United Technologies (UTX) under CEO Gregory Hayes

United Technologies (UTX) under CEO Gregory Hayes

HEXAGRAM 59 – Huan – Dispersion (Dissolution)

Above    SUN    THE GENTLE, WIND

Below    K’AN    THE ABYSMAL, WATER

• Wind blowing over water
  
  • disperses it,
    
  • dissolving it into
    
    • foam and mist.
      

• This
  
  • suggests
    

that

when

• a man’s vital energy
  
  • is dammed up within him
    

    indicated as a danger by the attribute of the lower trigram),
    

• gentleness
  
  • serves to break up and dissolve the blockage.
    

THE JUDGMENT

• Dispersion,
  
• Success.
  
• The king approaches his temple.
  
• It furthers one to cross the great water.
  
• Perseverance furthers.
  

• The text of this hexagram
  
  • resembles that of Ts’ui, GATHERING TOGETHER (45).
    

In the latter,

• the subject
  
  • is the bringing together of elements
    

that

• have been separated,
  
  • as water collects in lakes upon the earth.
    

Here

• the subject
  
  • is the dispersing and dissolving of
    
    • divisive egotism.
      

• DISPERSION
  
  • shows the way, so to speak,
    

that

• leads to gathering together.
  

• This
  
  • explains the similarity of the two texts.
    

• Religious forces
  
  • are needed to overcome
    
• the egotism that
  
  • divides men.
    

• The common celebration of
  

  the great sacrificial feasts and sacred rites,
  

which

• gave expression simultaneously to
  
  • the interrelation and social articulation of family and state,
    
• was the means employed
  
  • by the great rulers to unite men.
    

• The sacred music
  

  and
  

• the splendor of the ceremonies
  
  • aroused a strong tide of emotion
    

that

• was shared by all hearts in unison,
  

and

that

• awakened a consciousness of the common origin of all creatures.
  

In this way

• disunity
  
  • was overcome
    

and

• rigidity
  
  • dissolved.
    

• A further means to the same end
  
  • is cooperation in great general undertakings
    

that

• set a high goal for the will of the people;
  

in the common concentration on this goal,

• all barriers
  
  • dissolve,
    

just as,

when

• a boat
  
  • is crossing a great stream,
    
• all hands
  
  • must unite in a joint task.
    

But only

• a man
  
  • who is himself free of all selfish ulterior considerations,
    

  and
  

  • who perseveres in justice and steadfastness,
    
• is capable of so
  
  • dissolving the hardness of egotism.
    

THE IMAGE

• The wind drives over the water: The image of DISPERSION. Thus
  
• the kings of old
  
  • sacrificed to the Lord
    

  And
  

  • built temples.
    

In the autumn and winter,

• water
  
  • begins to freeze into ice.
    

When

• the warm breezes of spring
  
  • come,
    
• the rigidity
  
  • is dissolved,
    

and

• the elements that have been dispersed in ice floes
  
  • are reunited.
    

• It
  
  • is the same with the minds of the people.
    

Through hardness and selfishness

• the heart
  
  • grows rigid,
    

and

• this rigidity
  
  • leads to separation from all others.
    

• Egotism and cupidity
  
  • isolate men.
    

Therefore

• the hearts of men
  
  • must be seized
    
    • by a devout emotion.
      

• They must be
  
  • shaken
    
    • by a religious awe in face of eternity –
      
  • stirred
    
    • with an intuition of the One Creator of all living beings,
      

and

• united
  
  • through the strong feeling of fellowship
    

    experienced in the ritual of divine worship.
    

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