The Wisdom of I Ching--The First Hexagram: Gan

stands by and moves, advances and retreats wisely

a little bit of wisdom

94: Or leap in the deep. Blameless

If the dragon leaps up or retreats into the abyss, there will be no disaster. You can advance or retreat, if you can advance, you "jump", and if you can't advance, you can retreat. Everything is moving on standby, not blindly performance, jumping is for development, retreat is for actively preparing for development, and preparing conditions for jumping.

God is fair and just. It will give everyone a fair amount of time, big and small. Some people are good at grasping the opportunity and have achieved their own career, while some people let the opportunity slip away again and again, and finally Nothing can be achieved.

Opportunities appear every day, and only those who are good at timing will become winners. Lao Tzu's so-called "exceptional use of troops" means to wait for the time to suddenly launch an attack, surprise and attack it.

Shu Sun Tong in the late Qin and early Han dynasties can be said to be a smart man who knows how to move on standby. He was originally a doctor waiting for the order of Qin Dynasty , and later brought 100 students to join Liu Bang . Liu Bang didn't like Confucian scholars, so he specifically recommended the "Skilled Commander". His disciples complained quite a bit. He said to his disciples: "Now is the time to fight the world, can you take part in the battle? You wait patiently, I will not forget you." After Liu Bang became the emperor, he abolished Qin Shiyi Fa, and as a result, "the officials drank wine to fight for merit." , Drunk or screaming, draw your sword and strike the pole". Liu Bang was very annoyed. Shusun took this opportunity and suggested to Liu Bang: “Confucian scholars are difficult and enterprising, but they can be successful with Shou. The minister is willing to recruit the students of Lu and join the court with his disciples." So he invited the scholars of 鲁国. A total of more than a hundred people and their disciples performed the emperor's courtesy. Later, the court ceremony was formally held according to this etiquette, and no one dared to make a noise and be rude. Liu Bang was very happy, and said: "I am the emperor's precious person today." He worshipped uncle Sun Tong as too often and gave five hundred gold. Shu Suntong took the opportunity to say to Liu Bang: "My disciples have followed me for a long time. This time, I will work out and perform the etiquette of the previous dynasty with me. I hope that your majesty can reuse them." As a result, his disciples all got "lang". Position. Uncle Suntong also distributed the five hundred gold rewarded by Liu Bang to the disciples. All the disciples were very happy.Said: "The sage of Shusun Tongcheng also knows the important tasks of the world."

Of course, Shusuntong does have a vulgar style of flattering in his life. For example, in order to please Liu Bang, he took off his Confucian costume and put on short clothes. But he can understand the current affairs, stand by and move forward and retreat well, which is quite worthy of our study. Simaqian also praised him for his "sparing life, making rituals, advancing and retreating, changing with the times, and dying as Han Confucianism".

The timing must be combined with the use of subjective initiative. Sometimes there will be favorable times, circumstances, and conditions, and people can succeed as long as they make good use of them.

The wolf is waiting for the flock of sheep in the ice and snow, and what it pays is stronger courage and patience. Those running sheep appeared, but if it were not the best chance, the wolf would wait until the old, stupid and fat sheep appeared. Only when the distance was very close, the wolf rose up. Grab the delicious meal that you wait for.

Sometimes people only see the changing trends of the times, but they don't provide ready-made favorable conditions and opportunities. This requires creating conditions and opportunities for success in accordance with the changing trends of the times, instead of passively coping with the current situation and waiting for the opportunity. As the world-renowned fund manager Julian Robertson said to pick it up. "

Great people’s success and waiting to move

The success of great people naturally has a lot to do with their own talents, but it is undeniable that they know how to take advantage of the situation and move on standby. This is their success. The most important factor. "A dragon without a cloud is an adult, and a tiger without a wind is like a dog." "Successful people in history will not go against the current situation and act rashly. If the time is not ripe, they will be content to be lonely and watch the changes. For example, Jiang Taigong fishing leisurely in Weishui, Zhuge Liang hugs his knees in Longzhong; Once the situation meets and the fortune suddenly arrives, you will rise up, do your part, change history, and benefit the people. For example, during the "Xuanwu Gate Change", Li Shimin preemptively attacked and killed the elder brother to build; Zhao Kuangyin instigated "Chen Qiao" Mutiny", the yellow robe was added to the body. This is what Confucian said, "If you are poor, you will be alone.Darth will help the world.” It can be seen that opportunities and situations are important to those who have aspirations. Mencius said: “Although there is wisdom, it is better to take advantage of the situation. "Therefore there are great wise men who do not fight against the sky or fight against the forces. Because they understand that truth is like a boat, and fortunes are like a river. Without this vast water, the boat of truth can only stay in place.

Stand by and move , Is to tell us not to act blindly, but to wait for success with patience.

In a marketing report of a multinational company, a huge iron ball was hung in the center of the stage. An old man introduced using a hammer to handle The rules of the big iron ball being beaten up, soon two young people came to the stage and picked up the hammer and slammed the iron ball, but the iron ball did not move. When all the capable ones returned without success , The old man took out a small hammer from his jacket pocket, and struck the huge iron ball seriously, knocked, stopped, knocked, stopped again. People looked strangely, could it be with a big iron ball? It’s useless to hit hard with a hammer, but can the big iron ball move with a small hammer? Time slowly passed, ten minutes, twenty minutes, the people in the audience began to lose patience, but the old man still hammered again and again The iron ball was hit with a hammer. About forty minutes later, a front-row audience suddenly yelled: "The ball moved!" People found that the big iron ball really started to swing. Ten minutes later, the big iron The ball actually began to swing very rhythmically. The old man said something intriguing: On the road to success, if you do not have the patience to wait for success to come, then you have to use the patience of your life to face failure.

Every one of us may encounter troubles. When you hit a wall, it is like facing the huge iron ball, like hitting it with a sledgehammer, and you can’t make it move at all, so you start to feel frustrated. Doubt—maybe it’s impossible to shake the iron ball, so you give up, and the iron ball still stays there safely. You are so easily away from success, unlike those who have patience, they know how to persevere, they Keep your goal in mind and tell yourself: "It's worth working hard for this goal. Try again. "In the end, they shook success with a small hammer.

Patience can make you more peaceful and caring. The more patient you are, the more tolerant of reality, and you will not require life to be what you want. Generally, then opportunities will come because of your patience.Without patience, life will make you suffer from setbacks, and you will be troubled, anxious, and irritable at every turn. Only with patience can your life increase the characteristics of ease and tolerance, which means that you can be calm with the wisdom you are in at this moment. If you are blocked in a traffic jam and are late for an appointment, being calm means that you can stop yourself from thinking about things getting worse before your mind loses control, and calm her to remind yourself to relax. This may also be a breath of breath. Great opportunity.

The challenge you are facing now is not a matter of "life and death", but the patience you must overcome to help you maintain insight into things. You will see even in a difficult situation, even if you have a small obstacle. Without patience, the same situation can become a first-class emergency, with yells, depression, injuries, high blood pressure, etc. all available. In fact, it’s not worth it at all. No matter if you are dealing with your child, your boss, or a difficult person or situation-if you don’t want to "get angry with little things and miss the opportunity, improve your patience." It was an excellent start."

An effective way to increase patience is to set a practice time. Life itself becomes the classroom, and patience is the lesson. You can start from just 5 minutes and gradually increase your patience capacity. At the beginning, tell yourself, "Well, for the next 5 minutes, I will not allow anything to bother me. I have to be patient." You will find that the result is It's amazing. You will realize that you do have the ability to be patient, and gradually you can become a patient person.

Patience is a kind of self-cultivation, it requires you not to be impatient, and act calmly; patience is an understanding, it requires you to reflect on yourself and consider others more; patience is a tolerance, it requires you to be full of love and be kind Friends and yourself; patience is another expectation. It requires you to greet the arrival of success with the right attitude, just like planting seeds and waiting for maturity. Pulling out seedlings to encourage growth and killing chickens to get eggs are the best examples of lack of patience.

In a rapidly developing modern society, opportunities are like the air around us, omnipresent, and it is not easy to stay lonely and maintain patience. From a certain perspective, opportunities are rare, and patience is even harder to find. Rejecting temptation is more difficult than overcoming difficulties in work. To overcome temptation is to overcome oneself. Faced with opportunities, who can not be tempted? The problem is that in this era, there is only patience. The difference between them lies in the challenge of patience and the grasp of opportunities.And it is not advisable to fail to grasp the opportunity, or to just focus on the opportunity and give up patience. Once you go and stay on standby, you must be good at seizing opportunities.

To advance and retreat, knowing how to score, is like jumping tango . If you can make progress, you will take a step forward. The ancients cannot attach importance to life in the world, and it also shows that life is important to a person. There is a saying in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to understand how to behave in the world: "Being in a world is not important, not a husband." It can be seen that if you make progress, you must take a step back. In short, you must avoid stepping on other people's feet, otherwise, the dance will not go on.

"Shang Shu·Lv Mastiff" said: "For the mountain nine ren, the work falls short." There is only a basket of soil and no success, all previous efforts are abandoned. Who caused this? Confucius replied: It's me.

For the same reason, we have to fill up a piece of land. Although we have only poured a basket up now, if we persevere in it, we will finally be done. Who caused this? Confucius replied: It's still himself.

Therefore, the success or failure of advances and retreats are all on their own, rather than the slang saying " Han Xin ". Take Han Xin's case as an example. When he succeeds, Xiao He only has the power of recommendation; when he fails, Xiao He only has the power of planning, and both recommendation and planning are only external factors, and the real internal determining factor lies with Han Xin himself. Therefore, strictly speaking, it is not "the success is also the same, and the failure is the same", but "the success is also the Han Xin, and the failure is also the Han Xin." By extension, it means success and failure.

In this case, don't push the reasons for the success or failure of advances and retreats to external factors. Don't blame others, focus on taking control of yourself, and firmly control your own destiny in your own hands. Of course, this is not to say that we don't need external conditions and environment, and we don't talk about opportunities, but that all external conditions, environments, and opportunities are created, formed, and seized by ourselves, and everything must work through ourselves.

still sings well in the few lines of " Internationale ": "There has never been a savior, nor is it dependent on the emperor of the gods. To create the happiness of mankind, we all rely on ourselves!"

For individuals,It's still the same: the success or failure of advance and retreat is all in oneself. For the way forward and backward in the world, we should pay attention to the following four points:

First, the prestige is established in the world.

As the saying goes: "The virtue of a gentleman, the virtue of a villain". In a peaceful and prosperous time and social stability, one must develop moral prestige, "The wind on the grass will be overwhelmed." Virtue prestige is not artificial, but the expression of compassion, which is the manifestation of virtue. People with prestige can be respected and trusted by others. Regardless of groups, agencies, or organizations, the prestige of leaders is the condition for leading a team or organization to prosperous governance, and it is also the key to creating meaningful value.

Second, use tact in troubled times.

When the social order is chaotic and the ethical relationship between people and self is abnormal, one cannot blindly remain unchanged, but must be a little more accommodating. YTO is not without principles, but don't care too much about details, don't be too obsessed with rules. Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva can find his voice and save suffering because his ears are well connected; 金山寺 Zen Master Miao Shan is called the "living Buddha" because he is skillful in saving lives and solving the sufferings of all living beings. Be understanding of human relationships, self-interested.

Third, be courteous at high places.

The so-called "nothing can win the cold", as your career is bigger and your status is higher, the more you have to understand the philosophy of "bow your head". The famous entrepreneur Yao Hongying once said: "The reason I have achieved today is only after bending and bowing to how many people." Master Cihang also said: "If someone hates you, you can hold your head up! "Humility and respect are not polite, nor hypocritical. It is softness from the heart, respect and acceptance of people and things. Those in high positions can be humble, like a pyramid, steady and thick. The more a person knows how to be humble and respectful, the more popular he is.

Fourth, work hard in low places.

Some people often sigh that "birth is not at the right time" and "because of talent is not met". In fact, if you are really capable, but you are born at an untimely time, or if you are very virtuous but are not valued by others, at this low ebb, don’t worry or be disappointed. , And be ready to "get up and go", once the cause is ripe, I am not afraid that it will not be launched. Therefore, a person "doesn't suffer from being incapable of position, and therefore stands up."

The ancients said:Putting people first, standing in the world, and etiquette-oriented. "Knowing how to advance and retreat in an orderly manner is the basic condition of being a person and doing things. Otherwise, even if you know the world and don’t know how to advance and retreat, you will always be foolish. In particular, being respectful in advance and retreat, and magnanimous in dealings, is the way to live in the world.

If a person’s speech and demeanor are not measured, someone will criticize him for “not knowing how to advance or retreat”; if a person treats others in accordance with the law, someone will say that he is “advancing and retreating.” When a person is "dilemma", it means he is Falling into the dilemma of being unable to move forward and unable to retreat; a person who loses his senses in an accident is "failed to advance and retreat." If a person only knows "progress", then he only has half of his life; if he also knows "regress", it is A complete life, therefore, we must both advance and retreat.

A complete life must be like dancing tango, with advances and retreats. How to advance? When to retreat? The way is very big, we must use intelligence to be able to Really appreciate the profound truth of "being in a good way, advancing and retreating well".

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