How to learn divination?

Common problems in learning divination

1. Q: How long does it take to learn divination?

Answer: It only takes half a day to get a divination by the "divination method", but it is totally meaningless to just get a divination without knowing the explanation. So we also have to look at 64 hexagrams and 384 hexagrams. It will take at least a year and a half.

2. Q: What do you think of divination? Is it superstition?

A: What is superstition? Is it superstition that cannot be explained by the science known to mankind today? I would never dare to use this word in vain; As the saying goes, "the smallest and poorest is confused and not complacent." I take it deeply as a warning. However, I must admit that divination is an ancient relic with sacred color, and it is something that cannot be determined in the scientific field today. In ancient times, for us now, divination is to seek the guidance of "God". If this is the definition of superstition, it is! But if the good or bad fortune of divination is the result of people's participation and the final product of "separation of righteousness and fortune", it is not as good as other divinations with "destiny conclusion". Is this for superstition? I thought this was not a debate between superstition and non-superstition at all.

3. Q: Who does "God" mean?

A: The "God" of the ancients in the world refers to the heaven, and the "heaven" of the personality heaven is the god who dominates the human universe. The emperor of theocracy considered himself the spokesman of heaven and the son of God. The kings of Shang Dynasty thought they were the sons of God, so they called themselves "Di Zi". The king of the Zhou Dynasty thought he was the son of heaven, so he called himself "the son of heaven". I think our divination process is the way for ancient leaders to "accept" God's revelation. With today's concepts and languages, we can receive some "answers" from another dimension by applying this program. The method of "accepting" God's revelation was a symbol of power at that time, and divination was the only way to communicate with God. According to modern scholars' research, after ancient Zhuan Xu, theocracy was not in the hands of rulers for a period of time. People use divination to talk directly with "God", pray and ask questions to "God", and "God" directly listens to people's demands. This so-called "co-governance of man and god" and "mixing of man and god" is obviously not conducive to the rule of chiefs and kings. As a result, the rulers of Shang dynasty once again concentrated on the power of offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, and returned to the era of "theocracy is the only one" in the ancient biography. In Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the appointment of "Taibu" officials was a method of centralized management of divination, which was called "Tai Zhang Bu Yi San".

4. Q: What do you think of the leak?

Answer: revealing the secret is just a word to escape when it is insoluble, meaningless or mysterious. Strictly speaking, anyone who understands the laws of the universe can also be included in the open-air machine and so on. How can it be reasonable? Scientists are constantly exploring the secrets of the universe. Isn't it an open-air machine? At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Mr. Feng Shui used Feng Shui to help the poor and won the reputation of "helping the poor by Yang". Do we think this kind of behavior belongs to revealing the blessings of the secret, or is it the virtue of helping the world and helping the poor? I think it depends on how to use these.

5. Q: Will you pretend to be profound and recite some poems by interpreting divination so that people can understand them?

A: Knowing means knowing, and not knowing means not knowing. Why lie? If you have read Zuo Zhuan, you will see how the rulers at that time gave full play to the role of education in divination, and the dialectics and reasoning in it amazed you. National affairs require decision-making. How can a fortune teller say something that makes people look unclear to avoid the past? I also use this method to separate pending issues between righteousness and divination and distinguish gains and losses. Many times, it is precisely because of the ability to distinguish between gains and losses that the problem of fortune tellers will become more and more specific, and the problem will be solved through such a situation. Of course, the most important thing is to explain the content of hexagrams in the real environment, which is the primary condition for interpreting hexagrams.

6. Q: When we ask about divination, we usually say what we want, and we ask if we are lucky or not. It's as simple as that. As you said, I think there is a lot of discretion here. Because when we ask "what do we want", we have actually made a decision, or we just look at the result. But many questions can't be like multiple-choice questions. Suppose I do this and ask if I am lucky. If it is intense, I choose another way. It's ... I'm a little confused.

A: The more advanced the society, the more complicated the problem. People in the past asked about divination (referring to Wang Wen's divination in the workshop) as you said; After all, things are not too complicated. But many times, before reaching the key point, there may be a lot of thinking, which is enough to affect the questions to be raised or decided. So sometimes I spend a lot of time guiding guests to ask questions, but this step is necessary and extremely important. This service may not be compatible with traditional divination services. Indeed, if it is a simple question, it is easy to ask; For example, "I want to immigrate to Australia for good or bad luck", because you have already decided. But if we can expand business investment here in addition to immigration, it will involve a series of more complicated questions, which need to be asked more carefully.

7. Q: It is reported that, just like the service you used to explain hexagrams in Zhouyi, the five elements of Wang Wen's hexagrams are usually used. If there is no established formula, why do we have to learn Zhouyi divination all our lives?

A: How can there be no established scope of study? But how to interpret and decipher divination is the difference between "experts" and "non-experts". You know all about ABCD, but after decades, how high is your English literacy? This will vary from person to person. Do you have the fear of "learning English all your life" before learning English? It is true that the divination method in Zhouyi has its specific procedures, but what is the choice between good luck and bad luck? It contains a lot of knowledge and is not easy to master. Diagnosis is like a doctor's diagnosis. You can imagine. It is also different from other skills; Learning other skills only needs to follow some formulas, so it is more acceptable to learners. The Book of Changes has books but no books.

8. Q: Many people take learning divination as their ultimate goal, but I want to learn the philosophy in Zhouyi. The reason is that we have always regarded divination as a trick for some people in the workshop to make a living. Frankly speaking, I used to despise divination. Now I think there are many questions. It seems illogical to spend so much time to know a little about Zhouyi and use it to maintain life. Many, many questions are mixed together and I don't know how to ask them. Can you talk about this?

A: First of all, divination is not the purpose of easy learning. Divination is only a half-baked knowledge in Yi-ology. It is a culture and an art of ancient human beings. After the May 4th Movement, The Book of Changes was rendered as a synonym for superstition by the "literati" at that time. After the test of time, the Book of Changes has been more and more affirmed, which proves that the extreme "literati" at that time did great harm to China's cultural development. The reason is that under the influence of this group of people who manipulated the literary world at that time, everyone regarded these philosophical thoughts in the cloak of ancient superstition as cowardice, and Yi-ology declined for more than half a century. In the past few decades, setting up a stall on the roadside with money for divination gave people the feeling of being low-level. Ten yuan and eight yuan to ask good or ill luck is harmless, and everyone is full of contempt. The sixty-four hexagrams in Zhouyi naturally remind people that they are the same thing as these folk divination.

9. Q: They are invisible. How do they study Zhouyi? There were no books in Braille before. So, do they use Zhouyi?

Answer: No, the commonly used divination method in the market is called "Wen Wang Gua", because traditionally Zhou Wenwang thinks divination is very important and easy to implement. Of course, now we know that this is incorrect, and even the method of divination was not invented by Zhou Wenwang. At present, most of the so-called Wang Wen's divination in the market comes from the divination and divination methods in Fire and Zhu Zhilin. The combination of six hexagrams and five elements determines good or bad luck, and the gods and the five elements of year, month and day are used in divination. Huozhulin is a divination system derived from Jing Fang Yi. Apart from the name and shape of the sixty-four hexagrams, the hexagrams in Zhouyi are completely useless, which is simply ironic. The rest may be some miscellaneous accounts in the workshop, please! The divination method in Jing Fang Yi is also a complicated divination system, and the addition and deletion of divination by Ye He in Qing Dynasty is an important work of this system. However, there are no Braille books in the above-mentioned books.

10. Q: When should I ask someone for divination? Or after learning the book of changes, as the ancients said, "good people are not ashamed"?

A: Nothing. In this world, no matter how smart you are, there are always moments of confusion, doubt and indecision. Since philosophy can't help you dispel your doubts sometimes, why not ask for a visa? Of course, the deeper Yi Dao is, the fewer problems there are; So relatively speaking, the less opportunities you use. Because "I know that life is happy, so I'm not worried". Since you can see through it and face prosperity and adversity as usual, there is no need to ask for divination.

1 1. Q: Will there be any deviation in self-confession?

A: There will definitely be some fantasies at first, such as some biased fantasies. But when you apply this technology for a long time, you will feel that you need to know the depth of hexagrams to get a more accurate judgment, and biased fantasies and prejudices will be suppressed or even disappeared. You will be more cautious and more sensitive to the crisis.