When in doubt, you can ask the Book of Changes.

1. What's your impression of the Book of Changes?

Do you want to know your future destiny?

There are probably people in China who have never heard of the Book of Changes, but there are really few people who can read and use it. Why is this happening? First of all, this book is difficult to understand and can be called a "heavenly book". It contains words and symbols. If you don't have correct teaching and learning for a long time, it is difficult to get started. Secondly, people usually associate this book with fortune telling. The Book of Changes does have the function of predicting the future, and all hexagrams have good or bad judgments, but it is not a feudal superstition of charlatans. This is actually an important classic of pre-Qin Confucianism, and it is a wise man's subtle observation of the world, covering the way to change everything in the world.

In ancient times, there was a saying of "Three Saints of the Book of Changes". At first, Fu painted eight diagrams and completed sixty-four hexagrams. After that, Zhou Wenwang was imprisoned in prison for seven years, writing down the words and sentences of each divination; Then there was Confucius, who created the "Ten Wings", which is now part of the Book of Changes. The Book of Changes we see today is also called the Book of Changes, including classics and biographies, but as we said earlier, the creation of authors and contents is not limited to the Zhou Dynasty. The academic consensus is that Zhou Wenwang's work may have been helped by his son, Duke Zhou, and "Ten Wings" is the result of the cooperation between Confucius and his descendants.

The Book of Changes has two main contents: image number and meaning. Like divination, number is number, which is used for divination; Righteousness is the embodiment of Confucianism, which is mostly recorded in Yi Zhuan.

In Nine Domains of Shang Shu Hong Fan, it is mentioned that the son of heaven "examines doubts", which means that in order to make a decision, the son of heaven must carefully examine five aspects: three aspects belong to personnel and two aspects belong to providence.

The three aspects of personnel involve the emperor, the etiquette and the people. First of all, the son of heaven has the highest position and the widest view, so we must first think clearly about our own views. Then ask the minister in charge of the matter according to the nature of the matter. Finally, we should inquire about public opinion. There are few people in ancient tribes, so we can learn more about the thoughts of each nation. However, people are not as good as heaven, everything is planned, but different variables will appear in actual implementation, and the result is the opposite.

So, how do you know God's will? There are two things to do.

The first kind is tortoise shell, carved with tortoise shell or ox bone, and barbecued with fire to see which side cracks first, and the answer is on that side. This method is to engrave the results on the Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which is now called "Oracle Bone Inscriptions". Later generations can also learn about the deeds of the ancients through these records. However, this method has shortcomings and is easily disturbed by people's wishes. Because it needs carving first, the deeper side may crack first after baking.

The second is to use the Book of Changes for divination, which is completely free from human manipulation. 50 yarrow is used for divination. This kind of grass can still be found in Henan. All reliable methods to predict the future, regardless of ancient and modern times, have a common feature, that is, there can be no artificial manipulation factors in the results. In this way, the information obtained is accidental, and the accidental information contains important content. People's thinking is mostly caused by the consequences in the past, but many things are not in the causal relationship. Looking for consequences from the antecedents of time may overlook an important point, that is, the internal relationship between things that happen at the same time. Divination, that is, image number, is the most important and concrete thing when the ancients used the Book of Changes, which is called "the study of emperors". If the emperor is in doubt, he will find a special fortune teller to divine. In this way, no one can control the result of the occupation, and people can only explain the result. The so-called divination is easy to interpret, and some people manipulate the space to explain the results. Whether the result is accurate or not depends on the skill of the fortune teller. If you want to improve your ability to interpret hexagrams, you need to constantly review whether the previous explanation is correct from the later verification results.

When the book of changes mentions the number of images, it describes the role of the book of changes as "without the protection of teachers, it is like being around parents." When we grow up, we will become leaders in our own lives and make decisions independently. Parents may not be around or can't give us the advice we need, and teachers and protectors are gradually leaving. When a person's realm is getting higher and higher, there are fewer and fewer people around him who can discuss major issues. The so-called high is not low. At this time, I ching can provide us with the most intimate advice.

The Book of Changes teaches us something. We can learn about autumn through a leaf. Wiki emphasizes early detection of signs, so that you can always be one step ahead of schedule and avoid the regret of "knowing this early, why bother at the beginning". If people only look at the world from knowable reason, it is impossible to fully grasp all the information. From past causes to present results; Pushing the present career to the fruits of the future is a one-way thinking. The Book of Changes allows us to understand the "internal relationship of simultaneous events", which is exactly the "synchronic principle" put forward by Jung. The synchronic laws studied by western psychologists can explain the magic of the Book of Changes.

However, the study of the Book of Changes is by no means accomplished overnight, which requires the accumulation of knowledge and rich experience. Confucius said that he "can learn the Book of Changes at the age of 50, and there is no big mistake". It won't be a big mistake to learn the Book of Changes when he is fifty years old. Judging from the current data, Confucius must have read the Book of Changes before, but he didn't use it skillfully. It was not until he was fifty years old that he began to have a profound understanding. Even Confucius is so, let alone us? If you want to learn the Book of Changes, you have to study hard and practice hard.