There are three basic points in the I Ching:
1. Change: The things in the universe explained in "Yi" are bound to become, that is, everything in heaven and earth is unchanging. But this change is a gradual change rather than a mutation. "Yi" is a negation of mutations, because all mutations are actually internal changes that have been around for a long time.
2. Not easy: In the midst of all the changes, there is an absolutely unchanging ontology that is the metaphysical truth, which is called God in Western religions, Buddha is called Buddha, Lao Tzu is called the Tao without a name, and some people call it "a cloud of darkness". Whatever its name suggests, it represents an unchanging ontology.
3. Simplicity: "Yi" is an inductive method, which reduces the phenomena and personnel in the universe to a very simple necessity, which is called simplicity.
Sixty-four hexagrams and six hexagrams.
In the congenital Fuxi gossip, the three hexagrams are one hexagram, but later evolution, the two hexagrams are added together, and the six hexagrams become one hexagram.
Among the six intersects, the following three trigrams are the internal hexagrams, also known as the lower hexagrams;The three crossings on the top are plug-ins, also known as the upper hexagrams.
Six is a strange number, "Yi Xue" believes that the sixth is the highest, and it is said that in terms of the number of natural science bits, it is also believed that six is the apex.
The three trigrams seen on the Bagua diagram are in eight directions, and now they are combined into two three intersecting hexagrams and one hexagram to become six intersecting hexagrams, resulting in eight (liujiao) hexagrams for each hexagram (three intersecting).
In this way, the total number of the eight hexagrams is sixty-four hexagrams.
Now let's take a look at the Qiangua and its variations: Qianwei Tian.
Tianfeng Ji, according to the principle of "Yi", changes from the bottom of the interior as if there is a strong wind in the universe, that is, it becomes dirt.
The Tianshan Mountains escaped, the two yin arose, and the yang energy that was integrated began to retreat, that is, it became a retreat.
Heaven and earth no, after the formation of heaven and earth, then the world is eventful, yes or no, it is equal to there are heaven and earth and there are people, from then on there is no peace, it can also be called the humor of "Yi", and the following becomes:
The view of wind and earth, from the inside out, is quite considerable, and it can also be called the truth of holding the profit and Baotai, and then becomes:
Mountain peeling, if it is not safe, it is peeling, as if it is a human body, if it is not taken care of, it will be peeled.
Huodi Jin, this is the seventh change, it is the reverse change of the first friendship of the outer hexagram, called the wandering soul hexagram, which is equivalent to saying that although the person is not dead, but the soul wanders among the ruins and goes to the cemetery for sightseeing.
There is a great fire in the sky, this is the eighth change, and the entire internal hexagram is restored, which is called the reduction hexagram and also known as the soul return hexagram. However, although this soul symbolizes the continuation of life, it is not the restoration of one's own life, but the continuation of one's descendants. Therefore, there is nothing in the world that can be absolutely wiped back, and the so-called restoration is just a kind of change, and the form is similar.
What is said above is the Qiangua itself and its changes, a total of eight fresh Kan hexagrams, good hexagrams, Zhen hexagrams, Xun hexagrams, separation hexagrams, Kun hexagrams, and exchange hexagrams, all of which are separated, and their laws are the same, a total of sixty-four hexagrams.
Intricate changes.
Could it be that the sixty-four hexagrams make it clear that all the changes in the world are clear?
Nope!Things are still very complicated!
Let's take the trigram for example, its first hexagram becomes the hexagram.
Heavenly Wind Sister. Summary: If the diagram of the dirt hexagram is reversed by 180 degrees, it becomes:
Ze Tianfu, this is the opposition hexagram of the dirt hexagram, also known as the comprehensive hexagram.
False: If you change the five yang and one yin of the concubine hexagram into five yin and one yang, it becomes: landmine refu, which is the right hexagram of the concubine hexagram.
When a person is sick, he is stripping the hexagram, and the opposition hexagram is the repetition of the hexagram, and the repetition of the hexagram is not the recovery of the sick body!
Among the 64 hexagrams, there are eight hexagrams that do not have comprehensive hexagrams, and these eight hexagrams are: Qian, Kun, Kan, Li, Daguo, Xiaoguo, Yi, and Zhongfu.
From any point of view, the sky is absolutely the sky, the earth is absolutely the earth, and the sun and the moon are still the sun and the moon.
The last four hexagrams, big pass, small pass, Yi, and Zhongfu, belong to personnel, but there are wrong hexagrams and comprehensive hexagrams that we see, which belong to external changes, and now we are again.
Its unchanging nature, so there is no synthesis.
The upper hand over is the next handover, and the lower hand over is mutual, which can also be seen from the image of the word rest.
Let's take a look at the complex changes in things!
In the case of the concubine hexagram, the upper and lower diplomacy remains unchanged, as long as the internal four intersections become interactions. The complex interaction of the concubine hexagram is the Qiangua, which is so intricate and really the same as the things and people in the world.
After analyzing the formation and evolution of the gossip and studying its intricate hexagrams, I clearly realized that observing personnel from the standpoint of the gossip of the Book of Changes is exquisite, thorough, reasonable and objective. If you look at things from just one point of view, mistakes are absolutely inevitable. The basic spirit of Confucius's way of loyalty and forgiveness is also that because of different views, everything should also be considered from the perspective of others. The most interesting thing is that someone discovered the truth of things in the Book of Changes, and said with a dumb smile: This is like Western dialectics!
When I heard this, I couldn't help but think of a story about a man who knew a little child, and one day he suddenly met the child's grandfather, and he laughed dumbly and said, "Look how much this old grandfather looks like this little child!"
This is really interesting, the Book of Changes has a history of 5,000 years, and the dialectic is only a product of the 18th century, I don't know if it is the fault of our culture, we Chinese some of them walk upside down
Don't come to sigh at us, the descendants of Fuxi and the Yellow Emperor!Let's look at the previous inventor of calculus in the West!
He studied the Book of Changes and got a lot of inspiration from the law of "number" in the Book of Changes. The sixty-four trigrams of the I Ching have a square chart and a circle chart, but he made the square circle chart wrong, although he invented calculus, but he regretted that he was not Chinese and did not make "easy learning" too thorough. Otherwise, there may be more achievements.
In fact, I am glad for him, glad that this gentleman is not Chinese, because if he were Chinese, he would have figured out the I Ching, and he would never have invented calculus, at most he would be a warlock of divination.
Because people who study the Book of Changes only pay attention to the "reason" part, and do not pay attention to the "number", which is really a pity!