Extra Story of Personal Experience: Dao·De·Yi·Li
[The side stories I wrote in my spare time in the past have nothing to do with this book. I sorted them out a little and sent them out as compensation for various leave before. If you don’t want to read them, you can skip them. 】
A reader asked me to write a special episode on Buddhism and Taoism before, and I put it at the end of the book "Lanbaishe", called the Yi Li of Tao and the enlightenment of Buddha.
In that extra article, I wrote about the easy way to understand the truth, so I made a start and drew a frame. I didn't go into it in depth, at most it was a sequence.
I said it at the time, if I want to talk about it, I may not be able to finish it in my life...
Take [Tao] as an example, one word can explain an article, but if you want to preach the Tao, you must first talk about [Yi], and if Yi Ruo wants to let you understand in a simple way, God knows how many episodes it will take... The study of the Book of Changes may be just an introduction.
Some things are in my heart, but if I want to break them apart and make you understand them with interest, it is as difficult as heaven.
How else can I say it?
After thinking about it, I have a lot of thoughts, and I don’t know where to start, because if you want to understand one, you must first understand the other, and the other will unfold, and you need to understand a lot of pre-context.
They are connected in series with each other, forming a huge ring, which is like a galaxy in the brain. Countless forces affect the series, which is very difficult to explain.
I can only downplay some of them and highlight certain parts.
Make a directory for this:
The mother of nature in the universe is Tao, and the source of the birth and death of all things is virtue.
The core of Chinese culture is Yi, and the light of human civilization is Li.
I won’t talk about any of this extra episode, let’s talk about the catalog first, otherwise I won’t be able to talk about it later.
The mother of nature in the universe is Tao. This is easy to understand, but it is not easy to understand.
As I said in the previous episode, [Tao] is the most original, most essential, and most inactive existence. It can be understood as a natural law, but it is actually bigger.
It should be the ultimate truth of the universe. It does nothing but does everything, exists silently, and everything works for it.
We can only see the essence through phenomena, and let you understand Him through other concepts. I have no way to talk about it directly.
For this reason, I gave a division in the last episode, depending on the level of depth,
It is defined as: Tao, reason, law, and technique.
It is recommended to read the episode "The Enlightenment of Yili Buddha of Dao" before understanding the content of this article.
The Tao of Tao is called Nature, the principle of Tao is called Yi, the law of Tao is called Law, and the technique of Tao is called Technology.
The reason why I make such a division stems from my understanding of the Tao Te Ching. I don’t want to say much, just the conclusion. I established a model based on Lao Tzu’s “Four Great Domains”.
"Lao Tzu": Dao is great, heaven is great, earth is great, and man is also great. There are four major domains.
Dao, Li, Dharma, and Art are its basic models.
The domain is very simple, and can be roughly regarded as the universe. What Lao Tzu is talking about is the principle and magic of the universe, that is, Tao, heaven, earth, and man.
Translate: the Tao of the universe is called nature, the principles of the universe are called heaven, the laws of the universe are called earth, and the arts of the universe are called people.
In fact, the Tao of the universe is called Tao, and its manifestation is natural, which can be regarded as a forced description.
The 'heaven' and 'earth' here do not refer to the sky and the earth, they are only part of it.
Humans do not refer to our late Homo sapiens, we are only part of the concept of 'human', and forced translation can refer to intelligent creatures.
It's just a title. As the times change, the concept must be updated. This is the principle of Yi, that is, change.
Laozi is talking about the essence of the concept. The concept of soil is to carry all things, and everything in it reproduces and flourishes. It is extremely stable and is the movement platform for all things.
That's why it was called Earth in ancient times. Now that we have a wider field of vision, we will know that time and space itself is "earth", and "sky" is the thing above and outside of time and space that envelops time and space.
The sky and the earth are just a name, a pronoun, and they use phenomena to convey that concept.
Some people may ask, aren't you forcibly substituting in?
No, the Tao Te Ching is all about concepts, and all specific references are just examples.
Its opening clarification sets the tone for the entire Tao Te Ching: ‘Tao is possible, Dao is not, and Chang Dao. The name can be, the name is not, and the name is constant. '
The concept of Tao can be defined or not, and this is the most natural embodiment of Tao.
A thing can be symbolized by a certain name, but it cannot be symbolized by that thing either. This is what the titular looks like the longest.
So, you may not understand.
For example: Zhang San thinks that life must be vigorous, like fire, while Li Si thinks that life must be soft and peaceful, like water.
Is it like fire or like water? Both can and can’t.
One person thinks a rock looks like a tiger, another may think it looks like a leopard. After a while, it cracks, and some people call it Blossoming Mantou Rock.
Can something have an eternal name? Impossible, will a certain concept be always correct? impossible.
Newton laid down mechanics, thought he had found the truth, and was later overthrown.
The definition of the kilogram has been changed again and again, and the number of planets in the solar system has also changed due to the definition. These changes are 'yi', which is the principle of Tao.
Just like in "Information Omniscient", I wrote that the vision of cloud ghosts is different from that of humans. Human beings think that the earth is a ball, but Yungui thinks that the earth is emitting electric arcs, like a raging fire.
Therefore, Lao Tzu's concept of "earth" refers to the essence, not the land itself.
Knowledge will continue to change, be eliminated, and be updated, but wisdom will not. The culture left to us by our ancestors is wisdom, not knowledge.
In any behavior, there is actually no right or wrong, only should or should not.
Names, symbols, etc. are all fictitious and defined by people. Everything in the world is changing, only the essential things remain unchanged.
The change of its essence is always there, which can be described or not. Everything is right and nothing is right.
This is not only Tai Chi, but one Yin and one Yang are called Dao. Everything is like this, yes and no, no too. Neither left nor right, the way is ever-changing but moderate, ruthless yet sincere.
This is: "Tao can be, Tao is not, and Chang Dao is also. The name can be, the name is not, and the name is constant!"
There is a digression here. Why do I make such a sentence? It is purely because I think it is more reasonable and more like Lao Tzu's typesetting.
Because of the context, what he wrote later is "No name, the beginning of heaven and earth, name, the mother of all things. Always 'no desire', to see its beauty, always 'have desire', to see its beauty".
They are all symmetrical ratios of 'yes' and 'nothing'.
So at the beginning, it should also be Dao Ke, Dao Fei, Ming Ke, Ming Fei, this kind of parallelism.
In comparison, the current mainstream sentence is very awkward, "Tao can be Tao, very Tao", which means that Tao can be said, but it is not a long-term Tao.
In the same sentence, the first character Dao refers to a noun, and the latter character Dao refers to a verb again. It doesn't feel like it fits the context. After all, throughout the Tao Te Ching, the word Tao is only used to refer to the mother of nature.
It seems that Lao Tzu, an old man, deliberately speaks in an obscure direction, but in fact, Lao Tzu has always tried to speak in a simple direction.
Of course, this is the same as the meaning of my punctuation, the connotation has basically not changed, so it doesn’t matter, you can believe in whatever, this is that the great way has no form, and the sky is impermanent.
I even suspect that Lao Tzu is playing tricks here. He is really talking about the truth. No matter how the sentence is phrased, the meaning is almost the same... The essence is the same, it is really amazing!
Even if the Tao is OK, the Tao is very Tao. The name is good, but the name is very famous. That's fine too! (The defined concept must not be a long-term concept, and the defined name must not be a long-term name).
This is so awesome... people can't misinterpret what he means.
Back to the topic, Tao is Tao, it has existed since ancient times, and everywhere is the source of all things. Lao Tzu just gave him a name and tried to describe it.
Even so, Lao Tzu told everyone at the beginning: What I am talking about is not actually Tao.
What does it mean? It means that he wrote a paper and told everyone at the beginning: After you read it, you don’t have to take what I said too seriously.
This is the realm of Taoist sages.
Those who are willing to believe in Lao Tzu will regard it as a standard, and those who do not want to believe in Lao Tzu, just have fun.
In fact, this kind of thinking has long been integrated into our bones: no struggle, no action.
Note that it is not always not fighting, not always doing nothing. Only know blind inaction, that is not inaction, that is dead.
Blind inaction itself violates the concept conveyed by the Tao Te Ching, it violates the Tao and the Yi Li.
To change, to be flexible, to make the best use of the situation. Water is the thing that knows how to make the best use of the situation, so Lao Tzu said that goodness is like water. He didn't say that Shang Shan Ruo Mo doesn't move!
The original saying is "do nothing but do everything", you can do nothing, and you can do everything. Do it if you want to do it, don't do it if you don't want to do it. Just do what you should do, and don't do what you shouldn't do.
Don't do superfluous things, do what is right.
Never do anything that cannot be done.
What to do, must do! Although there are thousands of people, I will go!
This is the orthodox way of thinking. It is between doing and not doing, it is the fusion of doing and not doing, it is Tai Chi.
Swaying from side to side, searching up and down, but it's not a grass on the wall, but a wavy line, it's [~]. The inverted S, what is this, this is the dividing line in Tai Chi!
Confucianism calls it the mean, Taoism calls it 'Yi', and it was symbolized by the 'dragon' in ancient times!
The dragon can rise or hide, can be big or small, see the beginning but not the end. Kanglong must have regrets! A lonely yin does not grow, and a lonely yang does not grow!
This is a very mysterious state, sometimes yang, sometimes yin, the yin is yin, the yang is yang, in fact it is neither yang nor yin. One yin and one yang are called Tao.
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Then what should be done and what should not be done, this is to clarify the "virtue".
What is virtue, Shuowen Jiezi said: it is '悳', 'straight heart', 'true heart'. It is the simplest and most direct truth of the human heart.
Indeed, the variant character of De is 悳.
But this is only superficial virtue, and its variant characters only appeared in the Han Dynasty.
The original German character is actually an extension of the sublimated concept of "get".
"Lao Tzu": "Tao produces it, virtue breeds it, things form it, and force makes it. Therefore, all things respect Tao and respect virtue."
Here Lao Tzu regards virtue as the thing, or method, that Tao shepherds all things.
It can be understood as God's management science...God has established an invisible system called "virtue" to shepherd all things!
Guanzi also said: Virtuous people give up the way, and things can come into being.
The Tao derived all things, and from the Tao, a thing was given up, and all things got it and depended on it to survive and continue.
So what is it, the ancestors used a special concept to name it, which is 'virtue'.
There is something to be gained, which is the essence of ‘virtue’.
One drink and one peck will have its own retribution. This is virtue, it is the law of cause and effect!
I still use the "four division method" to analyze it layer by layer.
The way of virtue is called nature, the principle of virtue is called gain, the law of virtue is called righteousness, and the technique of virtue is called straightness.
The most superficial virtues are professional ethics, ethics and morals, and the deeper ones are called Fa-rectification! More essentially, it is called peace of mind! Finally peeled off to the most essential place, it is still natural!
Have you noticed that the Tao level of everything is natural.
The only difference is the three levels of reason, law, and technique.
This is called the return of all dharmas, and the return of all things to one. Whatever it is, the final ultimate concept must be the oneness of nature.
The essence of virtue is the law of cause and effect. At this moment, please let go of the stereotyped impression of virtue on ethics and morality, which is only the most superficial superficial appearance.
What does it mean to give up the Tao so that things can come to life?
The essence of virtue is not only possessed by human beings, it is possessed by all things!
Stones have their virtues, animals have their virtues, and flowers and plants have their own virtues. The conventional understanding of morality is only the virtues of human beings.
A stone has no independent thought, so it is 'at ease', it just waits naturally and is moved by external forces, without external forces, it will not move. If there is any cause, it will have the same effect. Don't do unnecessary things, it is too virtuous!
Human beings extract iron from ore and use it. This is "gaining", but it is also "giving" of stones. This willingness is the virtue of stone!
So our ancestors said that there is nothing better than Kun! Be virtuous, keep in good health and all spirits.
It waits silently, nurturing countless creatures on it, we get something from it, this is its virtue!
Animals also have virtue, and tigers eat meat, which is virtue!
Some people may think, how can a predator be virtuous? Of course, there is everything! There is no more virtue than soil virtue, even stones have virtue, why don't animals have virtue?
If carnivores don't eat meat, go vegetarian! what will cause The ecological disorder finally turned an area into a place where rabbits and sheep flooded, and then gnawed out the grass and turned it into a desert, and finally the carnivores also starved to death.
Our ancestors and sages told us that this is the loss of morality of tigers!
Unscrupulous people harm others and themselves, and unscrupulous species will become extinct in the long run!
What is this, this is natural selection! The law of causality called virtue!
It is not the simple rules and regulations that ordinary people understand, but the most essential and simple appearance of virtue, it is as simple as that, it is the law of nature!
If you lose your virtue, you will be eliminated naturally.
Why do human beings have morality, because those without morality have perished...
After careful consideration, every virtue that people think from the bottom of their hearts is actually a rule that helps the continuation of human beings.
It is a natural choice, derived from the Tao! Virtue exists objectively.
As Mr. Luo Xiang said, "objective justice"!
It is not just something made up by people, it is derived from the law of heaven at a deeper level! That's why it's called Heavenly Conscience!
Why did Confucianism later attribute natural disasters to the emperor's immorality? It is because of this logical foundation, because the virtue of our Chinese culture refers to what people should do!
Of course, it must be wrong to blame the emperor. The emperor is responsible. Dong Zhongshu took advantage of this and carried out a series of philosophical sophistry, adding a layer of noose to the emperor.
That's another matter, it must be the fault of all human beings...
The environmental problems of the earth are very serious now, and they are actually caused by human beings' immorality.
Why do I say that, because human beings are the most vulnerable species.
Stone has no feelings, it is natural, so it will not lose virtue. Animals are simple and natural most of the time, so it takes a long, long time before some of them become extinct.
But human beings are different, human beings have autonomy and creativity, and human beings can go against their instincts to do things, which is especially easy to lose morality!
As King Wu of Zhou said, 'man is the spirit of all things'.
Some people think that this sentence is human beings bragging about themselves, saying how powerful we humans are, and we are the master of all spirits!
Wrong, the original intention of this sentence is not to boast of oneself, it is a responsibility.
It's 'We should be the spirits of all things'! Rather than 'We are the boss of Wanling, so awesome'.
The former is a mission. We want to be the leader of all animals, the parents of all things, and naturally and harmoniously bring the ecology to a better future.
The latter is pretentious, as if it should be taken for granted.
Human beings say they are the boss, is that the boss?
People are not so easy to be, as I said, there are four major domains, and people are one of them!
The "person" here, as I said earlier, refers to the "art of the universe".
It is a part of Tao, heaven, earth and people.
It could be our Late Homo sapiens, or not! When the late Homo sapiens is extinct, there may be other species in the future.
You late Homo sapiens failed to fulfill your responsibilities, instead you messed around, exterminated so many species recklessly, and destroyed the environment... This is not a good human being! It will perish naturally!
Other species do not evolve so fast. Human beings change the environment too fast, too bad, and irresponsible, so that many species do not perish because of immorality. This is the immorality of human beings!
People lose their virtue! Nature will teach you to be human!
Then change another species to be a [human], and come to interview for the position of 'Universal Art'!
Therefore, [the Dao is great, the sky is great, the earth is great, and the people are also great], there are four major words in this sentence, which does not refer to us, but refers to a job, a mission!
It's just that our late Homo sapiens are interviewing for the time being!
Therefore, King Wu of Zhou said that man is the spirit of all things, and his consciousness is to lead all things and all spirits to a beautiful and harmonious future.
It is our duty to be a great leader of life!
We have wisdom, so we are born with responsibility! This unique mission! We must do our part!
If we do this well, we are worthy of seeking the Tao and exploring the ultimate truth of the universe.
If we don't abide by morality, we will blindly develop technology, fall behind, and abuse the intelligence given to us by Taoism. If we don't deserve the truth of the universe, we will only be eliminated by nature.
Preaching first, morality first! Seeking the Tao first cultivates virtue! This is why Lao Tzu put the 'De Jing' before the 'Tao Jing'.
Virtue is the most basic thing that all things need to abide by. If this basic thing is not done well, why should we pursue the Tao?
If you give up, you will gain, and if you don't give up what you get, it is immoral. Blindly demanding from Mother Earth, all kinds of animals, and nature, and in turn destroying its harmony. This is not worthy of being a [human being], not worthy of wisdom and civilization. This is called the Thief of Everything!
If human beings want to be the master of all souls, they must do what the master of all souls should do, and have the virtue of being the master of all souls. Otherwise, you will be taught by nature to be a human being, and if you can't teach it, you will step down! perish!
On the contrary, if we late Homo sapiens have done a good job of [human] virtue, our species can continue forever.
This is longevity. From the macro perspective of all human beings, this race lives in harmony with all things, and it is bound to live forever! It must stand forever in the forest of all races! It must be an existence that will never be eliminated among countless species.
To put it in a small way, the pursuit of morality and cultivation of personal morality determines whether we will be eliminated in this society or not.
I often see words like "handle it according to the law", but in fact our civilization is not like this, it is Western culture.
It is still divided into four methods, the Tao of Tao is called nature, the principle of Tao is called Yi, the law of Tao is called law, and the technique of Tao is called technology!
Nature, reason, law, technology!
So 'handling according to the law' is wrong. The law cannot be higher than the reason, and this must not last long.
Adolf was in power legally. His law was to call himself a superior race, and to destroy the so-called inferior race. His soldiers massacred Jews according to law, but is this law reasonable?
Clearly unreasonable, but it's legal...
Therefore, all those who lose their morality will inevitably perish and will eventually be eliminated naturally.
According to the law, it turned out that nature taught us how to behave, and the 'law' was dealt with by the 'reason' instead!
Killing is not illegal, if enacted into law, is it likely to last? impossible.
Dao, reason, law, art. It is a layer containing a layer, just like a dimension, a high dimension contains a low dimension!
The principle of Tao is called Yi, the law of Tao is called law, and the technique of Tao is called skill!
Change is change, we must be flexible, human beings follow the way of nature, and nature is based on conscience. People get the law of heaven and have a conscience, and they have a steelyard.
Therefore, our civilization must be "based on reason and law"! "Act in accordance with the law" again!
Low-dimensional can't do high-dimensional!
However, the legal thinking in the West is different from that in the East. They are too rigid in rules and regulations, and often use "laws" to deal with "reasoning", which is putting the cart before the horse!
There are also lawyers who often use 'tricks' to get some so-called procedural justice, which is even more low-dimensional!
But our civilization is different. Our oriental thinking starts from Tao and is derived from it. Reason must be greater than law!
Even though we have learned other people's ways because of the impact, in the end we still have our own unique way.
Therefore, we often measure and supervise the law from a rational point of view. This is the "virtue". Teacher Luo has spoken very well on this aspect, so I don't need to repeat it.
Some people may say that science and technology is the primary productive force, so how can we do without development.
Of course we have to develop, but to develop responsibly, [people] are not so easy to be, and they have objective missions.
It’s not about not developing technology, but the premise is not to overdo it, to consider the interests of all species, to be responsible, and to find a win-win solution.
Science is right, it is the level of 'reason'. But technology is only at the level of 'technique'.
If you only know how to blindly develop "skills" and ignore "reasons" for the sake of small gains, you will lack great virtue! To lose morality is to perish.
Human beings are going astray now, blindly playing tricks, and in the end they will only be self-defeating!
Looking at the world now, only the Chinese civilization has enough cultural background and knows how to seriously 'pursue morality'.
Only we can propose a community with a shared future for mankind, and only we understand the meaning of living in harmony.
The principles of the Book of Changes and the thoughts of Taoism are all integrated into the bones of "true Chinese". You may not know it yourself, but it affects us silently.
So we are a civilization, not just a country.
So-and-so loses virtue, and the whole world pursues it. Many people think this is an excuse, yes, it is indeed an excuse, it is the concept of "virtue" used by careerists.
But the concept of virtue itself is correct, and this sentence is also correct! This is natural selection.
So how should I put it: Dao Ke, Dao Fei, Chang Dao! The name can be, the name is not, and the name is also constant!
Saying right is right, saying wrong is also wrong, it is a duality of yin and yang.
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The above mentioned [Tao] and [De], which can be regarded as a beginning, and described the catalog.
Next, let’s talk about 【易】.
The core of Chinese civilization is 【Yi】.
The Book of Changes is probably the most important cultural core of Chinese civilization.
Any great person who has influenced, prospered, changed, and created our civilization has learned "Yi".
In comparison, you may not have studied the Analects of Confucius or the Tao Te Ching. After all, there were great men before Lao Tzu and Confucius.
Zhou Gong, Yi Yin, Boyi, even Cangjie and Huangdi all learned "Yi".
Even in an era when there was no written language, many of our ancestors learned it, because Yi Li was created long ago.
In the Jiahu ruins nine thousand years ago, the earliest writing was discovered. Of course, the official did not recognize it, and only called it an engraved talisman.
There is a gossip engraved talisman in it, that is to say, [Yi] was there at that time.
According to archaeological excavations, there are also bone flutes made of crane legs, which shows that the culture is already very rich.
The ethnic group represented by that site, I will take it as the ancient country of Fuxi.
"In ancient times, Bao Xi, the king of the world, looked up at the sky and looked at the sky, and looked down at the ground. The writing of birds and beasts was suitable for the land. He took the body from near and things from afar, so he began to make gossip. "
This is recorded in the Zhou Dynasty, I don’t care if it’s right or not, but the eight trigrams engraved talisman was discovered at the Jiahu site in the 9,000th year, we can regard it as the moment when the tribe created the gossip, the Chinese civilization was born.
Some people may be wondering, how can this be considered civilization? Didn't it mean that there must be bronze wares, writing, and cities?
That is the Western standard, and my standard is selected from the perspective of all intelligent civilizations in the universe.
Does the civilization of aliens also have bronze? Does it have to have text? People's planet may not have the conditions to smelt bronze at all! People's communication methods may not need words at all!
So from a macro perspective, the conditions for the birth of civilization must be applicable to all heavens and universes!
I don't know what the specific standard is, it depends on what the picture of cosmic civilization is like.
But the symbolic event of the birth of Chinese civilization, I can say with great certainty, is the moment when [Yi] was born!
It marks the first time that a group of primitive people of the Stone Age have formulated a cultural system! For the first time, a set of rules is used to describe the universe.
Before, we also called some primitive societies cultures, such as the culture of Yuanmou people, such as the culture of Lantian people.
But it was scattered and unsystematic.
So those cultures later died out.
And until the birth of [Yi], a system that can continuously absorb and grow, can adapt to evolution, can develop slowly over time, and become complex and prosperous, was born.
According to archaeological clues, the ancient country of Fuxi in the Jiahu ruins was wiped out by a group of foreign tribes! Many slaughtered bones were found in the ruins. They may not have been killed, but at least they were occupied.
Attention, a primitive tribe that was wiped out, why did its culture survive? And became the famous I Ching later?
From the Yellow Emperor to the Duke of Zhou, from Laozi to Confucius to various schools of thought, from the pre-Qin to the Han Dynasty, from the Han Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and to the present... It lasts for a long time, and has deeply influenced our cultural thoughts and influences Our thinking patterns are integrated into the depths of our souls.
Why? Because it's not a meteor fragment, it's a thought system.
[Yi] believes that everything in the world is in a never-ending development, and what it expounds is this "natural" law, which is called "Tao". This law reveals the characteristics of the entire universe, including the attributes of all things in the world.
It has three characteristics, one is "changing", the other is "simple", and the third is "difficult". That's why it's called the Book of Changes.
This is a 'living creature', an existence that has practiced the Beiming Divine Art.
A group of barbarians wiped them out, and after seeing it, gossip! Easy to reason? The various philosophies in it have exhausted all phenomena of the universe, so awesome!
Those barbarians also have their own culture. They can also paint murals, make pottery, and have some customs. But their culture is too small, it belongs to fragments, and it is still "one dimension lower" than Fuxi's ancient country!
They found their own culture, which can be described by the Book of Changes.
So the tribe that was wiped out assimilated the invaders instead. Although the body of the tribe was taken by force, the soul was taken away...
The invaders blended in and filled their own culture into the vast system of the Book of Changes as part of their money.
Later, more and more tribes were attracted by this culture, abandoned their own, and joined the I Ching system. They may be invaders or neighbors.
As a result, the culture of [Nation of Yi] has grown stronger and stronger, attracting rivers to flow into the sea like the magic of Beiming, and expanding wildly until now! It will continue to develop in the future.
This is called civilization.
Even though our current culture is very complex and vast, its core, the "singularity" in the middle, is still the [Yi] back then.
Some people may say: I have never read the Book of Changes in my life, how can you say that the core of our culture is the Book of Changes?
This is not contradictory. Ninety percent of modern people have never read the Book of Changes, and even regard the Book of Changes as a feudal superstition and a book of divination.
But this does not prevent you from implementing the principles of the Book of Changes and still following the customs and culture of the Chinese.
Because these customs and cultures, our unique thinking mode and principles of doing things are all derived from the Book of Changes.
That's why I said that you have already integrated into your soul. As long as you learn Chinese, you only need to write Chinese characters, as long as your parents and grandparents are still teaching you the principles of life, every stroke, every word and every action is implanted with the easy-to-reason thinking mode, moistening things carefully. silent.
I said a few details. For example, in the last episode, I said 'I know', 'It makes sense', this habit.
I won't go into too much detail, let me say something new, such as 'find a way'.
As I said earlier, handling according to the law will not last long. Why, because we Chinese subconsciously think that we must be reasonable, take advantage of reason, make laws according to reason, and then act according to law.
It has always been "reasons" to implement "laws". Back then, the laws of the Legalists were too strict, and some even violated ethics. Others will say, good idea! Just do it!
For Western culture, the law is the law, God's precepts must be obeyed, and people are guilty if they sin. But people of Chinese culture subconsciously believe that reason is greater than law.
The superiors have enacted evil 'laws', violated 'virtue', and said that they broke the 'heaven', but there is no such 'way' or 'reason'!
Some people may think that if things like rules and regulations are not strictly followed, and others follow them before others are lazy, isn’t this just ‘sly trickery’? That's right, the Chinese are 'slickers'... We are both upright and hooligans, we are a superposition of yin and yang.
Say one thing with your mouth, think another thing with your heart, and do another thing with your hands. Trinity...
In the West, to go, or not to go, Westerners either do not answer, or answer one of the options.
But the Chinese must have a third choice, and they often answer 'we'll talk about it later', 'I'll tell you later', 'we'll decide later'.
So in the end, may or may not go. It is a superposition of "going and not going".
The Book of Changes is like this, a language that is very suitable for quantum computers. In addition to 1 and 0, it also has a superposition state.
In addition to Yin and Yang, it also has a 'Tai Chi' that combines the two.
Some people may say, no wonder the Chinese are inefficient and procrastinated. That's right, it's called 'Tai Chi'...
The reason why our culture and context are so flourishing is that Yi Li has been integrated into our thinking mode.
Isn't that bad? This is actually a good thing.
Because specific things are analyzed in detail, the Book of Changes talks about change! What should be changed is changed, what should not be changed remains the same.
Saying 'I'll tell you later' is for the sake of context.
If you procrastinate blindly, it will definitely not work.
But it doesn’t work if it’s too direct, that’s why we’ll talk about it later.
This really has to be 'said later'. If you don't talk about it later, it is called procrastination.
Kanglong has regrets for doing what he should. Don't be rude, but don't be irresponsible either.
When it's time to do it, even if there are tens of thousands of people, I will go. Don't do what you shouldn't do.
And before it is decided whether tens of millions of people will go for it, or resolutely not to do it, it must be in a superposition state! Just 'we'll talk about it later'.
This is our thinking mode, which is relatively chaotic.
As I said earlier, the Book of Changes is a system. Subsequent software, programs, and text content are continuously filled by generations of sages, and only then does the present vast culture exist.
I Ching is wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge will be eliminated, wisdom will not. So the Book of Changes is never out of date.
Fuxi's Yi is called "Yi", we can call it the original Yi Jing, and later it was updated and evolved. In the Xia Dynasty, it was the Lianshan Yi, the Shang Dynasty had the Guizang Yi, and the Zhou Dynasty was the Zhou Yi.
It is updating the system from generation to generation. This update is to adapt to the current society and the current environment.
Why did King Wen of Zhou perform the sixty-four hexagrams and was hailed as a saint?
Because when the Book of Changes was in the Zhou Dynasty, there was a major update!
Society is always changing, and the core idea of the Book of Changes is change, so of course we have to keep pace with the times.
During the Zhou Dynasty, society was much more complicated than before. King Wen of Zhou found that the Yizang Yi of the Shang Dynasty was no longer applicable, so he evolved it to a higher level.
He evolved the gossip into sixty-four hexagrams, and between the two hexagrams, the number of three hundred and sixty can be calculated!
The social situation of the Zhou Dynasty can be fully included. How else to put it in words: the policy of two chapters, eleven thousand five hundred and twenty, is the number of all things.
The result is good... After the Zhou Dynasty, the Book of Changes has never evolved again.
At most, the sages of all dynasties and generations have added countless 'notes' one after another, and extended data packets have been added.
Various patches are applied upwards, but at best it is the difference between I Ching 2.1 and I Ching 2.2, which is stronger than the subsequent sages of the past dynasties, and I Ching 3.0 has not been developed.
This leads to the more modern, the farther people are from the Book of Changes.
Take divination as an example. Let me make a digression here. The Book of Changes can be used for divination, but it is not only used for divination.
It's a big system that can be used for everything. Those who say it is just a feudal superstition are totally misguided and take it for granted.
It's like a computer can be used to play games, but does it exist just for playing games?
Saying that the Book of Changes is just a divination book is even more ridiculous than saying that a computer can only play games!
Back to the topic, take divination as an example, why are there not many divination masters now? Or why many people do not count well?
Quite simply, times have changed.
How complex is modern society? Industrialization, commercialization, various races, various countries, and various ideologies are much more complicated than in the Zhou Dynasty!
But the Book of Changes is still the version of King Wen of Zhou, which is out of date, so the function of divination and calculation is even more useless.
If you want to have great use in divination in modern society, unless you create [The Five Hundred and Twelve Hexagrams of the Book of Changes]!
That is, gossip times gossip times gossip... five hundred and twelve hexagrams.
This system should be able to manage tens of thousands of years.
But it is too vast, and it cannot be completed without a saint.
Therefore, the divination function of the Book of Changes is indeed declining now. How can the system of 3,000 years ago be regarded as the society of the 21st century?
If someone tells you, 'I am the master of the Book of Changes, I know a set of ancient methods, which are Zhuge Liang's calculations back then. '
OK, this must be a liar!
First of all, ancient law is outdated law! Returning to Zhuge Liang's algorithm, is there a live broadcast in Zhuge Liang's era? Have a nuke? Have aerospace technology?
Why do I always advocate that the older ones are weaker, and the later ones are better?
This is what the Book of Changes taught me. The core of the Book of Changes is change. It is a 'super system of self-adaptive evolution'.
Which I Ching master would use Kong Ming's algorithm? This directly violates the Basic Law of the Book of Changes!
Under the banner of the Book of Changes, doing things against the Book of Changes, is this not a liar?
The whole book of changes is telling others not to do inappropriate things! Otherwise, you will be crushed by the wheels of the times!
So I am very responsible to tell you that if you want to divination for others in modern times, you must create your own!
I personally created a divination system, which is relatively crude and is still being perfected, but it is also better than the ancients.
Although I have not surpassed Kong Ming at the level of 'reason', I have definitely surpassed him at the level of 'skill'.
Of course, when Kong Ming came to this era, he can also create a stronger 'art', and he will definitely be better than me...
In addition, the second big mistake in the above sentence is that "fortune-telling is extremely accurate".
This sentence itself is not "Book of Changes".
The Book of Changes clearly expresses that the fate of a person cannot be counted! Since ancient times, there has only been "divination" and no "fortune-telling".
These are two concepts. National destiny can be counted, and big concepts can be deduced, but it is impossible to count a person's life!
The core of the Book of Changes is 'uncertainty'. When measured, it changes.
Do you feel familiar, yes, physically this is the uncertainty principle of quantum.
Similarly, the world is a chaotic system, disturbed by countless causal variables, it is impossible to calculate accurately.
Those who can accurately calculate this are called immortals in Taoism.
Among the four great realms, the Dao cannot be known, the sky cannot be spoken, the earth cannot be obtained, and the people cannot be exhausted.
Since the Book of Changes has clearly told the world, it is impossible to measure. Why go to divination? Isn't it pointless?
No, it definitely makes sense. Divination in the Book of Changes guides people's choices through images.
How people choose and how people do it is a matter for people.
Divination is just telling people what will happen if you choose A, what will happen if you choose B, and what will happen if you choose C.
There are hundreds of millions of paths in life. It is useless to calculate that a certain path will lead to good results, but people choose not to do it, or do not do it well.
What's more, divination is a very serious matter, but it doesn't mean that you will die if you do it, and you may get good results.
Because there is still the "one that escapes" and the "unknowable number".
In the thought of the Book of Changes, the general trend is hard to change, and the small things are difficult to change. The general trend will teach you how to be a man, and the small things can make you conquer the sky.
This is like quantum mechanics, 'calculation' and 'reformation' cannot be achieved at the same time, and what can be calculated can be easily done, just like nonsense...
Anyone who counts a lifetime must not be allowed. Because the moment it counts down, the universe changes.
Therefore, divination is only to guide people's life and help people to improve their morality and career. However, in terms of the general situation of the country, divination and calculation can be done, the focus is on calculation, not divination... This is why in the Shang Dynasty and other ancient times, fortune tellers were the first-level civil servants in charge of the country.
If the Shang Dynasty wanted to fight, it had to do divination first, and a group of ruling officials and other nobles did divination together.
On the tortoise shell of the oracle bone inscriptions, there are many divination results, and various explanations and analyzes will be written next to them. What happened to the real results in the end will also be recorded, almost as a history book...
What is it actually? To put it bluntly, a group of people deduced this matter there, which is equivalent to a modern analyst and the staff of a national think tank!
Do the ancients really look at probability?
But it's not that simple, some parts are really mysterious, even more awesome than science.
After studying for so many years, I only got a glimpse of the mystery.
The specific logic and principles of divination are very complicated, and there will be a separate story about "the escaped one" and "unknown number" later. This article only talks about the thought of Yi.
In short, in the future, if a liar talks about secret methods passed down from ancient times, or that he can tell fortunes, you can refute him.
But don't take Yijing as a superstition because of this. It is people who are superstitious, not books.
The three laws of Yili are changeable, simple and difficult.
Which one is not the universe avenue? Times are always changing, but there is only one thing that remains constant, and the truly constant thing is the simplest.
Isn't the ultimate truth pursued in science the same? Its characteristics are these three.
As for whether human beings can pursue it, it's still too early. First, cultivate virtue, to put it bluntly, first ensure that you can live.
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Finally, the light of human civilization is 【Li】.
Looking at the current political situation, only Huaxia is on the right path.
The others are going to die.
And what we rely on is li, which follows the principle of Yi.
Li Tongli, the two are actually the same word at first, why is the light of human civilization called [Li], because it is at the level of 'civilization'.
The order at this level is established in accordance with "virtue", and it still has to follow the laws of nature and people's hearts. On this point, our civilization does the best.
The four divisions are arranged down: the way of civilization is nature, and the principle of civilization is ritual, which is order. Civilized law is justice, and civilized art is the standard.
Evolving from nature, civilization must have order. Only with order can we know what justice is, and finally set standards. Decide what is polite, what is indecent, what is great courtesy, and what is small courtesy.
Different eras have different definitions of justice.
Justice is not fair. It is a completely different matter. Distributing everyone's money equally to everyone is a fair division, but it is not fair.
Because some people contribute more, some people contribute less, people are different, fairness is unfair, and equal distribution means "how can this be reasonable".
And justice, is to integrate into Yi Li, give more to those who should give more, and give less to those who should give less.
For example, giving more to the elderly and children, this is "ritual".
There is no right or wrong in the world, only should or should not.
And why there is such an order is determined by the Tao, natural selection... Needless to say.
The way of heaven damages the excess and makes up for the deficiency. It is not a thought of equal distribution, but a thought of adjustment and harmony.
Our civilization has been called a state of etiquette since ancient times, which directly defines the entire civilization itself, which shows that the ancients paid more attention to this.
Some groups have to bear more, and some groups have to bear less.
Combining with the [virtue] I mentioned earlier, it can be said that since ancient times, Chinese civilization has done its part in the mission of civilization, and it is obligatory, and it has taken the initiative to shoulder the responsibility of the leader of all spirits!
Surrounded by barbarians, we must shoulder the light of civilization, suffer more losses, and bear responsibilities. This is the original meaning of the state of etiquette in the dimension of 'reason', and it fits the virtues that human beings should do.
It's not what many people think now, being polite every day, such a small etiquette like Japan is so troublesome to death... That's the level of 'skill'! Is it rude not to bow? This is called a standard, but it’s right or wrong, it’s too low-dimensional.
Of course, we also paid attention to this in ancient times. Reason and spells are developing everywhere. Now we just adaptively remove some things, but at the level of 'reason', we have not lost it.
In terms of national affairs, it is still a "state of etiquette" and a responsible civilization. This has not changed since ancient times...
Big gifts are not lost, but small gifts can be put down. Because we have grasped the level of Tao and reason, the law and art are just a matter of time.
But now, many people say, this is stupid, stupid.
Some people think that our culture is so cowardly that we do not invade or colonize the West. As overbearing as the first emperor, he wanted to build the Great Wall. As tyrannical as Zhu Yuanzhang, he must establish a country that will not be conquered.
Throughout the ages, it has always been counterattacks and beatings. The orthodox regime with Chinese thought has never actively invaded.
But this is not cowardice, it is precisely the way of longevity and long-term vision, and it is precisely the reason why we are still standing for thousands of years.
It's not that we don't fight back, we just don't take the initiative. We have been beaten first, then fought back, hit and beat, they all became passers-by, and our civilization is getting bigger and bigger.
Man should be the leader of all souls, and we should be the parents of all people. It is not that I destroy you, but that I lead you. This kind of thinking has been integrated into the soul of our civilization.
When the Han Dynasty went to the Western Regions, it did not mean to drive away the people there, but to say: You all live here well, and I am here to set up a Protectorate. I will help you uphold justice if there are any family disputes or neighbor disputes.
Zheng He sailed to the West, made friends, made some exchanges, broadened his horizons, and spread civilization.
The Tang Dynasty married Tubo and sent books to artisans. Tubo originally had no writing, so we gave them.
This idea is still the same until now.
Don't think it's wrong, on the level of civilization, this is precisely the most "invincible" road to heaven.
How to explain it, anthropomorphic, that is, nature will remember us, Dao Dao knows it well.
Civilization is advancing along a best result, and the process is this kind of approach that some people think is a disadvantage.
In short, the formal principles of our civilization are derived from Dao. You can regard it as a kind of "strategy". This strategy has been inherited, passed down, and adjusted since ancient times, and it is already perfect.
We cannot perish because of this, but we are strong and immortal because of it.
In the short term, it is beneficial, but in the long run, it will suffer a lot, but in the long run, it is a great benefit!
No matter now or in the future, we must implement it. This is the absolute 'super strategy' left to us by our ancestors. Individuals may dislike it, and a group of people may not see it clearly, but the Chinese civilization collective must adhere to this strategy.
Because if we don't persist, human beings will have no hope.
The cultural core of Westerners is the Bible, which is contrary to ours, and they feel that human beings are born with sins.
In this kind of Western culture, there is no culture of "virtue", and "ritual" only stays at the level of law and technique.
Their culture depends on God, and God has given human beings commandments! This is the layer of 'Fa' in the above four divisions.
And we are the level of 'reason', one dimension higher!
Therefore, Western culture is doomed that they cannot understand our thinking, but our thinking mode can understand them, analyze and tolerate them.
In the existing civilization, if all human beings are dominated by other countries, human beings will have no chance.
Humanity is not extinct, because there is still China, and the light of human civilization is our [gift].
I don’t know how to explain this deduction clearly to you, it’s hard to explain. People who don't understand don't rush to spray, just slowly understand.
Anyway, I have personally deduced it, and I feel that my research on Yi has been completed.
And anyway, our civilization is already doing this, and it’s doing okay, so it doesn’t matter if a group of people don’t understand it, it’s harmless.
Now our civilized code of conduct is still the same, and people who care about national affairs understand it, so I won't give examples.
It is impossible for western countries to understand what our civilization is trying to do, our chess game is very big...
Our civilization is destined to be the victory of cultural conquest, because the core of our culture is [Book of Changes], and we want to be the master of all spirits! It is the leader of the concept of civilization itself, not the leader of the territory, and is one of the four major [humans] in the universe.
As for why intelligent creatures are one of the "big four in the universe", I will have a special explanation in the future.
In short, to lead all living beings to a better and more harmonious future, this is the mission left to us by the humanistic thoughts of our ancestors!
This is our etiquette, our etiquette is a fusion of Yili and Deli, and it comes from Tao.
Relying on this strategy, we can see a sign in our lifetime, about 2035 to 2045, and you will understand by then.
So what is the goal of this civilization? Or in other words, when will this kind of "ritual" strategy come to an end?
Very simple, this has been said since ancient times: the world is one!
Here I want to specifically explain that the meaning of Datong under heaven is actually cultural conquest.
The meaning of 'great harmony', the subtext contains 'small differences'.
In our culture, there are "Taitong", "Datong", and "Xiaotong".
The word Tai means 'big plus small'.
So Taitong means everything is the same, the big ones are the same, and the small ones are the same.
The Chinese civilization has not pursued this since ancient times, but only pursued "great unity in the world".
In terms of general direction and general concept, listen to the central government, and in terms of small details, you can figure it out... No matter how small the differences are, just don't affect the great harmony.
What pursues "too"? That is "world peace".
This is the use of the word "too", because it is better to be big and even, and small to be even!
Following this strategy, we will enter a prosperous age, then flourish and decline, and then maybe from the next century, we will decline again, and then become stronger again. I don't know how many years will be before the great harmony of the world, but it will definitely come.
It is like a reincarnation, but it is an outwardly expanding thread.
And other civilizations are all inward shrinking threads.
There is no right or wrong in the world, only should or should not.
When it's time to do it, you have to do it, remember that everything is not "one way", it is infinitely changing, and adapting to the times.
You can learn from the West, and the effect will be quick, but don't forget to look back, don't forget that Kanglong has regrets, and don't forget that Tai Chi is a wave.
Don’t learn one thing and forget our own. In the end, the dimensionality will be reduced...Since ancient times, we have learned one thing and strengthened our own.
Up and down, left and right, yin and yang!
Constantly changing, constantly adapting, and enough is enough! This principle of change is the core of our civilization.
This is the hexagram that Chinese civilization has been developing!
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The above, you can't believe it all, it is better not to read it than to believe it!
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