The essence of divination

What is the essence of divination? It is human beings who want to grasp the world and the universe by their own philosophical thinking. Divination is a philosophical thought that human beings try to predict the future, an attempt to find a pointer and beacon for progress, and an attempt to find the sun that shines on human progress.

As for the way of divination, it is also constantly developed and perfected with the development of human social world and personal spiritual world. Turtle divination is divination, and using Zhouyi as a tool for divination is also divination. Xunzi, a great thinker, said that those who are good at changing things are not divination, but divination at a higher level. Modern people's decision-making analysis and action plan are even more used as divination to grasp the future. But more and more advanced, it can better reflect the unity of the subjective world and the objective world.

Specifically, divination in Zhouyi regards divination symbols as a kind of thinking trust and tool, just like people use abacus to calculate. For the public, it is certainly much more convenient to have this calculation than not, but those computing geniuses can store an abacus in their memory. As long as they close their eyes and think about the calculation problem, they will blurt out the answer after calculating it on the abacus in their heads. This is a good calculation, not an abacus. In fact, this method of combining mental arithmetic with abacus calculation still uses abacus calculation, but it has evolved from tangible abacus calculation to intangible abacus calculation. When I was a teenager, I especially liked abacus. Later, I made an abacus in my mind from memory, and I could report it soon. I thought it was normal, but others thought it was amazing. Later, I learned that there are many people who show off their abilities in this world. People who are good at calculating without abacus and analyzing the development process and trend of things by using the principles of Zhouyi can also use the symbols of divinatory images or the tips of divinatory words. But for ordinary people, it is much better to have such a thinking tool and reference object than nothing. For example, if someone has family conflicts and wants to help solve them, can you? A: Of course. When he came to consult me, I opened my family's hexagrams and analyzed them according to his actual contradictions. After listening to their words, he will be inspired to understand what his previous problems were and how to deal with family conflicts in the future. There is no superstition here, but philosophical thinking to solve practical problems with the help of thinking tools similar to abacus. In this sense, Zhouyi is a book of divination.

As long as one stands at the height of philosophy to divination, that is, to analyze problems, he will make better use of the storage and materials of logical thinking, image thinking and instinctive thinking in his mind and make conclusions and decisions closer to reality.