If you are not a sage, you are a beast

If you are not a sage, you are a beast

【Gua Ci】

Section: Hen. Bitter knots, not virginity.

"Yan" said: "Jie Heng" is just soft and soft, and just got the middle of "bitter knots can not be virgin", and its way is poor. Say to take risks, when the position is to the knot, the middle is to pass. Heaven and earth are celebrated at four o'clock. Temperance with the system, do not hurt the wealth, do not harm the people.

"Elephant" said: There is water on the zee, festival. A gentleman makes several degrees and discusses virtue

Festival: "Shuowen": Bamboo Covenant; "Saying Gua Zhuan": Festival, Zhiye; Festival, such as The Rune Festival; Fan Spring, Autumn Equinox, Winter, Summer Solstice, Li Chun, Li Xia as the Enlightenment, Li Qiu, Li Dong as the Opening, these eight festivals, for the festival of heaven and earth.

The original meaning of the knot is bamboo knot, the ancients believed that the reason why bamboo can grow high and the thickness is uniform, thanks to the constraint of the bamboo knot, the future generations gradually developed "knot" as the meaning of constraint, because there is a constraint, all the rules have been produced, in the heavens and the earth, that is, the spring equinox, autumn equinox, winter solstice, summer solstice and other eight festivals, for people, is to talk about faith in virtue to bind themselves, for the king, is not to work hard and hurt the people, control their own desires.

The I Ching takes the water ze as the image of "knot", "ze" represents the depression of water gathering, water in addition to representing water, there is also the meaning of "pit", from the perspective of body use, the body of the kangua is water, its use is a pit, the body of the gua is ze, its use is to say, that is to say, although the kangua represents water, but it needs the gathering of the container to be reflected, otherwise it is fog dew, and this container is symbolic of the exchange of the depression, although it represents the ze, but if there is no water, it is a big pit, so the two are complementary to each other, and they are mutually constrained, and they are a total festival.

From the perspective of the attributes of the gua, the kangua is the yang gua, the gua is the yin gua, and from the attribute of the elephant, both belong to the water and the yin, but from the perspective of the middle attribute of the gua, the two are both yang and yang, so the I Ching says that "rigid and soft and just get the middle".

The festival is the gentleman's self-cultivation, the inner gua is the specific method of self-cultivation, which can be summarized by the unity of knowledge and action, and the outer gua is the realm of self-cultivation, which can be summarized by too much and too late, and from the beginning of the ninth year.

【Words】

In the ninth year, I didn't go out of the house, and I was blameless.

"Elephant" said: "Do not go out of the house", zhi Tong Sai also.

Household: Single door

Tongsai: Unimpeded and blocked, referred to as the situation of life

The household court and the door court have the same meaning today and can be interchanged, but the author carefully consulted the "Explanation of Words" and other materials, the original meaning of the household is a single door, so if you have to distinguish between the "household court" and the "door court", the scope of the household court should be smaller than the door court.

In modern times, the household court can be understood as the balcony of the family, and the entrance court can be understood as a public place for community activities. Regarding the connotation of the first nine words, the author says that it is placed in the ninety-two places for comparative interpretation.

Ninety-two, do not go out of the court, fierce.

"Elephant" said: "Do not go out to court murder", lost time is also extremely good.

Doorway: Open space in front of the door; portal; doorway

Lost time: Missed opportunity

Why not go out of the house to be blameless, but not to go out of the court but to be a murderer? The focus is on the interpretation of the two in the "Elephant", for the first nine, the "Elephant" says: "Knowing the Tongsai also", which means knowing the unimpeded and blocking, that is, knowing the antagonistic relationship between blessings and misfortunes,

There is a saying in the Tao Te Ching: "Do not leave the house, know the world, do not peep, see the way of heaven, its out of the mi far, its knowledge of the mi less",

The general trend of the world is nothing more than a long time will be united; the end of the world, nothing more than prosperity will decline, decline and recover; the lasting way of the world, nothing more than holding on to the profit; human feelings are nothing more than cold and warm; life is nothing but blessings, if you can't learn the dialectical way of yin and yang, then going out of the house to see the world will only look more and more confused, the more you learn the more confused, so Lao Tzu said, "It is far away, its knowledge is less",

The first six masters of the I Ching verse also remind us that if we can understand the way of tongsai, then even if we do not go out of the house, we are not to blame.

In 92, on the contrary, the doorway represents the world outside the home, as Wang Yangming said, "One must hone one's kung fu in things." If you have to be quiet, you will be chaotic in case of trouble, and you will not grow in the end. That still time kung fu is also almost convergent, and the real drowning",

How do we know that we have mastered the "Tongsai" way in the household court? It is to go out and hone in the matter to test whether you have "cultivation" success, if you only know how to build a car behind closed doors, you will lose the best opportunity to improve yourself, so the "I Ching" says "timeless extremely much.".

Sixty-three, if it is not thrifty, then if it is not tempered, there is no blame.

"Elephant" said: "Unruly", and who is to blame?

Unruly: Words that do not keep the degree, and cause punishment and sigh

The "no blame" of Liu San, do not think that it is the meaning of no blame, the ancient text of "no" and "do not" are the same, so combined with the "elephant" here "no blame" is actually "do not blame".

This means that if you don't control yourself, you can't just go out by keeping the study of "Tongsai", or if you can't read a body of poetry and martial arts, you can't go through the world. Second, if you can't clean yourself up, control your evil thoughts and desires, and finally bring yourself endless misfortunes, for such an ending, in addition to the empty sad sigh, who can blame the sin?

June Fourth, Anjie, Heng.

"Elephant" is said: "Anjie No Heng", inheriting the Daoye.

Annunciation: Observe a certain degree of moderation and do not think otherwise.

Six-four, ninety-five, and upper six are all grasps of the "festival", and the sixth four and the upper six all belong to the list of excessive, but the sixth fourth is better than the upper sixth, so it is called the sixth fourth as Heng, the "an" person Jing ye, Dingye, anyone who restricts themselves, first of all, is resistant, followed by obedience, and then is numb, few people break through the realm of numbness to enjoy the freedom and joy that the "festival" brings to their hearts, and once they break through these, it is the auspiciousness of the nine-five.

In real life, the numbness of June Fourth is also called twilight, just like going to work and leaving work, although the surface does seem to be on time, in fact, it is every day to work thinking about leaving work, thinking about vacation, so that instead of enrolling twilight, people also become numb, the so-called acting according to the law, but also just becoming a form, although looking at Zhenji, but actually eating the old book, the "I Ching" for such a content to twilight but heng the result is explained as "inheriting the Taoye".

Ninety-five, Ganjie, Ji, Xiang youshang.

"Elephant" said: "Ganjie No Ji", in the middle of the position also.

Gandhi: Happy festival

For "knots", if we can break through the shackles of knots on the basis of habits and make them our habits and hobbies, then we can reach the realm of "going to be virtuous" as the I Ching calls "doing one thing and becoming one thing".

As the saying goes, "interest is the best teacher" is this truth, when self-discipline becomes a necessity for our self-cultivation, it is a good thing, but we have not yet achieved the spirit of "prudence and independence", so we need to break through the shackles of self-discipline on this basis and complete self-improvement.

Take fitness as an example, the average bodybuilder will give themselves the number of training and the number of groups, but the smart fitness person will break through the limitations of the training plan in the later stage to challenge their own limits, and strive to make themselves completely exhausted every time they train, Taoists are also taboo when practicing exercises, practitioners are also taboo in the practice of counting breaths in the brain, thinking that this will affect the exertion of mental strength.

Upper Six, The Festival of Suffering, Chastity, Repentance.

"Elephant" said: "Bitter festival chastity", its path is poor.

The Festival of Suffering: The festival needs to be in the middle, for the festival is too bitter, the wound is mean, and the things are unbearable

Everything is extremely negative, too much is too late, so the festival can not be excessive, Dharma in the cave wall still have to practice to alleviate physical discomfort, let alone mortals?

If the Indian ascetics held their right hand high for 38 years so that the hand lost its basic function and "hung" on the practitioner's head like a specimen for many years, what is the point of such asceticism?

Another example is that some young people do not sleep for several days and nights in order to work and play games, and it seems that they have super high efficiency and work cultivation, but in fact, they are depleting their minds and bodies.

Comrade Chen Yun has a saying that is most appropriate to put here -- doing less and doing more work is doing more, and doing more and doing less work is doing less.

Of course, we must go all out to do anything, but we must ensure the minimum rest and diet, sharpen the knife without cutting wood, and have good energy to do more.

Nothing is an overnight achievement, but today's achievements are not quiet, let alone tomorrow's achievements? Without the aspirations of the superiors, how to cast the hearts of the inferiors? Therefore he is not a sage, but a beast.