Three births and all things, every seven must change, is our sages on the law of development of things incisive summary.
One life is two, two is three, and three is everything. Here.
One, two, and three are not specific quantitative calculations, they are general references to a kind of thing.
If it is a specific quantitative calculation, then there is a logical contradiction with "Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments, two instruments give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip".
The "one" here refers to the Tao body, which in the language of science now refers to the origin of the universe, and the origin of the universe is summarized by scientists as "energy".
Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things" comes from the Tao Te Ching, which is largely a summary and promotion of the wisdom of predecessors. As far as we can tell, the I Ching must be the culmination of the wisdom of its predecessors. The Tao Te Ching does not mention the Book of Changes throughout the book, but there are many "similar" understandings from the Book of Changes, which can be said to be a rational and systematic recognition of many cognitive achievements of the Book of Changes.
The word "Tao" is used many times in the Book of Changes, but it does not form the concept of "Tao". Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" endows the "Tao" with the concept and concept of substance, and explains it from different angles. "The Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things" comes from one of the perspectives from which he interprets the "Dao", which is the theory of the creation of the universe. In fact, this problem has long been formed in Zhou Yizhong, that is, gossip, until 64 hexagrams, but no theory has been formed. Therefore, Zhou Yi is a phenomenal expression, and Lao Tzu is a theoretical sublimation.
Looking at the connection between the two, the Book of Changes does not have a complete description of "Yi", and the earliest classic book seen is the systematic expression proposed in Confucius's "Yi Chuan-Ji Ci Chuan": "Yi has Taiji, which is to give birth to two rituals, two rituals to give birth to four elephants, and four elephants to give birth to gossip." This is still a summary of the phenomenon level. Comparing Lao Tzu's understanding of "Tao" with it, it is found that "Tao gives birth to one" is "easy to have Taiji", which is no problem. "One life two" is "two births".
It's understandable. "Two gives birth to three" corresponds to "two rituals give birth to four elephants", why? Liangyi is yin and yang, and what is born is less yin and less yang, both of which are intermediate states of yin and yang, so the essence is one and one kind, and yin and yang plus one (two) intermediate state, so it is called "two gives birth to three". "Three begets of all things", that is, "four elephants give birth to gossip", gossip represents the perfection of all things in the universe, all things.
**Ten Thousand Fans Incentive Plan The road is one, this is the truth. Whether it is the Tao of Zhou Yi or the Tao of Lao Tzu, it is a Tao, and those various misinterpretations are all ways of thinking without understanding the Tao and enlightening the Tao, just mere mantras. This sentence has been misinterpreted for thousands of years because it ignores the consistency of concept generation and cuts off the unity of understanding "Tao". Therefore, the two "ways" have their own expressions and speak their own words. This is true for today, and it is difficult for the ancients to avoid it.