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Enthousiasme16
L'inspiration alimente l'énergie ; alignez l'enthousiasme avec le but pour avancer efficacement.
↓ Line 1
Une action prématurée ou une expression d'enthousiasme peut entraîner des problèmes. Il est sage d'attendre le bon moment.
↓ Line 3
Dépasser les limites ou hésiter peut mener au regret. Il est important de trouver un équilibre et d'agir avec confiance.
↓ Line 6
Un enthousiasme malavisé peut conduire à des erreurs, mais les reconnaître et les corriger évitera les reproches.
↓ Clarté30
Clarté et adaptabilité. Embrassez la lumière pour illuminer votre chemin. Reconnaissez les motifs de la vie, alignez-vous avec eux et favorisez la croissance personnelle.
Lectures originales
16 Enthousiasme
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 1
Legge: The first line, magnetic, shows its subject proclaiming her pleasure and satisfaction. There will be evil.
Wilhelm/Baynes:Enthusiasm that expresses itself brings misfortune.
Blofeld: The crowing of the cock bespeaks repose -- an evil omen! [A sleepy cockcrow is not likely to bring men leaping from their beds, yet the traditional role of the cock is to sound the call to renewed action.]
Liu: Happiness that shows itself off brings misfortune.
Ritsema/Karcher: Calling Provision. Pitfall. [Provide(-for)/Provision, YU: ready, prepared for; prearrange, take precaution, think beforehand; satisfied, contented, at ease.]
Shaughnessy: Calling out in excess; inauspicious.
Cleary (1): Trumpeting joy is inauspicious.
Wu: Crowing over merriment will be foreboding.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: Her wishes have been satisfied to overflowing. Wilhelm/ Baynes: This leads to the misfortune of having the will obstructed. Blofeld: The evil mentioned in this passage is that which results from utter exhaustion of the will-power. Ritsema/Karcher: Purpose exhausted, pitfall indeed. Cleary (2): Trumpeting joy bodes ill when the aspiration reaches an impasse. [The first yin harmonizes with the fourth yang above and rejoices in this; having no real qualities in oneself, only aspiring to cleave to others, how can one not come to an impasse?]Wu: Lacking aspiration will be foreboding.
Legge: Line one is magnetic, with a dynamic correlate in the fourth place. She may well enjoy the happiness of the time, but unable to contain herself, she erupts in boastful enthusiasm and calls undue attention to herself. Enthusiasm has thus been her undoing.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: At the outset, the man is enthusiastic and boastful.
Wing: Although you may have a harmonious connection with someone in a high position, it does not necessarily indicate that you are on top of the situation. Furthermore, if you boast of your advantage, you will surely invite disaster.
Editor: The meaning here can be subtle. Something (a strong emotion or attitude perhaps) is upsetting one’s equilibrium. In addition to the usual meaning of “enthusiasm,” this can symbolize any release or loss of energy (even despair, anguish, depression or grief – “Anti-Enthusiasm,” if you will), which serves to demolish Repose. Shaughnessy labels it Excess. Wilhelm and Blofeld render the Confucian commentary in terms of the obstruction or exhaustion of willpower. Ritsema/Karcher describe a loss of purpose; Cleary and Wu, blocked aspiration. If this is the only changing line, the hexagram changes to Shock, a plausible consequence in this case.
But woe unto you that are rich! For ye have received your consolation. Woe unto you that are full! For ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! For ye shall mourn and weep. Luke 6: 24-25
A. A false sense of well-being – or, a false sense of despair. Examine the situation to determine where your conscious outlook or emotional response does not conform with the goals of the Work.
B. Ego/Self Repose is obstructed by inappropriate belief.
Line 3
Legge: The third line, magnetic, shows one looking up for favors, while she indulges the feeling of pleasure and satisfaction. If she would understand! If she be late in doing so, there will indeed be occasion for repentance.
Wilhelm/Baynes:Enthusiasm that looks upward creates remorse.
Shaughnessy: A bowl's excess; regret; being slow there is regret.
Cleary (1): Looking up to joy, if repentance is tardy, there will be regret.
Cleary (2): Looking up in joy, repent. If too late, there is regret.
Wu: Gazing at merriment will bring regret. Loitering about will bring regret.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: This is intimated by the position not being the appropriate one. Wilhelm/Baynes: The place is not the appropriate one. Blofeld: This is indicated by the line's unsuitable position. Ritsema/ Karcher: Situation not appropriate indeed. Cleary (2): Wu: Because his position is improper.
Legge: Line three is magnetic in a dynamic place. She looks upward and depends upon the ruling line above while she does nothing herself but indulge in pleasure. Unless she changes her attitude, the auspice is bad.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man looks upward for favors and continues his dependency upon others. He indulges in visions of pleasure and affluence. Unless he changes immediately, he will be sorry.
Wing: You have waited complacently for a cue from someone else to motivate you. Whatever the reasons for your hesitation, whether it is idle pleasure in the present or simply inertia, you are losing your independence and self-reliance. You can still save yourself. Move.
Editor: This line is magnetic when the times call for dynamic action, giving us an image of indolent dependency. Without doing anything, she wants to "have her cake and eat it too.” Sometimes one receives this line when in a state of despair: feeling as if abandoned to one's fate by an incomprehensible cosmos. The idea is that fate isn't going to make the transition for you: you must do it yourself.
To those who are self-conceited and vain of their imaginary knowledge of exterior things, having no real wisdom, nothing can be shown, because the perverted action of their own minds opposes the harmonious action of the Universal Mind and repulses it. The spheres of their souls become narrow and contracted, and cannot expand towards the whole. They rest self-satisfied, buried in the shadow of their own ignorance, and are inaccessible to the light of Nature. Paracelsus -- Philosophia Sagax
A. Stop indulging yourself and do what you know to be correct in the matter at hand.
B. Your confidence is misplaced.
C. The image suggests weakness and dependency.
Line 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.
30 Clarté
Autres titres : L'Attachement, Le Symbole de la Clarté et de la Séparation, Beauté Flamboyante, Radiance, Feu, Le Réseau, Allégeance, La Moyenne Cosmique, Synergie, Lumière du Soleil, Perception, Concernant la Compréhension, La Lumière, Conscience, Lucidité
Jugement
Legge : Le cours libre et le succès de Clarté viennent de la fermeté correcte. La nourriture de la docilité bovine crée la bonne fortune.
Wilhelm/Baynes : L'Attachement. La persévérance favorise. Cela apporte le succès. Prendre soin de la vache apporte la bonne fortune.
Blofeld :Beauté flamboyante. La persistance juste apporte la récompense. Succès ! Élever des vaches -- bonne fortune ! [Les vaches sont des créatures douces qui nécessitent des soins ; cette phrase signifie donc que la bonne fortune peut être obtenue en prenant soin de ceux qui ont besoin d'aide.]
Liu : Feu. Il est bénéfique de continuer. Succès. Prendre soin de la vache mène à la bonne fortune.
Ritsema/Karcher : Radiance, Récolter l'épreuve. Croissance. Accumuler du bétail féminin. Significatif. [Cet hexagramme décrit votre situation en termes de lumière, de chaleur et de conscience en expansion. Il souligne que s'unir et dépendre de ce qui répand cette lumière, l'action de Radiance, est la manière adéquate de la gérer...]
Shaughnessy :Le Réseau : Bénéfique de déterminer ; réception ; élever une vache est de bon augure.
Cleary(1) :Feu est bénéfique pour la correction et le développement. Élever une vache apporte la bonne fortune.
Cleary (2) : Feu est bénéfique si correct ; alors il y a succès, etc. [En bouddhisme, lorsque les démons causent des perturbations, il est nécessaire de s'attacher à l'enseignement vrai pour se débarrasser des aberrations.]
Wu : Allégeance indique qu'il sera avantageux d'être persévérant et la pénétration suivra. Il sera de bon augure d'élever la vache.
L'Image
Legge : L'image de la clarté répétée forme Clarté. Le grand homme, en accord avec cela, cultive de plus en plus sa brillante vertu, et diffuse sa clarté sur les quatre coins du pays.
Wilhelm/Baynes : Ce qui est brillant se lève deux fois : l'image de Feu. Ainsi le grand homme, en perpétuant cette clarté, illumine les quatre coins du monde.
Blofeld : Cet hexagramme symbolise le feu s'élevant en deux langues de flamme brillante. L'Homme Supérieur, en perpétuant la brillance des anciens, illumine chaque coin de la terre. [En d'autres termes, nous devrions nous rendre aussi complètement dépendants du principe de la droiture que les objets naturels le sont de la nature ; de cette manière, nous sommes sûrs de réussir.]
Liu : La clarté doublée symbolise Feu. Un grand homme perpétue la lumière et illumine les quatre coins de l'univers.
Ritsema/Karcher : Clarté doublée suscitant Radiance. Les Grandes Personnes utilisent l'éclaircissement consécutif pour illuminer tendant vers les quatre côtés.
Cleary (1) :Lumière a une double fonction. Ainsi les grandes personnes illuminent les quatre coins avec une lumière continue. [Le soleil entre la nuit et sort le jour ; ce schéma représente l'illumination intérieure et l'illumination extérieure, une lumière ayant une double fonction… L'illumination extérieure doit être basée sur l'illumination intérieure… L'illumination doit atteindre l'intérieur et l'extérieur, de sorte que les deux soient illuminés et corrects.]
Cleary (2) : L'illumination doublée fait feu. Les grandes personnes illuminent les quatre coins avec une illumination continue.
Wu : Clarté doublée fait Allégeance. Ainsi le grand homme poursuit la clarté pour éclairer les quatre coins de la terre.
COMMENTAIRE
Confucius/Legge :Clarté signifie attachement. Le soleil et la lune ont leurs racines dans le ciel, et toutes les choses qui poussent ont leurs racines dans la terre. La double clarté des deux trigrammes est enracinée dans la correction, et tout sous le ciel est ainsi transformé. La ligne magnétique seconde est centrale et correcte, indiquant un cours libre et réussi. Nourrir une docilité passive mènera à la bonne fortune.
Legge :Clarté est le trigramme du feu et de la lumière, et le soleil est la source de ces deux éléments. Son attribut est la clarté, et par une métaphore naturelle : l'intelligence. Mais ce trigramme signifie aussi inhérent ou adhérant à -- être attaché à. Dans l'hexagramme, nous avons une double clarté -- une phrase qui désigne le dirigeant. Si nous prenons les deux lignes centrales comme emblématiques de la situation, nous avons le magnétique habitant avec le dynamique au-dessus et en dessous -- une condition nécessitant une humilité docile et une stricte adhésion à ce qui est correct. Ch'eng-tzu dit : "La nature du bœuf est docile, et celle de la vache l'est encore plus. Le sujet de l'hexagramme adhérant étroitement à ce qui est correct doit être capable d'agir en obéissance à cela, aussi docile qu'une vache, et alors il y aura bonne fortune."
NOTES ET PARAPHRASES
Jugement : La persistance volontaire obtient des résultats. Soyez réceptif à votre lumière intérieure et reflétez-la dans votre vie.
L'Homme Supérieur cultive sa capacité à manifester sa compréhension de l'Œuvre dans ses choix quotidiens.
La lumière est un symbole à la fois de la conscience normale et de la super-conscience. Probablement chaque religion dans le monde l'utilise dans ce dernier sens -- du "Que la lumière soit" dans le premier chapitre de Genèse, au Seigneur de la Lumière (Ahura Mazda), l'être suprême du zoroastrisme. Le Livre des Morts Tibétain parle de la "lumière blanche claire" qui est la première chose rencontrée après la mort corporelle -- un phénomène rapporté comme la perception expérientielle de ceux qui ont eu des expériences de mort imminente. La lumière signifie Vérité, elle signifie Réalité, et la "double clarté" de cet hexagramme nous dit que Clarté est manifestée à la fois en haut et en bas.
La méditation sur la lumière est l'un des exercices les plus importants dans les diverses écoles de yoga tibétain. Plus ces pouvoirs psychiques et spirituels peuvent être atteints pendant la vie, plus la capacité de pénétrer et de surmonter le bardo est forte. D. I. Lauf, Doctrines Secrètes du Livre des Morts Tibétain
Le commentaire confucéen donne les exemples du soleil et de la lune dans les cieux, et des choses qui poussent sur la terre comme emblèmes de Clarté. Le soleil et la lune sont certainement lumineux, mais les choses qui poussent ne le sont pas, et lorsque nous méditons sur la raison de cette étrange juxtaposition, nous sommes conduits à l'idée du Soi et de l'ego. Le Soi est le soleil, la source de l'illumination qui fait croître l'ego. Le soleil est aux choses qui poussent ce que le Soi est à l'ego. Cette idée est répétée dans la relation entre le soleil et la lune -- la lune n'est pas auto-lumineuse, elle ne peut que refléter la lumière du soleil. Par conséquent, le soleil est à la lune ce que le Soi est à l'ego.
L'idée est que malgré nos illusions contraires, tout notre pouvoir provient d'ailleurs. Lorsque nous permettons au pouvoir de travailler à travers nous sans interférence, nous devenons "dociles" comme la vache dans le jugement. Clarté, par conséquent, est atteinte par la docilité -- la capacité de soumettre et de restreindre les composants autonomes de la psyché, qui laissés à eux-mêmes préféreraient aller pontifiant leurs brillantes illusions plutôt que de refléter tranquillement la vérité. Il n'est pas facile de refléter la vérité, et l'homme supérieur est conseillé de perfectionner constamment sa capacité à le faire. Ce n'est que lorsque le Soi et l'ego se rejoignent dans une réaction de fusion que l'énergie libérée atteint la véritable "double clarté" imaginée dans l'hexagramme. L'idée identique se trouve dans la Kabbale :
Dit le Rabbi Simeon : "Quand le Saint s'habille, c'est dans les ornements à la fois des mondes célestes et terrestres ; du premier avec cette lumière céleste en haut qu'aucun être humain ne peut approcher ; du second avec les âmes des justes qui plus elles s'approchent de cette lumière divine, plus elles deviennent réceptives et remplies de celle-ci, de sorte qu'à travers elles, elle s'étend dans toutes les directions et le monde comme une citerne ou un océan en est rempli." Le Zohar
Wilhelm mentionne que l'hexagramme "divisé à l'intérieur et fermé à l'extérieur, est une image des mailles d'un filet dans lequel les animaux restent piégés." Cela nous donne l'image de Clarté comme Compréhension -- un filet qui capture et enferme les idées. Recevoir la figure sans lignes changeantes est souvent une confirmation d'une idée ou d'une action -- cela dit : "Vous avez compris," ou "Votre action proposée est lucide, intelligente, etc."