Zeng Shiqiang on the I Ching excerpts 06

1, the I Ching has four major functions: elephant, heaven has heavenly image, earth has geography, people have human phase; number, not mathematics, I Ching's fixed number is living; reason, reasoning, and science is the closest, the reason is fixed; divination, will be able to divination will not be iron mouth, I Ching said the most is "such as," meaning as if, emphasizing the change.

2, Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the people's wisdom is not open, the I Ching is used to divination is a very natural thing. But there are conditions for divination: it can only divine national events, such as war, wind and rain, and public sentiment; it can only divine things that have no way to decide; and it is not necessary to listen to it after divination. Jiang Taigong said clearly more than three thousand years ago: divination with yarrow, tortoise shell, people prefer to believe in those things rather than trust their own minds, is not it ridiculous?

3, I Ching 64 hexagrams is to divide all things into 64 kinds of representative of the situation, when you divine to a certain hexagram, you know what kind of situation you are in, and then check the hexagrams, the lines suggest that you need to pay attention to the matter. Divination is actually a full trigger their potential process, while you can look for more information as their own judgment things to make decisions about the reference, Gua is just a tool. No matter what you believe, believe to almost can, overdo is superstition. There is no superstition in this world, only the degree of faith in a thing, not excessive.

4, we are very easy to believe in their own feelings of the five senses, do not believe in the sixth sense. In fact, the five senses often deceive us, eyesight is not necessarily true, ear hearing is not necessarily true, the sixth sense is not deceived. Women's sixth sense than men's spiritual, too busy people's sixth sense is not spiritual.

5. Confucius' greatest contribution to Chinese culture is not the Analects, but the Ten Wings of the I Ching, which he philosophized. According to Confucius, the conditions for divination are: insufficient information and data for divination; when hesitating, divination; only one thing at a time; and sincerity. There are three principles in Confucius' statement "It is enough not to divine": if one believes in divination, one violates the ethical position; one asks only for the plow, not the harvest; and one's motives for doing things should be pure.