"The Book of Changes" is an ancient classic that explains the changes in all phenomena in the world. It is a profound and profound dialectical philosophy book. Below I will bring you some thoughts after reading the Book of Changes. I hope it will be helpful to you.
Insights from reading the Book of Changes 1
The opening chapter of "Book of Changes Qian Gua" says: "Heaven moves vigorously, and a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement." The meaning is that the way of heaven circulates, and a gentleman should be like the way of heaven. Week after week, self-reliance and self-improvement, continuous struggle. This not only points out the principles of life, but also reveals the fundamentals of enterprise development.
I was born in the Central Plains. The place where Fuxi invented the Innate Bagua is the hometown where I grew up. I remember that every year from February 2nd to March 3rd of the lunar calendar, the Huaiyang Taihaoling Temple Fair is held here. Every day, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people come to worship and visit the temple fair. At that time, I saw the statue of Fuxi in Taihao Mausoleum. He was extraordinary in appearance, majestic, with piercing eyes. He was holding an innate Bagua Mirror, as if he were a god. From then on, I came into contact with the Xiantian Bagua. Adults often say that the Xiantian Bagua is the source of innateness and the foundation of all things. Later, as my knowledge level improved, I gradually came into contact with the Houtian Bagua, Hetu Luoshu and Various versions of the I Ching.
When I was in high school, I read "The Book of Changes" in my father's bookcase. I felt that it was a fortune-telling book. The whole book consisted of sixty-four hexagrams, and it was all written in classical Chinese. It was very difficult to understand. When I was in college, I read the "Book of Changes", "Vernacular Zhouyi", and "Complete Interpretation of Zhouyi" in the library, and understood that it is an annotation for each line of the sixty-four hexagrams. I felt that the "Book of Changes" is very comprehensive and all-encompassing. . After working, I read "The Wisdom of the Book of Changes" and "Unity of Knowledge and Action" in bookstores and friends' houses, and I felt different again. Each of the sixty-four hexagrams has a name, and then there are hexagrams, and the hexagrams are Explain the overall meaning of each hexagram. The language of the hexagrams is relatively profound, but not mysterious, because the hexagrams record major events that people were concerned about at that time. The things that the ancients cared about were different from those of today. At that time, there were no worries about the ups and downs of the stock market, nor the worries of finding a job after graduation. The thing they cared about most was probably the military, whether they would win or lose in a war, and from which direction. The second is travel matters, whether it is auspicious to go out, which direction is safe to go, etc.; the third is sacrificial matters, whether it is useful to sacrifice to a certain ghost or god, what day to choose to offer sacrifices, etc.; the fourth is marriage matters. , whether it is good to intermarry with people of a certain clan, what days are good days, etc. Therefore, when I look at the hexagrams in the "Book of Changes", most of them explain the good or bad luck of these types of things. Each of the sixty-four hexagrams basically embodies a theme, including rich life experience, life wisdom, awareness of worries and rational thinking factors, which still has important enlightenment significance for us today. Then, I truly understood that "the Dao of Yi is vast and all-encompassing", it is "vast and comprehensive", it has the way of heaven, the way of earth, and the way of man; "the scope of the transformation of heaven and earth is not exceeded, and the tune is made into all things without leaving any trace".
After reading through it three times, I have so many final insights that I can’t express them in words. Here are my specific insights:
Yi Xue is the origin of Chinese culture and the Chinese civilization. The roots are the treasure of our nation. Understanding the Yi Jing, Yi Tu, and Yi Xue helps us master the basic methods of Yi Xue thinking, helps us understand the structure of Chinese culture and the inheritance of Chinese civilization, helps us analyze success and face failure, and helps us Life, career and life planning help us understand history, analyze the future and grasp today. Similarly, Yi Xue also plays a great positive role in business management.
The core of "The Book of Changes" talks about the "Three Changes", namely "simple", "difficult" and "changeable". These three are also the basic direction of the development of enterprise management theory and the core of Chinese management philosophy. Therefore, it deserves our attention and research.
1. Everything is simple - as simple as one
Simple management is the direction of management development. The institutionalization, normalization, standardization, informatization and popularization of management are the "simple" paths. Only by understanding the structure and laws of corporate organizations can it be possible to achieve "simplification."
2. Nothing is easy - nothing remains the same.
Everything has a certain life cycle, and its emergence, development, and changes are all regular and can be found. The basic laws of organic life are relatively unchanging. That is to say, exploring the basic members of society, including cities, political parties, governments, enterprises, teams, industries, markets and other organizational systems, and the structural laws that constitute their life systems is a major topic faced by contemporary management. The quasi-mathematical models of Yi Xue, such as "Yin and Yang, Tai Chi, Five Elements, Bagua, Hetu, Luoshu, and 64 Gua", provide scientific theoretical basis for studying the organizational structure and laws of the system.
Thirty things change - changing with each passing day
Change is relative, change is absolute, everything develops and changes. Change is change, and "change" is the main content of the study of the Book of Changes. The sixty-four hexagrams, the three hundred and eighty-four lines, the "Tuan Zhuan", the "Xiang Zhuan", and the "Classic Chinese" of the "Book of Changes" are the core ideas. The basic laws of development and change of things. The "Book of Changes" provides us with a quasi-mathematical model of "change" with its philosophical views of "holography", "system" and "change" and a unique symbol system; it helps us study the life cycle of organizational systems such as enterprises and teams. How to better grasp change management provides a scientific path.
"The Book of Changes Qian Gua" says at the beginning: "The movement of heaven is strong, and a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement." The meaning is that the way of heaven is cyclical, and a gentleman should start over and over again like the way of heaven, be self-reliant and self-reliant, and strive endlessly. This not only points out the principles of life, but also reveals the fundamentals of enterprise development.
As a person, you should be self-reliant, make progress and learn to make progress, master the rules in progress to achieve the best state, and use external forces to achieve perfect results. The hexagram also says, "On the ninth day of the lunar month, do not use the hidden dragon." The word "don't use" here does not mean that it is useless, but how to use it. It warns people that mastering the correct method and seizing the best opportunity are the most important.
The development principle of an enterprise is the same. Through the analysis of the enterprise structure, the management model is established and employees are reasonably coordinated. Especially in the early stage of an enterprise, it is also very important to evaluate its own capabilities and grasp future trends. We must learn to "do not use the hidden dragon". When the time is right, we will "fly the dragon in the sky" and make great achievements.
Easy means change, easy means innovation, easy means development, easy means harmony, and the road is natural. By studying Yi Xue, we can integrate and break through the historical limitations and knowledge flaws of Western dialectical thinking, systematic thinking, logical thinking, scientific thinking, and philosophical thinking on the basis of inheriting and returning to the Yi Xue thoughts and cultural traditions, and establish an ethics more consistent with human nature. , social development and the natural origin of life movement, and then explore natural management laws, analyze corporate organizations, and establish a holographic innovation management system to provide strategic decision-making, organizational change, innovation management, crisis management, and humanistic management for enterprises. Management, emotional intelligence management, and harmonious management have established a new theoretical platform to provide simple, easy, scientific and practical organizational diagnosis and management models for the growth, innovation and development of various social organizations such as enterprises and governments, and to comprehensively build an innovative society. , a harmonious society provides basic strategic management tools.
Reading the Book of Changes 2
"The Book of Changes" is the source of natural philosophy and ethical practice in traditional Chinese thought and culture. It is the oldest original work on divination in China and has exerted an influence on Chinese culture. had a huge impact.
It was deduced and summarized by Fu Xi and King Wen of Zhou based on "He Tu" and "Luo Shu". It is the crystallization of five thousand years of Chinese wisdom and culture and is known as "the first of the group of scriptures" , the source of the great road. In ancient times, it was the study of emperors and a compulsory skill for politicians, military strategists, and businessmen. In essence, divination is a method of predicting the development of future events, and the "Book of Changes" is it. Summarize these theoretical treasures of prediction laws.
Our modern worldview and epistemological methods mainly originate from the West. Mathematics is the basis for the survival of modern science and is the main way of scientifically expressing the relationship between things. . The derivation process in this way uses mathematical expressions, uses physics to explain the effects, uses chemistry to reflect the changes, and obtains repeatable verification from the rules and essence.
This approach is both abstract and intuitive. And this method of derivation also has limitations, which is to divide things into finer and finer parts, just like reducing the entire science to a forest, and then subdividing it into trees, and then into cells, molecules, atoms, etc., so that when observing something When it comes to things, we only see points but not faces. The reasoning method of my country's Yi Jing is classification reasoning. For example: Zhen Gua means spring, the direction is east, the five colors are green, the five flavors are sour, the five elements are wood, the five internal organs are liver and gallbladder, the human body is hands, the person is the eldest man, the animals are dragons and snakes; the shape is long, which means movement, etc. , these are analogous. This way you can find the universal connection between things.
To learn the Yi Jing well, you must first understand its worldview and methodology. As the ancients said, those who know its essentials will end up with one word, but those who do not know its essentials will be scattered endlessly. I hope that the majority of Yi-study enthusiasts can open the door to this great philosophy by understanding the key to the worldview and methodology of the "Book of Changes".
Most people feel that the "Book of Changes" is difficult to understand. If they do not master the basics of getting started, it will be difficult for them to understand it throughout their lives. Even if they can recite it backwards and forwards, it will be in vain. This has no direct relationship with their academic qualifications and IQ. It requires life experience and understanding. There is an old saying: After ten years of studying private books, one is not as good as a master. Yi has three levels of consciousness: simplicity, change and difficulty. Simplicity means that the "Book of Changes" is one of the easier theories to learn in the classics. In ancient times, it was so simple that it could be used without any written explanation. And why are so many people who have received higher education still unable to interpret this wonderful book? As a prophet, in order to enlighten the public, I enshrine my learning experience here. If you get the enlightenment of this Yi study method, you can open this book in one day. The door of convenience.
Key points in studying the Book of Changes:
1. First of all, it must be clear that the Book of Changes is a divination tool. It is not appropriate to read the entire text like a philosophy or history book. Look at the table of contents and read the excerpts to help you understand the outline of the program. When studying the "Book of Changes", you must face this heavenly book as you face a dictionary and a logarithm table. In other words, the "Book of Changes" is originally a reference book, and its learning steps are: recognizing hexagrams, starting hexagrams, checking hexagrams, breaking hexagrams, breaking lines, consulting scriptures, and then judging the good or bad conclusion of the things measured. When you are proficient in the basic application to a certain level, you can then proceed to more advanced methods such as changing hexagrams, changing lines, breaking the six gods, and seizing the four seasons.
2. Divination, imagery, numerology, and theory are the four major methods that must be mastered in studying the Book of Changes.
That is, divination, analogy, numerology, and Yili.
Divination methods include: divination method, copper coin method, azimuth method, time method, body and object method, number method, stroke method, sound range method, Tai Chi method, etc., and everything can be used for divination.
Similar images: For example, the Qian hexagram represents heaven, father, health, horse, head, and northwest, and the Kun hexagram represents the earth, mother, Shun, ox, belly, and southwest.
Spells: refers to divination, divination and other spells that use the principles of yin and yang and the five elements to predict the good and bad luck of personnel. There are 8864 variations in the Bagua, and each hexagram is multiplied by six lines for a total of 384 variations. The changes in the five elements include fifty kinds of relationships, including mutual generation, mutual restraint, mutual punishment, mutual harm, counter-generation, counter-repression, mutual generation, mutual restraint, conjunction, and parallelism. These are all the changing laws of the Dayan Number.
Yili: refers to the universal law of yin and yang formed under the premise of objective changes.
3. Understand the Yin and Yang Bagua diagrams, symbols, and hexagrams.
4. Master the reverse arrangement of hexagrams from bottom to top and the judgment of moving lines.
5. Understand the classification of the five elements and the qualitative law, which is the law of restraint.
6. To understand the hexagrams and lines, you must draw parallels and draw inferences, and do not stick to scripture examples.
7. The three principles of non-occupation: 1. Do not occupy if dishonest, 2. Do not occupy if unjust, 3. Do not occupy without doubt.
8. It is not advisable to memorize the hexagrams, symbols and lines by rote. Just keep the Yi Shu in hand. Repeated practice will make you perfect.
Thoughts on reading the I Ching 3
From my personal understanding, the I Ching tells the trajectory of multiple interactions (games) between individuals and the environment under various backgrounds. The focus is on immersive reading. The process is not about jumping out of the present moment to discuss cause and effect, nor is it to teach people to be negative or to raise a flag; I think the most interesting thing is the evolutionary process of changing lines from movement to change, and the deduction of various related points. What inspires me is a way of doing things. The sense of balance and rhythm; as for Yin Yang and Qian Kun, my understanding is to abstract and simplify the related parties in a system from the perspective of linkage and feedback, so that readers can more clearly see the thinking process of "strategy" and exercise readers' Systematic thinking skills.
So Mr. Busty said: "The Book of Changes is a book worth reading slowly throughout a lifetime. I read it frequently, because as my experiences change, the Book of Changes I read is Different, there are 1,000 kinds of I Ching. This is the epitome of my own experience. Don’t worry, just savor it. After a few years, you will find a lot of mistakes that need to be corrected. Read it as a manual of life experience. ”
The boss never bothers to hide his likes and dislikes, and his writing is sharp and straightforward, so the examples used to explain the hexagrams in the series of readings from the Book of Changes are often used. It is too bright and dazzling, similar to the light of the full moon, covering the stars. This has pros and cons. If it is pros, it can attract attention and impress people, causing readers to jump out of the limitations of personal experience and think more, including the meaning of light and darkness in the article. The interweaving itself is very interesting, and I like it very much;
As for the disadvantages, it is a blinding eye. It is a pity that some netizens only read the examples, and completely regard the boss as an information source within the system. Simple Using morality or efficacy or some other dimension to evaluate, extend examples, or deliberately distort and create topics for fishing is just blocking one's own vision. Simplifying and simplifying is not easy to read, but to enter other levels of thinking. Similar to discussing whether the heroine in a wonderful movie is beautiful or not, and whether the hero is handsome or not, Mr. Busy said, "The examples are all far-fetched." My examples are also nonsense. If you can understand it, you will understand it, but if you don't understand it, you will understand it. There is no way to explain;
The dialectics of "The Book of Changes" is very subtle. It uses the characteristics of yin and yang to both confront and cooperate with each other, and to cyclically transform each other. It explains and constructs a dynamic view of using things to the extreme will lead to the opposite, and failing to achieve the extreme will lead to peace. The discrete transformation group of 6-dimensional space explains the various relationships between yin and yang in different spatial positions, as well as various evolutionary possibilities. It is basically an exhaustive method, so it is valuable. - Busy general language.
I feel that if you really want to use examples to explain the hexagrams clearly, you need to deduce thousands of clues simultaneously (multi-dimensional parallel thinking). It is difficult to describe in words, because the perspective of the I Ching is very unique, and writing words and People who read the text are all in the hexagrams. The coordinate axes and reference systems are changing at any time. How come up, down, front, back, east, west, north, south, and center? There are no corners in the sky, the sound is loud, and the elephant is invisible. If you want to measure the vast "elephant" , any values ????or thinking paradigms must be relaxed a little first, do not presuppose your own or the other party's position, first rely on intuition to understand the whole, if you are not experienced enough or your mind is not calm, you cannot expand from point to surface and then expand to more dimensions. Information is mutually exclusive. Braided together, it is impossible to read in depth.
The above interpretation is also my understanding of the term "a gentleman does not have a weapon".
Being able to read Mr. Busy’s series of readings of the I Ching is a blessing for me, who has little knowledge, because Mr. Busy is always a living person, and through reading he shares it without reservation. Through my articles and direct communication, a "busy manager" in my imagination appears before my eyes. I can use him as the origin of the coordinate axis, feel his emotions between the lines, and see the vast starry sky through his fingers. Among them, the constellations that were formatted by his thinking and imagination and appeared in disorder laid the foundation for his future direct interpretation of the Book of Changes.
Postmodernity is an era of rebellion, and it is also an era in which it is easy to lose oneself. "The Six Classics annotate me, and I annotate the Six Classics." In the series of articles about his experience in reading the Book of Changes, Mr. Busy presents a broad vision, Their profound cultural accomplishment and firm inner self-confidence are admirable. Such people are the ones who have the foundation to pursue spiritual freedom.
Just keep silent and make your own mistakes, silently wishing Mr. Busy success in his work and good health!
Insights from reading the Book of Changes 4
From my own experience, " The Book of Changes is written using a metaphorical thinking method. If you have a method of simulated thinking, there will be no difficulty in reading the Book of Changes. It is nothing more than preparing an ancient Chinese dictionary. If you only have a logical way of thinking, then it is impossible for you to understand the "Book of Changes".
The key points of the "Book of Changes" are actually simplicity, change and difficulty.
Simplicity is to think that the world is composed of nothing more than yin and yang and its transformation laws.
Change is the belief that although the world is ever-changing and chaotic, it is actually just complicated. The idiom "intricate" comes from the "Book of Changes".
The Bagua system founded by Fuxi is the Bagua system of Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen and Dui.
The so-called wrong hexagram means that the yin and yang attributes of each line corresponding to the two hexagrams are opposite. For example, the first and upper lines of the Kan hexagram are yin lines and the middle line is the yang line; while the beginning and upper lines of the Li hexagram, which forms a "wrong hexagram" relationship with it, are the yang lines and the middle lines are the yin lines. Therefore, the hexagrams that are wrong to each other are also completely opposite in terms of their hexagram nature and hexagram energy. (Wrong hexagrams are also called reverse hexagrams) For example:
If the Qian nature is strong, the hexagram energy will be upward - if the Kun nature is smooth, the hexagram energy will be downward;
If the vibration nature is dynamic, the hexagram energy will be upward --Xun nature enters, the Gua Qi goes downward;
Kan nature sinks, the Gua Qi goes downwards - Li Xing attaches, the Gua Qi goes upward;
Gen nature stops, the Gua Qi goes upwards --Dui Xing is happy, and the hexagram energy is downward.
The so-called comprehensive hexagram is a new hexagram formed by rotating one hexagram 180 degrees and turning it upside down. The old and new hexagrams are complementary hexagrams. The comprehensive hexagrams of the four hexagrams Qian, Kun, Kan and Li are themselves, so they do not have comprehensive hexagrams, so they are also called the four correct hexagrams in the eight trigrams.
The Four Right Hexagrams represent the four directions of the universe in the "Book of Changes" system. The two directions with the "Xuan (Heaven) Dao" as the main line are Qian and Kun, which symbolize heaven and earth respectively; the two directions with the "Yellow (Earth) Dao" as the main line are Li and Kan, which symbolize the sun and the moon respectively.
The remaining four hexagrams in the Bagua are the four corner hexagrams, among which the Zhen hexagram and the Gen hexagram form a comprehensive hexagram relationship; the Xun hexagram and the Dui hexagram form a comprehensive hexagram relationship.
There is a difference between innate and acquired conditions in the Four Right and Four Corners. The position of the acquired hexagram is the level of the earth. At this time, the Four Right Gua refers to the four main directions of east, west, south and north, corresponding to earthquake, The four hexagrams of Dui, Li and Kan; and the four corners of Houtian refer to Qian (northwest); Kun (southwest); Gen (northeast); Xun (southeast).
The "Book of Changes" we are reading now is the Book of Changes, which was evolved by King Wen of Zhou Dynasty. It is the overlapping of the eight trigrams, so there are sixty-four hexagrams, and the sixty-four hexagrams are formed by overlapping the eight trigrams. of.
Complex hexagrams and miscellaneous hexagrams are based on the sixty-four hexagram system.
The so-called compound hexagrams are different from the eight single hexagrams. A hexagram with three lines is called a single hexagram, and a hexagram with six lines composed of two single hexagrams is called a compound hexagram. In this sense, the hexagrams in the sixty-four hexagram system are all compound hexagrams.
Complex hexagram means repetition. It refers to a compound hexagram in which the upper and lower hexagrams are composed of the same single hexagram, so such a hexagram is also called a pure hexagram. There are only eight such hexagrams, so it is also called Bachun.
The opposite of pure hexagrams is of course miscellaneous hexagrams, and the other fifty-six hexagrams are all miscellaneous hexagrams. The pure hexagram inherits the main characteristics of the upper level of the eight trigrams, so the pure hexagram is naturally the ancestral hexagram and the suzerain hexagram that governs the miscellaneous hexagrams. Therefore, there is the Ba Gong hexagram system established with Ba Chun as the main body. This is also a manifestation of the cosmic rule of the Book of Changes: pure Qi is noble, and mixed Qi is cheap.
Under the sixty-four hexagram system of Zhouyi, the comprehensive hexagram is to interchange the upper and first lines of a six-line compound hexagram; the fifth and second lines are exchanged; the fourth and third lines are interchanged. The new hexagram formed by the replacement. The meaning of comprehensive hexagram refers to partial differences based on the same basis, while the wrong hexagram means absolute opposition. Therefore, most of the anti-hexagram relationships in the sixty-four hexagram system are comprehensive hexagram relationships, which shows that most of all contradictions are contradictions of seeking differences in similarities.
There are only Qian (Heaven) and Kun (Earth), Kan (Water) and Li (Fire), Xiaoguo (Leishan) and Zhongfu (Fengze), Daguo (Zefeng) and Yi ( Shan Lei) These four groups of hexagrams form pairs of hexagrams with the wrong hexagrams because they do not have comprehensive hexagrams. In fact, the real wrong hexagrams are only the first two groups; the latter two groups are complex combinations of hexagrams.
The 64 hexagrams and their 384 lines in the "Book of Changes" that represent the changing state of the world are just the mutual conversion of yin and yang due to time, place, and benefit.
As for the difficulty, it is because the "Book of Changes" believes that the world has a basically unchanging way of heaven, that is, things must reverse when they reach the extreme. Therefore, birth, old age, sickness, death, prosperity and decline, and growth are all manifestations of this heavenly way.
In fact, the world view, moral values, and values ????of the "Book of Changes" have been integrated into the blood of the Chinese people. For example, as a person, we advocate treating others with sincerity, not deceiving ourselves or others, and being calm; for example, in doing things, we advocate Be impartial, neither impatient nor impetuous, be balanced, strive for self-improvement, be perseverant, persevere, be perseverant, and not be eager for quick success or quick success.
Therefore, from the thoughts of the "Book of Changes", China's unique philosophical thoughts and methods of life have naturally developed: the golden mean.
I rambled and wrote a lot of words. Someone may ask you what you know?
After careful consideration, I think I will organize a group fight. And mastered four indispensable technologies for group fights:
1. Optimization technology: Use various possible optimization methods to analyze the people, finance, materials and technology of each unit participating in group fights, etc. The optimized configuration of the source can improve the resource utilization efficiency of the entire system, reduce resource waste, and optimize input-output efficiency.
2. Collaborative technology: Use various network division of labor technologies to implement professional division of labor among the units participating in the group fight to achieve complementary advantages, learn from each other's strengths, reduce delays or waiting in the workflow, and improve time utilization efficiency , reduce time waste.
3. Organizational technology: Use various process design technologies to assemble the scattered task processes and modules of each unit participating in the group fight into a system that can operate smoothly through process design of the system process.
4. Planning technology: You can turn ideas into goals, goals into a pile of task lists, task lists into a group of executable processes, processes into process-based monitorable results, and finally disperse these The results are assembled into a whole to achieve the ultimate goal.
So I think I am still a technician. Of course, I am not as good as an operator in tightening screws, and I am not as good as an engineer in drawing design drawings, but my value is to be able to assemble a system and run it normally to achieve reservations. Target.
These nonsense are not directly related to the experience of reading the "Book of Changes", but I personally think there is an indirect relationship, because the "Book of Changes" contains the overall view and overall view that people need most. So I think that although the "Book of Changes" cannot teach you what to do or how to do it, it can inspire you to see how you see it. This is more important. Chairman Mao is not much better than ordinary people in doing specific things, but he sees things better than most people. Stronger than a thousand miles.
In fact, it is easy to learn how to do it. Because completing a task is nothing more than turning the goal into a process and the process into steps. From a mathematical point of view, the steps are algorithms. It's just that due to limited energy, people can only master a few types. It only takes one year to become proficient in several specific methods of doing things, such as the target task method, the critical route method, and the plan review method. However, it may take a lifetime to form a systematic thinking mode or a framework thinking mode for looking at problems. Make unremitting efforts. Reading the "Book of Changes" can take us from mountains to plains.
Another benefit of reading the "Book of Changes" is that you can constantly discover your own stupidity. In fact, it is difficult for people to discover how stupid they are, but it is easy to discover the stupidity of others. We often wear the stupidest vest marked by envy, jealousy and hatred, walking around in a swaggering manner, triumphant and unaware of it, but everyone else knows it.
The understanding of the "Book of Changes" is actually the understanding of life, so it will inevitably change as time goes by, age increases, and life experiences are rich. Therefore, if you have the energy and physical strength in the future, this experience of reading the "Book of Changes" will be continuously supplemented, improved and revised.
5 insights from reading the I Ching
The I Ching is a term that is both familiar and unfamiliar. It is so familiar that it has been used since childhood, but it is so unfamiliar that one does not understand it at all. Now I suddenly find that some of the most basic things that exist around us are related to the I Ching, and the current development of science and technology is also attributed to the I Ching. It really feels amazing.
"The Book of Changes" is one of the oldest documents in China, and is respected by Confucians as the first of the "Five Classics"; the three great ancient books: "The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic", "The Book of Changes", and "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" 》. "Yi" is actually a collection of the ancient "Lianshan", "Guizang" and "Zhouyi", but "Lianshan" and "Guizang" have been lost. The Book of Changes uses a system of symbols to describe changes in state, expressing the philosophy and cosmology of classical Chinese culture. Its central idea is to use the yin and yang monism of two elements, yin and yang, to describe the changes in all things in the world.
In a broad sense, "Yi" includes "Yi Jing" and "Yi Zhuan". The "Book of Changes" is divided into thirty hexagrams in the "Shang Jing" and thirty-four hexagrams in the "Xia Jing". Since the "Book of Changes" was written very early, around the Western Zhou Dynasty, the meaning of the words evolved with the times. The content of the "Book of Changes" was no longer easy to understand during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Therefore, people in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period wrote "Ten Wings", and It is called "Yizhuan" to interpret the "Book of Changes".
It is generally believed that the "Book of Changes" was originally a book for divination, but its influence has spread throughout China's philosophy, religion, medicine, astronomy, arithmetic, literature, music, art, military and martial arts. Since the seventeenth century, the "Book of Changes" has also been introduced to the West.
We know that the most important content in the Yi Jing is the hexagrams and lines of the sixty-four hexagrams. The so-called fortune telling is actually that the Yi Jing summarizes all the situations in the world into the sixty-four hexagrams. Each hexagram For a scene, then you will be seated accordingly, you will be assigned to a certain hexagram, and then the hexagrams of that hexagram will be analyzed in detail. Let me emphasize here first that among the sixty-four hexagrams, except for the Qian hexagram, the other sixty-three hexagrams have both yin and yang, that is, there is no such thing as good or bad, because the extremes of things must be reversed. You must decide according to your actual situation. Let’s first take a look at the origin of the sixty-four hexagrams. According to ancient sayings, Tai Chi generates two rituals (one yin and one yang), two rituals generate four images (shaoyang, laoyang, shaoyin, laoyin), and four elephants generate the eight trigrams (heaven, (wind, fire, lake, earth, thunder, water, mountain), the eight trigrams are then deduced into sixty-four hexagrams, which are actually equivalent to the permutations and combinations in mathematics. When analyzing each hexagram, it should be divided into upper hexagram and lower hexagram. From a partial point of view, for example, the Qian hexagram is a hexagram with heaven above and below, and is a pure yang hexagram. Imagine why, you can use it as you like, but you have to be able to justify it, so why you ask different people to tell fortunes and the calculations may be different. Of course, it is also possible that the fortune teller will judge based on your expression, and then forcefully insert it into the hexagram. , to show that this is what the ancients said, to enhance persuasiveness. Many hexagrams are actually very philosophical, such as Kun hexagram, Weiji hexagram, Jiji hexagram, Xian hexagram, Feng hexagram, etc., which will not be listed here. One yin and one yang, both yang and yin, yang contains yin, and yin also contains yang. When I look at my hands, I think of the theory of yin and yang. Sometimes it makes sense when I think about it. Yin cannot lack yang, and yang cannot lack either. Yin exists, just like the thumb and four fingers, one odd and one even, one yang and one yin. It plays a very important role in all aspects of life. In fact, it is already related to yin when we are born. From the "Book of Changes", I also learned to let nature take its course, follow the trend, and follow the rules. There is no need to force anything, and there is no need to rush. What must come must come, and what must go must eventually go. Such as life, such as the four seasons. The stars are changing, the cycle is over, it is just alternation, it is just change, it is just reincarnation. To sum it up in one word, it is - easy.
It is not easy to know "easy", but it is difficult to know "easy".
Under the sky, above the earth, and among all living beings, each of us is small but merges into the vastness. Our life is limited and our thoughts are boundless. How to integrate the principles of "Yi" into life is really a process that requires generations. A topic to study and pass on.
It’s spring today. When the spring breeze gently blows my heart, the true meaning of "I Ching" seems to melt into my chest. Looking at the distant horizon, in quiet meditation, it seems that I have transformed into white clouds, floating in the boundless sky.