The way to benefit is to be flexible and keep pace with the times.

It means: adapt to the times, seize opportunities, and make judgments and choices that meet the needs of the times.

This sentence comes from the Book of Changes, Yi Gua Xun Chuan, and the original text is as follows:

Profit, damage to profit, the people say that there is no border, top-down, and its way is great. There are blessings, and there are celebrations in the middle. It is beneficial to the river and the wooden road is good. Easy to move, endless to move. By nature, its benefits are not good. All good principles should adapt to the changing times to keep their relevance.

Yi Gua is the forty-second of the sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes. Profit, indicating that the state represented by this idea is beneficial to the main party. This hexagram is the superposition of different hexagrams, which is the wind and the earthquake is the thunder. Wind and thunder surge, the stronger the potential, the stronger the wind, the faster the thunder, and the anger of lightning, which is beneficial to both sides, so it is called wind and thunder. This is the opposite of loss, loss is profit, loss is profit, and the second one expounds the principle of profit and loss.

Yi gua "biography" said: "naturally, its benefits are not good. The way to benefit is to keep pace with the times. " It means that the sky gives gas to the earth, and the earth is transformed by gas, which is the so-called "damaging the upper and benefiting the lower". The benefits of its application are not limited by direction and location, and can be said to be ubiquitous. Therefore, the way to benefit is to adapt to the times, seize opportunities and make correct judgments and choices.

Extended data:

This article is selected from the Book of Changes, that is, Three Changes of the Book of Changes, which is one of the traditional classics. It is said that it was written by Zhou Wenwang Ji Chang, and its contents include The Book of Changes and Biography. Classics are mainly composed of 64 hexagrams and 384 hexagrams, each of which has its own interpretation (hexagrams) for divination.

The Book of Changes did not put forward the concepts of Yin-Yang and Taiji, but was influenced by Taoism and Yin-Yang theory. It contains seven languages * * * and ten quatrains explaining hexagrams, which are collectively called Ten Wings. It is said that it was written by Confucius.

Explanation of words:

Benefits: Good relationship. Benefits are related to Dachuan.

As the saying goes, the interests will be lost, and the people say that there is no boundary, and the road from top to bottom is bright. There are blessings, and there are celebrations in the middle. It is beneficial to the river and the wooden road is good.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Yijing