Can I teach myself the Book of Changes? Why didn't I learn the Book of Changes to a good end?

This is an article I answered in Zhihu in my early years, and it is also the one I agree with most in all Zhihu answers. Now I want to rearrange and share it, hoping to help you.

Understanding and memory of sixty-four hexagrams

I spent more than a week remembering the order, names and images of all the hexagrams, and I'm going to share my memories. Many names of hexagrams are hard to remember, and it is even more difficult to completely match the names and images of hexagrams. Before memorizing them, I still have some basic accumulation, because I have memorized the gossip clearly for a long time, and I often read the biography of the preface to gossip, so it is relatively easy to remember. Originally, I was going to memorize all the preface hexagrams, so naturally I memorized all the sixty-four hexagrams, but it was still very difficult.

Memory first needs to remember eight basic hexagrams, namely, Gan, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen and Hui. There is a gossip song in this song, which is to do it three times, Kun six times, shake the jar, cover the bowl, leave the middle empty, the ridge is full, the top is missing, and the bottom is broken to make this memory clear. Basically, the names and images of gossip are memorized.

What do you need to remember after this memory is completed? This is the first thing to remember, that is, dry for the sky, Kun for the earth, earthquake for thunder, sorrow for the wind, ridge for water, separation for fire, root for the mountain, and change for ze.

On the one hand, memory strengthens the understanding of the meaning of gossip, and at the same time, it is convenient for the memory of the following sixty-four hexagrams. For example, if we say that the divination above is the wind, it means that the divination above is the wind and the divination below is the fire. If you remember clearly that wind and fire are family divination, that is, the divination image and distribution of family divination will naturally be clear.

After this memory was completed, I began to recite Zhu's sixty-four hexagrams and remarks, as follows:

Gankun Tunmeng needs a lawyer. He is better than a small animal.

Humble and willing, close to the point of view and biting the heart,

It's better to stay away from a big animal than to skin it.

Xian Heng fled, powerful, and Jin He's family were in full view.

Solve the profit and loss, lift the trapped well and shake it,

Gen gradually returned to his sister and was blessed by the festival for his rich journey.

Younger than Gigi and not helping, it's for the next 34.

For the first sentence and the second sentence, it is suggested to directly combine the memory after understanding in the preface to hexagrams. The preface to hexagrams vividly describes the development and evolution of all things, that is, heaven and earth first, then everything. Things are born at the beginning of the car, things must be born, and they need to be raised after birth; If you eat and drink, there will be lawsuits and many lawsuits, so you are subject to the teacher; There are many teachers. People must be compared, and there must be animals in comparison. Things and animals then have shoes. They are Thai, but Thailand is not.

I am interested in living in harmony with natural people, and then (greatly) gain something, but in this process (modesty) and pleasure (pleasure) must follow (follow) you (third sentence). The fourth sentence (ancient) is catchy and easy to remember, so pay attention to the pronunciation of (ancient) (this). It can be homophonic for hopeless memory, that is, when (stripping) (restoring) hopelessness (no mistakes), only (big animals) and (h) support will be accumulated (fifth sentence). If you can't do this, you will make (bigger) mistakes, encounter (hinder) and separate.

At the beginning of the next hexagram, (salty) hexagrams and (constant) hexagrams need to be memorized. (Escape) means to retreat. If you retreat to a certain extent, you will be great; if you retreat to a certain extent, you will advance (gold); if you advance, you will be injured (Ming Yi). When you are hurt, you will start to miss your family and feel uncomfortable staying at home for a long time.

Sister Jian came (solved) the problem of (loss) and (gain), began to blame (blame) (blame) (blame) and (blame), and put things (up) in (well). After being trapped, only (innovation) and (innovation) led to greater (earthquake) movement, (ninth sentence, tenth sentence). If things get too serious, there's nothing I can do. Brother (root) went to see (gradually) (Guimei) and said that (Feng) was trained by the travel (brigade) and (exchanged) some money, but (saved) some flowers so that (Zhongfu) could come.

Although there are (minor) mistakes, the trip has been completed (Gigi), but there are still (unfinished) things.

Memorize the name and shape of each hexagram on the hexagram.

After memorizing eight basic hexagrams, I memorized the names and hexagrams of 64 hexagrams through the song of hexagrams sequence. After this memory was clear, I began to remember hexagrams and remember the complete names of hexagrams. For example, the complete name of hexagrams should be the weather, that is, the above hexagrams are dry hexagrams, and the following hexagrams are wind, so it is the weather.

As can be seen from the above picture, the arrangement of hexagrams is very regular and does not repeat. Here, we must first understand the concepts of wrong hexagrams and double hexagrams. Wrong hexagrams are also called anti-hexagrams, and repeated hexagrams will also synthesize hexagrams, which has something to do with the complexity of idioms. Wrong hexagrams means that all six hexagrams are reversed, and overlapping hexagrams means that all hexagrams are turned to 180 degrees, and the upper hexagrams are turned to the lower hexagrams, and the lower hexagrams are turned to the upper hexagrams. It can be seen that the full name of Tungua is Shuileitun, and its overlapping divination is the landscape Mongolia next to the divination sequence, and the wrong divination is the fire wind top.

You can see that two basically adjacent hexagrams are overlapping hexagrams. But among the sixty-four hexagrams, some of them are still their own, which is what we call symmetrical hexagrams. That is, dry, Kun, Yi, Da, Zhongfu, Xiaoguo, Kan and Li Bagua. Understand this and remember the corresponding relationship between a wrong hexagram and a comprehensive hexagram.

First of all, the corresponding relationship between the hexagrams is:

Heaven-heaven, earth-earth, mountain-thunder, wind-ze, water-water, fire-fire.

In addition, the correspondence between hexagrams is:

Heaven and earth, wind and thunder, mountains and rivers, fire and water.

Now that I know the divination of Shuileitun, I know that there is another divination behind it, and then I know that the two divinations next to it are overlapping divination, so I can quickly reflect that the full name is mine, and the thunder changes mountains and the water remains the same, that is, the landscape is divination. Knowing that the mountains and rivers are covered, it is clear that the mountain divination is the root divination, and the water divination is the candy divination, so the divination of the Mongolian divination came out.

Next, let's talk about the understanding of helping memory. At the beginning of the divination world, thunder represented movement, and thunder had to move motionless underwater, that is, Shuileitun. Then naturally understand the landscape clearly. You need divination, that is, the water in the sky can form rain, which can be drenched to meet your needs. Therefore, divination is needed in water days, followed by divination and water litigation, which is a good memory. In divination, the teacher is for the public, and the water can only meet underground for the public, so it is the divination of the local navy, followed by the comparison between land and water.

For small animals, we should directly remember the hexagrams, that is, the yang is wrapped in yin, the five yang raise one yin, and only one yin does not grow, so it is a small animal. Compared with large livestock, we can see that yin grows upward, and four yang packs two yin in it, so it is a large livestock. When the small animals divined their backs, it was also five yang and one yin when it was their turn to divine, but one yin ran into the next divination, which was full of shoes that day.

Walk with Thai, Thai and Ann. Thai hexagrams are easy to remember, that is, the earth is above and the sky is below. Why are the earth and the sky Thai hexagrams? Because only the heavens and the earth reach the top and the bottom can peace and access be achieved. The overlapping of Thai hexagrams is that heaven and earth deny hexagrams, and heaven and earth do not coincide, which is naturally hexagrams. The divination of the same person is still the divination of five yang and one yin. Skyfire, the natural world is bright and like-minded, so it is divination for the same person. The overlapping divination of the same person is a fire, and the fire in the sky is also a sign of light.

Modest divination must first remember that living in the mountains is modest, which is very vivid. I am very tall but hidden underground in the future, so I am naturally modest. The opposite of divination is divination. Paying attention to modesty and divination is the divination image of five yin and one yang. Next are the following hexagrams and fa hexagrams. Here you can remember the divination, which means evil wind, which is often called evil wind. Ignition is naturally a method, and evil wind is a mountain wind, so it is a mountain wind method. I remember the mountain wind method very clearly. When nature came, Razer followed.

The pro-hexagrams and the off-hexagrams belong to the twelve news hexagrams, so you can directly remember the hexagrams of six hexagrams, that is, the pro-hexagrams have just begun to grow, with two yang hexagrams below and four yin hexagrams above; The divination is full of qi, that is, the two yang hexagrams above and the four yin hexagrams below. Therefore, temporary divination is just after the winter solstice corresponding to the great cold in December, while divination is the August of the lunar calendar corresponding to the autumn equinox.

Eating hexagrams is eating together. Here you can look at the hexagrams first, which represent the nourishment of the mouth. The hexagrams are oral images, that is, there are four yin hexagrams in the middle of two yang hexagrams, and the two yang hexagrams represent the upper and lower lips, and the two rows of teeth in the middle are hexagrams. This is a good image to remember when you understand eating hexagrams. Eating hexagrams means eating, so in H hexagrams, you enter a yang, which means you become eating hexagrams, which means fire and thunder eat hexagrams. Naturally, its opposite is mountain fire.

Stripping hexagrams and re-divining hexagrams are both beautiful memories, and they are each other. The peeling is vivid, but it is very prosperous. There is only one Yang left, so it's stripping hexagrams, and re-hexagrams is only the beginning of Yang, so the first nine Yang hexagrams are stubborn. Innocence means that the world is thunderous, and the strong are naturally innocent from the outside to the inside, while divination means that mountains are big animals.

I just memorized the image of hexagrams, and my reverse hexagrams are greater than mine. My main divination and I are symmetrical, so I didn't repeat the divination behind me, but changed it into an inverse divination. Bigger than hexagrams means that two yin hexagrams are outside, four yang hexagrams are included, and the yang is too strong and arrogant, so it is bigger than. So we can see that pride is a little weaker, and it becomes two yang, and there are two yin outside, which corresponds to the small hexagrams. Too small is wrong, so its anti-divination is naturally not wrong, so it corresponds to an honest middle divination.

Note: This picture shows the symmetrical relationship between the upper and lower hexagrams in the sixty-four hexagrams. Up and down are completely corresponding, and this up and down is neither an anti-divination nor a complex divination. So the arrangement is completely different from the arrangement of hexagrams. Such as mine, mine hydrolysis divination. The complicated divination of Shuileitun is not only the next divination in the divination sequence, but also the divination of Huofengding.

Memorization of names and shapes of hexagrams under hexagrams.

Speaking of the next divination, there is a description at the beginning of "Yi Ci", there is heaven and earth, and then there is everything; Everything, and then there are men and women; There are men and women, and then there are couples; Couples first, then father and son; There are fathers and sons, there are ministers; There are princes and ministers, and then there are ups and downs; There are ups and downs, and then the manners are wrong.

Everything in the world starts with men and women. How to start is that at the beginning, boys chase girls to form a family, because boys chase, boys go down, and girls go up. It was the girl who divined and the boy who divined, so the divination of the salty divination came out, that is, Zeshan salty divination. After the salty divination, it is a constant divination, and it will last forever after getting married. In ancient times, men were superior to women, and the enduring family was the eldest daughter below the eldest son, that is, the salty divination was the ray divination.

After Xianheng began to talk about ups and downs, the meaning of pushing hexagrams is to retreat, that is, Yang retreats and Yin grows. There are four yang hexagrams on the top and two yin hexagrams on the bottom, that is, pushing hexagrams in Tianshan Mountain. Divination is vigorous and vigorous when it is repeated, and it is also news divination. The sun is strongest when the thunder is heavy and the rain is small. The sun becomes divination for a long time, and the image of ups and downs is not good.

The light is on the earth, and the sun shines on the earth, which is suitable for moving forward, so what follows is the image of fire, that is, the divination of fire. Bright things will be hurt if they are underground, so then fire will be bright and divination will be bright. Family divination is easy to remember, and the family is prosperous, so it is the home of wind and fire, with wind above and fire below. The repeated divination of the family has become a fire, and the explanation of the sequence is that there will be deviations when the family road comes to an end.

There are many women together, and several of the 64 hexagrams belong to two women, which are not particularly good. Divination is two women together, the girl in the middle above and the girl below. They live in two houses, and their aspirations are different. Look at the divination of Zehuo, and it becomes a middle school girl and a middle school girl. They also live in two houses and have different ambitions.

Divination is difficult, why is it difficult? Because it is blocked by water and mountains, because water itself represents danger. So it is water mountain divination. Naturally, after the water collapses and the mountains collapse, it is followed by the hydrolysis of divinatory symbols. Things can't be difficult until the end, just let them solve them, and those who solve them will be relieved.

It's interesting to damage hexagrams and benefit hexagrams. To damage hexagrams is to harm the interests of the lower class, and to benefit hexagrams is to harm the interests of the upper class. For others, for king; Be yourself and be a minister. If it is selfish at the expense of others, it is of course unfavorable, which is in line with the ancient thought of benevolence and righteousness. So why is it harmful to harm divination? It can be seen that the loss of divination is due to another day, and the first divination is changed to the top, so it is a loss. However, the beneficial divination changed from heaven to earth, and the negative divination changed to the initial divination, which destroyed the upper abundance and the lower abundance, so it destroyed the upper interest. In this way, the images of the two hexagrams will be clearly remembered.

Zetian's divination must be twelve hexagrams, which change from strong to strong, so you should remember it directly. Therefore, when memorizing 64 hexagrams, 12 message hexagrams must be separated to remember clearly. The divination of divination is the wind of heaven, and Yin has just begun to derive. There are five yang and one yin on it.

The hexagrams are taken for the land and for gathering. Get up after the gathering, and the wind will rise. It can be seen between the lines that there are trees in the ground, so it is ascending, because Xun is both wind and wood. So the ground wind will rise. Extracting and promoting divinatory symbols is also very interesting. There are two adjacent hexagrams in it. The drawn hexagrams are 93 and 94, and the rising hexagrams are 92 and 93.

There is a swamp on the surface of the water, which naturally sinks in, so it is a water sink. The corresponding divination is the water wind well. Note that the symbol Shuifengjing means that there is water on the wood. In ancient times, people cut wood for machines and then took water from wells, so it was a well with abundant water for divination.

Below, pay attention to Pi Gua and Ding Gua. If you release the mixed hexagrams, you can change them and change the tripod. The skin is Breezepelt, and the tripod divination is more vivid, that is, the fire tripod, and the first scorpion is yin, which is a tripod. A tripod has three feet, but it may be two feet from different angles. In the middle, the three yang are the tripod body, the six five yin are the tripod ears, and the top one is the tripod Xuan. You can see the specific explanation of Ding Gua. Then the earthquake divination and the root divination are double divination, which is easy to remember.

There are "The Wind and the Mountain Gradually Bubu" and "Razer Ghost Mabu". These two hexagrams are talking about men and women again. The gradual divination refers to the woman's return to Kyrgyzstan, the eldest daughter, and the boy here, that is, the woman referred to in the miscellaneous divination belongs to the man. Guimei's divination is the repetition of gradual divination, and it becomes the eldest daughter below the eldest son, so it is the divination of the sister when she gets married.

Feng Gua is, Shang Yi is, shock Gua is, thunder is, and move is. Under the divination, separation is fire, and for light, light and travel, the world will be bright and rich. Lei Huofeng's divination is a volcano tour. As you can see here, the mountains and rivers are stubborn, and the road is difficult; It is suitable for travel after becoming a volcano travel divination. Haiku and Dugua are both double hexagrams, which are easy to remember.

Popular on the water, the water will disperse when it meets the wind, so it is feng shui, and the wandering people will leave. For divination that can be combined with geomantic omen, you need to memorize the corresponding geomantic omen words separately. The divination of wandering hexagrams is Shui Ze Festival, and those who observe it will stop. There is water on the water, which means that the water is sleepy, and there is water under the water, which needs to be controlled.

The doctrine of the mean can win people's trust. The wrong divination corresponding to the middle fu is smaller than the divination. Without integrity, it is naturally untrustworthy and has small mistakes. The following is the divination of fire, water and auspicious, which represents the completion of things, because water hopes to go down on it and fire hopes to go up below. Fire and water naturally complete their career, but the cycle is endless, so in the end, fire and water failed to help each other, and they parted ways and achieved nothing.

A complicated chart of sixty-four hexagrams

Among them, the solid line without arrow indicates the change of overlapping hexagrams, the dotted line without arrow indicates the change of wrong hexagrams, and the solid line with arrow indicates the change of interactive hexagrams. This picture was made all afternoon this afternoon, and it feels very symmetrical and harmonious. The greater feature of this picture is to truly integrate the relationship between wrong hexagrams, repeated hexagrams and interactive hexagrams into one picture to reflect it.

In the picture, Shao Gan, Kun and Ji Ji are not helped. The hexagrams on the red background in the picture are all dry hexagrams; The hexagrams with background color are all Kun hexagrams; Light red hexagrams are not conducive to their interaction; The interactive hexagrams on the green background are auspicious hexagrams.

At the bottom of the picture, we can see that the hexagrams of Yi, Da, Xiao, Zhong Fu, Pei and Li are symmetrical, and there are no overlapping hexagrams. The six hexagrams are the same, that is, the wrong hexagrams are the same as the complex hexagrams.

How to teach yourself

If used for prediction, the calculation of divination can bypass this part of the introduction.

Things are obscure, so there must be some books to quote first. In fact, it is necessary and relatively easy to learn many Confucian and harmonious books before learning books. For me, a better quote is Ceng Shiqiang's Mystery. Although many people criticize some of the contents as wrong, it does not affect the whole book and its citation function. We can imagine how to further study if we can't cultivate our real interest in learning. It can be said that Za Shuo and Fu Peirong's interpretation are not better quotations, and better quotations must be the easiest to understand without too much prior knowledge.

After further introduction, we should understand the core idea of simplicity, changeability and difficulty. Have a basic understanding of Tai Chi, two instruments, four images, eight diagrams, sixty-four hexagrams, complex hexagrams, the core hexagrams of each hexagram, the three worlds and the ten wings added by Confucius. After this step, further research should focus on the interpretation of the laws of the universe and humanistic philosophy, as well as the interpretation of complex changes and unchangeable dynamic balance.

After this step is completed, the next focus should be on the specific content of the sixty-four hexagrams. After reading this, we can only have a general understanding, that is, what is the core of each hexagram and what is the meaning of each hexagram? What is the progressive relationship between each sentence in the speech? At this stage, it is recommended to read Zhang Qi's Complete Interpretation of Zhouyi, supplemented by miscellaneous notes. Why I first recommended Zhang Qi's Complete Interpretation of Zhouyi is because it is easy to understand and gradual.

After this, I strongly recommend reciting these 64 hexagrams. Remember the prelude of hexagrams first, and then begin to recite the specific names of hexagrams and the core meaning of each hexagram. For example, we know that modesty is on the ground, Kun is on the ground, and Gen is on the mountain. The core is the meaning of forbearance. It is clear how to arrange it after knowing that it is dishan money. In the process of memorizing, you should be familiar with the preface, postscript and biography memorized. After you get familiar with it, you will find that it can help you remember the preface to hexagrams. The preface passed from the way of heaven and earth in the classic to the humanistic virtue in the classic, from the beginning of heaven and earth in Gankun to the endless life of Gigi, and the sixty-four hexagrams were interrelated to form a unified whole.

Any memory by homophonic means is a joke, and it is incorrect to understand the memory. In this way, the memory of Yi Gua Zhuan Xu is clearly understood, and the hexagram order and the image of each hexagram are basically understood. Here, we say that learning is basically an introductory stage. Personally, I despise those who understand some key words and phrases after reading a little content, and those who quit the business relationship and have something to do with life and let them run chicken soup for the soul. They may not even fully understand it.

After this stage is completed, the next step of personal understanding lies in the coherence of Ten Wings Biography. It can be said that cohesion is a beautiful sentence in the whole Ten Wings. Without cohesion, it is a gobbledygook. Now many talkbacks are basically explained from the extension of cohesion. The whole "cohesion" is sometimes progressive, sometimes inconsistent, sometimes parallel and sometimes metaphorical. It is not only loyal to the original classics, but also strengthens deduction, and truly explains all changes in the universe and human society with the unity of opposites and the development of contradictions.

"Cohesion" can be said to be Confucius' further sublimation and summary of his traditional Confucianism and philosophy, which is also a core of our reading notes, that is, the perfect integration of the contents of the book with personal experience and practice. If the content of reading is not combined with personal practice and experience, it is difficult to have a perfect in-depth interpretation.

The way of saying "one yin and one yang" is perfect, from the edge of Yi to the formation and function of gossip, from the image of Yi to the principle of Yi, from simple to difficult, from the operation of everything to philosophical thinking and deduction. After you read Cohesion again and again, you will find a lot of things like The Mystery of the First Quotation just for further analysis and explanation of cohesion. Every hexagram is relatively easy to understand after you really understand it, which is similar to watching good or ill luck, chastity and regret of Yuan Henry, because every hexagram contains a glossary of keywords, and it is easy to read when the keywords are understood. At this stage, the suggestion is to read ZaShuo further to understand the core content.

After this stage is completed, I feel that I can basically tell others what I know. I am now in the second stage of my study. If you study for prediction and divination from the beginning, you may never really understand the true value and essence of life.

The above is related to whether you can teach yourself, and it is about the sharing of hexagrams. I read "Why learning doesn't end well", I hope this will help everyone!