Viatris Inc VTRS under CEO Michael Goettler

Viatris Inc VTRS under CEO Michael Goettler

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.

1. 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

1. 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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