Zhou Yi—book of change explanations (97)
子曰:乾坤，其易之門邪！乾，陽物也，坤，陰物也，陰陽合德，而剛柔有禮，以體天地之撰，以通神明之德。其稱名也，雜而不越，于稽其類，其衰世之意邪！夫易，彰往而察來，而微顯闡幽，開而當名辨物，正言斷詞辭，則備矣。其稱名也小，其取類也大，其旨遠，其辭文，其言曲而中，其事肆而隱，因貳以濟民行，以明失得之報。
Why does Mao Zedong approve the criticize of confucius? He believes that Confucius said that true meaning is the same. Of course, some of them are what Confucius himself wants to talk about. The Yin in Yijing, Zhou Yi the real truth, Confucius does not have to understand. Because I studied the birth eight characters, research for so long, Confucius has already verified that he was born on September 28th in the solar calendar. It is not what we guessed. If the solar calendar at the end of September, it must be a You month! We are called Teacher's Day. The September month is 酉, the 酉 animal is a chicken, is our chicken only crow before morning bright? Not necessarily.
易之興也，其於中古乎
In the Yi explanation, Confucius was in 600 BC, when Zhou Yi was completely set up by Zhou Wenwang, it was 1100 BC, and the 500 years, this section was regarded as the Middle Ages, so what is the ancient? Fuxi called the ancient times. When the Zhou Dynasty was called the Middle Ages in 1100, the Confucius was the most modern.
作易者，其有憂患乎The person who wrote Yi, who has worries,
Have fear?
是故<履>，德之基也
Like walking on thin ice, this is a lot of our adjectives. Its 履 is generally called Tianze Lu in Zhouyi. What are we talking about in our current literature, such as walking on thin ice. There are two movements, when it snows the lake is frozen, if the thin ice is not just when it is snowing, but is after snowing, the ice has solidified, thin ice, whether you are on land or you are in the water, you will slip, icey will split, ice cracked you will sink, and you will slip on the land. However, if walking on thin ice term was very successful, it was used by the Ming Dynasty.
易之興也，其於中古乎！作易者，其有憂患乎！是故履，德之基也。<謙>，德之柄也
It is an adjective. In fact, in ancient Chinese, nouns are often used as adjectives, and the handles of hoes or knives are nouns, and they are used as adjectives.
<復>，德之本也，<恆>，德之固也，<損>，德之脩也。<益>，德之裕也。
What is 德-De? This is serious. Many practitioners put morality in their mouths. We are called virtues. Morality is a psychological problem. There is virtue or not. This is your behavior. There is no such thing that can be described this behavior. You are going to get this virtue.
When the former family was pass away, they had to ask the monk (Taoist) to do merits. They recite some scriptures to the dead. To do this merit, I always thought, I also said it at the time, and I was beaten at the end. I said the dead. Already dead, you ask someone to do merits for him. You have no merits for living, is it useful? If I don't have merit, I want those monks to do some merits for me. Can I do a lot of bad things? I was immediately slap in the face, so our thoughts are very interesting. We want to scare people and tell him what to do, to ask people give you what you want.
No matter you have the virtues of morality or not all need to be reasonable, so you find that the truth of morality, we men often lose the debate to women, so we emphasize that women must be devoid of morality. In the end, women are not talented. If you are not talented, you can't argue with men. If you become ignorant and stupid, you will have virtue. If you are moral, it is very stupid. It is a very contradictory operation. When it came to the Song Dynasty, it was born this way.
<履>, 和而至
The front of the 履 is not the same as the latter履 , one will fall in the water, one will slip, after the ice, it is slippery on the land, in the case of thin ice, you will be in the water falling down, the two positions are completely different.
<謙>，尊而光，<復>，小而辨於物。<恆>，雜而不厭。<損>，先難而後易
Loss-損, he believes that efforts should be made first, and then can be obtained, but after the Song Dynasty's Zhu Xi, in fact, there is no good and bad Gua, like ZeShui Kun, is Kun Gua, is one of the four worse Gua, but after the Song Dynasty, to the Ming Dynasty, it is not necessarily one of the bad ones. You see that Zeshui is sleepy,Yin Chen Wu, Hai You Wei, it must be in the Dui palace, you look at the lower Dui palace, the Dui palace is the wife and the money(Yin), parents (chen) , official ghost (Wu), descendant (Hai)
, brother (You), parents (Wei), if he is doing the divine reading in Yin Mao month, is it good? If you are in the lunar month, you will be rich.
Therefore, in the principle of applying this Gua, generally before the Tang Dynasty, probably along the logic of good and bad, after the Song Dynasty, all reforms were made. Zhu Xiu reformed it and used it in the Ming Dynasty. The most successful one is Liu Bowen. He is not necessarily successful for himself. In the legend of the time, when Zhu Yuanzhang arrived at a difficult time, he must go to Liu Bowen. How can he solve the problem? After Liu Bowen’s explanation is finished, Zhu Yuanzhang will go to the execution. There was no unsuccessful one time. One time Zhu Yuanzhang went to see Liu Bowen, Liu Bowen was sick, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Liu Bowen, some of my old ministers, and those who had the merits of the world together, Liu Bowen told him that I have investigated it clearly, and your heroes are all corrupt. Can you ask if it exists? Existence is ok, but Daming will be gone after 30 years. In the end, Liu Bowen suffocated. He couldn't eat. He knew what to do. Going back have a banquet, he handled all the problems. After that, Liu Bowen was reported to have fallen ill. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately ordered the prime minister Hu Weiyong to deliver the drug to Liu Bowen, after the drink Liu Bowen died. Hu Weiyong poisoned Liu Bowen, and he was so accurate at Gua, but didn’t know whether the medicine could be drunk. He didn’t dare to do the divine reading. The emperor of Daming gave you the medicine. You don’t drink, you resist, you have to die. Hu Weiyong intends to do it in this way, and died that night. After the death, only the queen went to light a fragrant incense, even Zhu Yuanzhang did not light the incense, so Liu Bowen was so good for what, you think about it, help Zhu Yuanzhang, tell Zhu Yuanzhang, to what extent your subordinates are corrupt, all told him, Zhu Yuanzhang sending people to do it, Hu Weiyong poisoned him, 24 years later, Hu Weiyong was copied by Zhu Yuanzhang and destroy the whole family, 28,000 people were slaughtered. It is equal to Liu Bowen shows after death. People are so rumored, really? However, this kind of bad thing is done. Since I have observed it, you have to do it. You really think that this is a bad thing, but you really do it. If it is fast, you will retribute in 12 years. If it is slow, you will have it in three cycles -36 years. Retribution, I am not in moral persuasion, I have been talking about this cycle.
You do anything, you plant a seed, the place you plant, if it is suitable for people to live, this seed will sprout one day. But after germination, 30 years later, it must be a tree, a big tree, it must have such a cycle. When there were no people at that time, the big trees of those trees are now our banyan tree.
