujours plus élevés – éventuellement dans des royaumes au-delà du physique. C'est de cela qu'il s'agit dans le Travail : tout autre choix est de nous enfermer dans un cycle continu de naissance et de mort dans la manifestation physique.
Les kabbalistes enseignent que tout ce que nous faisons suscite une énergie correspondante dans d'autres royaumes de la réalité. Les actions, les mots ou les pensées créent des réverbérations dans l'univers. L'univers se déploie de moment en moment en fonction de toutes les variables menant à ce moment. Lorsque nous restons conscients de ce système mystique, nous faisons attention à ce que nous faisons, disons ou même pensons, car nous savons que tout est interdépendant ; nous savons qu'un geste apparemment insignifiant pourrait avoir des conséquences lourdes. Rabbi David Cooper – Dieu est un Verbe
SUGGESTIONS POUR LA MÉDITATION
Remarquez que chaque ligne de cet hexagramme sauf la dernière traite d'un défi inhérent à la discipline requise pour rester immobile. Comparez les lignes dans l'Immobilité avec des lignes similaires dans l'hexagramme 31, Initiative.