The Book of Changes originally refers to the three books of "Lianshan", "Guizang" and "Zhou Yi". Among them, "Lianshan" and "Returning to Tibet" have been lost, and only one copy of "Zhou Yi" has been handed down to this day. Therefore, the current "Book of Changes" generally refers to the "Zhou Yi".
Essentially, the I Ching is a book of exposition of change, and has long been used as a "divination". Later generations learned more of its philosophy, and thus became a broad and profound dialectical philosophical book. "The Book of Changes covers all things, outlines and disciplines, and is an outstanding representative of traditional Chinese culture;Vast and subtle, all-encompassing, it is also the source of Chinese civilization. Its content involves philosophy, politics, life, literature, art, science and many other fields, and is the first of the group classics, and the common classics of Confucianism and Taoism.
The Book of Changes is about human conspiracy, not divine conspiracy or ghost conspiracy. The whole work always runs through the idea that the human factor plays a decisive role, believing that people's moral cultivation and people's subjective efforts can turn evil into good fortune and promote changes in things, and believe that human beings play a role in transforming the environment and promoting the transformation of things.
Some people think that the Book of Changes is a book about fortune-telling and promotes feudal superstition, which is a misunderstanding, or they simply think that divination and fortune-telling are equivalent to superstition. As everyone knows, divination is to superstition, just as religion is to witchcraft, and it is a great progress in the history of human thought. "I Ching" is the product of Chinese farming civilization, is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese ancestors, in the "Book of Changes", there is no "criticism", "palmistry" content, some are for the ancient Chinese gentleman put forward requirements, is the gentleman's life guide.
The I Ching is broad and profound, but the road is simple, and it contains a lot of plain wisdom in life.
"Zhou Yi Zhi Shang" cloud: "Yi has Tai Chi, it is to give birth to two instruments;."Two rituals give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip. ”
Tai Chi, Yin and Yang, Four Elephants, and Bagua are the core roots of the I Ching, and the corresponding human wisdom is a realm, two kinds of thinking, four choices, and eight kinds of education.
1. Tai Chi, a realm.
Tai Chi is a harmonious, complete state of yin and yang harmony and unity, a dynamic balance.
Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments, one yang and one yin.
Half of our minds are positive, such as joy and compassionHalf are negative, such as greed, arrogance.
The world is the same, there is white and there is black, and there is good and evil. Half of the sky, half of the earth;Half male, half female;Half pure, half turbid.
Therefore, if we demand perfection, we must accept the incomplete half, and if we learn to tolerate, we will have a complete world.
The spirit of Tai Chi lies in the confusion and also in the enlightenment, from the confusion to the enlightenment is a long-term process, but also a person's lifelong long-lasting cultivation process.
"Confusion" is to cultivate the truth through falsehood, cultivate a good state of mind, and sharpen a meditation and calmness. Only when the water surface is calm can the moon be reflected in a complete and clear way, only when the mind is calm can we accept the good information and energy of heaven and earth, and only when we accept good information can we have a good attitude, and the mentality determines success or failure and bitterness, and those who are calm are not impetuous, and those who are calm are not frivolous.
Enlightenment is to have the stomach to tolerate those things that cannot be changed, to have the perseverance to change those things that may change, to have the ability to discover and give up those things that are dispensable, to have the wisdom to distinguish those things that are either or or, to have the perseverance to accomplish those things that seem hopeless, to have the courage to face those things that have been done wrong, and to have the confidence to stick to those things that are right.
In life, you need such a set of your own Tai Chi, live out wisdom and health, and live out the realm and height.
2. Yin and yang, two kinds of thinking
Zhou Yi Yun: "One yin and one yang is the Tao." This sentence tells all the secrets of Chinese culture - the so-called avenue is yin and yang.
Therefore, "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" also said: "Yin and Yang, the way of heaven and earth, the outline of all things, the parents of change, the origin of life and death, and the house of the gods." ”
1.Yin and yang, the greatest knowledge between heaven and earth
Everything is inseparable from yin and yang, when you understand yin and yang, you can understand the law of development of things, this is the essence of Chinese wisdom, you can use it to explain anything, everything is based on yin and yang.
To sum up, yin and yang have six laws, and if you master these six laws, you will have a dialectical, comprehensive, holistic and harmonious thinking.
01.Yin and Yang are one
Everything in nature, all things, and all phenomena exist in both yin and yang at the same time, and although they are opposite, they are unified with each other, and all things are generated in the process of change.
02.Yin and yang are mutual
Yin and yang are the premise of their own existence, interdependent, and mutually interactive, and they cannot exist in isolation.
03.Yin and yang wax and wane
The changes of yin and yang are always in the dynamic balance of eliminating the other's strengths and weaknesses, advancing and retreating.
04.Yin and Yang transformation
The degree of yin and yang will continue to increase, and when it reaches the critical point, it will be reversed, and it will be transformed in the opposite direction, with yang becoming yin and yin becoming yang, such as the alternation of day and night, and the cycle of the four seasons.
05.Yin and yang complement each other
There is yin in yang, and yang in yin;You have me, I have you. Yin and Yang are both complementary and internal causes of each other's changes.
06.Yin and Yang suck and repel
Like-sex repels each other, opposites attract. This phenomenon abounds in nature, for example, men and women will form a family, and two roosters will fight each other together.
2.Yin and yang, the highest principle of life
If we use the six laws of yin and yang and compare them with various phenomena in life and society, we will understand many truths. In fact, the world and life are full of yin and yang, all of which can be explained by yin and yang, and can be solved by yin and yang.
01.Yin and Yang are one
There is no kind of character that can sit back and relax, and if a person is high, he must be more tolerant, otherwise he is easy to become arrogant. If a person is kind, he must be more decisive, otherwise he will easily become weak. If you are strong, you must know how to be in awe, otherwise you will be violent. If you are rich, you must be thrifty, otherwise it is easy to become extravagant. Erudite, speak more shallowly, otherwise it is easy to become blunt, noble, and humble, otherwise it is easy to be arrogant.
02.Yin and yang are mutual
Misfortune and blessing are relied upon, and blessing and misfortune are lurking". When people are lucky, they will inevitably be arrogant and contemptuous, so they are easy to fall into trouble. When a person is unlucky and is left out in the cold, he can face the wall to reflect, accumulate cultivation, and wait for the opportunity. To endure hardship is to suffer, and to enjoy happiness is to eliminate happiness;There is hope in suffering, and happiness needs to be guarded against, so the best attitude is to be calm and calm, blessing and misfortune, good and bad come and go, and you must be able to jump out.
03.Yin and yang wax and wane
Life is limited, and if you spend more time and energy on one point, you will have less time elsewhere, so you must do a good job of addition and subtraction.
"Addition" is the pursuit of knowledge, success, wealth, fame and fortune, and life will be enriched and colorful. But if you want too much, you are insatiable and insatiable, and you are very sad.
Therefore, it is also necessary to do "subtraction" - look down on the success or failure of fame and fortune, contentment, temperance, gratitude, cherish blessings, and avoid disasters. Reasonable arrangement of life's trade-offs, life will be healthier, addition is a kind of growth, subtraction is a kind of maturity.
04.Yin and Yang transformation
Transformation is the opposite of things, so if you want to be long-lasting, you must learn not to overdo it. In real life, it is very important to grasp the "degree".
Degree is proportion, the dividing line between good and bad, right and wrong, good and harm;"Degree" is just right, and grasping the "degree" is wisdom, which is accumulated and tempered in the frustrations of actual life, realized in reflection and failure, and is the return of suffering to people.
05.Yin and yang complement each other
Young people often attach importance to the "yang" side, and they are healthy and self-improving, study hard, and work hardHowever, they often ignore the "yin" side, that is, the terrain is good, the virtue is loaded, the people are indifferent, the elders are not sympathetic, and the personality is perverse. When I was old, I turned it upside down, too "yin", too concerned about others, and not "yang" enough, unable to live my own wonderful life.
Therefore, young people should be "yin", and old people should be "yang".
06.Yin and Yang suck and repel
We all know that "the same voice corresponds, and the same breath seeks each other";"The same sex repels each other, and the opposite sex attracts", but there is also the principle of yin and yang behind the repulsion, the shortcomings are often the same as the advantages, and the more outstanding the advantages, the more unbearable the shortcomings.
If you find a perfect person, then you don't really know him, and you must make a decision after you understand the advantages and disadvantages.
Everything is yin and yang, everything is relative, when we look at people, society, and everything in the world, we can understand many things by combining the principles of yin and yang.
Three, four elephants, four choices
The reason why people are confused is often because they can't see how many possibilities exist, and the reason why people are entangled is often because they don't know how to choose among the possibilities. The "Four Elephants" of "Zhou Yi" provide us with the best basis.
The so-called "four elephants" are a combination of two sets of yin and yang - upper yin and lower yin, upper yang and lower yang, upper yin and lower yang, upper yang and lower yin. The eight trigrams, the sixty-four trigrams, and even more hexagrams are just more combinations of more combinations of a greater number of yin and yang.
When two groups of yin and yang are related, there will be four combinations of yin and yang, and these four combinations are the four possible results, and only these four results can be achieved.
For example, if you are thinking about doing something and are faced with the choice of whether to do it or not to do it, this "to do or not to do" is a set of yin and yang. Whether you do it or not, there can only be two kinds of results, good or bad, and "good and bad" is another set of yin and yang.
So there are four kinds of results: "do - good results", "do not do - bad results", "do - bad results", "do - good results".
If you know all the possibilities, you know the way to make a decision – before you know all the possibilities, you are doing a fill-in-the-blank question;Knowing all the possibilities, you are doing a multiple-choice question, and the way to do multiple-choice questions will always be more than fill-in-the-blank questions, and the hit rate is higher.
The simplest is the method of elimination—which of the four possibilities is less likely?Then you can rule it out.
The rest of the options can be analyzed, you always have some understanding of the situation of the matter, these can be used as analysis and discernment chips, after analysis, it is better to have a definite answer, even if there is no definite answer, at least you can continue to use the elimination method;Of the several alternative answers, there is always a greater possibility.
It's really not good, and you can still be blind in the excluded options, which is always more accurate than being blind in the four options.
After all, life sometimes inevitably requires a gamble as a last resort, and it is inevitable to resign yourself to fate.
Fourth, gossip, eight kinds of upbringing
The eight most profound and magical Chinese characters in Chinese culture must be the names of the eight trigrams - Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, and Dui.
1.Qiangua, male upbringing
The hexagram of the Qiangua is heaven, and the characteristic is "Jian" - strong, the so-called "Tianxingjian, the gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement", with strong masculine characteristics.
The three trigrams of Qianqian are all yang, which is the hexagram of pure yang. However, as the saying goes, the extremes of things must be opposed, although the Qiangua is strong and powerful, and it is indomitable, it is just and easy to break, so there is a sign of insecurity, which contains signs of reversal in the opposite direction.
For men, this is the most worthy of vigilance and learning, because of physical and psychological reasons, it is easy for men to be strong, but if it is too much, completely ignorant of restraint, it will become destructive and produce bad consequences. For example, if you are too strong with your wife, you will be machismoTo children, being too strong can lead to violence;In the workplace, being too strong will lead to self-righteousness and offend people's ......
Such a man has not yet practiced the kung fu of convergence, and the temperament of being strong and weak, soft and rigid has not yet been cultivated, and if he is too rigid, he is easy to break and cannot go far.
2.Kun hexagram, a woman's upbringing
The hexagram of the Kun hexagram is the earth, and the characteristic is "Shun" - Shunxia, the so-called "terrain Kun, the gentleman carries things with virtue", "the good is like water, and the good is beneficial to all things without fighting". This kind of behavior makes people naturally think of women, and then think of the traditional requirements for women, female virtue.
There are indeed many unfair and outdated contents in traditional female virtues, but they will never become obsolete in the fundamental spirit, and this is Kunde. This kind of virtue is also what is urgently needed in this era.
What is Kunde?In short: she is a good wife and mother in her identity, she is warm and generous in her treatment of others, she is patient and tenacious in her heart, and she is tolerant and obedient in her posture.
Obeying is by no means subservient to male power, but understanding that men and women are indeed different in their physical and psychological nature, so they each have their own appropriate position, but this position is equal, and it is not necessary to do what men are good at and can do to be called equal.
3.Shock hexagram, mentality teachingraise
The hexagram of the vibration hexagram is thunder, and the characteristic is "movement" - vibration, **, but because it can remove the dull and filthy atmosphere, it may not be a kind of prosperity.
This inevitably reminds people of the encounters in life, when it is calm and smooth, there are always so many ups and downs, and sometimes even thunderbolts and storms. How should we view the good and bad times in life?The hexagram points to one point - mentality. The situation changes with your heart, and there is no anxiety when you have peace of mind, and there will be sunny days after bad luck.
The gentleman repairs the province with fear. In ordinary times, we must always be vigilant and introspective, and we must work hard in ordinary times, so that we can finally settle down on things, so that in the end, as revealed by the hexagram, we can cleanse the dirt and dullness, and usher in a clear and smooth experience.
4.Xun hexagram, upbringing
The hexagram of Xun hexagram is the wind, and the characteristic is "in", which is the long wind and pervasive, which is a kind of Shunda, and the meaning of "Xun" is "Shun". This hexagram says that obedience to others is the only way to benefit, that is, to be humble and submissive.
The description of this hexagram in divination is: "A lonely boat falls on the beach, and it is difficult to advance and retreat without water;When it rains heavily, the rivers and lakes overflow, and there is no need to go back and forth. "If a person does not have a humble and submissive attitude, he will become a lonely boat. Learn to be humble and respectful to others, and when you have more friends and more contacts, the water will naturally be full, and your life will be like a fish in water, riding the wind and waves.
5.Kan hexagram, work and upbringing
The hexagram of Kan is water, and the characteristic is "trapping", which means falling into a puddle. The more times like these, the more we need to be cautious, learn to wait for the right moment, and not act rashly.
But whether you can be cautious or not, in fact, depends on your usual attitude, a person who is not usually serious and cautious can only panic at a critical moment, and he can't be expected to suddenly become cautious at this tense moment. This requires us to have this attitude of doing things in ordinary times, and constantly cultivate ourselves.
Therefore, the elephant transmission of this hexagram says: A gentleman should practice virtue and practice teaching, and require people to constantly improve their virtues.
6.Divorce, family upbringing
The hexagram of the separation hexagram is fire, and the characteristic is "beautiful", which has the meaning of the sun shining brightly, the so-called "sun and moon are beautiful in the sky". The two words with diametrically opposite meanings make people think of the current marital status, with a high divorce rate and fewer and fewer beautiful marriages with a bright sunshine.
The reasons for divorce vary, but in the end, it is often emotional discord. If two people are like fire, competing for light, burning each other, refusing to take a step back and trying to understand and understand each other, what good results can there be in addition to conflict and discord?
If one of the husband and wife can make a compromise and think about it from the other party's point of view, this contradiction can at least be alleviated.
7.Gen hexagram, words and deeds
The hexagram of the Gen hexagram is like a mountain, and the characteristic is "stop" - stop, stop. This hexagram says that words and deeds should be cautious, and when they should act, they should act, and when they stop, they should stop;When you say it, you say it, and if you don't say it, you don't say it. The mountain of hexagrams, emphasizing the strength and weight of this stop.
How can this be done?The legend of this hexagram is that "a gentleman can't think of his position", and "he can't think of his position" is to know what should be said and done, and what should not be said and done, and his words and deeds should be decent. To speak appropriately lies in knowing how to be silent at the right time, and to speak when you should be speaking but knowing how to grasp it;The core of proper behavior lies in the word politeness, no matter the movement, it is based on the criterion of not being rude.
When interacting with others, know how to be honest, have a sincere attitude, and be able to consider the feelings of the other party, and naturally will not exceed the rules. Sincerity is actually the best strategy for life.
8.Redeem hexagrams, make friends and upbring
The hexagram of the hexagram is Ze, and the characteristic is "Yue" - pleasant, joyful. People can be happy with each other and harmonious relationships, strangers can become friends, and those who are already friends can deepen friendships. This is the revelation that the hexagram brings to us.
How can we be harmonious?The hexagram of the hexagram has water, and making friends is like the intersection of two waters, you have me, I have you. Emotionally, this means being honest and heart-to-heartIn reality, this means moving around a lot and helping each other;All in all, the two parties complement each other and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.