The most beautiful and elegant works of mankind usually require enormous energy and years to create. Important, deep running relationships and master works are very similar, requiring comparable levels of care and effort to bring into being, and maintain.
The course usually recommended for such times: Don't attempt to rush things child. Instead, allow events to follow their natural course. Great care and commitment are essential to gain the success you seek. In cases where you are involved in the achievement of a particularly large or difficult task, note the strategy of the wind and rain, which shape entire continents one grain of soil at a time.
Picture your single large problem as a multitude of smaller ones simply clumped together. Then set about plucking up and dealing with only a tiny part of it at a time. In other words, break down a big unwieldy problem into an array of much smaller and easier to solve ones This is a common practice among scientists and engineers.
This method is especially handy in cases of crisis where prolonged conflict may mean disaster for all: The very best preparations for conflict require a long period of time to accomplish. Therefore, wise leaders always keep in mind the future potential engagement of an adversary, even during peaceful meetings with them that may occur years before any actual battle.
Skillful leaders will subtly guide and shape all interaction with potential hostiles so as to gain the greatest possible advantage should war later erupt. This means, among other things: concealing true strategies from the other, using illusion to make unclear your real strengths and weaknesses, and attempting to guide your enemy towards selecting a time and place of confrontation that is to your choosing, and not his should things come to that.
If such preparation is successful, any eventual battle will be short and swift, and its ending assured to be in your favor. It often overrides free will in the material realm. Man can develop himself mentally and enter the realm of spirit through refinement and purification. The realm of spirit overrides and supersedes the material realm in which karma operates. In other words, man does best for himself when acting selflessly, and acting in harmony with the laws of heaven and earth.
Therefore, the laws affecting an individual at the moment of birth are the laws governing the individual's life. In Yijing astrology, the sun is the most important factor. This is part of the individual's freedom. The transformation patterns of the sixty-four hexagrams are indicated by their logarithmic evolution, timeless hexagrams, line representations, trigram representations, sources of interpretation, and hexagram interpretation.
The complexity of the Yijing symbols unfolds at an exponential rate logarithm 2. Log 2 is used because 2 refers to the duality liangyi within unity. If the exponents are spheres, their exponential sequence forms a pyramid, which reflects Confucian hierarchy, and a quantitative existence. Evolutionary Representations:.
Symbol xiang : liangyi, sixiang, bagua Philosophy li : accurate forecasting based on the hexagram images, judgments, and commentaries generated by its contributors Number shu : binary; log 2 Yijing Schools:. Nili jia Han Dynasty : emphasized li Xiangshu jia Song Dynasty : researched trigrams and hexagrams and found relationships between mathematical symbol and philosophy; emphasized xiang, shu, and li Daojia : used Yijing principles to explain and direct meditation neidan Chanpu jia : used Yijing principles for divination predicting the future Timeless Hexagrams: Polar Opposite Hexagrams.
Timeless hexagrams, or polar opposite hexagrams, establish an axis-grid that distinguishes each hexagram by quadrant. The cardinal hexagrams mimic the cardinal trigrams of the early heaven sequence. Yao Representations: Place of Line. The place where a line is positioned within a symbol ie.
Line representations are interpreted primarily according to their numerological sequence in the given hexagram. Distinctions can be made as trigram lines, hexagram lines, most favorable lines, line actions, ruling line, outside lines, or line correspondence.
Continuous: yang Broken: yin Number from bottom inside :. Odd numbered lines: yang Even numbered lines: yin Most Favorable Lines:. Occur from bottom to top Principle Action: lines 2, 3, 4 and 5 Ruling Line:. Line 5 Single yang or yin line amongst 5 lines of opposite polarity Outside Lines:. Line 1: considerations before the activity can commence Line 6: decline after the peak of activity Line Correspondence:. Lower: earth Middle: man Upper: heaven Hexagram Lines:.
Lines 1 and 2: earth Lines 3 and 4: man Lines 5 and 6: heaven Trigram Representations:. A hexagram consists of 2 primary and 2 nuclear trigrams that overlap. Primary Trigrams:. Upper: lines 4, 5, 6 Lower: lines 1, 2, 3 Nuclear Trigrams:. Upper: lines 3, 4, 5 Lower: lines 2, 3, 4 Sources of Interpretation:.
Sources of hexagram and line interpretations sprout from indigenous Confucian sociological ideology and Taoist natural philosophy and alchemical practicum.
Odd hexagrams are heavenly following their source from Qian , while even hexagrams are earthly following their source from Kun. Hexagram Derivation Methods:. Beijing daxue chutu wenxian yanjiusuo ed. Shanghai: Shanghai guji. Search in Google Scholar. Shanghai: Shanghai guju chubanshe, 68— Xuxiu siku quanshu 2.
Xuxiu siku quanshu 15— Fu Juyou, Chen Songchang ed. Changsha: Hunan chubanshe. Beijing: Jiuzhou chubanshe. Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin daxue chubanshe, 10— Shenyang: Liaohai chubanshe.
Keightley, David N. Shun-chiu Yau and Chrystelle Marchal. Beijing: Zhongguo zhigong chubanshe. Beijing: Minzhu yu jianzhu chubanshe. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju. Beijing: San lian shudian. Shanghai: Zhongxi shuju. Chengdu: Ba-Shu shushe.
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