Renouvelez le passé, guérissez le présent et voyagez avec un esprit d'aventure.
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Être au bout du rouleau
On accumule des fautes parce qu'on est fatigué de toutes les errances qu'on a dû endurer. taoscopy.com
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.
↓ Le Vagabond56
Embrassez le voyage. Restez adaptable et attentif. Équilibrez l'indépendance avec l'humilité. Le succès vient de l'acceptation du changement et de la débrouillardise.
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.
Autres titres : Le Vagabond, Le Symbole du Voyageur, L'Exilé, Séjourner, Le Nouveau-venu, Loger, Voyager, Le Voyageur, L'Étranger, Les Étrangers, L'Étranger Voyageur, L'Outsider, L'Alien, Le Gnostique, Le Fou du Tarot, Errant, Sans-abri, Non-engagé, Par Vous-même, "Peut se référer à être hors de son élément." -- D.F. Hook
Jugement
Legge: Transition signifie que de petites réalisations sont possibles. Si le voyageur étranger est ferme et correct, il y aura de la bonne fortune.
Wilhelm/Baynes:Le Vagabond. Succès par la petitesse. La persévérance apporte la bonne fortune au vagabond.
Blofeld:Le Voyageur -- succès dans les petites affaires. La persistance en matière de voyage apporte la bonne fortune.
Liu: L'Exilé. Petit succès. Continuer mène à la bonne fortune.
Ritsema/Karcher:Séjourner, le petit : Croissance. Séjourner, Épreuve : significatif. [Cet hexagramme décrit votre situation en termes de voyages errants et de vie en exil. Il souligne que se mêler aux autres en tant qu'étranger dont l'identité vient d'un centre lointain est la manière adéquate de le gérer...]
Shaughnessy:Voyager. Petite réception. Voyager; la détermination est de bon augure.
Cleary (1): Voyage est développemental quand il est petit; si voyage est correct, il mène à la bonne fortune.
Cleary (2): Voyage a un petit succès. Voyage est de bon augure si correct.
Wu:Voyager indique une petite pénétration. La persévérance apportera de l'auspice.
L'Image
Legge: Un feu sur la montagne -- l'image de Transition. L'homme supérieur exerce une sagesse prudente dans ses punitions, et ne permet pas de litiges prolongés.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Feu sur la montagne : l'image du Vagabond. Ainsi l'homme supérieur est clairvoyant et prudent en imposant des pénalités, et ne prolonge pas les procès.
Blofeld: Cet hexagramme symbolise le feu sur une montagne. L'Homme Supérieur emploie une sage prudence dans l'administration des punitions et ne permet pas que les affaires portées devant lui soient retardées.
Liu: Le feu sur la montagne symbolise l'Exilé. L'homme supérieur est prudent et intelligent en imposant des punitions, et ne retarde pas les affaires portées.
Ritsema/Karcher: Au-dessus de la montagne possédant le feu. Séjourner. Un chun tzu utilise une considération éclairante pour se servir de punir et aussi ne pas retenir les litiges.
Cleary (1): Il y a du feu au sommet d'une montagne, transitoire. Ainsi les personnes supérieures appliquent les punitions avec compréhension et prudence, et ne gardent pas les gens emprisonnés.
Cleary (2): Feu sur une montagne – voyager. Etc.
Wu: Il y a du feu sur la montagne; c'est Voyager. Ainsi le jun zi exerce les plus grandes délibérations en infligeant des punitions de sorte que les prisonniers ne soient pas détenus sans cause.
COMMENTAIRE
Confucius/Legge:Transition indique qu'il peut y avoir une petite réalisation et un progrès -- la ligne magnétique occupe la place centrale dans le trigramme supérieur, et est obéissante aux lignes dynamiques au-dessus et en dessous d'elle. Nous avons également les attributs de Garder le Calme associés à l'Intelligence dans les trigrammes inférieur et supérieur. C'est pourquoi il est dit qu'il peut y avoir une petite réalisation et un progrès. Si le voyageur étranger est ferme et correct comme il se doit, il y aura de la bonne fortune. Grand est le temps et grande est la bonne voie à suivre dans ces circonstances!
Legge: Le caractère chinois écrit pour cet hexagramme désigne les personnes voyageant à l'étranger, et est souvent traduit par Étrangers. La figure s'adresse aux voyageurs étrangers, et leur dit comment ils doivent se comporter par la culture de l'humilité et de la correction ferme. Grâce à ces qualités, ils échapperaient au mal et progresseraient. Le statut de voyageur étranger est considéré comme trop bas pour espérer de grandes choses d'eux.
On suppose que le vagabond est dans la position de la cinquième ligne. Les idées d'humilité, de docilité, de calme et d'intelligence sont dérivées des attributs des trigrammes composants. Ce sont toutes des caractéristiques qui conviennent à un étranger, et qui sont susceptibles de mener à l'avancement et à l'atteinte de ses désirs. Concernant l'Image, K'ung Ying-ta commente : "Un feu sur une montagne s'empare de l'herbe, et court avec elle sur tout l'espace, ne s'arrêtant nulle part longtemps, et disparaissant bientôt -- tel est l'emblème du voyageur."
NOTES ET PARAPHRASES
Jugement: Pendant une Transition, gardez votre volonté grande et vos attentes petites.
L'Homme Supérieur voit clairement et ne s'embrouille pas dans la complexité. Il est clairvoyant et prudent en jugeant la vérité de la situation, maintenant un détachement du milieu social.
La traduction de Wilhelm du titre de cet hexagramme est Le Vagabond. Un vagabond est quelqu'un qui n'a pas de maison, ou qui est entre une maison et une autre. Cela nous rappelle la notion gnostique de l'"Alien" : l'âme incarnée exilée pour errer dans la dimension espace-temps (c'est-à-dire, ce monde).
L'alien est ce qui vient d'ailleurs et n'appartient pas ici ... L'étranger qui ne connaît pas les coutumes de la terre étrangère erre perdu; s'il apprend trop bien ses coutumes, il oublie qu'il est un étranger et se perd d'une manière différente en succombant à l'attrait du monde étranger et en devenant étranger à son propre origine ... Le souvenir de sa propre étrangeté, la reconnaissance de son lieu d'exil pour ce qu'il est, est le premier pas en arrière; le mal du pays éveillé est le début du retour. Hans Jonas -- La Religion Gnostique
Dans l'interprétation la plus large alors, le message dans le Jugement : "Si le voyageur étranger est ferme et correct, il y aura de la bonne fortune" peut se référer à ne pas s'enchevêtrer dans les affaires de ce monde dans lequel nous errons -- une idée soulignée dans la première ligne. Ritsema/Karcher l'énoncent explicitement -- définissant notre défi comme "se mêler aux autres en tant qu'étranger dont l'identité vient d'un centre lointain." C'est un bon conseil général pour quiconque est sérieusement engagé dans le Travail, puisque le "centre lointain" ("Dieu," ou le Soi) représente l'essence que nous avons incarnée pour servir.
Nous sommes des étrangers dans ce monde, et le corps est le tombeau de l'âme, et pourtant nous ne devons pas chercher à nous échapper par le suicide; car nous sommes les biens de Dieu qui est notre berger, et sans son commandement nous n'avons pas le droit de nous échapper. Éthique pythagoricienne
Dans des situations plus spécifiques, l'hexagramme symbolise une phase de transition. Les lignes deux, trois et quatre décrivent toutes des "Auberges" ou des lieux de repos temporaires (souvent expérimentés dans les rêves comme des images d'hôtels ou de motels). Le symbolisme est identique : le psychisme reflète une situation intermédiaire pendant un état de Transition.
Par définition, une transition est fluide et pas encore fixée. Selon les choix faits, on peut aller dans différentes directions. En termes de conscience, il est évident que la transition peut être d'un état de conscience inférieur à un état supérieur, ou vice-versa. Parce qu'une transition est une opportunité de faire des choix délibérés, le commentaire confucéen conclut par : "Grand est le temps et grande est la bonne voie à suivre dans ces circonstances!"
Les lignes un, trois et six décrivent des situations très négatives impliquant des choix ignorants et arrogants. Nous pensons à l'ego poussant aveuglément la rivière de ses désirs, incapable de voir les conséquences malheureuses qu'il engendre ainsi. La ligne deux suggère un lieu de repos solide pendant notre voyage, tandis que la ligne quatre décrit une situation similaire mais précaire, bien que pas nécessairement incorrecte. La cinquième ligne conseille une sorte de sacrifice au souverain (le Soi) qui aboutit à une récompense éventuelle. Le message est de laisser le Soi vous guider à travers une Transition.
SUGGESTIONS POUR LA MÉDITATION
L'hexagramme numéro cinquante-six est l'inverse de l'hexagramme numéro cinquante-cinq. Comparez le rôle de l'homme supérieur dans l'Image de chaque figure. Comment sont-ils les mêmes ? Comment sont-ils différents ? Quelles sont les différences et similitudes des trigrammes composants de chaque hexagramme, et comment affectent-ils leurs significations respectives ?
Notes, 15 août 2009 : Une nouvelle paraphrase du Jugement et de l'Image :
L'Alien Gnostique. De petites réalisations sont possibles si l'Alien garde la tête claire et maintient sa discipline personnelle. L'Adepte initié est intelligent, discret, et fait preuve de sagesse vigilante : il maintient et protège sa gnose par une réserve prudente dans les disputes mondaines, évitant les contentieux inutiles. [Il peut le faire parce qu'il sait que c'est une réalité illusoire : un piège, une usine de Loosh créée par le Démiurge.] Un chun tzu utilise une considération éclairante pour se servir de punir et aussi ne pas retenir les litiges. [En d'autres termes, "faites le travail à l'endroit où vous vous trouvez" rapidement, et efficacement, avec le moins d'enchevêtrements possible dans les circonstances. Évitez le nouveau karma. Implicite est que cette expérience est une préparation pour le vœu du bodhisattva.]