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Aborder les problèmes ; réparer ce qui a été négligé. Assumer la responsabilité de restaurer et d'améliorer.
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Ignorer les erreurs passées conduit à l'embarras et à d'autres problèmes.
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La transformation et la nutrition conduisent à un changement intérieur et extérieur. Accueillez le renouveau en vous débarrassant de l'ancien et en raffinant le nouveau.
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 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.
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 ?