Part 2 Question Notes

"The author paused: Please ask the gentleman who was lucky enough to find this book. Please refer to Mr. ×× Village, ×× Township, ×× County, ×× Province. He will thank you very much. The author will bow again!" I burst into tears when I saw my name on the last side of each note.

Chapter 8 Excerpt from Notes

Tomorrow, the three-month deadline will come. In the past three months, my husband has asked me to read a large number of books such as the Zhou Yi Eight Trigrams, including "Zhou Yi Ci Zhuan", "Yilin", "Plum Blossom Yi Shu", "Tuibei Tu", as well as books on the River Tu, Luo Shu, and the Five Elements, as well as Taoist classics such as "Tao Te Ching", "Zhuangzi", "Zhou Yi Shentongqi", and other miscellaneous books such as "Huangdi Neijing", and "Shan Hai Jing". I have read five kinds of comments on the Zhou Yi alone. Although I think I compare

I am smarter and I am also thinking day and night, but with such a large reading volume and such a deep theoretical book, I can't digest it even if I swallow it whole. If I really understand one-tenth of it, I should be a university professor. Anyway, I can't really finish reading these books, so I will first read short ones such as the "Tao Te Ching", and then read stories such as the "Shan Hai Jing". If I first read the catalog and chapter titles, I will first read those who are interested, and skip them if I don't.

Tomorrow, Mr. may be able to examine my study situation. What should I do? I can’t say that I am vague, I don’t know anything very well. At least, I have to remember something, otherwise, how can I submit a job?

When I sharpen my guns in the face of battle, I will be light even if I don’t feel happy. I first remembered the relationship between the five elements of generation and restraint, then remembered the corresponding numbers of the Eight Trigrams and the directions of the Eight Trigrams, and then memorized several short paragraphs from the "Tao Te Ching". Finally, I memorized the 64 hexagrams in order and remembered their hexagrams.

After reading the book for so long, I became more and more confused about "fate". I listed 20 categories of questions myself:

1. If the Book of Changes describes the basic laws of the movement of heaven and earth, then what kind of superman can have this ability to write the Book of Changes?

2. Why can the laws of the operation of the Heavenly Classic be calculated using Bagua, Heluo, and Five Elements?

3. Is human destiny destined?

4. If you cannot change your destiny, then what is the use of fortune telling?

5. If fate can be changed, how can fortune telling be calculated accurately?

6. Do ghosts and gods really exist? Where do they come from and how do they affect reality?

7. Did the ancient real people really exist? Where is the evidence? Are there any slanderings in future generations?

8. Why did great thinkers appear around 500 BC, and the great ancient civilizations are related to 38 degrees north latitude?

9. What is the relationship between dreams and reality? Has Zhuangzi found the answer?

10. Can people really become gods? If so, what method can be used?

11. Confucius said: When you know the Yi at fifty, you can have no major mistakes. Is the three most obvious knowledges of Confucius and Wei compiled in his biography?

12. Is I defining it? Is Zhuangzi making an example?

13. Can a fortune teller dominate his own destiny?

14. Among all the ancient books, I have a feeling that human wisdom seems to be degenerating. Is it true?

15. The sound is loud and the sound is sparse. Who has heard this sound? The road is invisible. Who has seen this road?

16. There are 64 hexagrams in the Book of Changes, and there are 384 possibilities in total. Does this include all kinds of destiny?

17. The Eight Trigrams represent five types of matter, and the Five Elements represent five types of properties. What is the logical relationship between them and why?

18. According to the four-pillar prediction method, if you are born in the same year, month and day, you should have the same hexagram. Do they have the same fate? This seems to be inconsistent with common sense.

19. According to the ancient divination method, yarrow is divided at will. How can this randomness be used as the basis for producing a prescribed result?

20. Why is my destiny like this? What experience will I have in the future?

I also understand that even if the gentleman gives me the answer, I can't believe it. I agree with Hu Shi's words: take evidence.

Chapter 9 Question Notes 2

What I prepared yesterday was useless. Today, my husband only asked me three questions: 1. Why do you need to learn fortune-telling? I answered: I want to know whether everyone has a destined destiny. If so, why is my destiny like this? 2. Which one have you understood so many books? I answered: I didn’t understand any one. 3. The most important thing about “gua” or “elephant” is “gua” or “elephant”? I answered: “elephant”.

The gentleman smiled and said, "Okay, I can teach you." But there is a saying that we are a teacher-student relationship, not a master-apprentice relationship, because I only have a teacher and no master. The gentleman said, "The reason I left you is because we are destined to be a father and a man. I just asked you three questions, and I have confirmed that you have the right goal, be honest and have a lot of insight. There are two reasons why we are destined to be, one is because according to my calculations, you have the fate of learning fortune telling; the other is because I will not be able to bring the knowledge passed down by the teacher to me into the coffin.

The gentleman said, you are my student, and I should let you know the source of knowledge. He told a story:

His knowledge comes from a university teacher who was sent down during the Cultural Revolution, named Wu. At that time, he graduated from high school and was a child of a landlord, and was not qualified to take the college entrance examination. As a black five (landlord and rich man against the right), when he was building a reservoir in the commune, in addition to the most tiring job of shooting gun holes, he also had the most dangerous job, which was to squints. For this reason, two people were killed by the bombs. Teacher Wu was responsible for raising flags and blowing whistles to the construction site. He and I were next to the bed in the shed. We had a good relationship. One night, he pulled me into his bed and quietly told me: There will be a squint tomorrow afternoon, and you can't squint even if you pretend to be sick, remember not to tell anyone.

The next day, I started working half-believingly. When the firecrackers were fired in the afternoon, only four of the five gun holes sounded, and there was indeed one squid. At this time, I saw Teacher Wu and the brigade secretary quarreling. Then the brigade secretary pushed Teacher Wu to the ground, grabbed the red flag from his hand, blew the whistle one long and two short, and sent a signal to the squid. Another black five-class in the same village, I ran towards the squid point. I don’t know if I remembered what Teacher Wu said last night or because of the influence of the scene just now on me, I was about to leave the bunker and stepped on a rock and twisted my feet. At this time, the squid team leader scolded: "It’s useless, I can’t rush up at the critical moment!" He took me over. Later, the squid bomb was blown up during their work, and both of them were killed.

This incident shocked me a lot. In the summer, we were assigned to a melon shed to see watermelons. I asked Teacher Wu about the bottom of it. He taught me every night. He said that he was a study of the Book of Changes, not a fortune-teller. Confucius said: Those who are good at Yi are not divine. Occasionally, they only do it for life. After five years of study with him, the investigation team came to the village to investigate his situation. The members reported it very well. In addition, his health reasons agreed to him to return to the city. After the Cultural Revolution, I went to the city to find him, but he died of illness the second year after returning to the city.

Later, I also worked as a rural private teacher, but in my spare time, I never gave up on deduction of hexagrams and learning about Zhouyi. I first secretly conducted deduction experiments with the people and things around me, and found that my accuracy could reach almost 70%. As I grew older and my experience increased, I examined more variables when interpreting hexagrams, and now the accuracy rate is about 90%. I talked about a girl when I was young, but because of my poor academic qualifications, her family opposed it. After the Cultural Revolution, I became older and "except Wushan is not a cloud", and I didn't find a better partner, so I lost my heart. I had been a private teacher who had been unable to transfer to the right place for more than ten years, so I quit my job and made a living by telling fortunes.

Chapter 10 Question Notes Three

Today, my husband began to tell me basic knowledge, which is equivalent to an introduction course in a certain major in university. At that time, he did not let me record it, just listen. But I still had to write it down afterwards, so as not to forget it after a long time.

Tao is the essence of the universe and its operating laws. Virtue is the concrete manifestation of Tao in human society. The Book of Changes is a symbolic expression of morality. Understanding the depth of the Tao in the sky determines the accuracy of predicting human affairs. Confucius said: If you know Yi at fifty, you can have no major mistakes.

1. There are three basic prerequisites for prediction: one is the way to be told; two is the name to be named; and three is the unity of man and nature.

2. There are three types of "The Book of Changes": Lianshan, Guizang, and Zhouyi. The first two have been lost, but they still retain fragments of traces in some arts.

3. The "Book of Changes" has three characteristics: difficult, changeable, and simplicity. It contains three contents: image, number, and principle.

4. The original text of "The Book of Changes" focuses on Yixiang. Confucius' "Xici Zhuan" talks about Yi's reason, and the prediction theory formed by combining He, Luo, and the five elements is to use Yi numbers.

5. Although folk talismans, mantras, Yin Shens, etc. also use some elements of the Book of Changes, they are mainly techniques rather than numbers.

Regarding the first question, the basic premise that life can be calculated: 1. Tao can be told. The great way of heaven and earth can be described. 2. Name can be named. Things can be named by the concept of language. 3. The unity of man and nature. Man is the product of heaven and earth. Observing the operation of heaven and earth, you can know the laws of human society.

Ancient sages looked up at the sky, looked down at the earth, simulated nature and drew hexagrams, forming a system of "images" symbolizing the laws of the movement of heaven and earth. Because of the unity of man and nature, they could understand human affairs. In the early days of human beings, because of their naive language, they often used intuition to observe nature, and witchcraft became the main method of communicating nature and human beings. Although there was superstitious elements, their way of thinking was holographic. Therefore, although the conclusions of understanding were vague but the direction was correct, otherwise witchcraft would not be worthless. Even during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Chu State still regarded witchcraft as a

A reference for a country's decision-making continues the worship of ghosts and gods. With the development of civilization and the development of the writing system, people combined the hexagrams of intuitive thinking with the words, and the Yi Scriptures were born. In fact, "Elephant" has a great significance in prediction. Before the Han Dynasty, there was an official position called Taibu, and after the Han Dynasty merged with Taishi, they managed the national prediction agency. If you have read the Records of the Grand Historian carefully, you will know that Sima Qian often predicts human affairs through celestial phenomena. If you have read the Spring and Autumn Period, you will know that national affairs must be asked about divination. Such as burning a tortoise shell to obtain images and corresponding to the Eight Trigrams, and drawing prediction conclusions.

Modern people's thinking mainly uses language as a tool, and our intuition is becoming more and more passive. To adapt to this change, we need to count to understand the truth. I wonder if you have ever had such experience. Sometimes when your thinking encounters obstacles, intuition is often rapid and accurate. Because in the long years of human development, the intuition obtained by holistic observation has evolved the longest time, and the reasoning generated by language has only been thousands of years.

Since "image" is born from intuition, only by eliminating all interference from language thinking and maintaining naive temperament can we reach the state of "the way of nature to be the way" in Confucianism. In ancient divination, fasting, bathing, and calming one-sightedness can be used to eliminate doubts. However, the time is easy to change, and the holy day is far away, our innocence has long been covered with dust, and we can only make one-sided judgments through mathematics and principles. Once the Tao is revealed, it is not the normal way; once things are named, it is difficult to investigate things and become knowledgeable. For example, the image of Li hexagram is Li middle empty, because Li Xiang fire, matter is transformed by the material energy of fire, and the original matter is changed, and the energy of fire is not matter, so it is symbolized as Li middle empty; if Kan is full, Kan is like water, water can fill it in any space, so it symbolizes as Kan is full. Therefore, the most important thing in the hexagram is image.

The so-called "not easy" means that the great way is always unchanged. I don't know what this great way is. Those who know it are called "the enlightenment of the way". The so-called change is also called "the birth and birth are called "the ease". Everything is changing. In the 64 hexagrams, if a line changes, the hexagram will change. The so-called simplicity means that the great way is simple. Just relying on the simple hexagram, you can "know the future against the number and follow the number to the coming."

To learn the Zhou Yi, first record the hexagrams. The formula is: Gan three consecutively, Kun six are determined, Li is empty, Kan is full, Zhen is upside down, Gen covers the bowl, Dui is missing, Xun is broken, Xun is broken. Then record the image. There are innate Eight Trigrams diagrams and acquired Eight Trigrams diagrams. You must remember the acquired Eight Trigrams diagrams in particular. The formula is: northwest of Gan, southwest of Kun, west of Dui, southeast of Xun, east of Zhen, northeast of Gen, Kan is north, and Li is south.

When making a hexagram, you must understand the numbers. Gan one, Dui two, Li three, Zhen four, Kan five, Xun six, Gen seven, Kun eight, odd numbers are yang, odd numbers are yin. Corresponding things: Gan is the sky, Dui is the marsh, Li is fire, Zhen is thunder, Kan is water, Xun is wind, Gen is mountain, and Kun is earth. It is matched with the five elements: Gan is the metal, Kun is the fire, Zhen is the fire, Zhen is the water, and Li is the fire. This is the basic knowledge of the Eight Trigrams, memorize it.

The eight trigrams are overlapped, eight, eight, six, four, and six lines of each hexagram. The order of recording of the Zhouyi is from the bottom to the top. The lowest line is the first line, from the bottom to the top to two, three, four, five, and the upper line. Any line with the name of the line is six, which is represented as the Yin line; any line with the nine is called the Yang line. For example, the first six is ​​the Yin line; the upper nine is the Yang line.
Chapter completed!