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* This position, which we usually interpret as a prince or a close vassal of the monarch, has always been regarded as a place of suspicionIn this hexagram, the yin is in the yin position, which can be said to be in the position or the right person, but we look down from this position, ** all the following are yin, and looking up is also yin, there is no light. In this environment, the best thing to do isTaoguang is obscure
Bracket, no blame, no reputation, bracket is to tie tightly, the bag is the skin that contains things, tie the mouth of the bag, to avoid harm, indicating that caution and caution can not cause trouble. That is, to tie up the mouth of the skin, that is, to control one's mouth and not to speak casually. When you become a prince and a prince, you generally can't speak casually, and the trouble comes from your mouth;I don't know which sentence is wrong to affect the future, be cautious in words and deeds and will not make mistakes, of course, if you don't speak, you will hide your talent, and you would rather not get a reputation than make mistakes.
The position is not in the middle, has left the **, approaching the upper level, not up or down, and the situation is embarrassing, which is the position of suspicion of right and wrong, which is not conducive to playing a role. Fortunately, ** is a gentleman who knows the opportunity, can be in the yin (position) with yin (爻), deal with himself with soft virtue, be cautious and cautious, and practice the way of humility and self-defense, so he is in an unfavorable position and can be "blameless". His method is to keep silent and seclusion like a pocket and mouth. In this sensitive position, it must be so in order to avoid suspicion and slander.
In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Sima Yi pretended to be sick, and Cao Shuang wanted to get rid of him because of his high position. Sima Yi said that he was sick and did not come out of the door, and he did not ask about the government. Cao Shuang sent someone to find out the truth, Sima Yi pretended to be old and sick and confused, and finally hid it from Cao Shuang. This is the story of "Sima Yi cheats on illness to earn Cao Shuang".
Sima Yi's move is exactly the "encompassing" strategy. Of course, if you are guilty, you will be punished, and if you have reputation, you may be jealous, so how can it be a blessing?The best way to do this is"No blame, no reputation"., to achieve neither fault nor honor, this is the best way to avoid disaster. In this case, there is nothing to do without doing anything, not only can you not do evil, but you can't do good, you can't do evil, you don't blame, and if you don't do good, you don't have reputation. Therefore, in "Zhuangzi and the Master of Health", it talks about the art of self-preservation"There is no name for good, and there is no punishment for evil. ”In this way, you can't grasp any handle, and you can get through it safely.
In the I Ching, the five lines are usually regarded as being"Throne"., but this is the Kun hexagram, and the relationship between Qian and Kun is also the relationship between the king and the minister, so he is a minister in the entire Kun hexagram, and the fifth line is about important ministers.
"Yellow clothes, Yuanji", yellow is the positive color of Kundi, representing Kunde;Huang is also in the "middle" of the five colors, symbolizing the middle way. "Clothes" is the clothes worn by the ancients in ** (the ancients called the clothes of the upper body as clothes, and the clothes of ** as clothes), symbolizing humility. The fifth line of the Kun hexagram shows that Kunyin has developed to its heyday and has risen to the position of the upper hexagram, but it still maintains the supple nature of Kunyin, and is willing to live **, which is a good omen.
That is to say, a person is in the auxiliary position of Kunyin, although the status is extremely high, he must also be obedient and humble. In this way, his career can be auspicious and develop smoothly. The "Legend of the Elephant" points out that this is determined by his inner virtues, and that this kind of harmony and humility is contained in the middle and outward, natural and sincere, not artificial.
Three Kingdoms" Zhuge Liang. Although he is in power and highly respected, he is still obedient and humble to the queen Liu Chan, and he can be said to have done his best, and he has died. This spirit comes from inner loyalty. Therefore, Zhuge Liang has always been auspicious, and the villains around Liu Chan have repeatedly tried to frame him, but finally can't succeed.
There is also a subtext in this hexagram that is not said,Song DynastyConfucianismCheng YiHe said it: If you regard Wuyao as a monarch, it is "a vassal to the throne". That is Wang Mang and Wu Zetian in history, it is very convenient for them to be emperors, if you look at it from the position of ancient Confucianism, these are not good.
In a hexagram, the fifth line is the heavenly position, and the sixth line is the extreme line, which means that the development of this thing is going to the opposite;Then the upper line of the kun hexagram is an extremely exaggerated line. We always emphasize this, as we understand it in general"Dragon".with"Qiangua"., so how did the dragon appear in the kun hexagram.
Some said that Qian is a real dragon, and Kun should not be a dragon;Some people say it's the cathode and the yang comes;Some people also say that Yin Sheng dares to compete with Yang, so there is a dragon;Some people think that these statements are not correct, thinking that the sixth hexagram on the Kun hexagram is not a dragon, just like a dragon, he is not yang, saying that the dragon is a kind of arrogance, a heroine or a minister, and should not be the emperor, but the arrogance wants to be the emperor. In this case, the big problem will occur, which is the struggle between usurpation and anti-usurpation, so"The dragon fights in the wilderness, and its blood is yellow".
Then the dragon here is a false dragon, a transgression dragon. Its blood is yellow, and Xuan is the color of the sky;Yellow is the color of the earth, it is said that the entanglement is very chaotic, so this hexagram was warned at the beginning of the kiln, called:"Frost, ice". From the beginning of the embryonic state, it is necessary to distinguish the villain and be more vigilant, otherwise it will cause a big disaster.
The villain, you see that he was all sloppy and flattering at the beginning, and the gentleman was happy to hear it. I was happy to relax my vigilance against the villain and reuse it step by step, until the villain used the power in his hands to make waves, all of which was actually caused by the person in the high position himself.
"Elephant" said: The dragon fights in the wild, and its way is poor. The dragon fought in the wilderness, indicating that Kun Yin Jisheng had exhausted its development. It is pointed out that the extreme strength of yin qi may lead to the struggle of yin and yang. The six hexagrams of Kun were originally the development process of Kun Shun Qian, Yin from Yang, to the upper six, Kun Yin developed to the extreme, too high-pitched, and even had to compete with Qianyang.
Kun Yin rebelled against the nature of being soft and obedient to Yang, and fighting against Qianyang was bound to lose both, and blood flowed all over the field. The sky is Xuan (cyan), the earth is yellow, "Xuanhuang".It is a symbol of the chaos and indistinguishability of heaven and earth caused by the struggle between yin and yang, which is nothing worse. Just as the way of Qianyang, the development of the poor will lead to"Kanglong has regrets".In the same way, the development of the way of Kunyin will be incurred if it is extremely poor"Dragons fight in the wild"., so that yin and yang are not distinguished, and they are in a mess. As an assistant to the way of Kun Yin, he must be humble and quiet, and when his career and reputation have developed to the extreme, he must be vigilant against the emergence of a situation of fighting with Qianyang. This is the admonition given by the previous six verses:"Frost, ice".
Those things that happened during the Qin and Han dynasties were all because the emperor trusted the eunuchs and relatives around him and slowly caused a catastrophe, which led to great chaos in the country, so that the usurper, the usurper, the usurper, was harmed, and the usurper may not succeed and lose both. For example, Zhao Gao usurped Qin's power, causing Zhao Gao, the king of Qin, to also be killed;At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang usurped power, and the Han family declined. Wang Mang also failed in the end;At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo usurped power, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was injured, and Dong Zhuo was also killed.
The number "six" is conducive to always keeping the right path, indicating that yin ends with returning to yang. It is pointed out that the virtue should be soft and strong.
The meaning of "using six" is the same as that of the Qiangua "using nine", which can be inferred. That is to say, "using six" means that the six numbers obtained by divination are all "six", even numbers. "Six" is yin, so the hexagram obtained is "kun";"Six" is also a change, and the six yin lines will become yang, then the entire kun hexagram will become dry.
Although Kun has changed to dry, Kun nature is still preserved;Although Kun nature is preserved, it already has the spirit of dryness. That is to say, there is a masculine quality in the feminine nature, which is undoubtedly conducive to the permanent adherence to the true path of Kun. Just as the ruler (Qianyang) should be strong but not self-serving, the assistant (Kunyin) should be supple but should not blindly go along with it.
The Qiangua "with nine" is rigid and soft, and the Kun hexagram "with six" is soft and rigid. The purpose of combining rigidity and softness is contained in it, and the Book of Changes is really a philosophy of roundness. At the same time, it shows the regularity of yin and yang transformation. Yang is big, yin is small. Kun hexagram "use six", all the lines turn from yin to yang, so the "Elephant Biography" says "to the end", it can be seen that the cathode will inevitably return to yang. The philosophical system of the I Ching is indeed very exquisite.
In our traditional Chinese philosophy, heaven and earth are the generators of people and things, so Kunde is highly respected. Compared with the ideal type of Qiangua, Kun hexagram is more about its reality, the reality is not so beautiful, bright, we live on the earth, we must be down-to-earth and cautious forward, should imitate the virtue of cultivating a kind of generosity.
The kun hexagram expresses the kun path that is positive with suppleness. Kun Daogui is content to be upright, safe is to guard against rashness, righteous is far from evil, straight inside and outside, broad-minded, cautious and respectful, and takes no blame and no reputation as the ultimate. The six hexagrams of Kun reveal the law of development and change of the nature, status and role of Kun Yin, and show the whole process of Kun Shun Qian, Yin and Yang.
On the sixth day of the first month, "frost", the yin qi begins to collect, and the micro is prevented;Sixty-two "Straight Big", Kunde has already had;Sixty-three "with chapters", obscure but not exposed, high merit;**Bracket", silent retreat;Sixty-five "yellow clothes", dignified and humble, Kunde is perfect;To the sixth "dragon battle", the yin energy is extremely strong and turns from good to bad, going to the opposite side. It embodies all the experiences and lessons of the practitioners, and is actually the crystallization of the auxiliary philosophy of the supple ones.
First, we must have a sense of distress, because a crisis is not formed in a day, but has a process of developing one by one. We want to see the beginning and think about the end;Walking on frost, ice to, to take into account the ice season, soon to come, if there is no sense of distress to prepare in advance, it may develop to the point that the dragon fights in the wild, its blood is yellow, uncontrollable.
The second hexagram is "obedience", and the first thing to presume is who is the leader and who is the led;The leader is the formulator of the policy and line, and the leader is the executor. Specifically, the minister is the king, the kun is the minister, the king is the minister, the minister must obey the leadership of the king, even if the minister can stand alone, he should still be humble, do not bow to the merits, bow to the end, and die.
This is the case in ancient times, and it is also the case in modern times, whether it is a country or a company, you must distinguish whether you are a leader or a leader, whether you are a king or a minister;Ministers can't give orders on behalf of the king, and one mountain can't tolerate two tigers;As a minister, you must play the role of a minister, everyone wants to be a leader, that will definitely cause internal contradictions, and the final failure is often the deputy, because you don't have the power of the leader, this truth is true in ancient and modern China and abroad.
Third, for ministers with high power and opportunities for further promotion, they should be especially cautious in their words and deeds, and even in obscurity. If this is not the case, the minister will take great political risks in exercising military power and wielding life and death power on his behalf.