Miscellaneous Discussions on the I Ching (Nan Huaijin)

Confucius' evaluation of the I-Ching: "Clean, quiet, subtle, and easy to teach." Clean, quiet: After learning the I-Ching, people will become peaceful.

Three easy: "Lianshan Yi" Shennong era, the beginning of the Burgundy trigram. The yellow emperor's era, Kun Gua began. These two easy to use in folk medicine and kan and. Zhou Yi" Zhou Wen Wang's reading notes, Qian Gua began. The most famous of the three easy.

The three principles of the I Ching: 1. easy to change, changing, with the Buddhist impermanence. 2. easy, easy to learn, pinch a finger on the calculation. 3. not easy, unchanging, all the changes are not the same. The "Zong" is the essence.

The three laws of the I Ching: everything has, reason: principle, reason. Elephant: phenomenon, appearance. Number: quantity?

The I Ching is bionics, that is, "man law of the earth, the law of the earth, the law of the sky, the law of the sky, the law of the road, the law of nature!" Gossip is the universe of the eight phenomena, eight things: Qian Gua: day. Kun Gua: earth. Lei Gua: the sun. Kan Gua: the moon. Zhen Gua: thunder. Sunda: wind. Burgundy: mountains, land. Dui Gua: water.

"Yao" is the cross, in the I Ching represents "strokes". Constantly "-" yang lines. Broken" - "yin lines. The orientation of the eight trigrams and the opposite of the present: the sun in the west, counterclockwise is clockwise.

? "Opposite Palace trigrams" refers to the two trigrams in the relative positions in the gossip map. The Chinese way of thinking is inductive, from complexity to simplicity, the Western is deductive, from simplicity to complexity.

? "Innate eight trigrams" is the formation of the universe of eight phenomena: heaven, earth, sun, moon, wind, thunder, mountains, water. "The latter eight trigrams" is to illustrate the changes within the universe and the use of the law (fortune-telling). See P013 for the difference. Houtian gossip memory mnemonic: a number of Kan Ruoxi number two Kun, three Zhen four Sundance number in the points, five mail in the Palace of the six Qian is, seven兑 eight Burgundy nine away from the door. The day after the gossip horizontal, vertical, oblique three trigrams add up to 15, two trigrams add up to 10. I Ching's elephant and number is scientific, the reason was Zhu Xi said crooked (each said that each has a reason, reason can not be unified).

The recitation of the 八卦图: Qian three even, Kun three broken, Zhen Yang Yu, Burgundy over the bowl, away from the virtual, Kan full, Dui on the lack of Xun under the break.

The bagua figure by three lines into six lines because of the development of human society, the number of people is also complex, three lines is not enough. Now use the hexagrams. Reason: Confucius said: six lines of movement, three pole way. Three poles refers to the three heaven and earth, people, people divided into yin and yang, 3 * 2 to 6.

64 hexagrams is from the gossip to change to the painting of the hexagrams from the bottom of the beginning, under the name of the inner, on the name of the outer, the change of anything is the internal cause of the role of the trigrams, the name of the trigrams from the top to the bottom of the change of the law is: 1. the body of the trigrams. 2. the first lines of the changes. 3. Inner hexagram restoration. Eight eight on the 64 hexagrams.

Jingfang sixteen hexagrams: Confucius disciple Shang Qu's lineage, passed to the Han's Jingfang, he created the Jingjiao Yi. He is a foundation hexagram change 16 times, and the name of the hexagram is different from the name of the 64 hexagrams.

The culture of China before the unification of the Qin dynasty belonged to the Ancient Chinese culture, which varied from place to place: the I Ching belonged to the Central Plains culture (Shanxi, Henan); the culture of the State of Chu (Central and South China); the culture of Confucius (Lu); the culture of Taoism (Qi); and the culture of yin-yang and the five elements, probably even earlier (Hebei, Beijing).

? The five elements (gold, water, wood, fire and earth) and the I Ching did not come into being at the same time. "Xing" refers to movement, and this movement includes: birth, and grams. The movement includes: birth, grams. Birth: wood begets fire, fire begets earth, earth begets gold, gold begets water, water begets wood. Gram: every other gram, wood grams of earth, earth grams of water, water grams of fire, fire grams of gold, gold grams of wood, the five elements of the orientation (I Ching orientation): the east wood, the west gold, the north water, the south fire, the central earth.

Heavenly Stem: It means that in this solar system, celestial bodies interfere and attract each other. It appeared earlier than the Zhou Yi, because the five elements can not explain the world anymore, only to create the Tian Gan to describe the world. Tian Gan is the yin and yang variation of the five elements.

? Ancient Chinese medicine is divided into two main schools, in the way of health, a school of emphasis on nourishing the spleen and stomach (South). One school emphasized nourishing the kidneys (north).

The Earth's branch is the Earth's orbit, which refers to the name of the astronomical zodiac, the Palace refers to the location, the ecliptic refers to the sun from the east up, set to the west, the circle called the ecliptic surface. There is a difference between the ecliptic plane and the equator. The ancients divided the stars around the ecliptic into four zones, each zone has gold, wood, water, fire, earth, sun, moon seven constellations, *** 28 constellations, so called the twenty-eight constellations (lodging through the Palace, refers to the place of rest). Each constellation is different in the ecliptic plane each month position, with the earth branch to indicate these twelve parts.

Sixty flowers and armor is the name of the combination of the Heavenly Stem and the Earthly Branches out of the constellations in astronomy (the Sun and the Earth go one degree a day, go through the year is 365 degrees) is similar.

The twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac may have been introduced from India at the time of the Han Dynasty.

Chong: relative is Chong, refers to the 6 opposing positions in the earth's branches. Conjunction: The same position is Conjunction, in the circle of Earthly Branches, horizontal level is Conjunction. For example, the five elements, eight trigrams, heavenly stems and earthly branches are summarized together is the Najia. With the eight trigrams Fuxi painting is connected to the dry Najia, Kun Najia has, Burgundy Najia C, Dui Najia Din, Wuji in the middle, Zhen ...

Najia refers to the heavenly constellations and the ground with, that is, the natural stars and hosts of the mutation of the situation will respond to the region it governs the changes in the personnel.

The number is divided into yin: 2.4.6.8.10. The middle number is six, so the yin lines are also represented by six. Yang: 1.3.5.7.9. The largest is nine, so the yang lines are also represented by 9. Such as: the first nine, six two, six three, nine four, six five, the upper nine drawn out is eat high trigrams.

The I Ching is used for divination, there are two: "Zhou Yi", "Jing Jiao Yi", money hexagrams (divination with three copper coins, Qin). Used for geomancy is Guo Pu, Jin Dynasty. Used for humanistic culture is Confucius.

? Divination is about sincerity of heart, it shows that people themselves have the instinct of prophecy, so Taoism, Buddhism to cultivate the body. Buddhism to cultivate the report through, repair through, ghost through, demon through, Yi Tong (divination).

Digital divination method (p066)?

The Hetu and Luoshu. The general direction of Chinese culture changed from northwest to southeast. Cultural unification after the Qin, Yao Shun Yu three generations of different cultures, the earliest culture in the north of Hebei in the Yellow Emperor, the Jin Dynasty migrated to the south, to the Southern Song Dynasty when the southern culture flourished.

In terms of orientation: the West is southeast, northwest, and north, China is hexagonal, southeast, northwest, up and down, and India is ten square.

The numbers in the Luoshu diagram are the same as the numbers in King Wen's trigram diagram.

The Departmental Biographies are the insights of Confucius' study of the I Ching, divided into two biographies, up and down, **** 24 articles.

The interpretation of Yi is best explained by Wei Boyang, a Taoist from the Han Dynasty, the character Yi on the sun and the moon, Yi is the great law of the operation of the sun and the moon.

Religion is reliance, divination is to seek peace of mind , because both the material world and the spiritual world of man, all the time in imbalance.

The third circle is the earth's branch to the month, and the month of Zi is November. This calendar is the Xia Yu calendar also known as the Xia calendar also known as the lunar calendar is a calendar based on the moon.

The fourth circle is the term for Chinese music, commonly known as Rulu. In Shaanxi and Henan border ancient people buried in the ground a kind of "Lv pipe", which put reed ash, **** twelve, different seasons Lv pipe sends a different sound, this is the origin of Chinese music.

"Three Yang Kai Tai" is the earth and sky Tai Gua, because the following is three Yang lines, corresponding to the month is the first month. Hibernation is called hibernation in China.

The fifth circle is the festival, such as the snow is the festival, the winter solstice is the gas

Twelve Pie hexagrams can be projected weather and historical destiny, Shao Kangjie - Shao Yong's "Emperor's pole through the world" and the circulation of the song of the burnt cake, push back the map are projected the destiny of the country's book, is the part of the I Ching image and number, the Department of the Chuan is the reasoning of the part is philosophy.

For the origin of life: philosophically called ontology, religious people called the master, God, God, Buddha, Tao, the Chinese called Taiji, Taiji gives birth to the two instruments (yin and yang), two instruments give birth to the four elephants: the old yin, the old yang, the lesser yin, the lesser yang. The I Ching calls Qian, referring to the stage before the universe was formed, and Kun caused everything. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is the use of the I Ching in medicine.

The results of divination four words "good and bad repentance and misery", repentance and misery refers to worry and worry, "no blame" refers to no problem, is not the same as good. Ancient people say "a movement is better than a quiet" is the reason that a movement is auspicious and vicious three, regret and stint also belongs to the vicious. This reasoning is similar to the current use of the term "comfort zone".

The world's religions are talking about life and death, Christianity's God, heaven, Buddhism's reincarnation, the Western world of bliss, Buddhism believes that life is two things, spirituality, feelings, thoughts called life, so only people have life, plants are alive without life, Buddhism believes that the human body is a positive report, the mountains and rivers and so on is the report. Buddhism believes that the human body is the positive reward, and mountains and rivers are the dependent reward. China is the most indifferent to life and death, and believes that death is nothing more than going to bed when it gets dark. Chinese Taoism believes that life can be long-lasting, and Taoism's practice of cultivating the essence, qi, and shen is the "explanation of the super-electro-magnetic wave" of the Western soul. That's why King Yu (who ruled over the water) said: "The living are sent and the dead return". The Chinese are optimistic about life, Western philosophy is pessimistic.

The "three poles" refer to heaven and earth, and the division of yin and yang is the six lines.

Divination is three methods, accounting for the presumption of results using numerology. Divination is the ancient use of bones, but also other. Divination is the use of divination grass of a certain number of divination, now the lottery is this reason.

Tuan is the meaning of assertion, talking about the phenomenon; Yao is the meaning of each line, talking about the reason for the change; Gua is the meaning of the whole trigram, talking about the virtues of the trigrams and the feelings of the trigrams. Both Tuan and Xiang were written by Confucius as an explanation of the trigrams and lines. Tuan and Xiang are interpretations of the trigrams and lines. Tuan and Xiang are interpretations of the trigrams and lines. The Tuan, Yao and Xiang of the I Ching are all based on the idea of the laws of heaven and earth, pulled down to the personnel, which is the spirit of the Zhou Yi, the beginning of the spirit of Chinese culture. The "Wenyin" was also written by Confucius, and it is the experience of Confucius in studying the two hexagrams of Qiankun, which is now the "system of thought".

Chinese people are not superstitious, only believe in themselves, "heaven and man in one" of the sky refers to the human heart. I understand that is the "unity of mind and body", the superego, ego unity.

Zhuang Zi's concept of "The Theory of Things": all things are equal, equal from the beginning, for example, we are all human beings, but everyone's life is different, because our own efforts are different. In the phrase "blowing 10,000 different", "blowing 10,000" means "10,000 things", that is, all things are the same, for example, the wind is the same, but when it encounters different things, it will make a different sound.

The I Ching's three important concepts: the chemical: creation, the source of the universe is the change, with modern scientific interpretation is that there are elements, atoms, and so on, constantly transformed. Qu: the realization that the orbit of the universe are "round", only the "qu and complete" (Laozi said). God: the essence of the Chinese universe, that is, the "unity of heaven and man", also known as "Tao", is the Western "essence", that is, the origin of the universe function. "God is not square but easy" is the apex of Chinese philosophy, that is, everything is changing, in the easy.

The Zhouyi is a commentary on the sixty-four hexagrams by King Wen of Zhou, an insight. The writing of any nation begins with pictures, and Chinese culture begins with the eight trigrams. King Wen of Zhou made the trigrams (the pattern or phenomenon called the whole hexagram) and the lines (the explanation of each line).

The dragon is the cultural totem of China and was used to name government officials during the time of the Yellow Emperor.

Nine to Five: Nine is the largest of the yang numbers, and five is the middle of the yang numbers, so it means to the middle to the top, which is Nine to Five. Chiang Kai-shek's character Zhongzheng comes from this. Chinese philosophy attaches importance to the "middle", that the middle is great luck, can be up and down, so the term "middle way".

Sex and life: Sex is the life of the spirit, life is the life of the body. Chinese medicine corresponds to the eight trigrams, Qian for the head, Kun for the abdomen, Burgundy for the back, away from the eyes, Kan for the ears, Xun for the nose, against the mouth. Twelve hours a day, two hours each.

The interpretation of the trigrams in the Zhouyi is divided into five stages: 1. trigrams. 2. lines. 3. Tuan. 4. Xiang. 5. wenyan (that is, the study of the I Ching with the concept of culture).

Sexuality: Sexuality is the essence, and sentiment is the emotion. Seven emotions and six desires: seven emotions refer to joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil and desire. Six desires are Buddhist concepts.

Western philosophy has materialism and idealism, the Chinese I Ching philosophy is about the unity of mind and matter, which is the "essence". The word "adult" appears in the I Ching, and it is the adult in the "University" (from Qian Gua), the self-realized person, the transcendent person, the saint, the Buddha, the God, according to Maslow. But everyone is a Buddha, an adult, as long as they achieve "unity of knowledge and action," "unity of mind and body." The Middle Way (from Kun Gua).

"Sen Tong Qi" is the originator of the Taoist Danjing, for the Eastern Han Dynasty Wei Boyang real people, the so-called "Sen Tong" is on the "I Ching", "Lao Zi", "Zhuangzi" three books of reason and method, and the science of cultivation of people into immortality is common.

Kun Gua is the earth, is the moon, is the mother, virtue. Qian Gua is the sky, is the sun, is the father. It is the deep meaning of the people's citation, Chinese culture is to pull all the knowledge of the universe to the humanities, emphasizing the "unity of heaven and man".

The I Ching is the ancient people drew a sketch of the world, and later people wrote and drew the symbolic meaning of the humanistic aspects of the symbolic meaning, so the I Ching is the generations of ancient people with the wisdom of the ****. The worship of the I Ching may have a celebrity effect, it was Confucius who first studied it.

Knock wooden fish because the fish sleep is not closed eyes, emphasizing that people should always be alert.

The ancients called the sun the Golden Crow and the moon the Jade Rabbit. Zhang means bright and beautiful. The Qian Gua talks about the dragon and the Kun Gua talks about the moon.

Clothes: Clothes is the outer cover and clothes is the skirt inside.

"A family that accumulates good deeds will have a surplus of blessings, a family that accumulates bad deeds will have a surplus of calamities" are the words of Confucius in the Departmental Biographies, which shows that China also talks about karma, unlike Buddhism which talks about past, present and future lives, Confucianism talks about ancestry, itself, and its descendants.

The Mong Gua talks about education, and China's lack of separation between church and state, with the supreme leader, in effect, being the head of the family.

Confucius's Yi Chuan is also called "Ten Wings", which means ten articles, including Tuan (彖) up and down, Xiang (象) up and down, Wenyan (文言), Xiang (系辞) up and down, Shuogua (说卦) up and down, Preface to the trigrams (序卦) up and down and Miscellaneous Trigrams (雜卦), so it is called "Ten Wings".

China does not have a religion, because the Chinese do not need to create a Creator, the Chinese would have known that "there is heaven and earth, and then there are all things. And the ancient knowledge of things is not divided into materialism and materialism, "mind and matter" means that the mind is also material.

The meaning of several ancient words: division is the crowd, than is to follow, can be interpreted as road, Yu is superior, compulsion is a kind of worm, Lin is to expand, eat high is gnawing, Ben is decorated, salty is all, razor is wounded, good is perverse, Jian is limp is injured, decisive (guai) is determined, coping is met, extract is a gathering, Burgundy is to stop, Sundance is to enter, Dui is Yue, is a person who is a man of the top of the earth to stand.

The three graves and five canons, the eight soles and nine hills refer to the three graves refer to the three easy, the five canons refer to the five sutras (Shangshu), the eight soles are the eight trigrams, and the nine hills are the rationale for the "Hetu" and "Luoshu".

First-class people lead change (open heaven and earth), second-class people grasp the change (see the wind and make the rudder), third-class people adapt to the change (go with the flow).

Looking at Feng Shui is to avoid the wind and avoid the water.

The congenital gossip (Fuxi) relative to each other 9 is the body of gossip, after the gossip (Zhou Wenwang) relative to each other is ten is the use of gossip, can be divination.

The female big eighteen is also from the I Ching, because yarrow divination requires eighteen times to divide the grass into a hexagram.

The solar calendar we use now is the Western one, which started in the Republic of China. In fact, in ancient China, there is also a distinction between lunar and solar calendars, twenty-four seasons, seventy-two climates, divination on the solar calendar (solar calendar). Nowadays, the lunar calendar is based on the full moon on the 15th day of the month.

The sky has three meanings: 1. the sky. 2. the road. 3. the human conscience.

Lao Tzu's: Tao (Tai Chi is a circle, is empty) begets one, one begets two (yin and yang, male and female), two begets three (son), and three begets ten thousand things (begets, ten thousand things into). Lao Tzu's reasoning comes from human phenomena. Haha!

The essence of Chinese culture is: self-help, self-help, self-help, people help, Tian Xingjian, "the gentleman to self-improvement; the earth's momentum, the gentleman to the virtue of carrying things", so there is no need for religious beliefs.