The ancients did not believe in fortune telling.

Why do most people who read the Book of Changes don't believe in fate?

As we all know, the Book of Changes originated from divination, but there is no fortune-telling content.

Therefore, from this perspective, the fortune-telling statement in the Book of Changes is simply a false proposition.

It can even be said that people who don't understand the Book of Changes will believe that the Book of Changes has the function of fortune telling, and then believe it, mistaking the Book of Changes for a superstitious book.

The implication is that people who read the Book of Changes rarely listen to the trick of "fortune telling" and even don't believe in life at all.

For example, among the people, many people with some cultures will believe in fate as they grow older, and solemnly warn the younger generation that they don't believe in fate when they are young, but they have to believe when they live to this age.

Although these words seem reasonable, or the expression of some kind of experience, they are actually "half a bucket of water", that is, a little knowledge, even blind performance-I use my own experience of reading the Book of Changes to illustrate that in the process of reading the Book of Changes for so many years, I have become less and less convinced of fortune telling, and even do not believe in fate at all.

In fact, it's not just that I don't believe in fate, and many people who read the Book of Changes don't believe in it either.

Why do you say that?

We will discuss from the following three aspects, namely:

1. The Book of Changes, which is called a wonderful book of fortune telling, is not a book of fortune telling at all, but a book that reveals the law of change.

We look at this passage in Yi Ci, namely:

The main idea is that the source of the Book of Changes is actually the gossip created by the Bao family, and its purpose is to "communicate the virtues of the gods and the feelings of all things", that is, to communicate the relationship between heaven and earth.

The implication is that the Book of Changes is a book that reveals the changing laws of heaven, earth and people (personnel), including the changing cycles of heaven, everything and personnel. ...

And this change is not so much a fixed number as a law.

Therefore, most people who really understand the Book of Changes believe in this law, but of course they will not believe in such a mysterious thing as fate.

Second, the essence of fortune telling is actually to predict people and things that conform to the law.

The so-called fortune telling is essentially to predict the personnel and changes that conform to the law.

That is to say, the fortune teller sets the regular formula according to the information you provide-if it conforms to the rules, it will be accurate; If it is outside the rules, it is not accurate.

However, this practice is not the content of the Book of Changes, but another thing that later generations use the title of the Book of Changes to interpret.

Of course, people who really understand the Book of Changes simply don't believe that "fate" can be calculated.

Third, human destiny is not a predetermined trajectory, but can be changed.

Personally, I always think that the so-called fate is actually the process from birth to death-from the moment you are born, the bits and pieces are woven into your destiny-of course, this includes parents' genetic inheritance, birth time, growth environment, life experience and so on.

However, any of these factors may be variables and cannot be calculated by a formula.

It can even be said that change is the eternal theme of these factors that make up fate.

Although the Book of Changes discusses the changes of all things, it does not mean that fate cannot be changed. The implication is that no matter how high your fortune-telling level is, it is impossible to count all the laws, which is another reason why fate is countless.

So the three reasons mentioned above are actually the real reasons why most people who read the Book of Changes don't believe in fate.

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The materials of this paper are mainly quoted from The Analects of Confucius, Zhuangzi, Tanjing, Tao Te Ching, Sit for a while, A Dream of Red Mansions, Jin Ping Mei, The Abandoned Capital, Alone, Philosophy of Life, Plato said so, Historical Records, Wang Yangming's Complete Works, and Wang Yangming's Complete Works.