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What is the use of learning the "Book of Changes" for us?
Many people think that the Book of Changes seems to have only one purpose of divination. Actually, it's not. Marx once said: "There are four ways for human beings to grasp the world: philosophy, science, labor practice, and religious belief." In the words of Confucius and , the "Book of Changes" has four ways to use it: learning philosophy, guiding actions, using objects, and divination and prediction. The greatness of the Book of Changes lies in its peak in all four major fields.
1. Learning philosophy: The 64 hexagrams and 384 lines of the "Book of Changes" contain extremely rich life philosophy. It is like a dictionary. As long as you take the right mark, all life topics can be found in it.
2. Guiding actions: The hexagrams and lines of the "Book of Changes" not only describe the phenomena of life, but also provide targeted methods of dealing with things, strategies for adapting to changes, and ways to resolve them. Those who have studied the "Book of Changes" will never become nerds.
3. Use objects: The Book of Changes not only contains abstract spiritual things, but also many concrete and vivid laws, which can inspire our artistic creation, tool invention, and scientific and technological exploration.
4. Divination prediction: tracing the root of the source, the "Book of Changes" is a book of divination. Divination is to ask the omnipotent teacher of the Book of Changes for advice. Divination is a trick in the hands of "Er Zhuge and Zhao Banxian", but in the hands of wise men, it is a good teacher and friend who helps us understand life and optimize our behavior.
Learning the "Book of Changes" can be divided into five categories.
There are so many benefits to reading the "Book of Changes". People with 360 or 3600 lines can draw the essence from it. However, after learning, people can be divided into five categories:
1. Those who try it out easily can stop
Most people learn the Book of Changes by simply trying it out easily. They don’t want to study the scriptures in their entire life. As long as they understand the basic principles and use their divination from time to time, they will achieve their goal.
2. Those who are half understanding or not
are not patient enough. After reading some books, they use half a bucket of water to wander around, tell fortunes, read the eight characters, measure Feng Shui, name them... Taking this as a career, or following the saying of one family and looking at the sky.
3. Those who go deep into the quagmire
Read carefully and it is easy to trace the root of the source, but the more you learn, the more confused you feel. There are many contradictions, but they cannot be resolved, and they cannot be let go. It is difficult to get rid of the tiger, and they are crazy and twisted.
4. The good guy in Yijie
read a lot of books, has a great memory, and can accommodate it. Finally, he came to the conclusion that " Yidao is vast and omnipresent". They are similar to the good old people in the academic world, know a lot, but have few ideas.
5. Those who are proficient in Yijing
have a teacher, and they can get their true teachings, or have a high understanding and become self-taught. Such people have noble character, comprehensive actions, reasonable words and deeds, regular behaviors, and precise things. They do not need to rely on divination to make suggestions when encountering things. This is the so-called "those who are good at making things easy will not divine."
Three steps of using the "Book of Changes"
Most people belong to the first category above and just want to get a unique perspective of understanding things - divination . At this time, the "cost-performance ratio" of learning is the most important. How to master the most important and fundamental knowledge in the Book of Changes with the least time? What is this knowledge? Simply put, there are three types of core knowledge in the "Book of Changes": 64 hexagrams, 384 lines, and 4096 hexagram changes. Their uses are as follows:
Step 1, understand the present: 64 hexagrams are 64 topics about life. As long as you shake a hexagram, you can find the topics you need from the "Book of Changes" and find out what situation you are currently in.
Step 2, guide behavior: know the current situation, what should I do? The 384 line in the 64 hexagrams describes 384 situations, and the "Book of Changes" provides the best countermeasures, so you know what to do.
Step 3, predicting the future: Each hexagram in the 64 hexagrams can be transformed into 64 hexagrams, and as a result, there are a total of 4096 changes in the hexagram, representing 4096 changes in the future. The hexagram you get must be one of them, so you know what the future will be like.
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