冬山

第41卦 損(Sun)

Fine Art
Sesshū Tōyō (雪舟等楊) — Winter Landscape

Sesshū Tōyō (雪舟等楊) — Winter Landscape

Sesshū Tōyō (雪舟等楊) (15th century)

雪舟用最少的筆墨畫了冬天的山。白色是紙本身的顏色。

Practical Integration

山很高,樹很少,廟很小。雪舟十五世紀畫這幅《冬景圖》,用的是水墨——黑的、灰的、淡的,沒有其他顏色。雪是什麼顏色?白色。但雪舟沒有畫白色,他讓紙露出來,紙的白就是雪的白。減掉的東西,反而成為最重要的東西。 我想起以前住的唐樓,冬天沒有暖氣,只有一床棉被。晚上很冷,縮在被窩裡,什麼都不想做,只想睡覺。那時候覺得冬天很長,很難熬。現在住的地方有暖氣,反而懷念那種冷——冷讓你知道什麼是真正需要的。 「損」這個卦,山在上,澤在下。澤的水往下流,供養山上的東西。卦辭說:「有孚,元吉,无咎,可貞。利有攸往。曷之用?二簋可用享。」心裡有誠信,大吉,沒有過錯。用什麼來祭祀?兩碗簡單的食物就夠了。減少,但誠心不變。 《象》說:「山下有澤,損。君子以懲忿窒欲。」山下有澤,這是損。君子要控制憤怒,節制欲望。雪舟那幅畫,沒有多餘的筆墨,沒有裝飾,只有必要的線條。冬天把樹葉減掉,把顏色減掉,把溫暖減掉,剩下的是骨架。也許這就是損的意思——減到最少,才知道什麼是真的。

References & Citations

  1. Winter Landscape — Sesshū Tōyō (雪舟等楊)-15th century. Sesshū was a Zen monk who traveled to China in the 1460s and brought Song Dynasty ink painting techniques back to Japan. This winter scene uses minimal brushwork and monochrome ink to depict a bare landscape stripped of ornamentation. The reduction of visual elements to essential forms connects to hexagram 41's theme of decrease.

The Judgment

損有孚,元吉。——有誠嘅減少帶來至高好運。唔係你移走乜,而係透過移走佢你能夠乜。

sǔndecrease
yǒuhave
true
yuánmost
promising
no
jiùblame
(but it) call
zhēnpersistence
worth(while)
yǒu(to) have
yōusomewhere
wǎngto go
how
zhīis this
yòng(to be) applied? practiced? carried out?
èrtwo
guǐ(small
could
yòngpresented
xiǎng(as

The Image

山下有澤:損。君子以懲忿窒欲。——君子克制過度,加強核心。Future Crew 無加更多儲存——佢哋將約束轉化成生成技術。

shānmountain
xiàbelow
yǒuis
(a
sǔndecreasing
jūn(a
young one
accordingly
chéngcorrects
忿fènhard feeling
zhì(and) controls
desires

The Lines (爻辭)

Line 1已事遄往無咎酌損之

one's (own)
shìaffairs
chuán(are) rushed
wǎngto go
no
jiùblame
zhuó(but) weigh
sǔndecreasing
zhī(of) this

Line 2利貞征凶弗損益之

(it is) worthwhile
zhēnto persist
zhēng(but) to expedite
xiōng(is) ill-omened
(there is) neither
sǔn(of
(nor
zhīhere

Line 3三人行則損一人一人行則得其友

sānthree
rénpeople
xíngstart
(and) then
sǔndecrease
(by) one
rénperson
(this) one
rénperson
xíngstarts
(and) then
finds
the
yǒucompanion

Line 4損其疾使遄有喜無咎

sǔndecreasing
these
afflictions
使shǐ(to) take(ing) control
chuánexpeditiously
yǒu(and) be
glad
(this is) no
jiùwrong

Line 5或益之十朋之龜弗克違元吉

huòsomebody
increases
zhī(to) (this) one
shí(by) ten
péng(matched) pairs
zhīof
guītortoise
(one) (is) not
able
wéi(of
yuánmost
promising

Line 6弗損益之無咎貞吉利有攸往得臣無家

(there is) neither
sǔn(of
(nor
zhīhere
(there is) nothing
jiù(is) wrong
zhēnpersistence
(is) promising
worth(while)
yǒu(to) have
yōusomewhere
wǎngto go
(but) (one) accept
chénservants
(but) not
jiāfamily

Historical Context

Oracle Bone Script

☶ 艮山在 ☱ 兌澤上——基礎餵養上升。下面嘅『澤』蒸發去滋養『山』。

Period

周代

Traditional Use

有誠嘅減少:移走唔服務目標嘅嘢;將省返嘅能量向上引導。

Character Analysis

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Configuration

Lower Trigram

兌(澤)

Upper Trigram

艮(山)

Binary

110001

Energy State

受控減少,有目的嘅簡化。澤在下(聚集、儲存資源)俾路艮山在上(透過克制嘅成就)。

Trigram Symbolism

☶ 艮(上)— 止,成就 ☱ 兌(下)— 悅,聚集 澤嘅物質蒸發去滋養山。