Chapter 4 Biography of the Book of Changes-4

That's why hardness and softness rub against each other, eight trigrams shake each other, drumming it with thunder and shaking it, moistening it with wind and rain; the sun and the moon move, one cold and one hot. Hardness and softness rub together, and gossip moves together. Here, everyone should pay attention to two characters, one is "mo" and the other is "dang". These are ancient Chinese characters.Everyone knows our characters, a square character represents many meanings, many concepts, many thoughts.Today's vernacular is different. It takes several square characters to express a meaning or thought.This is the difference between old and new.People of this generation who started with vernacular Chinese have no choice but to read ancient books. This is the reason, because they have not been trained in writing.In fact, don’t be afraid, I often encourage you, the writing training is very simple, it takes about two weeks.

I remember that when I was in a private school, the teacher taught me exegesis. I stared at the teacher and asked questions for a week, and then I stopped listening to the class.At that time, I was studying in a private school, and the most famous teacher was invited to teach at home.Later, the teacher asked me, and I said I understood everything, so I don’t want to talk about it below.The teacher yelled at me, and I told the teacher if I didn’t believe it, but please don’t tell my father, the teacher said yes.After I talked about it, the teacher said that you really understand the child, so don’t teach it, let’s teach something else!So according to my experience, you'd better buy a copy of "Shuowen Jiezi" and read it; then read the beginning of "Kangxi Dictionary" several times to see how each word is explained.But if you want to buy the ancient wood "Kangxi Dictionary", there are seal characters on it, and you will know how to write seal characters in the future.After studying it in this way, you will understand everything, and it is almost enough to be able to study the radicals clearly.This is a shortcut, but the shortcut is also difficult to take!Because everyone has no roots!

Now we come back to this article, hard and soft rub together, and gossip swings together. Please pay attention to the two words "mo" and "dang".When we read newspapers now, we often see "friction" and "friction" in someone's opinion. The two words are put together to form a concept.However, in fact, rubbing is rubbing, swinging is swinging, and the meanings of the two words should be different.It is the reason. In the vernacular, it is the reason.So, the gossip drawn by our ancestors is the rubbing of hardness and softness, and the friction between rigidity and softness, so that kinetic energy can be generated.Rubbing is like rubbing with your hands, or touching it with your hands. This is the natural law of the physical world.In the material world, yin and yang must rub against each other, likes repel each other, and opposites attract each other. This phenomenon occurs naturally, so it is said that hardness and softness rub against each other.

What about hexagrams?It's swinging, swinging back and forth, like children playing autumn dry, that's swinging.A child playing on a swing is not called swinging. To put it politely, it is called swinging. It means sitting on a swing, swinging it high, swinging back and forth, and it is dynamic. So gossip is swinging and colliding with each other.Because cosmic physics, heaven and earth, and the sun are just like planets, everything is radiating. The energy of the sun is constantly radiating, and every planet is disturbed by it; the energy of our earth is also constantly radiating, and the sun and the moon are also affected.This is the principle of gossip.

Well, now that we understand the meaning of this word, we can know the meaning of this noun.Let’s say, you will study in the future, read Fengshui fortune-telling, and sometimes come across a "dang hexagram", if you don't understand these, it's over!What is swing?Then I listened to the nonsense of the people in the Jianghu, who talked about the Dang Gua in a very mysterious way, saying that it was a secret that was not passed on by his teacher.Back then we were confused by what we heard, but when we figured it out later, we realized that the people in the world were completely nonsense, and he didn't even learn it himself.

How can it be called rigidity and softness, gossip and gossip?Everyone, look at the gossip about Queen Wen: What is Xiangdang?With a swing like Kan and Li, the Li Gua was originally on the top, and it was thrown below the Kan Gua like a swing.When they come together, it means that water and fire are in harmony; Li Gua represents fire, and water and fire are in harmony.Or the Kan hexagram swings below the Li hexagram to produce another new hexagram, and the fire and fire are not exhausted. This is Xiangdang.If the Li hexagram swings above the Gen hexagram, it is called the Volcano Journey hexagram.Swinging below the Gen hexagram is the Shanhuo Ben hexagram.In this way, one hexagram is swung into eight hexagrams; one hexagram is swung into eight hexagrams, and eight eight is sixty-four hexagrams.

The same is true of things between heaven and earth.For example, when the door of our classroom is opened and a person comes in, you all look back, and he affects everyone. This is the principle of gossip sweeping.All changes are produced in this way, so it is said that hardness and softness rub against each other, and gossip shakes each other.I'm talking about the principle now, you can't just listen to me, you must have gossip images in your mind, as long as you move around, what will happen immediately, you will know it without thinking.Therefore, you must memorize the eight, eight, and sixty-four hexagrams. If you don’t know how to recite the words of the sixty-four hexagrams, it’s useless to listen to them; what is Xiangma?What is Xiangdang?It's only useful if you can draw it without thinking about it--drawing it clearly in your mind.

The law mentioned above by Confucius is also the law of the universe. It is drummed with thunder, moistened with wind and rain, the sun and the moon are in motion, one cold and one attribute. Isn't this the law of nature?At the same time, if you look at the writing of the ancients, you can't use a single word casually.Why drum up with thunder?It’s not like playing drums. Drums are swelling. In the hospital, I saw a patient with a big belly. Traditional Chinese medicine called it water swelling. It’s actually a liver problem. If the liver is inflamed, the belly will become big (other gastrointestinal problems, the belly will also be big) , the old name of the disease is water swelling, which is the drum.The word here is used to describe the change of kinetic energy of thunder and lightning, the drum is thunder, everything in the physical world, and the drum represents the kinetic energy of that life; the impulsive energy, expansion and growth.It is the effect of thunder and lightning, the effect of shaking hexagrams. After the thunder and lightning expand, the air flow—yin and yang rub against each other, "touch"!Just thunder, and nothing will happen after the thunder, the thunder and lightning have dissipated.What becomes after dissipating?It turns into airflow again, and the friction of the airflow generates electricity again. This is what we just talked about.

When the airflow rubs against each other, it generates electricity; after the electricity is generated, thunder strikes;Therefore, in the gossip, shock is thunder, and sun is wind; wind represents the atmosphere, and the atmosphere is in conflict with thunder and lightning, so this natural physical world-drumming with thunder, fully expands.Among them, electric energy is the most important, like atoms!Nuclear energy!Experts are now studying it, but our ancients used a code name, which includes so many meanings. In this physical world, living beings cannot survive without lightning or air currents, and lightning is not enough; therefore, it is moistened with wind and rain.Speaking of this makes me feel a lot about our current education.I remember that our teachers used to teach while sitting while the students stood and listened; now the teachers teach while standing and the students sit and listen. In the future, I am afraid that the students will listen while lying down and the teacher will teach on their knees.The world is probably almost there, isn't it?Thunder is used to drum it up, and wind and rain are used to moisten it. Our teacher at that time, after teaching here, especially circled this embellished word with a red pen, and reminded everyone that thunder is a change caused by electric current.What is wind and rain?Wind and rain are wind and rain.What do you mean by airflow?Air flow is nothing, we feel the wind is air flow, that's wrong!Wind is not air flow. Air flow is felt only when it touches an object.We hear hissing at night, it's not the wind!Although the text describes the sound of the wind as rustling, the rustling is actually not the sound of the wind, the wind has no sound; the rustling is the sound it makes when it hits an object, and the sound it makes when it strikes back.When we say we hear the sound of the wind, it is when the wind hits our face or our ears that we feel the sound.

So what are wind and rain?It's just the above sentence, "images are formed in the sky and formed on the earth, that's just a phenomenon changed by the energy of the universe.Therefore, it is not enough to encourage it with thunder and lightning, and moisten it with wind and rain. The key point is still below. When we talk about geophysics, we mean earth culture, which is always inseparable from the earth.So what does the earth depend on?Rely on the law of the solar system: the sun and the moon move, one cold and one hot. The movement of the sun and the moon will change the earth at any time, because the sun's brightness is reversed, and the earth is rotated forward. The so-called left-handed rotation of the sky and right-hand rotation of the tunnel are two different directions of rotation, which maintain the harmony of the solar system.If the earth, the sun, and the moon were revolving in the same orbit at the same time, maybe they would have collided long ago, and they would have been smashed to pieces.In this way, even our ancestors are gone, so how can we still exist?

Why don't they collide?Because they have their own rules - one forward, one reverse, always turn there.Because it rotates in opposite directions, there is a kind of gravitational force between the sun and the moon, which affects the earth in the same way.How did the hot and cold days on the earth come about?Of course we now understand that it is due to the angle of the sun's irradiation, which affects our earth and forms the phenomenon of cold and heat.But what about the ancients?They did not have the general scientific knowledge like now, and geophysics is not so developed, but they told us very clearly, using a very simple way of expressing words, explaining that the change of the weather is due to the movement of the sun and the moon, one cold and one hot.We read these words in "Children Learning Qionglin" when we were children.These two sentences contain all scientific truths; but then again, if there is no impact of Western science to compete with our Eastern culture, and if there are no records of geophysics by ancient Chinese, we will not have the science we have today. civilization. Confucius said here that hardness and softness rub against each other, and eight trigrams move together, which is a very natural principle in the universe.Thunder is used to drum it, wind and rain are used to moisten it, the sun and the moon move, and one cold and one hot, this is the principle and root of life that constitute the survival of all human beings on the earth. Another point, everyone should know, we used to study ancient prose, and we had to learn rhyme, especially when writing articles, we had to ponder every word, and if the rhythm was wrong, we had to change a word.Like the sentence here, its flat and oblique phonology is so beautifully symmetrical, and it is a very natural combination of words.The above is about the relationship between Bagua Xiangdang and the physical world and geophysics.Next comes the issue of humanity. Qiandao becomes a man, Kun Dao becomes a woman, Qian knows the beginning, and Kun makes things. In the humanistic world, Qiankun represents men and women, Qiankun is a code name, Gan represents men, and Kun represents women.In the past, fortune tellers, when seeing someone's horoscope, must first ask whether it is Gan Ming or Kun Ming; in other words, they ask whether it is a man or a woman.To become a man, everyone must not think that men are Yang and women are Yin, then you don’t understand.Because there is yin within yang, and yang within yin; in the humanistic world, Qian represents men, Kun represents women, and Qian Kun is just a code name.The following is the logical thought of Qiankun. Qian knows the beginning, and Kun makes things.Qian Gua represents metaphysics.Don't think that the so-called "metaphysics" here is a theory of Westerners. In fact, the term "metaphysics" was first proposed by Confucius.In "Xi Zhuan", there is a saying that "what is above the metaphysics is called Tao, and what is below the metaphysics is called utensils". To know the beginning is the metaphysical way.Where did life in the universe come from?Which came first, the egg or the chicken?What came first the male and the female?Where do people come from?It was changed from a monkey, and where did the monkey come from?If God created it, who created God?You say that God is born, there is no such thing; God was born by his mother, so who gave birth to his mother?Who was his grandmother? God created man is a religious statement, which cannot be explained by science.If you use the scientific method to understand research, sorry! Religious people are not allowed to visit here.What about our own religion?In the system in which Chinese culture started, it has already completely shed the cloak of religion, and it is not superstitious. It is so great! Knowing the beginning, how did all life in the universe come about?There is a history, whether you call it God, Bodhisattva, or Allah, whatever you call it, Confucius called it "dry". What is "dry"?It’s this “thing”—the thing from where everything in the universe came from.Ganzhi Dashi, from here, his life is what is now called "life energy" in science. "Can" is the assumed name. What is "can"? "Can" is nothing. After "energy" is about to be activated, it forms matter, and the code name of matter is "kun", which means that kun makes things and constitutes the physical world. Therefore, the heaven and the earth were not created by God, nor by Bodhisattvas. The universe represents everything in the universe.Kun makes things, and the code name that makes up the universe is Kun.If you ask what the metaphysical universe looks like?How did it happen?How did it change?So what does a Bodhisattva look like?What is God like?Westerners see God with blue eyes and a high nose. Orientals see him differently.Is that what the statue of Shakyamuni in the temple looks like?The round, fat and white face looks like a woman, that's what we oriental people see.Is it the original appearance of Shakyamuni?Who knows!The same is true for God. Easterners see Easterners, Westerners see Westerners, and Middle Easterners see Middle Easterners. They are different anyway.These are religious cultures. But in our culture, the cloak of religion no longer exists.It is the symbols "[three]" Qian and "[three three]" Kun, the kinetic energy of all things in the universe, that is, the energy that creates all things in the universe.Our Confucius has already said it in "Xi Zhuan": Doing is easy to know, and Kun is simple. You need to understand the functions of all things in the universe, how can it produce and create all things?This "Yi" is the "Yi"; it includes everything in the universe.After you study and understand the "Yi", you can know astronomy first, geography second, and how the universe came about. Where is Kun?Kun represents the function of the physical world.This function is very simple, and we can draw a conclusion from these two sentences of Confucius.The most profound knowledge in the world is the most ordinary; the most ordinary is the most profound. Everyone learns Buddhism, practices Taoism and believes in God, and will never understand the four words "high, deep, respectful and prudent".Whenever we mention God, Dao, or Buddha, we think how lofty and profound it is.That's why I often say to Buddhist believers, if you believe in Buddhism and practice Taoism, the Buddha and God in your mind are God and Buddha in your own imagination, and if you add that kind of mystery and profoundness to your thinking, these are not the original Buddha and God.So Confucius said: If it is easy, it is easy to know; if it is simple, it is easy to follow; if it is easy to know, you will have relatives; if you are easy to follow, you will have merit; if you have relatives, you will last long; Reasonable!The reason of the world is obtained, and the place is in it. Easy is easy to know, simple is easy to follow.In the past, there were the so-called three changes, which were transaction, change, and simplicity.Later, someone added "not easy". There is an unchanging principle in everything in the universe, that is, it is not easy.In fact, the most important truth is "transaction" and "change".All changes come from interaction, there is interaction in the change, there is change in the interaction, and the complexity of all things can be seen from the interaction of change.Today in the 20th century, there are many changes in the universe that we still don’t understand; there is also human history and culture, both in the East and in the West, which have a history of thousands of years. However, how did life originate? Where did it come from?Until now there is no way to know.Scientists and philosophers have been working on it for thousands of years, but no one can figure it out. The view on these issues is "change".After you understand the principle of change, you will know that "transaction" is the source of all things. It is very simple; it is equivalent to China's Zen Buddhism. Once you understand it, you will understand everything.The so-called easy is easy to know, simple is easy to follow, because the highest and deepest part is very simple, so it is easy for everyone to understand and practice.Therefore, the ancients simply drew the eight hexagrams, and everything is included in it, without thinking logic.Easy is easy to know, simple is easy to follow, easy to know is close, easy to follow is meritorious.Because it is easy to know, everyone likes it. Like eating, everyone knows it because it is easy!Everyone is interested in it, and if you have interest in doing it, you will achieve success. If you are easy to follow, you will have merit; if you have relatives, you will be long; if you have merit, you will be great;But for a long time is the permanent historical value.Everyone reads history, there are so many emperors in history, how many names do you know?No more than fifteen.There are so many famous generals, how many names can you name?There are so many virtuous ministers, how many can you name?why?Because his achievements cannot last forever.However, if we mention Sun Wukong, everyone knows it; when we mention Guan Gong, everyone knows it; now Yiguandao is very popular, and Jigong Living Buddha is also known to everyone.Why?This is what Confucius said, if you have relatives, you will last long, and if you are big, you will be respected by all ages.You have fame and status. After two or three years, no one will know who this person is, because he has no long-term and great achievements. It was quickly forgotten. Easy and simple, the reason of the world can be obtained, and the reason of the world can be obtained, and the position of success is among them. The knowledge of the book is not profound at all, because it is ordinary, and the truth of everything in the world is hidden in it. The principle of the world is in it, and this law includes all the laws of applied physics and all the rules of human beings.