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The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi(226–249 CE)
کلاسیک تغییرات: ترجمهای تازه از ای جینگ با تفسیر وانگ بی
وانگ بی (۲۲۶–۲۴۹ م.) با وجود عمر کوتاه خود (حدود ۲۳-۲۴ سال)، یکی از اثرگذارترین متفکران تاریخ چین به شمار میآید. او از برجستهترین نمایندگان جریان فکری شوانشوئه («حکمت رازآمیز» یا «فلسفهی ژرف») بود؛ جریانی که در پی بازخوانی میراث کنفوسیوسی و دائویی در قالبی فلسفی و متافیزیکی برآمد. شرحهای او بر دائو ده جینگ و ای جینگ از تأثیرگذارترین آثار تفسیری در سراسر سنت فکری چین به شمار میروند و برای نزدیک به هزار سال تنها مرجع معتبر مطالعهی این دو متن بودهاند.
در مرکز اندیشهی وانگ بی مفهوم وو (無، نیستی، بیتعینی یا غیب مطلق) قرار دارد؛ اصلی که از نظر او سرچشمه و بنیاد همهی پدیدههای متعین است. او استدلال میکند که کثرت موجودات و دگرگونیهای جهان تنها بر پایهی امری نامتعین و فراتر از صورتها (بسیط محض، صمد، احد، برهمن) امکان ظهور مییابند. از این رو، ششخطیها و نمادهای ای جینگ در نظر او صرفاً ابزار پیشگویی نیستند، بلکه تجلیات گوناگون یک اصل بنیادین و یگانهاند که در پس همهی تحولات جهان حضور دارد.
تفسیر وانگ بی نقطهی عطفی در تاریخ ای جینگ به شمار میرود، زیرا پس از سدهها توجه را از کاربردهای پیشگویانهی کتاب به سوی معانی حقیقی و ساختار فلسفی و متافیزیکی آن معطوف کرد. نفوذ این خوانش چنان گسترده بود که نهتنها بر سنتهای بعدی کنفوسیوسی و دائویی، بلکه بر شکلگیری زبان فلسفی بودیسم در چین نیز تأثیر عمیقی گذاشت. از این رو، شرح او بر ای جینگ را میتوان یکی از مهمترین و ماندگارترین تفسیرهای فلسفی این اثر در سراسر تاریخ شرق آسیا دانست.
شش خطی 63
تکمیل شده، دوران پس از پایان (Ji Ji)
اسامی و مفاهیم دیگر: پس از اتمام، نماد آنچه هم اکنون پایان یافته، قبلاً عبور شده است، قبلاً کامل شده است، تسویه شده، ماموریت انجام شده، وظایف انجام شده، پس از پایان، وضعیت اوج
Sequence:
Once there is superiority over creatures [the masses, i.e., "subjects"], one is sure to ferry them [across troubles, i.e., "rescue them"]. This is why Xiaoguo [Minor Superiority, Hexagram 62] is followed by Jiji [Ferrying Complete].
THE HEXAGRAMS IN IRREGULAR ORDER
Jiji [Ferrying Complete] signifies stability.
سنجش:
تفسیر کنفوسیوس
“It is fitting to practice constancy,” for both the hard and strong and the soft and weak behave correctly and thus stay in their rightful positions. { W.B: If “both the hard and strong and the soft and weak behave correctly and thus stay in their rightful positions,” evil will have no chance to occur. Thus only when such rectitude prevails, is it “fitting to practice constancy.”}
“In the beginning good fortune prevails,” for the soft and weak [Second Yin] obtains a central position [follows the Mean]. But if one ends up ceasing [to practice constancy and follow the Mean], chaos will ensue, for this Dao [path] will eventually peter out. { W.B: It is by the soft and weak obtaining a central position that such small persons should prevail, but if the soft and weak do not obtain a central position [i.e., practice the Mean], such small persons would never prevail. Although the hard and strong manage to practice rectitude, this would still result in Ferrying Complete remaining unrealized. Thus the essential requirement of Ferrying Complete lies in the soft and weak obtaining a central position. If one were to misconstrue Ferrying Complete to mean perfect security, its Dao would come to an end, and no progress would occur, so that in the end only chaos would ensue. This is why the text says: “Although in the beginning good fortune prevails, things might end in chaos.” That things end in chaos is not due to their becoming so on their own but happens because of one ceasing [to do as one should]. Thus the text says: “If one ends up ceasing [to practice constancy and to follow the Mean], chaos will ensue.”4}
تصویر:
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خط چهارم:
خط پنجم:
خط ششم:
1. "Ferrying" translates ji, which is how Wang Bi and Kong Yingda interpret it, in both this hexagram and in Weiji, Hexagram 64. Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi prefer extended or derived meanings of ji for both hexagrams; Cheng seems to read it as jiuji, "rescue," making the hexagram name "Rescue Complete" (i.e., "All Saved"), and Zhu reads it as cheng, "perfection," so making the hexagram name "Perfection Complete" (i.e., "All Things Perfectly Realized"). Although Wangs and Kong's "ferrying" also implies these meanings, their commentaries suggest that they read the text more literally.
2. This follows the commentaries of Wang Bi and Kong Yingda. Cheng Yi reads it differently: "Jiji is such that prevalence will apply only to small matters [or "only be slight"]." Zhu Xi thinks that heng xiao (the small enjoy prevalence) is a textual error for xiaoheng, which results in the reading: "Jiji is such that only slight prevalence may be had." See Zhouyi zhezhong, 8: 37b–38a.
3. This and all subsequent text set off in this manner is commentary by Wang Bi.
4. Cheng Yi's comments help to clarify the nature of Ferrying Complete:
The affairs of the world are such that they are either in a state of advance or of retreat, and there is no one fixed principle to cover them. At the end of Ferrying [i.e., after all has been put right with the world], one should not try to advance things but come to a halt. However, this does not involve a perpetual halt but should be done because things are now in decline and chaos ensues, for the Dao of Ferrying Complete has already begun to peter out.
Cheng adds that things now are in such a state of flux that only a sage can handle things so that they do not degenerate completely. Everyone else is advised to stop and wait to see how things turn out. See Zhouyi zhezhong, 10: 46b–47a.
5. The lower trigram is Li (Cohesion), here signifying Fire, and the upper trigram is Kan (Sink Hole), representing Water.
6. Kong Yingda comments:
Water positioned above fire is the image of a cook stove, which is used to finish the preparation of food and drink and which thus ferries one through life [i.e., rescues one, gives one succor, etc.]…. However, the Dao of Ferrying Complete is such that "in the beginning good fortune prevails," but "things might end in chaos." Thus "the noble man ponders the threat of calamity and takes steps beforehand to prevent it."
That is, as a cook stove must be tended with care to obtain proper results, so must one cultivate rectitude and follow the Mean to avoid calamity. See Zhouyi zhengyi, 6: 21b.
7. Cheng Yi is more forthcoming concerning the connection between halting here at the start of Ferrying Complete and the avoidance of blame:
First Yang abides in this lowest position with its yang character. Not only is it in resonance with Fourth Yin, it also has a fiery nature [as a yang line in the Li (Fire) trigram], so its ambition to advance is acute. However, this is a time of Ferrying Complete. If this one were to advance without cease, he would certainly reach the point where he would be subject to regret and blame…. Wheels are the means that allow one to move, but here instead one makes them drag so that he cannot advance. When an animal crosses water, it is sure to lift up its tail, for if it were to let its tail get wet, it could not cross. Here just at the start of Ferrying Complete, this one is able to halt his advance, and that is why he manages to avoid blame. If he did not realize that he should stop, he would end up incurring blame.
Zhu Xi concurs with Cheng's interpretation and adds that one here should take warning accordingly. See Zhouyi zhezhong, 8: 38b.
8. Zhu Xi says that fu here means "a lady's carriage curtain." See Zhouyi zhezhong, 8: 39a.
9. "Exalted Ancestor" (Gaozong) is identified with King Wu Ding of the Shang, whose reign is traditionally dated 1324–1266 B.C. The "Demon Territory" (Guifang) seems to have been a region to the northwest of the Shang state inhabited by a division of the Di, a people the Chinese regarded as barbarians. A brief discussion of the historical sources involved appears in Lou, Wang Bi ji jiaoshi, 2: 529 n. 9.
10. Cf. Hexagram 45, Cui (Gathering), Second Yin, and Wang Bi's commentary there.
11. Quoted from the Zhoushu (Book of Zhou), section 21 of the Shujing (Book of history); see Legge, The Chinese Classics, 3:529.
وقتی جستجوگران دائو به مرحلهای میرسند که ینگ را از آب گرفته و یین را در آتش پُر میکنند—تا آب و آتش یکدیگر را متعادل سازند—خوشاقبالی است که پس از تلاش و کوشش بیحد، به این موفقیت دست یابند؛ سپس وقتی آن را بهدرستی مهر و موم کنند و در برابر خطر محافظت کنند، کارِ دشوار را کامل میکنند. در غیر اینصورت، اگر سستی کنند و دست از کار بکشند، فرایند پختگی منحرف شده، آنچه را که استوار شده بود، دوباره ناآرام میسازد، و آنچه را که بهدست آمده بود، از کف میدهند. بنابراین، تلاش و رها کردن تلاش باید مطابق زمان مناسب بهکار گرفته شوند. دستاورد نهایی، زمانی است که بودن و نبودن یکی شوند، تهیبودن و پُری هر دو دربرگرفته شوند، و جوهر و زندگی هر دو درک شوند. (ییمینگ)
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