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Réparation18
Aborder les problèmes ; réparer ce qui a été négligé. Assumer la responsabilité de restaurer et d'améliorer.
↓ Line 2
Aborder les problèmes nécessite une approche douce ; une force excessive peut être contre-productive.
↓ Line 4
Ignorer les erreurs passées conduit à l'embarras et à d'autres problèmes.
↓ Line 5
Corriger les erreurs passées mérite respect et éloge.
↓ Retraite33
Reculer et réévaluer. Se retirer pour gagner en force et en clarté. Se concentrer sur les ressources intérieures, conserver l'énergie et observer tranquillement. Lâcher prise avec grâce, éviter la confrontation et se préparer pour une action future.
Other titles: Work On What Has Been Spoiled, The Symbol of Destruction, Decay, Arresting of Decay, Work after Spoiling, Fixing, Rectifying, Corrupting, Branch, Degeneration, Misdeeds "Can refer to heredity and psychological traits.” -- D. F. Hook
Judgment
Legge: Successful progress is indicated for those who properly repair what has been spoiled. It is advantageous to cross the great stream. One should consider carefully the events three days before the turning point and the tasks remaining for three days afterward.
Wilhelm/Baynes:Work On What Has Been Spoiled has supreme success. It furthers one to cross the great water. Before the starting point, three days. After the starting point, three days.
Blofeld:Decay augurs sublime success and the advantage of crossing the great river (or sea). [I.e. of going on a journey or of going forward with one's plans.] What has happened once will surely happen again (literally, "three days before the commencement; three days after the commencement"). [It would have been hard to make sense of these words, were it not that the Confucian Commentary on the Text clearly explains them; hence the liberty I have taken with the Text.]
Liu: Work after spoiling. Great success. It is of benefit to cross the great water. Before starting, three days. After starting, three days. [This hexagram implies that, although conditions are bad now, improvement can be expected.]
Ritsema/Karcher: Corrupting, Spring Growing. Harvesting: wading the Great River. Before seedburst three days, after seedburst three days. [This hexagram describes your situation in terms of disorder, perversion and putrefaction. It emphasizes that letting things rot away so they become obsolete is the adequate way to handle it...]
Shaughnessy: Branch: Prime auspiciousness; receipt. Beneficial to ford the great river; preceding jia by three days, following jia by three days.
Cleary (1): Correcting degeneration is greatly developmental. It is beneficial to cross great rivers. Three days before the start, three days after the start. [The way to correct degeneracy is not in empty tranquility without action; it is necessary to work in the midst of great danger and difficulty, to act in the dragon’s pool and the tiger’s lair. Only then can one restore one’s original being, cultivating it into something indestructible.]
Cleary (2): From degeneration comes great development, etc.
Wu: Misdeeds is great and pervasive. It will be advantageous to cross the big river. It would be advisable to begin an undertaking three days before Jia and examine the ongoing progress three days thereafter.
The Image
Legge: The image of wind below the mountain forms Repair. The superior man, in accordance with this, stimulates the virtue of the people.
Wilhelm/Baynes: The wind blows low on the mountain: the image of Decay. Thus the superior man stirs up the people and strengthens their spirit.
Blofeld: This hexagram symbolizes wind blowing at the foot of a mountain. The Superior Man, by stimulating people's hearts, nourishes their virtue.
Liu: Wind blowing around the foot of the mountain symbolizes Work after Spoiling. The superior man encourages people to cultivate virtue.
Ritsema/Karcher: Below mountain possessing wind. Corrupting. A chun tzu uses rousing the commoners to nurture actualizing-tao. [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): There is wind in the mountains; degeneration. Thus superior people rouse the people and nurture virtue.
Cleary (2): … Leaders thus arouse the people to nurture virtue.
Wu: There is wind at the foot of the mountain; this is Misdeeds. Thus the jun zi arouses the people and nurtures his own virtue.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: The dynamic trigram is above, and the magnetic trigram is below. Pliancy is below, and Stopping above: these suggest troubled conditions verging on ruin. But Repair brings order to all under heaven, and he who advances will encounter the business to be done. The end of confusion is the beginning of order; such is the procedure of heaven.
Legge: Repair means the performance of painful but necessary duties. It shows a situation in which things are going to ruin, as if through poison or venomous worms. In order to justify the auspice of progress and success, the duty of the figure is to rectify this and restore conditions to health. This will require a major effort, such as crossing the great stream, and the careful differentiation of the causes of the problem, as well as the measures taken to fix it. The attribute of the lower trigram is Pliancy, and the upper represents Stoppage or Arrest. Hence, the feeble pliancy of decadence is stopped cold by the immovable mountain. The three days before and after the turning point symbolize the careful attention and differentiation necessary for any rectification to succeed.
On the Image, Ch'eng-tzu says: "When the wind encounters the mountain, it is driven back, and the things about are all scattered in disorder; such is the emblem of the state denoted by Repair." The nourishing of virtue appears especially in line six -- all the other lines belong to the helping of the people.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Judgment:Repair means to set your house in order. Analyze your choices before the renovation and evaluate their consequences afterward.
The Superior Man orders his thoughts and feelings, reforms old attitudes, and strengthens his will. (Psychologically, to "stimulate the virtue of the people" (Legge) is to rectify the components of a complex.)
To imagine any truly objective state of perception we must include all that exists: the entire cosmos. Each differentiation of this, from atom to galaxy, is one slice out of an infinite whole. As a portion of the entirety, we are always linked with our ancestors in an infinite web of relationships which includes our family history, our racial-cultural-historical heritage and Homo sapiens as a species. Though seldom aware of them, it is useful to remember these links. Emanating from an unfathomable complexity, their karmically-charged morphogenetic fields are constantly shaping our lives. It follows that, although we perceive ourselves as separate from our ancestors, the separation is a subjective experience which is true only in a temporally limited sense.
Every line of Repair, except two and six, shows a son dealing with the troubles caused by his father. This reminds us of the biblical curse:
For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Exodus 20: 5
The father archetype has a wide range of meanings: this extends from the Primal Spirit ("God the Father"), to a prior cause or intent in the psyche which has engendered a present condition. Psychologically interpreted, it is this latter reading which usually applies. If a "father" symbolizes the cause, then a "son" is the effect. If the effect is imperfect, then to rectify it is also to rectify the original intent.
To a large extent our lives consist of well-intentioned but misguided choices which create less than perfect consequences. To modify our attitude or behavior so that it corrects errors in our original intent is to "deal with the troubles caused by the father."
For example: In a misconceived expression of affection, a parent allows his child unrestricted access to candy. As a consequence of this choice, the kid's teeth become rotten, and the only logical way to correct the original error is to now curtail his intake of sugar. The fact that this new choice will create stress in the relationship between parent and child is just a consequence of the original choice and has no bearing at all on what is correct in the situation.
In some situations this hexagram may be interpreted as a response to a karmic chain of cause and effect:
To harmonize with the Wisdom Teachings, the scripture should read that the karma of the "father" is visited upon the "child" unto the fourth incarnation, not generation. The mistakes you made in the last four incarnations may be visited upon you in the form of karma flowing out of the heart seed atom in the present incarnation. Thus what you "fathered," or created, in your last incarnation may be the source ("parent") of your karma today. You are a child of that parent today. You have inherited from that parent -- the you of the past, not your physical parents -- all of your characteristics, weaknesses and strengths. Earlyne Chaney -- The Mystery of Death and Dying
The interpretation of any oracle response can only be as profound as our minds are prepared to accept. As moderns we find it difficult to empathize with "ancestor worship," yet properly understood, it can provide useful insights into the Work. In the unconscious realm all time is immediate, not sequential, and the Objective Psyche consists of a non- temporal web of forces shading from personal to universal. This means that if we have a complex engendered in us by our father, for example, we can reasonably assume that he was passing on what he received from his own parents. In this way, the unresolved complexes of the ancestors shape our own personalities: they live in and through us right now, even if they had their birth in forefathers long forgotten. This is a kind of near-immortality: individuals may die, but beliefs, attitudes, complexes live as long as they have receptive vessels to inhabit. (This is probably the engine of karma.) To the extent that an ancestral chain of causality still motivates our choices, we are totally responsible for "setting right what has been spoiled by the father."
SUGGESTIONS FOR MEDITATION
Most people have some level of unfinished business with their parents: psychologists would have little to do if this weren't true. It can be a healing ritual to set up an altar to a deceased parent and meditate there on the stresses that still remain between you. To approach the situation without judgment, to realize (non-logically) that forces pre-existing you provoked the condition as much as your parent did, will elicit much insight. Be especially aware of the presence of the past and the illusion of linear time. (Is it possible somehow to be your own great-grandfather?) Ancestor “worship” of this sort can be profoundly therapeutic.
Line 2
Legge: The second line, dynamic, shows a son dealing with the troubles caused by his mother. He should not carry his firm correctness to the utmost.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Setting right what has been spoiled by the mother. One must not be too persevering.
Blofeld: Assuming responsibility for the mistakes of our mothers cannot be too serious.
Liu: In correcting the mistakes of the mother, one must not be too persistent.
Ritsema/Karcher: Managing the mother's Corrupting. Not permitting Trial.
Shaughnessy: The stem mother's branch; one may not determine.
Cleary (1): Correcting the degeneracy of the mother, it is improper to be righteous.
Wu: He attends to the affairs of his mother. He should not be insistent.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: In dealing with the troubles caused by his mother he holds to the course of the due mean. Wilhelm/Baynes: He finds the middle way. Blofeld: At best a middle course is advisable. Ritsema/Karcher: Acquiring centering tao indeed. Cleary (2): attaining balance. Wu: He proceeds with moderation.
Legge: The fifth line ruler is magnetic, while line two is dynamic. Thus the symbolism takes the form of a son dealing with the prevailing decay induced by his mother. But a son must be very gentle in all his dealings with his mother, and especially so when constrained by a sense of duty to oppose her course.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man is gentle in dealing with his mother, even when duty bound to oppose her. When restoring what has been spoiled by weakness, gradualness is required.
Wing: You have become aware of past mistakes that must be rectified. Here you must proceed with great sensitivity, since the changes in your life could hurt those dear to you.
Editor: In psychological symbolism, a female represents emotional or feeling components within the psyche. A "mother" then, would be the source of an emotional attitude which, in the context of this hexagram, needs to be modified or changed. In correcting outmoded or inappropriate feelings one must proceed with care because emotional/instinctual forces cannot be altered as quickly as we can change our minds. (It is a commonplace in psychology that mental insights mean nothing if the emotions involved refuse to conform.) Often the line can refer to the proper way of responding to another's sensitive mood or attitude.
As in childhood development, which recapitulates human historical development in consciousness, the psychic detachment from the mother towards the father is intimately bound up with the growth of individuality. Consciousness strives to become separate from the maternal involvement, and aspires toward the outside world represented by the father. Gareth Knight -- A History of White Magic
A. Rectify an emotional response. Control your feelings, but don't crush them.
B. Be sensitive in the way you handle an emotional situation.
Line 4
Legge: The fourth line, magnetic, shows a son viewing indulgently the troubles caused by his father. If he goes forward, he will find cause to regret it.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Tolerating what has been spoiled by the father. In continuing one sees humiliation.
Blofeld: Tolerating the mistakes of our fathers would occasion us regret in the course of time.
Liu: Continuing to tolerate the mistakes of the father brings humiliation.
Ritsema/Karcher: Enriching the father's Corrupting. Going: visualizing abashment.
Shaughnessy: The bathed father's branch; going to see is distressful.
Cleary (1): Forgiving the degeneration of the father; if one goes on, there will be shame.
Cleary (2): Indulging the degeneration of the father, if you go on you will experience shame.
Wu: He shows compassion in the affairs of his father. If he attends to them, he will make error.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: If he advances he will not succeed. Wilhelm/Baynes: He goes, but as yet finds nothing. Blofeld: In that case, we should fail to rectify them. Ritsema/Karcher: Going: not-yet acquiring indeed. Cleary (2): If you go on you will not attain anything. Wu: He will have nothing to gain by attending to them.
Legge: Line four is magnetic in a magnetic place, which intensifies passivity. Hence the caution about going forward.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: Indulgence of decay leads to regret.
Wing: The situation has been less than harmonious for quite some time, yet this condition of discord has been tolerated. Under these circumstances things will continue to degenerate.
Editor: Line four doesn't lend itself to the usual gender symbolism. The image is one of passive and permissive tolerance of error. To allow things to continue under these conditions will ensure that they get worse. The line can sometimes refer to a state of complacent ignorance of the true situation. If your assumptions are incorrect in the first place, then your query is by definition inappropriate: re-think the question to discover the error.
Psychic inertia is also evident in our resistance to any form of change in conditioned patterns, no matter how promising or favorable it may be. Any psychoanalyst knows from dealing with "resistance" that every basic psychological change entails a deathlike experience for the ego. New possibilities produce so much anxiety that the most destructive past adaptations seem safer and inspire more confidence. E. C. Whitmont -- The Symbolic Quest
A. Passive indulgence in an old weakness leads to failure.
B. You think things are OK, but they're not: rectify a past error.
C. "A stitch in time saves nine."
Line 5
Legge: The fifth line, magnetic, shows a son dealing with the troubles caused by his father. He obtains the praise of using the fit instrument for his work.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Setting right what has been spoiled by the father. One meets with praise.
Blofeld: Assuming responsibility for the mistakes of our fathers will win us praise.
Liu: Correcting the mistakes of the father leads to recognition.
Ritsema/Karcher: Managing the father's Corrupting. Availing- of praise.
Shaughnessy: The stem father's branch; use a cart.
Cleary (1): Correcting the degeneracy of the father, using praise.
Cleary (2): Dealing with the degeneration of the father, the action is praised.
Wu: He attends to the affairs of his father. He has reputation at his disposal.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: He is responded to by the second line with all of his virtue. Wilhelm/Baynes: He receives him in virtue. Blofeld: Because to take them upon ourselves is a virtue. Ritsema/Karcher: Receiving uses actualizing-tao indeed. [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 (2): Because one takes up after him with virtue. Wu: He succeeds with virtue.
Legge: The magnetic fifth line is the seat of the ruler, but its proper correlate is the dynamic second line -- the strong minister to whom the work of the hexagram is delegated.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: With the assistance of able helpers, the man reverses the process of decay of former times. He is praised for it.
Wing: You are in a position to assume the responsibility for a long-needed reform. Do it. Those around you will be supportive of your efforts and you will be honored with praise and recognition.
Editor: Line five does not lend itself to the usual gender symbolism. The dynamic second line deals with feelings (the mother), and the magnetic fifth line deals with thoughts or conscious attitudes (the father). The Confucian commentary describes these correlate lines as uniting to attain symmetry. Ritsema/Karcher translate this as facilitating the unfolding of essence (tao). This suggests an overall rectification of thoughts and feelings to attain balance. The other translations emphasize that one obtains recognition and praise for this, suggesting a major accomplishment in the development of the Work.
Inasmuch as ordering activity and emotional receptivity are felt as belonging to the masculine and feminine principles respectively, the first life contacts with father and mother set the basic patterns for the development of our assertiveness and our feeling. When there are problems in these areas they must be confronted and consciously re-examined in terms of these original encounters before a further development can become possible. E. C. Whitmont -- The Symbolic Quest
A. Put some thought into your feelings, or: bring compassion into your thinking.
B. Rectify your thoughts and feelings: revise a limiting belief.
Autres titres : Le Symbole de la Retraite, Céder, Retrait, Se Retirer, Manier, Retrait Stratégique, Inaccessibilité, Dissociation des Forces Inférieures, « Quand une opportunité pour quelque chose de mieux se présente, ne vous disputez pas avec une situation impossible. » -- D. F. Hook
Jugement
Legge :Retraite signifie progrès réussi. L'avantage vient de la fermeté correcte et de l'attention aux détails.
Wilhelm/Baynes : Retraite. Succès. Dans ce qui est petit, la persévérance est bénéfique.
Blofeld : Céder. Succès ! La persistance dans les petites choses apporte un avantage. [Une grande partie de l'enseignement du Livre des Changements concerne la sagesse de la retenue ou du retrait comme le meilleur moyen d'atteindre notre objectif dans certaines circonstances ; ainsi, cet hexagramme n'est pas nécessairement défavorable aux sages. Ce n'est pas un moment où nous pouvons espérer accomplir beaucoup ; mais l'attention aux petites choses nous sera utile plus tard.]
Liu : Retraite. Succès. Persister dans les petites choses est bénéfique.
Ritsema/Karcher :Se retirer, Croissance. Le petit : Récolter l'épreuve. [Cet hexagramme décrit votre situation en termes de conflit et de réclusion conséquente. Il souligne que se retirer des affaires en cours pour se cacher dans l'obscurité est la manière adéquate de gérer cela. Pour être en accord avec le temps, on vous dit de : vous retirer !]
Shaughnessy : Manier : Réception ; peu bénéfique de déterminer.
Cleary (1) : Retrait est développemental. Le petit est bénéfique et correct.
Cleary (2) : Retrait est réussi. Petit bénéfice est correct.
Wu : La retraite indique la pénétration. Il sera avantageux pour les petits hommes d'être persévérants.
L'Image
Legge : Une montagne sous le ciel -- l'image de Retraite. L'homme supérieur garde les hommes inférieurs à distance par sa dignité plutôt que par hostilité.
Wilhelm/Baynes : Montagne sous le ciel : l'image de Retraite. Ainsi l'homme supérieur garde l'homme inférieur à distance, non pas avec colère mais avec réserve. [Il ne le hait pas, car la haine est une forme d'implication subjective par laquelle nous sommes liés à l'objet haï.]
Blofeld : Cet hexagramme symbolise des montagnes sous le ciel. L'Homme Supérieur, en gardant ses distances avec les hommes de caractère inférieur, évite d'avoir à montrer de la colère et préserve sa dignité. [Les trigrammes composants, symbolisant la montagne et le ciel, indiquent un retrait vers un lieu solitaire lorsque les circonstances sont défavorables.]
Liu : La montagne sous le ciel symbolise Retraite. L'homme supérieur garde ses distances avec l'inférieur, non pas avec colère, mais avec dignité.
Ritsema/Karcher : En dessous du ciel, possédant une montagne. Se retirer. Un chun tzu utilise la distance avec les Petites Gens. Un chun tzu utilise non pas la haine mais aussi l'intimidation.
Cleary (1) : Il y a des montagnes sous le ciel, qui sont inaccessibles. Ainsi, les personnes supérieures gardent les petites personnes à distance, étant sévères sans malveillance.
Cleary (2) : … Être strict sans malveillance.[Les petites personnes peuvent être utiles, donc il n'y a pas de malveillance, mais leur petitesse ne peut pas exercer d'autorité, donc soyez strict. En termes d'apprentissage pour devenir un sage, le souverain céleste est le maître, et le corps physique prend des ordres de lui, de sorte que les désirs des différentes parties du corps ne peuvent pas causer de perturbation.]
Wu : Il y a une montagne sous le ciel ; c'est Retraite. Ainsi le jun zi se distance des petits hommes, non pas par mépris, mais pour maintenir sa propre estime. [La différence entre le jun zi et les petits hommes est une question d'éducation et non de naissance. Confucius était d'abord un enseignant et ensuite un philosophe, car il disait : « L'éducation est sans classe. » Chacun de nous a le potentiel de devenir un sage.]
COMMENTAIRE
Confucius/Legge : Il y a du progrès dans Retraite. Le dirigeant dynamique à la cinquième place reçoit une réponse appropriée de son corrélat à la ligne deux. L'action est en accord avec les exigences du temps car ce qui est inférieur augmente et avance progressivement. Les actions requises pendant une Retraite sont d'une grande importance.
Legge : Retraite est l'hexagramme du sixième mois lorsque l'influence yin, représentée par les deux lignes magnétiques, a établi un point d'appui. Cela suggère la croissance des hommes inférieurs et sans principes dans l'État, devant l'avance desquels les hommes supérieurs sont obligés de se retirer. Pourtant, l'augure de Retraite n'est pas entièrement mauvais. Par une fermeté correcte, le mal menaçant peut être arrêté dans une certaine mesure. Ch'eng-tzu dit : « Sous le ciel se trouve la montagne. La montagne s'élève sous le ciel, et sa hauteur est arrêtée, tandis que le ciel monte de plus en plus haut, jusqu'à ce qu'ils viennent à être séparés l'un de l'autre. Dans cela, nous avons un emblème de retrait et d'évitement. »
Anthony : Le moment correct pour la retraite vient lorsque les autres ne sont pas réceptifs à nous, lorsque la délicatesse de sentiment est perdue, lorsque nous commençons à être attaqués par le doute, ou lorsque nos actions ne produisent plus de progrès. La personne qui peut maîtriser son ego a de nombreux moments créatifs qui s'ouvrent à elle.
NOTES ET PARAPHRASES
Jugement : Lorsqu'elle est menée avec un discernement astucieux, Retraite est une stratégie de succès.
L'Homme Supérieur se retire des forces désintégrantes sans attirer l'attention sur lui-même. Il contrôle ses faiblesses en maintenant son but sérieux.
À l'exception possible de la ligne deux, il y a très peu d'ambiguïté dans l'hexagramme de Retraite. Sans lignes changeantes, c'est une injonction claire de vous retirer d'une situation, d'une influence, d'une émotion ou d'une façon de penser inférieure. La figure a certaines affinités avec l'hexagramme numéro quarante-quatre : Tentation qui dépeint également un élément inférieur s'infiltrant par en dessous.
Céder, c'est être préservé entier. Lao-tse
SUGGESTIONS POUR LA MÉDITATION
Comparez les hexagrammes numéro quarante-quatre, Tentation; numéro trente-trois, Retraite; et numéro douze, Divorce; dans cet ordre. Quels sont les trois hexagrammes logiques suivants dans la séquence, et quelles sont les implications de la série dans son ensemble ?