"I Ching" is considered by later generations to be the source of the Great Road, the first of the Ten Thousand Classics, and the "Tao Te Ching" is respected by posterity as the king of the Ten Thousand Classics, the two are close in age, and one of the "Three Xuan", it must have its deep origin and produce a great relationship, below we analyze the I Ching from the perspective of ordinary people, if there is something to be gained, fortunately!
Wuji sheng tai chi, tai chi sheng two yi, two yi sheng four phases, four phases born Bagua. What is Infinity?
"Wuji" comes from the Tao Te Ching, an ancient philosophical idea that refers to the concept of the ultimate nature of the Tao, representing the abstract understanding of the state of things before they arose. The ancients called the contradiction between convergence and divergence "yin and yang". Convergence and divergence are the most essential contradictions between the universe, and all other contradictions are formed through combination and iteration on the basis of convergence and divergence, such as good and evil, existence and absence, movement and stillness, etc., so there is Lao Tzu's "knowing its white, keeping its black, for the world style." For the definition of the world style, Changde is not inferior, and returns to Wuji". The Tao Te Ching itself is a book that establishes dialectics with "Wuji" as the core idea, and if you don't know "Wuji", then the interpretation of "existence", "non-action" and "morality" is rootless.
As far as the cosmology is concerned, Lao Tzu in the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching expounds that "nothing, the beginning of the name of heaven and earth, there is the mother of all things", and there is also the expression of "seeing and seeing, listening to it and hearing it, fighting and attaining, the three cannot be cross-examined, so they are mixed into one", and at the same time, in the twenty-fifth chapter of the Tao Te Ching, "There are things mixed, born in heaven and earth, lonely, independent and not changing, circumferential and not dead, can be the mother of the world, I do not know its name." The word is known as the Tao, and the name of the strong is great. The great is gone, the passing is far away, and the far is reversed. And this so-called infinity is what Lao Tzu called the way, it has no direction, no discriminating mind, no absoluteness, only relativity. Judging from the Zhou Yi gua xiang, Lao Tzu's cosmology is beyond the I Ching.
Fuxi Bagua is the basis for deriving the sixty-four gua of the Zhou Yi, known as the Hinayana gua, and Zhou Yi is called the Mahayana gua, and Yi is often interpreted by the world as the yin and yang of the upper sun and the next month, there are also sunrises for the easy, easy to change, easy to heal, there are also calculation binary theories, all of which have their own reasons, shallow knowledge, and difficult to argue. However, a search of the figures on the Internet shows that the basic gua of bagua is quite related to nature, and it is the world that Lao Tzu has connected, so the Zhou Yi is consistent with the concept of the unity of heaven and man advocated by the Tao Te Ching.
"Zhou Yi" is a rearrangement and combination of gossip, which increases the complexity of understanding, but also reflects the evolution of society from simple to complex, and the change process reflected by the art of divination shines with the brilliance of its inner broad philosophical thought, even if we are difficult to see the clouds, it is difficult to see the light of its huge brilliance, but occasionally a glimmer of light, but also a heart, is also a pleasure.
"Zhou Yi" is divided into two trigrams, the lower gua is the inner gua, the metaphor itself, the upper gua main environment, the yu development environment, the lower gua is yin, the upper gua is yang, the interaction forms a gua body, the production of gua xiang, and the gua gua related to each other, for the role and evolution, even contradictory, can not be viewed independently, it is indeed time-consuming, timid.
And each gua is composed of six yao, the long horizontal is yang, called nine, the middle is broken into yin, called six, and the solution is from the bottom to the top, one is the first, and the sixth is the upper. The solution of the gua not only depends on the overall gua image, but also relates the connection between the adjacent and the corresponding ones. Easy to be reborn and overthrown in constant change, which is in line with Lao Tzu's philosophical idea that "the opposite, the movement of the Tao, the weak, the use of the Tao", the extreme must be reversed, and the strong things are old!
Tomorrow we will begin to explain the problems one by one, that is, to understand the difficulty of learning the "Tao Te Ching", and to deepen our understanding of the "Tao Te Ching", if there are sages, re-examine China's way of governing the country and develop into a gradually new humanistic ideology and culture to meet the actual social needs of China, it is really a great contribution!