Chapter 3 Biography of the Book of Changes-3

Following on, he speaks of the natural law of the universe: Movement and stillness are constant, rigidity and softness are broken.Pay special attention to learning this place, Yin and Yang sometimes represent fixed things, and sometimes represent unfixed things.Rigidity and softness, movement and stillness are all abstract nouns, and they can also be said to be entity nouns.Whether it is an entity or an abstraction, they are all artificial assumptions.People call the swinging dynamics; the stable and rigid ones are called static.If our ancestors originally called the swaying static and the rigid dynamic, then in our current concept, the views on "moving" and "quiet" are completely different.Therefore, "motion and stillness" and "yin and yang" are all artificial assumptions.

However, since the ancestors assumed this way, since the images of heaven and earth have both movement and stillness, the two images are represented by hexagrams: the static is represented by the hexagram Kun, which belongs to Yin; the dynamic things are represented by the hexagram Qian , belongs to Yang.Pay attention to this!Those of you who meditate and cultivate the Tao should pay more attention!Moving is yang, and being still is yin.The yang symbol represents the dynamic hexagram Qian, and the yin symbol represents the static hexagram Kun. Movement and stillness are constant. The earth, sun, moon, and stars in this universe are rotating at any time.From the perspective of the laws of Chinese culture, this universe is a dynamic universe, not a static universe. Many people are wrong about Chinese culture. For example, Mr. Hu Shizhi was very wrong in the past, thinking that Chinese culture is static .Later, my friends told me, and I said that he has been like this for decades anyway, and there is nothing to refute.They insisted that I put forward some opinions. I said that Chinese culture does not talk about static. From the beginning, we knew that life in the universe is always in motion, and it is a constant motion.If the life in the universe does not move, if there is a moment of stillness, the universe will stop, and the entire solar system will be destroyed.So you need to know this truth.

When you sit in samadhi, you think you are in samadhi, but in fact it is a big move.When the movement is too strong, it feels like a kind of static. If you don't understand this principle, you will not understand the real so-called movement and stillness. What does the movement mean?It is about phenomena in the physical world.The physical world - the rotation of the sun, the moon, and the earth, there is a constant movement, there is a fixed law, there is a routine, and it cannot be changed; the laws of nature are regular. Once I was pulled by them to talk about the science and philosophy of industrial design.I said sorry, I'm an amateur at this.They found me several books on industrial design drawing in foreign languages ​​and Chinese.They say that this is industrial design, it is deliberately made this way, and it is a new design.I couldn't hold back them, so I had to agree to speak.Later, he talked about the beauty of art to them.

What is beauty?The beauty of the artistic realm in the East is natural beauty, which is irregular; the beauty of the West is very regular beauty. Regular and regular beauty is against nature and man-made; irregular beauty is natural.Therefore, Chinese painting is very irregular, and Chinese forest art is also very irregular. You see a tree that is originally good in a pot, but you have to bend it with wire to make it grow into a crooked shape, and you think it is beautiful. .The difference in the West is that the West cuts it round, like a pen holder to be considered beautiful. Many people go to the United States to see Niagara Falls and think it is so beautiful.You have never seen a waterfall in the deep mountains of China.Good waterfalls are irregular, but very beautiful.The law of nature has its very strict rules and very beautiful rules in the irregularities.This is natural, that is, the principle of constant movement and stillness.

There is permanence in movement and stillness. When it comes to all activities in the physical world, there are natural laws in the irregularity, and they cannot be violated.For example, if the sun does not come up from the east, if it turns backwards, we will not be able to bear it, and the earth will soon be destroyed.There is permanence in movement and stillness, and movement represents the normal state of the physical world. Rigidity and softness are broken. "Rigid" and "softness" are also two code names, which represent the evolution of the universe and have reached the material world, but the physical world has not yet taken shape.For example, the sun, the earth, and the moon are substances.The material world is not called yin and yang, but rigidity and softness.Rigid and soft are broken, not broken, but definite.The material world has rigidity and softness. For example, land and rocks are strong, while water is soft. If one is firm and the other is soft, it is broken.Therefore, "movement and stillness" refers to the physical world, and the existence of movement and stillness refers to the laws of the physical world. "Rigidity and softness" refers to the laws of the material world.The principles are similar, so if you learn it, you understand the laws of the physical world and the material world.

About twenty years ago, I had dinner at a friend's house.There is a pair of pairs hanging in his living room, saying: "Read the classics in the first day, and read the history in the soft day." Everyone read it and said that this word is well written!I said that the handwriting is good, everyone is embarrassed to ask what is called a hard day and what is called a soft day.Rigidity is yang, and yang is called rigid; yin is called soft.For example, we are in the year of Jiazi this year, Jia is wood and Zi is water, so is this year a strong year or a soft year?Is it a positive year or a cloudy year?Simply put, it is a sunny year.We study the celestial stems and earthly branches. Originally, there is yin within yang, and yang within yin.Why do you say it is a sunny year?Because this year is the Year of the Zi, the Zi is the Rat, and the Rat has five paws, and five represents Yang (singular numbers represent Yang), so the Year of Jiazi is still the Year of Yang, and the Year of Yang is the Year of Gang.When the day is Zi and singular, it is just a day, so reading the scriptures on a just day and reading history on a soft day means this.This is Chinese culture!There is philosophy in literature. Today, our thinking, what we see, society, politics, all aspects are very dissatisfied, and when we feel very dissatisfied, we should read books as soon as possible.Read it!Four Books and Five Classics!My heart is at peace.Reading history on a soft day, when you are bored, dull, and want to sleep, you can look at history and inspire us to fight courageously.Therefore, it is said that "read the scriptures on a firm day, and read history on a soft day", which is about the principle of rigidity and softness.

Fangs gather together by like, and things are divided into groups, good and bad will happen.The biggest philosophical problem in human culture has arisen. Regarding the character Fang, we all know that four squares are squares, and squares can also represent the orientation of space.But as far as philology is concerned, speaking Chinese characters requires knowing their origins. How did Fang come about?Fang is a pictograph, like a monkey, which is a simple pictogram.Just like us, just draw ( ) like this casually, and you will look like a human.So the square character represents a monkey, or a long person, which is the origin of this character.Later, Jane used it, so she changed it into a square square; the square square square was borrowed.

When I was young, I saw a commentary on a book, which was also influenced by the entry of Western culture for more than a hundred years. I explained that this paragraph is similar to each other, saying that squares represent bacteria, and that people are transformed by bacteria and microorganisms. This is Darwin’s thinking. And think that human beings gradually become monkeys from microorganisms, and monkeys become human beings, so monkeys are our ancestors.At that time, a classmate strongly agreed with this statement. I said that your ancestors were transformed from monkeys, but mine were not transformed from monkeys. Everyone also took a lot of evidence, and the debate was in a mess.

In fact, this sentence is very clear.What is included in Fang Yilike?Take politics, for example, including geopolitics, geographical environment, and so on.Like our earth, or even any place, the orientation of east, west and north is different, and the species that grow in that place, as well as the shape and personality of people are also different.Usually when we see a stranger, we can tell at a glance whether he is a northerner, a southerner or a Cantonese, and the judgment is probably indistinguishable.Unlike those of you who grew up in the greenhouse on Formosa Island, you have no such experience.

Because each place is different, the plants and animals that grow are different.The geckos north of Hsinchu can't call, but the geckos south of Hsinchu can call.People in Changhua and Chiayi are different, and so are some plants.As long as I take a look at the bananas grown in Alishan, I can tell they are from Alishan, especially when I eat them, they are immediately separated.Apples in Japan are completely different from those in Korea, which is why like attracts like.Therefore, Westerners are Westerners, and Easterners are Easterners. Due to different regions, the characters and even everything they grow are different.

The thing that things are divided into groups refers to general things, indeterminate things, classifications layer by layer, and classifications one by one.This is a natural phenomenon.Although it is a kind of natural phenomenon consciousness to say that like attracts like and things divide into groups, there are good and bad in it.So I often say that it is not uncommon for some people in Taiwan to make troubles about Taiwan independence and separation.Not surprising at all.Chinese people like to flock together, and things have been divided into groups for thousands of years.When the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, there was a dispute between Manchu and Han; later, after the revolution, there was a dispute between the North and the South. It can be said that since 1924, it has been a dispute between the North and the South.Later, within the revolutionary party, there was a dispute between Cantonese and other provinces... All the way to the end, anyway, likes flock together, and things are divided into groups!As long as human beings have space and time, as long as human beings exist, and as long as there is society, there will be disputes. Everyone pay attention to the word "society". Back then, we generally called sociology not sociology, but group studies.At that time, there was a very famous book, translated by Yan Fu, called Qun Xue Xun Yan, which was sociology.Up to now, the value of "Qun Xue Xun Yan" is still very high. He used Chinese characters, which are relatively close to the literary techniques between the old and the new, to translate it. Now, let's take a look at it again. Its social thought value is still very high, and it still exists. Yes, moreover, it is even better than the vernacular translations of today's people. Dividing things into groups means forming differences in social species.So good and bad happen, there are human beings, there are opinions, there are problems.There is no way to fight over differences of opinion.So after reading it, when you look at the affairs of the world and the chaos and disputes in the world, you will know that it is a fact that manpower is difficult to save.Like attracts like, and things are divided into groups, good and bad will happen!Here we talk about the physical world and the material world from yin and yang, rigidity and softness, heaven, earth and the universe; we talk about the spatial relationship between the physical world and the material world; If there is an opinion, if there is an opinion, there will be a fight, and if there is a fight, there will be good and bad.Therefore, good luck and bad luck are the inevitable result of the emergence of group society. The conclusion of this section is that phenomena are formed in the sky, formed on the ground, and changes can be seen.The truth is based on astronomical observations, geophysical observations, biological observations, human activities, ancient Chinese medical principles, and changes in human life. Come.Therefore, images are formed in the sky, and forms are formed in the earth. The sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, and saints should be like their objects. The sky is represented by the hexagram Qian, the sun is represented by the hexagram Li, and the earth is represented by the hexagram Kun. As a representative, the moon is represented by the Kan hexagram, the Zhen hexagram represents the thunder and lightning, the Gen hexagram represents the mountain, the Xun hexagram represents the air flow and air, and the Dui hexagram represents the ocean and rivers. There are eight phenomena in total, so it is called the eight trigrams. Gua is a phenomenon that can be seen everywhere in nature. It does not require the research of scientific instruments. As long as you are not blind, everyone can see the eight phenomena of celestial bodies.Therefore, in the sky, an image is formed, and an image is a phenomenon, a phenomenon that hangs on a celestial body. But what about the creatures on earth?It is related to celestial bodies, formed on the ground, and has a relationship with form and quality.In other words, the changes of all things on the earth, and even the growth of people and things, are closely related to the natural celestial bodies.The so-called change is seen, and the change can be seen in the middle. What is it telling us?It is a principle of change.Everyone, please remember that there are no constant things, no constant people, and no constant things in the universe.And it is changing every day, anytime, anywhere, and nothing remains the same, and it is impossible to remain the same.So I often tell young people, talk about love, talk about love, love will change!There is very little true love in the world. Love is a product of humanity and nature, and it also changes with human consciousness.why?Because all things in the heaven and earth are changing, and nothing remains unchanged, so they form images in the sky and take shape on the earth, and change is visible. After learning, you will know the truth of change and the inevitability of change.Generally speaking, we ordinary people follow the changes and cannot make decisions at all.Where is the saint?If you understand this law and can lead changes, then you are superhuman.He is well aware of the changes in the world, and he knows how to change in the next step. For example, a plate of food is brought out for everyone to eat. If you don’t eat it, the owner will clean it up after a while.You know how to eat it, that is your wisdom.Whether to eat or not depends on your ability.That's why I often say that the first class leads change; what about the second class?Grasp the changes; what about the last ones?Only go with the changes.If you should die, you should die; if you should live, you should live; these are ordinary people.Therefore, if you understand it, you should know that leadership changes, the second change is response, and the last ones don’t need to talk about it, just follow the changes and assimilate with everything.We know that all things in the universe are changing at any time, but all these changes also have their laws—images are formed in the sky and formed on the ground.Human beings and all things are subject to change.When the Dao body becomes a tangible celestial body, there are phenomena such as wind, cloud, thunder, rain, sun, moon, and stars; on the earth, there are all kinds of shapes such as mountains, rivers, animals, and plants. So we studied, and then looked at Western religions, the "Bible" said that God created all things in his image.This statement is not wrong, it is the religious believers who interpreted it wrong.This God, this heaven, is not the sky of heaven and earth, but a law of metaphysics.The state of all things is a metaphysical image; this image is transformed from the metaphysical unknowable and unspeakable thing, and it has a fixed form.It is just such a function, which is put on the cloak of religion by religious masters, and used to sell money for food, and talk nonsense.It is terrifying and disgusting to talk about that God—the metaphysical unknowable—in vivid and vivid ways.To put it bluntly, it is the law of nature. For example, when we read Zhanghui novels when we were young, we all knew that all the great people came down from the stars in the sky, and what stars came down to become such people.What's the point?It comes from Chinese culture.For example, fortune-telling, what is fortune-telling?It is astrology, the study of life.Those who are really good at fortune-telling must understand Chinese astronomy, and then they will be able to tell fortunes.Astrological fortune-telling is called the study of astrology, and its basis is scientific, based on astronomical changes.The four pillars of Jiazi, Yi, and Chou that we now use for fortune-telling represent the function emitted by a certain constellation of the celestial body in a certain year, a certain day, and a certain time. This function affects the life of newborn human beings on the earth. So, how many human beings on earth are born in the same second?People born in the same second of time as Chinese and foreigners have the same horoscope, so should their fate be the same?uncertain!So what is the algorithm?In addition to the astrology and horoscope, factors such as region and terrain are added in the middle of fortune-telling; if a child is born in the same room, one second earlier and one second later, or the mother is born standing up or lying down, there will be changes, which is very difficult. never mind.So, who can tell?There are probably only two people: one is dead and one is not yet alive.Is fortune telling 100% accurate?No!The highest and highest accuracy is only 99%, because the metaphysical unknowability cannot be calculated, and this principle must be understood.This is the principle that images are formed in the sky, formed in the earth, and changes can be seen.This is the report of Confucius. Confucius put forward the outline first to report in this article. After we understand the outline, we need to understand the sequence of hexagrams, so that we can understand the following paragraph more thoroughly.