The ancients once said: "If you don't read it, you can't be a relative." In the compilation of the Royal Yongle Grand Ceremony and Sikuquanshu, The Book of Changes ranks first. How important is the Book of Changes? So what is the Book of Changes? Fortune tellers say it's a book of divination, meteorologists say it's a book of astronomy and meteorology, agronomists say it's a book of agriculture, historians say it's a book of historical philosophy, and literary thinkers say it's a humanistic document with beautiful words and rigorous structure ... There are many opinions, just like a blind man touching an elephant. The Book of Changes is a wordless gobbledygook. "Yi is a science of our ancestors, a symbolic logic, representing. This is a great principle to describe the movement of the sun and the moon in the universe of the human solar system. " The Book of Changes is known as the head of the group classics. The wisdom in the universe algebra, including science, philosophy and religion, has accumulated everything, which has had a great influence on China's philosophy, history, literature, art, ethics, religion, astronomy, history, mathematics, medicine and Qigong. It enjoys a high status in the cultural history of China and the world. Laozi's Taoist thought of "doing nothing without doing anything" and Buddhist thought of "color is empty, empty is color, color is empty, and empty is color" are all easy-to-learn concepts of dialectical unity of opposites between Yin and Yang. The philosophy of the Book of Changes is not superstitious, but it has the absolute seriousness of religious scholars. The Book of Changes says that the universe, society and personnel are the highest, and change is the most common and universal. Historically, people have always used it to guide Anbang to govern the country and cultivate self-cultivation. Just because the writing is difficult, too concise and easy to learn, "people don't know it for daily use." Here, I will talk about my academic experience and experience on how to learn Yi, how to use Yi, and how to guide my life and career, so as to lead everyone to the road of connecting with God.
(2) The theory, principles and laws of the Book of Changes.
There are three kinds of Yijing in history: one is Lianshan Yijing in Shennong era; Second, the Yellow Emperor's "returning to Tibet"; Third, Zhou Wenwang was imprisoned? The Book of Changes, the Book of Changes in Lianshan and the Book of Changes in Tibet have been lost.
The Book of Changes has three theoretical essences:
1) Unity of opposites of Yin and Yang: Everything has two sides of Yin and Yang, that is, unity of opposites and mutual roots.
Two), the five elements system: everything in the world is divided into five categories: water, fire, wood, gold and earth, which restrict each other and generate each other.
3) Harmony between man and nature: information holography and complementary tuning between man and the universe.
I ching has three principles:
1) Difficulty: Everything is always in a relatively stable state, and the internal opposition of Yin and Yang is in a relatively stable state.
2) Change: Any thing will undergo a qualitative change, from quantity to an extreme value, when it is in a contradictory struggle between Yin and Yang.
Simplicity: The laws of nature in the universe are simple and clear.
I ching has three principles:
I) Rationality: the philosophy in the Book of Changes, which explores the reasons why the universe can change, change and remain unchanged.
Image: The Book of Changes uses divinatory images and mysterious images to express all the phenomena of the world's emergence and development, and seeks the principle of its change.
3) Number: Heluo number is the number in the phenomenon. Deduct its changing process and know the cause and effect of personnel and everything.
By mastering the three theories of the Book of Changes and understanding the three principles, we can use the three principles to understand things, adapt to things, observe the past and explore the future according to the laws of the Book of Changes, that is, we can use the Book of Changes to divine, which is the prophecy that modern people say.
It must be emphasized here that only under the guidance of the theory and principle of Yi-ology and the application of the laws of Yi-ology can it be called Yi-ology (or Zhouyi) prediction, otherwise it cannot be called Yi-ology prediction.
(3) gossip is the highest symbol of the universe.
As we all know, when Mao Zedong expounded materialist dialectics in On Contradictions, he said, "Everything is made up of the opposites of two contradictions of unity of opposites, and under certain conditions, it is transformed into its own opposites." The basic law of this materialistic epistemology expounded by it is actually the materialistic worldview that our ancestors have long had, and it is the basic viewpoint of Yi-ology thinking. The great man Mao Zedong described this clearly in modern language. The two opposites he mentioned are two opposites of yin and yang, and four opposites of gossip, heaven and earth, thunder wind, fire and water, mountains and rivers. Everything without exception develops and changes due to the mutual transformation of yin and yang, forming a new unity of opposites. Generally speaking, Yi-ology has two functions: the first function is epistemology, that is, how to understand the nature, society and life of the universe; The second function is methodology, that is, what kind of attitude, methods and means to adapt or transform nature, society and life, so as to achieve the best survival and development. Mao Zedong Thought's basic theories are two kinds of theories. His "theory of contradiction" corresponds to the epistemology of Yi-ology, and his "theory of practice" corresponds to the methodology of Yi-ology.
The expression of the Book of Changes is gossip, and the whole Book of Changes is to interpret gossip from beginning to end. The Book of Changes was created by Fuxi. King Wen was put in prison to play gossip, and gossip is the scripture part of the Book of Changes. Confucius wrote the Book of Changes, called Ten Wings, which is the biographical part of the Book of Changes. The Book of Changes we are studying now includes two parts: classics and biographies. However, in order to study and predict the Book of Changes, I must read the Book of Changes. In order to facilitate my study, many scholars have translated the ancient Book of Changes into vernacular Chinese. Personally, I like reading The Book of Changes in Vernacular Chinese published by Yuelu Bookstore in Changsha, Hunan Province, which was translated by Mr. Nan, a master of Chinese studies, and his disciple Xu. The hexagrams in the Book of Changes are the experience of the ancients in breaking hexagrams. I will take my time to read them as a later biography. And we should understand it word for word. Because all the Book of Changes are hexagrams, and hexagrams are the core of the Book of Changes, to understand the Book of Changes, we must first learn hexagrams well, interpret them rationally and visually, and be able to use gossip to correspond to everything and explain the transformation of everything at any time and place, thus becoming the master of life destiny and things.