The Old Man: The I Ching is a philosophy of change, everything is constantly changing, life is also in the midst of endless cyclical changes, so it is impermanent, nothing is eternal and unchanging, in other words, the Tao, the Extraordinary Tao, the I Ching is the same as what Lao Tzu realized.
Traveler: What is chance and what is inevitable?
Old Man: Everything you do seems to be accidental, but the result is inevitable, just like the divination of the I Ching, like the flow of people, like the painter looking for something orderly.
Traveler: There is a simple truth after something that seems complicated, and there is always a simple rule.
Elder: Yes, Chinese medicine is also such a truth, such as the human body system, can you find the rules and information in it? How to prescribe the right medicine for those Chinese medicines, Chinese medicine practitioners are looking for this law, whether it is pulse diagnosis, acupuncture, or Taoist luck treatment, we must prescribe the right medicine, because everyone is different.
Voyager: But the human body is also a magical system, you said, I wonder where it is magical?
Old Man: It is not magical, if the human body is a magical organizational system, then nature is a more magical organizational system.
Traveler: Dirt and stones are magical, such as ore, gemstones, jade, isn't it magical?
Old Man: Yes, even the bones of animals can cure diseases for us, the bark can become rich in minerals, and there will be crystals, do you know where the magic is? In fact, magic is not magical, you correspond to everything, do you believe that you will grow crystals in your body?
Voyager: I believe, isn't there a relic?
Old Man: I said that the human head corresponds to nature, and if nature is magical, then how magical the human body is. It's just how you get along with nature.
Traveler: Is there a correspondence between man and nature?
Old Man: Yes.
Traveler: So what is consciousness and the human body?
Old Man: I'm sorry, but I haven't touched on this philosophical issue yet.
Traveler: I think this is the ultimate philosophical question, but I know that consciousness can control the body.
Old Man: I know this, but it doesn't involve it very deeply, which may be better illustrated by the Buddhists.
Traveler: Why do you think human meridians correspond to the universe, so why not discuss the question of consciousness? Where do you think human consciousness comes from?
The old man: This question is even older, it has to deal with religion, who gives us consciousness, and how our consciousness affects the body, but the problem of consciousness is not a problem of Chinese medicine, nor is it a simple problem, that is, where consciousness comes from, how to come out of a "me".
Traveler: Actually, what I'm talking to you about is philosophy, and you say that consciousness is not a simple problem, is it impossible to explain it with specific concepts?
Old Man: Do you say that the universe itself has consciousness? Or do we have consciousness when we sleep, whether we have consciousness when we dream, and if we don't, then why dream? Can some even perceive the future?
Traveler: Yes, in ancient times, a lot of people would have telepathy, and there was also between mother and child, you say subconscious.
Old Man: Not just the subconscious, I said earlier that inspiration and creativity, even divination is only a call of the subconscious, but the subconscious here is common and collective.
Traveler: Specifically, it means that it has nothing to do with consciousness at all, and has nothing to do with eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body?
Old Man: Do you think the entire galaxy is due to consciousness? There is no such word as consciousness at all, and if you say yes, then I admit it.
Traveler: Like the structure of the body's sophistication, or the arrangement of DNA, consciousness is a creative process that does not arise autonomously.
Elderly: The similarity between the small consciousness and the "great consciousness" is like the similarity between the universe and the human body, and there are also differences.
Traveler: I know that consciousness can affect the body, and if I repeat a thing, maybe it can become a reality, and your thoughts can affect the things around you.
Old Man: Don't you find order in the chaos, is this regularity? The buddhist philosophy is actually deeper, one flower and one world, one leaf and one bodhi. The mysteries of the universe, but in an ordinary flower, fractals follow this law. Aren't we going to follow this regularity either? Including our body systems.
Traveler: I discovered, this is the biggest secret I discovered, it was because our ancestors integrated into this rule that the realm of the unity of heaven and man appeared, that is, the small consciousness merged into the "big consciousness".
The old man: Oh, consciousness does not exist in the first place, the nature of all things is empty, and consciousness is nothing more than that.
Traveler: Is our sense of self detached from our nature, or is it getting farther and farther away from our nature?
The old man: I am not too far away, I am a Chinese medicine doctor, I have a deeper understanding of Taoist things, I know a little about the Buddhist family, after all, I am a Chinese medicine doctor, I am not necessarily right about the Buddhist things, I can only refer to it.
Old Man: Actually, I am also very interested in your archaeological knowledge, let's talk a little bit.
Traveler: Thanks, the curiosity of the old Chinese medicine doctor is also heavy, how can you like some archaeology?
Old Man: Everything is connected.
Traveler: What you want to know, I don't know a lot, just interest.
Old Man: I want to know what the ancient civilization of mankind was like?
Traveler: Ancient human civilizations are very different from ours, remember mentioned earlier.
Old Man: How is it different?
Traveler: This involves archaeology, some mysticism, and then philosophy, so I am interested in human science, and I think the wisdom of the ancients is immeasurable.
Old Man: The wisdom of ancient people is indeed greater than that of modern people.
Traveler: We modern people have mastered a lot of science and technology, but also lost a lot of the wisdom of our ancestors, do not respect the environment, such as the destruction of the environment, but also let the natural system out of balance, often look at the appearance of things, I do not know whether it is progress or regression.
Old Man: This is where we have to learn from the ancients.
Traveler: I don't know why the ancients or the ancient cultures were so mysterious, it is a record of human history in general, but we don't know anything about history, we don't know where we came from, but they seem to have told us that myths and religions are one.
Old Man: Are you trying to say that our human civilization has long been disconnected?
Traveler: There is no disconnect between human civilization, that is, the Chinese civilization, they may be in the museum, when we see the cultural relics of Xia Shang, we will not think of the story behind it, and this story is linked by some kind of myth, the same is true of religious stories, for example, when you see ancient Egyptian cultural relics, you see the patterns on the murals, and you don't know what the story cultural process is at that time.
Old Man: If you just understand it with a curious mentality. You won't understand what they really mean.
Traveler: Yes, let's not lose sight of any of the myths and legends and their meanings, or whether they really happened.
Old Man: If this is also a myth and legend, then Lao Tzu is also a myth and legend, you should understand the real history, how the Tao Te Ching is left behind, just like the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" mentioned earlier.
Traveler: Many people record ancient events and preserve them in the form of scriptures, but we modern people read it as fantasy novels. Why many scriptures have guiding significance is something we need to reflect on. The records of the scriptures should be closer to us, and the farther should be legends and oral accounts.
Old Man: Maybe so.
Traveler: This kind of oral narrative is a legend, but some tribes and ethnic minorities still have, I don't know what we have experienced in the past, the history and culture are broken, can only be dictated, but I think it should be the entire civilization fault.
Old Man: The ancient times that we don't understand now are like Chinese medicine, they are all a system that we don't know, you should look at things from the perspective of philosophical wisdom, and what you said also involves anthropology.
Traveler: Thank you for your guidance, in fact, I am more interested in Chinese culture, for many reasons, because many foreign archaeologists and historians are interested in us, and they have turned the original technological civilization to the exploration of Chinese culture.
Old Man: We should also say ancient times, where our culture came from.
Voyager: Okay, let's talk about what ancient times really are, and it's a miracle for us.
Old Man: Can you explain myths and stories from all over the world?
Traveler: Thank you for your question, there are myths and stories all over the world, not unique to China, such as ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, ancient Rome, Norse mythology, Sumerian mythology, American mythology and so on.
Old Man: American mythology does not refer to Mayan and Indian mythology.
Voyager: What do you think?
Old Man: It seems to be.
Voyager: What did you find when you tried to string these myths together?
Old Man: Common ground?
Traveler: Yes, but not necessarily at this time, the ancients did not have a convenient transportation system and communication system.
Old Man: You said that aliens have visited Earth, is that a hypothesis?
Traveler: As a younger generation, I've seen some cartoons where some people are holding canes.
Old Man: Go on.
Voyager: We see them as gods who rule over humanity, in fact, people who visit us, and we see Poseidon holding a cane, which is a high-tech product of extraterrestrial energy, and he has a lot of resemblance to the ancient Egyptian frescoes.
Old Man: This is just a hypothesis.
Traveler: Then I have to mention Fuxi, who is the teacher Fuxi?
Old Man: Thank you for teaching me a lesson, it is true that those ancient civilizations are too far away from us, assuming that there is no meaning, without Fuxi there is no "I Ching", ah, "Shan Hai Jing" is not necessarily a myth, may also be realistic, this point I mentioned before, as for what their source is, I really don't know, there are some things I can only use philosophy to tell you.
Traveler: But didn't they also leave a lot of wisdom behind? For example, FuXi's Tai Chi Bagua Diagram.
Old Man: Tai Chi Bagua has become a computer binary system, and it plays a full range of changes in the combination of all things.
Traveler: Is the I Ching the work of our planet, that it can be predicted, and it can be turned into a computer?
Old Man: It's actually quite simple.
Voyager: Simple? You talked about fractal math and chaos, physics and so on.
Old Man: Listen. Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments, two instruments give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to Bagua.
Voyager: Finally, 64 gua, which is simple.
Old Man: But every gua contains laws and truths, from the gua xiang to see people, the stars are also, from the gua xiang can directly reflect things.
Traveler: Is it the same with TCM?
Old Man: Listen, this medicine is not only the philosophy of change, but also the medicine that varies from person to person, the medicine that varies from factors to the environment, climate, and temperament, not only medicine, but more philosophy, not just pharmacology, but philosophy, and it reflects the truth that all things are compatible with each other, and the gua xiang is the same, the twelve temperaments are the same, and the twelve animals are the same.
Traveler: Are you talking about the Zodiac?
The old man: Yes, the human body corresponds to time, the hour, and also corresponds to the animals of the season, and there are different animals active at different times. What you eat at different seasons will be different, and the ancient Taoists paid attention to what was called health.
Traveler: Simple symbols represent the meaning of the universe.
Old Man: What?
Traveler: I mean Tai Chi BaguaTu, although I am a young man, I think the ancestral culture is so profound that I boldly assume that aliens have come to Earth, and I feel obligated to carry our culture to the world.
Old Man: How to carry it forward?
Traveler: Actually, I think this cultural treasure is not only Chinese, many civilizations in the world have had such a culture, but they have ignored or disappeared, I don't know if you disagree with me.
Old Man: Isn't that what you're talking about archaeology? I see what you mean.
Traveler: When I met you, I had a whole new understanding of TCM, which was just a recapture of old knowledge and philosophy, but it was really great.