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Enthousiasme16
L'inspiration alimente l'énergie ; alignez l'enthousiasme avec le but pour avancer efficacement.
↓ Line 2
La fermeté et la patience sont nécessaires. En tenant bon, le succès viendra en temps voulu.
↓ Line 6
Un enthousiasme malavisé peut conduire à des erreurs, mais les reconnaître et les corriger évitera les reproches.
↓ Avant l'Achèvement64
Achever une tâche ne garantit pas le repos. Restez vigilant, attentif aux situations évolutives, prêt à vous adapter et à agir selon les besoins.
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 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 : Avant l'achèvement, Le symbole de ce qui n'est pas encore passé, Pas encore traversé, Pas encore terminé, Tâches à accomplir, Pas encore, À venir, Avant la fin, Mission non accomplie, Un état de transition
Jugement
Legge : Affaires inachevées suggère un progrès réussi, maissi le jeune renard qui a presque traversé le ruisseau mouille sa queue, il n'y aura aucun avantage.
Wilhelm/Baynes :Avant l'achèvement. Succès. Mais si le petit renard, après avoir presque terminé la traversée, mouille sa queue dans l'eau, rien ne favoriserait.
Blofeld : Avant l'achèvement -- succès ! Avant que le petit renard n'ait complètement traversé la glace, sa queue se mouille. [Cela implique que nous devons nous attendre à un revers dans nos plans.] Aucun objectif (ou destination) n'est favorable maintenant. [C'est donc un moment pour attendre et pour rentrer nos cornes. Que le DERNIER des soixante-quatre hexagrammes soit Avant l'achèvement plutôt qu'Après l'achèvement (#63) peut sembler surprenant jusqu'à ce qu'on se rappelle qu'il n'y a rien de final à ce sujet ; le cycle du changement continue, passant de l'hexagramme #64 au premier hexagramme, et ainsi de suite éternellement.]
Liu : Avant l'achèvement. Succès. Un jeune renard presque traversé mouille sa queue dans l'eau. Rien ne profite.
Ritsema/Karcher : Pas encore traversé, Croissance. Le petit renard, un gué boueux. Mouiller sa queue : sans direction : Récolte. (Sans direction : Récolte, WU YU Li : aucun plan ou direction n'est avantageux ; pour tirer parti de la situation, ne pas imposer une direction aux événements.) [Cet hexagramme décrit votre situation en termes d'être à la limite d'un changement important de situation. Il souligne que l'attente et l'accumulation d'énergie pour commencer le mouvement à venir est la manière adéquate de le gérer...]
Shaughnessy :Pas encore terminé : Réception ; le petit renard au point de traverser, mouille sa queue ; il n'y a pas de lieu bénéfique.
Cleary (1) : Être encore instable est développemental. Un petit renard, ayant presque traversé la rivière, mouille sa queue, ne réussit pas.
Cleary (2) : Être instable mène au succès. Un petit renard, presque traversé, mouille sa queue. Rien n'est gagné.
Wu :Mission non accomplie indique la pénétration. Un petit renard presque traversé la rivière, mais mouille sa queue. Rien n'est gagné.
L'Image
Legge : Feu sur l'eau -- l'image deAffaires inachevées. L'homme supérieur discrimine soigneusement parmi les qualités des choses, et les différentes positions qu'elles occupent naturellement.
Wilhelm : Feu sur l'eau : l'image de la condition avant la transition. Ainsi l'homme supérieur est prudent dans la différenciation des choses, afin que chacune trouve sa place.
Blofeld : Cet hexagramme symbolise le feu au-dessus de l'eau. L'homme supérieur prend soin de distinguer entre les choses avant de les arranger en ordre.
Liu : Le feu au-dessus de l'eau symbolise Avant l'achèvement. L'homme supérieur distingue soigneusement les choses, et les met à leur place appropriée.
Ritsema/Karcher : Feu situé au-dessus du ruisseau. Pas encore traversé. Un chun tzu utilise la considération pour marquer les êtres résidant de tous côtés.
Cleary (1) : Le feu est au-dessus de l'eau, pas encore stabilisé. Ainsi les personnes supérieures discernent soigneusement les choses et les gardent à leur place.
Cleary (2) : Feu sur l'eau – instable.
Wu : Il y a du feu au-dessus de l'eau ; c'est Mission non accomplie. Ainsi le jun zi fait une distinction soigneuse des choses et de leurs places appropriées d'être.
COMMENTAIRE
Confucius/Legge : Le progrès et le succès sont suggérés par la cinquième ligne magnétique à la place du dirigeant. Bien qu'il ait presque traversé le ruisseau, le jeune renard n'a pas encore échappé au milieu du danger et de la calamité. Mouiller sa queue signifie que la fin ne reflète pas l'intention du début. Bien que les places des différentes lignes ne soient pas celles qui leur conviennent, une ligne dynamique et une ligne magnétique répondent toujours l'une à l'autre.
Legge :Affaires inachevéesest l'inverse de Achèvement : cela signifie que l'accomplissement réussi de la question en cours n'a pas encore été réalisé ; la traversée du grand ruisseau est encore incomplète.
Certains ont souhaité que leI Chingse soit conclu par l'Achèvement, et que le dernier hexagramme nous ait laissé avec l'image des affaires humaines toutes mises en bon ordre. Mais cela n'aurait pas été en harmonie avec l'idée de changement. Encore et encore, il a été souligné que nous ne trouvons dans le livre aucune idée d'un état parfait et durable. Tout comme les saisons de l'année changent et poursuivent un cycle sans fin, il en est de même avec les phases de la société. Le règne de l'ordre a atteint son apogée et a décliné, et cet hexagramme nous appelle à renouveler la lutte pour remettre les choses en ordre. Il traite de la conduite nécessaire pour obtenir ce résultat.
Aucune des lignes de l'hexagramme n'est à sa place correcte -- toutes les lignes dynamiques sont dans des places magnétiques, et les lignes magnétiques sont dans des places dynamiques. En même temps, chacune d'elles a un corrélat approprié, donc il y a la possibilité d'un certain progrès.
Le symbole du renard suggère un manque de prudence de la part de ceux qui essaient de remédier aux désordres actuels. Ils échouent et se mettent ainsi dans le pétrin. La ligne deux représente cet état d'esprit -- il est dynamique dans une place magnétique au centre du trigramme du Péril. Il est agité, et attiré par son corrélat magnétique à la cinquième place, il sera imprudent en prenant des mesures. Le résultat de l'issue sera différent de ce qui était prévu au début.
Le trigramme de l'Eau est en dessous, et le Feu au-dessus, montrant comment les deux principes ne peuvent pas agir l'un sur l'autre de manière profitable. Cela symbolise la condition non régulée des affaires générales qui prévaut actuellement.
NOTES ET PARAPHRASES
Jugement : Bien que de nombreuses réalisations alimentent notre croissance, l'ego n'est que le facilitateur, pas l'acteur. Ignorer cette vérité crée des conséquences négatives : ne détruisez pas le Travail !
L'Homme Supérieur examine de manière critique la situation et re-vérifie ses priorités.
Cet hexagramme représente le temps avant le climax d'un cycle, tout comme la figure précédente symbolise le temps après le climax (et donc la transition vers un nouveau commencement). Le Travail n'est en aucun cas "presque terminé" -- les lignes correspondent toutes en tant que corrélats, mais chacune d'elles s'unit "à l'envers", pour ainsi dire. (Retournez l'hexagramme, et elles sont alors en parfaite corrélation.) Que l'homme supérieur "discrimine parmi les qualités des choses, et les différentes positions qu'elles occupent naturellement" signifie qu'il sait que les positions correctes des lignes (celles qu'elles "occupent naturellement") sont comme dans l'hexagramme numéro soixante-trois, pas celui-ci.
Cette "corrélation inversée des lignes" est sans doute une image juste de la relation des pensées et des sentiments dans la psyché humaine moyenne. Les stress de la vie sont ce qui finit par briser ces corrélats mal assortis à travers des cycles sans fin de stimulus et de réponse jusqu'à ce qu'ils s'unissent finalement correctement dans un "Achèvement du Grand Œuvre" hypothétique. Que cela soit un idéal plutôt qu'un objectif humainement atteignable est suggéré dans cette citation de Shao Yung :
Le principe de la Voie trouve son plein développement dans le Ciel ; le principe du Ciel, dans la Terre ; le principe de la Terre, dans les myriades de choses ; et celui des myriades de choses, dans l'homme. Celui qui sait comment les principes du Ciel, de la Terre et de toutes choses trouvent leur plein développement dans l'homme peut donner un plein développement à son peuple.
Pour toutes fins pratiques, il est plus sage d'aspirer à des achèvements atteignables et de réaliser que le "plein développement" du Travail est la responsabilité du Soi, pas de l'ego.
Aspirer à la perfection est un idéal élevé. Mais je dis : "Accomplissez quelque chose que vous êtes capable d'accomplir plutôt que de courir après ce que vous n'atteindrez jamais." Personne n'est parfait. Rappelez-vous le dicton : "Nul n'est bon, sinon Dieu seul" [Luc 18:19], et personne ne peut l'être. C'est une illusion. Nous pouvons modestement nous efforcer de nous accomplir et d'être aussi complets que possible en tant qu'êtres humains, et cela nous donnera suffisamment de problèmes. Jung -- Les conférences de Tavistock
Le Jugement suggère qu'avant tout climax ou résolution, il peut encore exister une quantité indéterminée de libre choix pour influencer le résultat -- seules les circonstances spécifiques peuvent suggérer combien ou peu. Comme toujours, les choix sont définis dans la structure de la situation. Le dirigeant magnétique à la cinquième place implique qu'un résultat favorable est possible, mais seulement par une perception claire et une volonté peut-il se réaliser.
L'interprétation conditionnelle (italiques en gras ajoutés) dans la traduction du Jugement de Legge et de Wilhelm est nécessaire pour que son texte ait du sens. Notez que Ritsema/Karcher définissent "Sans direction : Récolte" comme : "Aucun plan ou direction n'est avantageux ; pour tirer parti de la situation, ne pas imposer une direction aux événements." C'est une réponse oraculaire courante, et cela aiguise le sens ici. La ligne un décrit les conséquences négatives d'ignorer le message explicite du Jugement.