I Ching 26th Hexagram - Da Zu Gua

Large Animal, meaning large accumulation.

The hexagram is Burgundy on top and Qian on the bottom, Burgundy is the mountain and Qian is the sky. Generally, the sky covers the mountain, but now it's the other way around, the mountain contains the sky, the mountain contains the sky on top, which is a big containment, a big accumulation. What are the savings?

This hexagram teaches us to store up virtue and cultivate virtues before accumulating wealth. What is the tolerance? Tolerance than their own larger, stronger things, this tolerance is a great tolerance, the average person to tolerate than their own weak things easy to do, after all, sympathy for the weak is to let people get respect. And tolerance of a stronger than their own ability is often difficult to do, due to the weakness of human nature - the influence of jealousy.

We have to be like the Great Animal Gua, to be able to tolerate people and things that are higher, stronger, and bigger than ourselves, and this is what really reveals the character of a human being.

What I think about the big animal trigram:

1. I have learned about the "small animal", first there is a small animal, and then there is a big animal. The sky is in the mountains, the big animal. A gentleman is a man who uses his knowledge of the past to animalize his virtues. The big animal is the wisdom and virtue! At different stages of life, we have different things. Just graduated students, she needs to animal social practice, in the job market to seek a learning platform in line with the profession. After she has worked for a few years, with a strong combination of theory and practice, she needs to slow down, seek stability, and animal wisdom pattern. Currently, I am studying classical culture - "I Ching", the great wisdom in the I Ching, so that I have a big animal, which is a heart and brain practice.

2. Zeng Guofan has a famous saying, "If you are not a sage, you will be a beast; don't ask about the harvest, but ask about the plowing". The second sentence reflects Zeng's attitude of doing things. I like these eight words, "Don't ask about the harvest, but ask about the plowing". Don't be utilitarian when you start to do something, don't care too much about the result, and the exploration in the process will make your trip worthwhile. Why now social anxiety disorder patients frequently, I think the core reason is - people "only ask for harvest, do not ask for cultivation

" psychological problems. Life is a practice, the practice itself is a long and active process.

Hand copy of the Great Animal Gua: