It is often asked, is the I Ching a divination technique? Is it a fortune teller? No, it is only a metaphysics that represents the law of change in things.
Don't over-interpret it, and don't judge the future on it. Don't say how magical it is, Chinese medicine and psychologists are more magical than it.
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According to the "Records of History", Jiang Ziya's family was poor and had not developed until he was eighty years old. However, he knew that he had knowledge, and he had the talent of the heavens and the earth and the state of Anbang, so he did not want to be a petty official and eat casually.
He had long known that Xi Bohou (King Wen of Zhou) had virtue and could bring the world back to his heart, so he studied the necessary way for King Wen of Zhou to travel, and fished there waiting for him.
King Wen hadn't hunted for a long time, and on this day, he wanted to do the math first to see if he would encounter a lot of prey and get a good harvest.
Therefore, King Wen used turtle shells and coins for divination, and the one who obtained a fortune was: "The person who was hunted this time was neither a dragon nor a mantis, neither a tiger nor a bear (pi, two sounds), and he would meet a sage who could assist Xi Bohou in achieving the cause of overlordship."
King Wen set off with doubts, and met an old man with white hair fishing by the Weishui River, he went forward to inquire, it turned out that the old man's name was Jiang Ziya, eighty years old. Through exchanges, King Wen decided that Jiang Ziya was the capable minister he was looking for.
King Wen's calculation was very accurate.
At this time, the King of Shangyi became more and more dim-witted, and the people could not bear it anymore and rebelled one after another.
After a long period of preparation, King Wen of Zhou's son, King Wu of Zhou, was about to act, and he wanted to take revenge on King Huan and overthrow the Shang Dynasty.
Before leaving for the expedition, he used turtle shell coins to divinate, but he gave a sign of great evil, and he made three consecutive predictions, all of which were great evils. Just at this time, the storm suddenly came, and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu felt that they could not go out on the battlefield, afraid that the logging would bring great disasters.
Only Jiang Ziya did not look at divination, he knew that the King of Shang had exhausted his qi and lost the hearts of the people, and now was the best time to overthrow him, so he made a statement, analyzed the general trend of the world, and encouraged the soldiers to take the place of The Heavenly Path.
King Wu was also inspired, heeding Jiang Ziya's advice and sending troops to fight against the King of Sui, eventually establishing the Zhou Dynasty.
This gua of the King of Zhou Wu is not allowed at all, if the King of Wu is superstitious and does not believe in Jiang Ziya, who can make good decisions, there will be no Zhou Dynasty eight hundred years under the heavens.
Divination is like throwing a coin, there is always 50% positive, 50% negative. Therefore, the divine operators who make a living from divination are becoming more and more intelligent, not only good at observing words and colors, but also deeply understanding the human heart.
Wise people who understand this know what to think of God's operators.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, one day, the general Yang Cunzhong went to the suburbs to inspect and met a divine operator who measured words, and Yang Cunzhong wrote a painting on the ground with the crutch of the divine operator. When the divine operator saw this, he bowed to him and said, "Why did your excellency come here in civilian clothes, you should love yourself and respect yourself." ”
Yang Cunzhong was amazed and asked him why he knew his identity.
The divine operator said, "Drawing a horizontal line on the soil is the word "king"!" ”
Yang Cunzhong was very happy, and personally approved five million dollars for the divine operator, so that he could go to the person in charge of the palace to collect it the next day.
The next day, when the divine operator came to get the money, the treasurer tang (三声) took the bill and examined it carefully and said, "Who are you?" If you dare to forge the signature of my family's prince to cheat on your property, I will send you to the official court to punish you! ”
The divine operator told the story of the incident, and opened his voice widely, with grievances, trying to attract Yang Cunzhong's attention.
The butler consulted with Si Wei and gave him five thousand dollars, and the divine operator was very sad, and scolded Si Wei before leaving.
Later, Si Wei found an opportunity to tell Yang Cunzhong about this matter, and Yang Cunzhong did not understand why the divine operator was rude.
Si Wei said, "This is the characteristic of the Divine Operator, for the sake of money, there is no discipline." He now says that you are a prince, and if you add some nonsense in the future for money, you will be slandered. And the great king, you are already a prince, why use the face again. ”
Yang Cunzhong immediately stood up, stroked his back, and said, "Yes, you are right." And gave the priest millions of rewards that he had originally intended to give to the divine operator.
Is it right for Yang Cunzhong to reward Si Wei? Right! Because Si Wei was not only loyal, but also saved expenses for the royal palace, but also had wisdom, and ordered the prince, the divine operator was very dangerous, and the mouth of "leaking the heavenly opportunity" was not sure what disaster would be brought in the future.
There are more absurd anecdotes.
There is a divine operator who tells the fortunes of the babies of two neighboring families, one surnamed Zhang, the other surnamed Li, and the two families are similar in age, both of them are about two years old. The divine operator calculated that Zhang Jiawa would have great potential in the future and would be able to honor the ancestors. And Li Jiawa's life is not good, and her lifelong poverty is not smooth.
The two families listened to the joys and sorrows of nature.
The prophesied Zhang Jiawa was treated as a treasure from then on, and the clothes came to reach out and the food to open the mouth, bumping and bumping, frightening and frightening.
When I reached school age, I was happy to go to school, and I complained that I was too tired and not fun to go to for a day, and I didn't go, and my family didn't go no matter how much I coaxed me, and my temper was too big to go.
And Li Jiawa, who is considered to have a hard life, because she knows that her life is not good, her family does not care at all, what to do, clean up, chop wood and carry water and do everything. In order for the child to share more, the parents also let him go to school to read.
The little guy is happy, anyway, no one at home cares about no one pays attention, in the school is like entering heaven, very active with the husband to learn, literacy, endorsement. Usually, I also use work to change books to read, and use storytelling to coax my friends to bring books.
As she grew older, Li Jiawa became more and more dignified, not only learning a variety of livelihoods, but also full of talent, good at operation management, trading and doing business. Gradually, his reputation grew bigger and bigger, and within a few years he became rich.
And Zhang Jiawa is still walking the dog to tease the cat, losing her temper at every turn, why not, the first loser.
The ending of the two babies turned out to be exactly the opposite of the original prophecy of the Divine Operator!
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Most of the time, God's operators are spiritual, otherwise they would not be able to subdue people's hearts. For example, the ceremonial officials of King Wen of Zhou used turtle shells and coins for divination, and there were also quasi-heads, otherwise, the ceremonial officials would also be expelled.
Why do they seem so psychic and accurate? Is there really a god possessed? Or is it really talented?
Neither. They are just better at understanding the customs and customs of various places like radar, collecting current affairs information, looking at the six roads, listening to the eight directions, collecting the correct history, wild history, gossip, etc. from top to bottom, from the Son of Heaven to the people, so as to make reasoning and judgment on this information. They are also more aware of the color of speech, more interested in studying human nature, and speculating on people's hearts.
It's like looking, smelling, asking, and cutting in Chinese medicine. An excellent Chinese medicine practitioner, as long as you look at this person's temperament, words and deeds, you can roughly understand this person's temperament and personality, fate encounter. Why?
Because the five viscera (heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys) are inside, and the five senses (tongue, eyes, mouth, nose, and ears) are the table. The table is the outward appearance of the inside, and the table knows the inside. There are also five voices and five colors, which are the manifestations of the state of the internal organs.
Therefore, by observing a person's appearance, we can understand his personality preferences and roughly understand his living state.
Therefore, in ancient times, witch doctors were one family. There are jokes that good Chinese medicine is half a fairy.
In the Xia Shang Zhou era, when divination was still very authoritative, why could Jiang Taigong "go against the heavens" and ignore the results of divination? Of course, it is because Jiang Taigong has knowledge and wisdom, knows astronomy at the top, geography at the bottom, and knows human feelings in the middle.
He can accurately grasp the time, location, people and degree, especially the precise control of the heavens and the time, the real machine, he is a veritable talent of the heavens and the earth.
Yang Cunzhong is also a wise man who understands to stay away from the Divine Operator and be protected from its influence.
As for the pair of Zhang Jiawa and Li Jiawa, their ending shows that only knowledge and wisdom can change their destiny. As the Four Precepts of the Prophet says, "Destiny is predestined by heaven, and blessings are sought by oneself."
Therefore, we should learn from Jiang Taigong, not look at divination, but use knowledge and wisdom to shape a good life and create miracles.
(References: The Complete Collection of Wisdom Tanks, The Four Precepts of the Wise Men)