61 · 风泽中孚

中孚卦原文

中孚。豚鱼，吉。利涉大川，利贞。

象曰：泽上有风，中孚。君子以议狱缓死。

白话文解释

中孚卦：豚鱼献祭，虽物薄但心诚，吉利。并利于涉水过河。这是吉利的贞卜。

《象辞》说：本卦上卦为巽，巽为风；下卦为兑，兑为泽，泽上有风，风起波涌。这是中孚的卦象。君子观此卦象，有感于风化邦国，唯德教为先，因而审议讼狱，不轻置重典。

《断易天机》解

中孚卦巽上兑下，为艮宫游魂卦。中孚即忠信之意，主利涉大川，厄难消除。

北宋易学家邵雍解

信而有实，诚恳诚信；知己协助，谋望克遂。

得此卦者，正直诚信者吉利，会得到朋友的帮助，谋事可成；心存邪念者则凶。

台湾国学大儒傅佩荣解

时运：风波难免，小心诉讼。

财运：谨慎行事，可免灾祸。

家宅：诉讼之灾；婚姻致讼。

身体：有惊无险。

传统解卦

这个卦是异卦（下兑上巽）相叠。孚本义孵，孵卵出壳的日期非常准确，有信的意义。卦形外实内虚，喻心中诚信，所以称中孚卦。这是立身处世的根本。

大象：中孚为诚信意，风吹在泽水之上，泽水必相应而起波浪，为共鸣之象。

运势：凡事以「诚」待人，以「信」处事则诸事皆吉，心存邪念则凶。

事业：以诚实忠信的态度对待事业，获得重大的成就，发展顺利。必须继续遵循正道的原则，不可掉以轻心，也不可过分地相信人，尤其不可以孤傲的性格自我封闭。否则事业将走向失败。

经商：处理得很好，符合市场的要求。小心谨慎地经营，讲究信义，优质服务，可有满意的结果，甚至冒险犯难也不会出问题。

求名：必须在道德修养的基础上，刻苦学习知识和本领，不断提高自己。同时，不要惧怕困难，努力向前。

婚恋：双方以诚信的态度相互对待，幸福美满。

决策：以诚信为立身处世的基石，真诚待人，信守制度，坚持原则，和悦谦虚，可以战胜任何困难，即使出现了问题也可以亡羊补牢。但务必增强对人的观察能力，提高分辨是非的水平。

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2.1 中孚：豚鱼吉。利涉大川，利贞。

2.2 《彖传》曰：中孚，柔在内而刚得中，说而巽，孚乃化邦也。豚鱼吉，信及豚鱼也。利涉大川，乘木舟虚也。中孚以利贞，乃应乎天也。

2.3 《象》曰：泽上有风，《孚。君子以议狱缓死。

2.4 初九：虞吉，有它不燕。

2.5 九二：鸣鹤在阴，其子和之，我有好爵，吾与尔靡之。

2.6 六三：得敌，或鼓，或罢，或泣，或歌。

2.7 六四：月几望，马匹亡，无咎。

2.8 九五；有孚挛如，无咎。

2.9 上九：翰音登于天，贞凶。

风泽中孚

中孚：豚鱼，吉。利涉大川，利贞。

《彖》曰：中孚，柔在内而刚得中，说而巽，孚乃化邦也。豚鱼吉，信及豚鱼也。利涉大川，乘木舟虚也。中孚以利贞，乃应乎天也。

《象》曰：泽上有风，中孚。君子以议狱缓死。

Judgment

Legge: Inner Truth moves even pigs and fish, and leads to good fortune. There will be advantage in crossing the great stream. There will be advantage in being firm and correct.

Wilhelm/Baynes: Inner Truth. Pigs and fishes. Good fortune. It furthers one to cross the great water. Perseverance furthers.

Blofeld: Inward Confidence and Sincerity. Dolphins -- good fortune! It is advantageous to cross the great river (or sea). Persistence in a right course brings reward.

Liu: Inner Truthfulness. Sea Lions -- good fortune. It is of benefit to cross the great water.

Ritsema/Karcher: Centering Conforming, hog fish significant. Harvesting: wading the Great River. Harvesting trial. (Hog fish, T’UN YU: aquatic mammals; porpoise, dolphin; intelligent aquatic animals whose development parallels the human; sign of abundance and good luck.) [This hexagram describes your situation in terms of the relation between your inner core and the circumstances of your life. It emphasizes that bringing your central concerns and your life situation into a sincere and reliable accord is the adequate way to handle it...]

Shaughnessy: Central Return: the piglet and fish are auspicious; harmonious: beneficial to ford the great river; beneficial to determine.

Cleary (1): Faithfulness in the center is auspicious when it reaches even pigs and fish. It is beneficial to cross great rivers. It is beneficial to be correct.

Cleary (2): Sincerity in the center is auspicious when simple-minded ... etc.

Wu: Sincerity moves piglets and fishes. Auspicious. It will be advantageous to cross the big river with perseverance.

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The Image

Legge: Wood on a Marsh -- the image of Inner Truth. The superior man deliberates about cases of litigation and delays the infliction of death.

Wilhelm/Baynes: Wind over lake: the image of Inner Truth. Thus the superior man discusses criminal cases in order to delay executions.

Blofeld: This hexagram symbolizes wind blowing over a marshy lake. The Superior Man devotes careful thought to his judgments and is tardy in sentencing people to death.

Liu: The wind over the lake symbolizes Inner Truthfulness. The superior man judges criminals and postpones capital punishment.

Ritsema/Karcher: Above marsh possessing wind. Centering Conforming. A chun tzu uses deliberating litigating to delay dying.

Cleary (1): There is wind above a lake, with truthfulness between them. Thus superior people consider judgments and postpone execution.

Cleary (2): There is wind over a lake, with sincerity in the center. True leaders consider judgments and postpone execution.

Wu: There is wind above the marsh: this is Sincerity. Thus, the jun zi deliberates the verdicts and enjoins the death sentence.

COMMENTARY

Confucius/Legge: Inner Truth shows two magnetic lines occupying the innermost part of the hexagram, with dynamic lines in the centers of the trigrams. We see the

attributes of Cheerfulness and Flexible Penetration -- sincerity thus symbolized reaches even to pigs and fishes and will transform the country. We see one riding on the symbol of

Wood, which forms an empty boat -- hence it is advantageous to cross the great stream. The virtue of Inner Truth requires firm correctness and shows the proper response of man to heaven.

Legge: Inner Truth denotes the highest quality of man, giving its possessor the power to prevail with spiritual beings, with other men and with lower creatures. There are two magnetic lines in the center and two dynamic lines above and below them. The magnetic lines represent the heart and mind free from all preoccupation, without any consciousness of self. The two dynamic lines immediately above and below them are each in the center of their respective trigram, and denote the solid virtue of one so free from selfishness. The trigram of Wood above the trigram for a Lake or Marsh suggests a boat crossing the great stream. The pigs and fishes symbolize the rudest and most obstinate of men. Ch'eng-tzu observes: "We have in the sincerity shown in the upper trigram superiors condescending to those below them in accordance with their peculiarities, and

61 -- Inner Truth - 61 we have in that of the lower those below delighted to follow their superiors. The combination of these two things leads to the transformation of the country and state."

NOTES AND PARAPHRASES

Judgment: It is a great accomplishment when Inner Truth alters archetypal forces within the psyche. The ego’s devotion to the Work is the means to this end. The Superior Man carefully differentiates his options and avoids drastic measures. (Can sometimes mean: "Don't act until you are sure of all the facts.") Anyone who monitors his dreams and other images knows that the unconscious is a continuous wellspring of psychic energy. Jung has observed that we are probably

dreaming all of the time -- the only reason we don't usually notice this is because the conscious mind is so powerful that the more subtle manifestations of the psyche are eclipsed. Since consciousness consists of only the upper layers of a deep continuum of awareness it is obvious that we are being continuously "created from within." The ultimate source of our being is not easily accessible, but all of the empirical evidence

points to a "Self" which transcends the space-time continuum -- i.e., lives in another "dimension." The capacity to nullify space and time must somehow inhere in the psyche, or, to put it another way, the psyche does not exist wholly in time and space. It is very probable that only what we call consciousness is contained in space and time, and that the rest of the psyche, the unconscious, exists in a state of relative spacelessness and timelessness.

Jung -- Letters This seemingly exotic concept was written by Jung in 1939, yet today the theories of the quantum physicists are approaching the point where awareness itself will be recognized as space-time transcendent. In the modern Kaluza-Klein theory all the forces of nature, not merely gravity, are treated as manifestations of spacetime structure. What we normally call gravity is a warp in the four spacetime dimensions of our perceptions, while the other forces are reduced to higher-dimensional spacewarps. All the forces of nature are revealed as nothing more than hidden geometry at work ... There is a deep compulsion to believe in the idea that the entire universe, including all the apparently concrete matter that assails our senses, is in reality only a frolic of convoluted nothingness, that in the end the world will turn out to be a sculpture of pure emptiness, a self-organized void.

Paul Davies -- Superforce The physicists now hypothesize an eleven-dimensional universe, and state that the seven "extra" dimensions are somehow "rolled up to a very small size" so that they are not apparent to our senses. If we are going to hypothesize such fantastic realms it is more elegant to hypothesize consciousness itself as emanating from an extra-dimensional

61 -- Inner Truth - 61 source. This is the Pleroma of the Gnostics and Alchemists, the upper and lower worlds of shamanism, or in Jungian parlance: the Objective Psyche or Collective Unconscious. The familiar spacetime of our conscious experience consists of three linear

dimensions, plus time. Time is considered a dimension, but not like the other three -- one can go up, down, forward and backward, to the left or right at will, but one cannot go back to this morning or forward to next Thursday afternoon. The time dimension is a continuous "now" and we experience it and the other three dimensions from the reference

point of consciousness -- we are the center from which all dimensions radiate. Consciousness is like time in that it is always "now," and since consciousness emerges from within in a continuous and autonomous flow, we can legitimately hypothesize that we emanate from a power source in another dimension. We are a kind of continuous

explosion from within -- a microcosmic version of the "Big Bang" which originated the universe, and which, incidentally, is still exploding-expanding outward into space. If everything that is recognizable is so only because it has separated itself from the "all and nothingness," leaving its complementary half behind in the unmanifested state, then the earth too must have its complementary half in the unmanifested state, and the force of gravitation it exerts on all the creatures and objects living on it is the striving for reunification between the earth and its unmanifested complementary half which has been left behind in the void as its negative reflection. The earth's gravitational pull thus draws all the earth towards the void which stands beyond time and space, in order to bring about this reunion. If the earth were to yield, all the earth and everything on it would disappear into the

center, into the void. But that would be a return to the paradisiacal unity -- to

God -- to bliss!

Elisabeth Haich -- Initiation The image of the hexagram Inner Truth gives us the idea of an "empty" center -as good an image as could be devised from the structural components of the trigrams to show the inner source of human consciousness. The pigs and fishes of the Judgment are the archetypal complexes which must be tamed through the process of the Work, and to "cross the great stream" with firm correctness is to accomplish this holy task. Through all ages men have sought, and some have found; there is a door through which we can pass out on to the higher planes, but that door is within the soul, it is an enlargement of consciousness whereby we perceive these things to which we have hitherto been blind, and from such perception comes the sense of reality which is lacking while we perceive nothing but appearances. Whoso has this wider vision is freed from the limitations of the five physical senses; his memory extends back beyond birth, and his hopes go forward beyond death ... Having all aspects of his own nature harmoniously developed, he is at one with all aspects of the universe, nothing is alien to him, and no form of existence is hostile. The path of life is open before him and he treads it with joy.

D. Fortune -- The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage

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