What makes the I Ching so fascinating and what is its true essence?
What makes the I Ching so fascinating and what is its true essence?
Why does the I Ching attract so many people yet study it, and what is its real charm?
Perhaps the I Ching is difficult to really read yet spiritual a dialectical thought.
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The I Ching is the most powerful field today, it explains the development and change law of everything, thousands of years to influence the development of human society, some people study the I Ching for a lifetime can not penetrate the full meaning.
The I Ching contains simple and profound dialectical thoughts on the harmony of the laws of nature, and is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation for more than 5,000 years. It recognizes and grasps the world from a holistic point of view, and regards man and nature as an organic whole that senses each other, i.e., “the unity of heaven and mankind”.
I Ching, is the summary of the high wisdom of the ancients, is an elusive thinking science, but also a great law of nature.
Therefore, the I Ching has become one of the most mysterious board, many people regard the I Ching as a “treasure”, “to avoid harm” and thus resolve the crises of life.
It can be used to guide the work, or to solve the conflicts between people, or to solve the major existential crises of human beings, which is the most amazing thing about I Ching.
All things are negative to the yin and hold the yang, and they are in harmony with the qi. The only things that people hate are loneliness, widowhood, and ungodliness, and the king and the public are called. Therefore, things or loss and gain, or gain and loss. What people teach, I also teach people. Those who are strong beams shall not die – I will think of them as godfathers.”
The reason why the I Ching has been popular for thousands of years must have a great significance for its existence.
Because, it has been found that many of the things explained in the I Ching have been verified in the changes of history.
The I Ching is a prediction of many unimaginable things in advance, which seems to be a coincidence, but is actually a summary of the laws of nature.
This is the I Ching.
The I Ching is somehow a true science that encompasses everything.
The I Ching is a true science, a summary of the laws of nature, a treasure trove that truly responds to everything.
Things are divided into two, things are multifaceted, never one-dimensional.
The Chinese thinking is soulful, one-in-two. The Western thinking is totally different from the Chinese, who are more rigid, while the Chinese are more holistic, that is, they see things in two.
Since ancient times, Chinese people do not deal with a thing blindly, which is inseparable from the Chinese I Ching thinking, knowing that food is constantly evolving and changing.
The reason why Chinese culture has been passed down for thousands of years is that it is the inheritance and development of an ancient wisdom that has accumulated over time.
It is just like a technology, which will only mature and stabilize after centuries of accumulation over time.
Therefore, all those great inventions are built up with long practice.
The I-Ching embraces all things and advocates the harmonious development of all things to achieve the truth of co-development and interdependence. Therefore, Chinese people have the cellular components of the I Ching, and are able to deal with things to the fullest extent, which is the difference between Chinese people and Westerners.
A person who is truly wise must have I Ching thinking and know how to manage things and better handle the outcome of things.
“Peace and development” is the main theme of today’s world, and also the idea of peace and harmony in Chinese culture, which is the essence of I Ching.
The development of things are in the yin and yang mode of mutual transformation, if both sides of the internal friction can only be a lose-lose, only peaceful coexistence, in order to usher in greater opportunities for development.
I Ching, a combination of diverse factors, is the greatest cultural essence of mankind.
The reason why human beings develop is because of the existence of contradictions. There are contradictions, only to promote the development and change of things, thus promoting the emergence of competition, so that things are in an active state, so as not to be dead silence. If, on the other hand, there is silence and no vitality, then things will go to extinction.
Therefore, both development and conflict are indispensable, in line with the reasoning of yin and yang transformation. Too much of either side will cause things to fall into a state of imbalance, which may result in a catastrophe.
Nothing in the world is absolute, are the balance of yin and yang state, “change is the solution” is the real reason why things can develop.
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“A life of two, two begets three, three begets all things.”
The I Ching has a similar sentence: “Yi has Taiji, is born two meters, two meters born four elephants, four elephants born eight trigrams, eight trigrams set the auspiciousness and badness, auspiciousness and badness born a great cause.”
Things are about the balance of yin and yang, the structure of opposites and existence, the cycle, the law of the week.
There is a “yin”, there is a “yang”; there is a “yang”, there must be a “yin”.
Taiji gives birth to two instruments, and the two instruments are yin and yang.
A piece of wood is a piece of wood if you don’t understand it, and it is another piece of wood if you understand it.
For example, Chinese characters express different meanings in different environments, and there are many double entendre words. For example: joyfulness and sorrowfulness, and the negation of the extreme, and so on.
The existence of Yin and Yang is one of the greatest discoveries of mankind.
Just like the universe, it looks chaotic, but in fact, “there is order in the chaos”, week after week, very regular.
Everything is developing and changing, constantly cycling, the so-called good and bad are transformed into each other, not absolute.
Yin and Yang is one thing, that is, Tai Chi, and Tai Chi can be divided into “Yin and Yang”.
After seeing through these things, we know that we should not look at the surface of a person, a person is adjusted in different environments and will change according to the changes in the environment.
The “Law of Nature” reveals the characteristics of the entire universe, encompassing the fundamental attributes of all things in heaven and earth, and all things in the universe follow the laws of “nature”.
Therefore, the source of human thought is nature, the interaction of yin and yang, and the rhythm of nature.
The I Ching is a dialectical thought close to the truth.
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Lao Zi said: “One life is two, two lives three, three lives all things”.
We must understand the Chinese thinking, which comes from the I Ching, and is by no means a figment of the imagination. Everything appears in pairs, things exist in yin and yang, never singular.
“Dark sky and day”, ‘big and small’, ‘left and right’, ‘hot and cold’, “high and low”, all things are in accordance with Tai Chi, or Yin and Yang.
The I Ching is the source of all the sutras, the originator of the development of Chinese culture, and one of the greatest forms of dialectical thinking.
The Chinese people have a common understanding of the I Ching, which is why the culture has been passed down from generation to generation.
The I Ching explains everything through the universe, a dialectical thinking that explains nature and law.
It is the interaction of yin and yang that creates the magic that is thought.
I Ching is gossip, composed of eight specific elements, is “heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain, zephyr” eight natural phenomena of change.
“Heaven and earth, wind, thunder, water, fire, mountain and zephyr represent a natural opposition, Qiankun represents heaven and earth, heaven and earth that is yin and yang, yin and yang that is Tai Chi, yin in the guarding of yang, yang in the package of yin, natural intersection, representing the I Ching of the unending flow of life!”
The I Ching is very important, it is a summary of the phenomena of the universe, allowing us to recognize the magic of the universe and to dialectically understand all kinds of things so that we can make more rational decisions.
As time goes by, we will gradually understand a lot of truths when we study the I Ching, and understand that human beings are able to discover the essence of things because they have absorbed the essence of the I Ching, which is used to guide the development and understanding of more things.
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Since the birth of the I Ching, Chinese culture has been absorbing the essence of the I Ching and summarizing it to form a powerful system of ideas and theories, which has been a great impetus to the development of mankind.
“Heaven and earth” are the two basic elements of the Eight Trigrams, which are the best place for human existence.
The I Ching tells so many dialectical ideas that one may not be able to really read it in one’s lifetime.
It is only after studying I Ching that we know how to keep a person quiet, do well, stabilize oneself internally, gradually develop one’s own strengths, and keep guiding things in a good direction.
Therefore, we live in “Qian (), Kan (), Burgundy (), Zhen (), Xun (), Li (), Kun (), Tui ()”.