Zhou Yi-book of change explanations (103)
夫乾，天下之至健也
We use the meaning of 健, arrival to the top, and 至 meaning all the wayto the top, the most to your mind. The Arctic is the northernmost place on the earth. Then, when it is past, it is going south. Its theory seems to be yang in our yin. And Yin in our yang. When we are in division, Bu will go to Old yang, and the Yang will become Yin. Just like the same 至 as before, you will definitely go down again when you reach the peak. It is down. Stand at the center of the Arctic and go further. It must go south. It will never go north again, so we have a position. It seems that the navigator must locate. I have to go there and have a Polaris.
How are the Polaris coming? Everyone is discussing about it. All of us studying fortune telling are studying Taiji’s two instruments, two instruments then four images, four images and eight trigram, and eight trigram to all kinds of things. In fact, the opposite is often the inverted sentence. It is combined and observed by all things, and it is painted into trigram. The trigram is combined with the whole universe to determine Taiji.
But there are only two instruments in Tai Chi, so how do you pick up the two instruments? Each Yang is connected to four yangs, and the four cymbals of Yang lines at the bottom, and yin are connected to the four Yin lines.
Center on Polaris. So the Polaris is down to the Big Dipper, and then the stars of Big Dipper. In this way, have been talking about it all the way turning upside down. I have always stressed that at 45 degrees north latitude, the North Star looks very clear. As we all know, our 24 solar terms are divided by the Big Dipper at the same point. Otherwise, how can it be as accurate as the solar calendar, and it accurately is unbelievable, exactly the same as the astronomers now, because he stands at a place that uses a coordinate of the North Star, a circle of the North Star, and that scorpion as a cut. Just set a time. We are looking towards the North Star at the same time, at 12 o'clock in the evening, to see which one is at that angle. At this angle, our earth is set at 24 degrees.
至漸 means moving, this activity must be for people to come to see this activity, the h夫 is a language auxiliary, 乾 is sky, so the sky is strong, and finally the gentleman is self-improving, must be serious, must work hard.
Why are there no gods in our Book of Changes, are we not having “four books” and “five scriptures”? In my cognition, the first Yijing, then the Book of Songs, the Book of Scripture, the Spring and Autumn Period, the Book of Rites, it is psychological. Natural, cosmic, active, the entire history, the Five Classics are still human-centered, using people to see the natural universe, called the Book of Changes, the use of people's psychological comfort, including the expression of this thing, is the Book of Songs, the Book of Scriptures, this is a human-centered. Why do many thinkers talk about Confucius, why do you talk so many things, only to talk about this, this is humanism, there are 161 Confucius Institutes around the world, it is a pity that they are not fortune-telling, why?
Because after the May Fourth Movement, the section of the fortune-telling was clean. In mainland China, the former landlords, including those of capitalism or imperialism, could go out. The person exists. Because after the May Fourth Movement, although it was necessary to break the four old, but this four old good antiques, some took away abroad, and then came to the Cultural Revolution for ten years, from the university to the research institute, even the small country, after ten years of suspension of classes, to Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening up, the entire culture to be accepted is through Western culture. This culture is gone. We still have a little bit of antiques. To what extent is Beijing antiques worthy? You can't imagine it.
德行恆易以知險
This knowledge 知 double interpretation, it is psychological, virtue is psychology, 行 is verb, 行 is ancient word, so Minnan is Heluo, it is special about ancient Chinese, walking is 行, modern language is called walking, in Taiwanese Going is running, so ancient Chinese is different from Heluo in Chinese, and Chinese is ancient. Why don't people go to Zhou Yi's Yijing? Because he can't read it, so he talks about virtue here, it is psychological, Hengyi 恆易to aware of danger.
You must be mentally prepared, so if you explain it in this way, you will know that Confucius finally put this paragraph in the following paragraph, which is his explanation.
夫坤，天下之至順也
Shun 順 is the meaning of exercise, no matter what you are, it must be moving, no movement is static, no need to 順, Kun, we now have geophysics to explain, it is exactly the same as the 1666 Newton now, static is still, moving is movement constantly, the earth is always the perpetual constant motion.
It can be seen that Zhouyi itself is physics. It has very little chemistry. After the yin and yang school, there is chemistry. The fortune-telling Jia Ji combined to the earth. This is chemistry. Therefore, our characters must be chemistry in addition to physics. I have always stressed that you use God in your branch, but the useful god is not through up, then there is no combination, you will be tied. Your chemistry doesn't exist. You can’t use it, so I have something to exist has to rooted.
You should not think that breathing oxygen is very simple, oxygen is rooted in our water. The oxygen in our air is in the water of the sea, and any water is rooted. If there is no root, how do you exist, there is no way to exist.
You study the eight characters have to study this nature. Why is there a character? Because it starts from the Yin and Yang school and from the Warring States. There is no way to solve the problem, that is, using research chemistry, from the parallel of physics and chemistry, so in the Warring States period, it has turned upside down, and then our reading, the San must be physical, the Yi must be chemical, and Ming is psychological. The Xian is physiology, division is the magnetic field, with the induction, this is the most modern of the divination, just like cell phone, the most modern, your energy have to be strong enough.
The last hodgepodge in Zhouyi, the hodgepodge is sketchy, you will understand the Yijing in nature, the universe, in fact, people are the main body, everyone puts people away, every day memorized it, easy to pass, every day talking about Zhou Yi, if you leave people alone, can Zhou Yi still exist? No. But if you have people, you can make the concept of Zhou Yi exist.
