Chapter 16: Follow the Times

In this chapter, I will talk about the way of thinking in Chinese culture, and in order to understand this question, we must first talk about Confucianism and science.

Let's talk about Confucianism first. Confucianism, softness also. Soft, the first hair of the wood, tender and weak also. Confucian, weak and soft. To put it simply, Confucianism is the study of weakness and softness. As the name suggests, it is the study of reasoning. Reason, trees must have a pattern wheel and a hierarchy over the years, which is a metaphor for the law or order of the development of things. Science is the study of the law of the development of things.

Both Confucianism and Confucianism in China are materialist studies, that is, studies that focus on the study of the natural laws of all things in the universe. Western philosophy, on the other hand, is the study of spiritualism, that is, the study of telepathy between species with spirits and souls in the universe.

Confucianism and science study all things, and calculate the laws of the development and movement of all things in the universe through binary numbers. Philosophy, on the other hand, only studies mental activity, objects with idealistic activity, that is, only the laws of development and activity of animals and plants with souls.

To get straight to the point, I can say bluntly that this is the reason why Chinese do not have the ability to think objectively logically.

Quite simply, because you don't pay attention to the importance of the laws of activity and development of idealistic species, naturally you don't pay attention to the objective and idealistic laws of development of soulful creatures. For Confucianism and Confucianism, which demonstrate the law or order of the development of things, only visual thinking and sensory thinking are sufficient.

Therefore, it is not surprising that traditional Chinese culture only has a dual mindset of intuition and senses.

This is the reason why Chinese Confucianism and science are one level lower than Western philosophy. Chinese Confucianism and science is a study that specifically demonstrates the law of development of all things, standing at the level of "materialism", only observation and feeling are enough, so Chinese traditional culture has not crossed the gap of dualistic thinking, and it can be understood when it enters the level of objective idealistic thinking, because this way of thinking does not need to use objective thinking to perceive the laws of activity in the spiritual world, and naturally there is no need to cross the gap of dualistic thinking.

Philosophy starts from the level of idealism, from the level of the heart, through the process of observation and feeling and finally to perception, so philosophy pays attention to the existence of objective idealism, pays attention to telepathy, spiritual evolution, and the soul is unique. Philosophy believes that the existence of human beings and all things is the reason for the possession of the soul, and human wisdom is the means to control the soul and spirit, only the deeper the wisdom of human beings, the stronger the ability to control the soul and spirit, and the more the self-will can be exerted to the extreme.

This is the reason why Westerners revere the self-worth of the soul and spirit.

It is also the reason why philosophy recognizes the existence of objective idealism.

The Chinese do not need this, because the Chinese emperor does not advocate the self-consciousness of the people, does not need the existence of soul and spirit, and naturally does not need the existence of objective idealism.

So you will see that all religions in the West are theistic religions, while all religions in China are atheistic religions.

This is the cultural gap between the East and the West.

Let's review Confucianism and science again.

What is Confucianism, Confucianism, Rou also. Soft, the beginning of the wood, extended into is the beginning of the wood, delicate and elegant. Confucianism, soft and elegant also. A slender gentleman, soft and elegant, that is, a Confucian.

Therefore, Confucianism adheres to the way of subduing the strong with the weak, overcoming the strong with softness, suppressing the vulgar with elegance, and overcoming the power of robbers with the power of softness, and then exerting force. This is also the way of Tai Chi. Therefore, Confucianism takes sheep culture as the upper sect and uses dualistic culture as the ideological basis, this is Confucianism, as long as you guarantee to be a good child, you are a true Confucian.

What is Confucian culture, Confucian culture believes that there is reality in the void, and there is fiction in the reality. You have me, I have you, you and I don't distinguish, it can also be compared like this, others bully you, you quickly run to the other camp and say: don't beat me, you have me, I have you, we are together, this is Confucian culture. If it is a traitor culture, it is not unavoidable, because there has been no shortage of traitors in China since ancient times.

What is science? Trees have growth rings, and textures remember the past years. Therefore, the science of science believes that all things in the world have their own legal principles before they exist, which is a legal principle that everyone must abide by, and the reason why the emperor is the emperor is determined by heaven. The texture is set before there is no tree, so you are poor and deserve to be poor. He is a nobleman, he should be, determined by heaven, and learned from things.

This is Zhu Xi's science. It is said that it is the culture of science, and it is not impossible to use the theory of robbers, and suppression and crackdown are important means of Zhu Xi's science. Therefore, most of the people who learned Zhu Xi's science were Zeng Guofan, Yuan Shikai and others.

Many Chinese do not understand their own culture, what is the use of pursuing their own culture with enthusiasm? Chinese culture itself has serious flaws, and the defect lies in the dualistic culture based on Zhou Yi theory, which is single and only between intuitive thinking and sensory thinking.

So what is only intuitive thinking and sensory thinking?

First of all, intuitive thinking, intuitive thinking is actually the process of what we observe with our eyes, that is, what we see with our eyes wide open. This process is the process of intuitive thinking.

Sensory thinking is the process of taking an upward step in intuitive thinking. The process of transmitting what we see when we open our eyes to the brain. We open our eyes to see things, and transmit them to the brain through intuitive thinking, and the sensory recognition function in the brain analyzes it, and the sensory function in the brain determines whether to have or give up, whether to move forward or backward, which is sensory thinking.

The primary behavior of human beings is determined by intuitive thinking and sensory thinking, and the cultural level generated by intuitive thinking and sensory thinking is the cultural level of dualistic thinking.

However, in fact, there is a third thinking process in human consciousness, which is objective idealistic thinking.

This way of thinking is not available to the Chinese, or it is not recognized by the Chinese. The reason is very simple, such as Confucian culture, Confucianism is a culture inherited from the "Zhou Yi", and the root of the "Zhou Yi" is a dual culture, that is, the cultural level generated by intuitive thinking and sensory thinking.

In the same way, science advocates innate gossip, and takes yin and yang "qi" and "reason" as the foundation of science, and natural science is also a culture formed by outright intuitive thinking and sensory thinking.

Some people say that Zhu Xi's science is an objective idealistic culture, but this is because he doesn't understand what objective idealistic culture is.

Zhu Xi's theory of science is completely based on the theory of "rational qi" as a theoretical framework, and only exists in intuitive thinking and sensory thinking, and does not raise the ideological method to the level of objective idealistic thinking at all, how can it be an objective idealistic culture?

As far as China's Confucian culture is concerned, both Confucianism and science are the products of intuitive materialist culture, and they have nothing to do with objective idealistic culture at all.

Many people are wrong to classify ancient Chinese culture as an objective idealistic culture, which shows that China's theoretical circles do not have a unified, accurate, and clear understanding of ancient Chinese culture.

As to whether ancient Chinese culture is an objective idealistic culture, we can intuitively understand it through the religious culture of ancient China, because the religious belief in ancient China was atheistic, which is very simple to tell you that traditional Chinese culture is not an objective idealistic culture, but a product of pure intuitive materialist culture.

In this world, only the traditional Chinese religion is an atheistic religion, and apart from China, all religions in the world are theistic religions.

The purpose and core values of science are actually the cultural products of the material base determining the superstructure, and China's feudal rulers have always done so, and China's royal power has always run through the metaphysics of the consciousness of the determination of things, so only the Chinese under the whole world say "Under the Putian, it is not the king's land; the shore of the land is not the king's courtier." In this sentence, only Chinese have the idea of "the unity of heaven and man".

The theory of science is based on the knowledge of things, the existence of heaven and reason is the inevitable choice for determining the existence of matter, and the possibility of the existence of all animals and plants is determined by the location of heaven and earth, which shows that science is a pure intuitive materialist culture, and does not include the objective idealistic understanding of human nature into its theoretical scope, and it can also be said that the entire traditional Chinese culture does not realize that the objective idealistic thinking method is a thinking method that only human beings have, which is the fundamental difference from all material worlds.

The world of objective idealism can only be possessed by human beings, and the idealistic consciousness that can understand the objective world only comes from human wisdom, and only human beings have wisdom higher than all spiritual animal species, and the wisdom of all species with life consciousness in the real world cannot match that of human beings.

Therefore, human beings have the wisdom to understand the defective world, and for everything that cannot be satisfied, human beings can transform it to achieve the purpose of human will.

Transforming the world, transforming nature, and understanding oneself are the concrete embodiment of human wisdom.

Transforming defects and creating value is the embodiment of human beings surpassing all animals.

Therefore, human beings have the consciousness of self-transformation and objective idealistic thinking, and in order to make human society more civilized and perfect, human beings have a third way of thinking that is higher than the intuitive thinking and sensory thinking that all animals have, that is, objective idealistic thinking.

This is the way of thinking that humans have but animals do not have, this way of thinking is only possessed by humans, but animals do not have, and this is the fundamental reason why human civilization should have objective idealistic thinking.

In intelligent animals, it is not possible to obtain information by organizing a rigorously verified and credible solution to a problem by having intuitive thinking and sensory thinking, and the thinking method used to support the scientific nature of the above natural phenomena comes from objective idealistic thinking.

Chinese naturalism from ancient times to the end of the Qing Dynasty is a combination of intuitive thinking and sensory thinking, in fact, Chinese culture lacks objective thinking, which is the hard wound of ancient Chinese culture, and the most basic method of science is objective thinking, that is, through objective thinking to stand at the height of the third party, objective reality to understand the existence of reality, and this is exactly what Chinese culture does not have.

Even the so-called saints such as Lao Tzu, Confucius, Zhu Xi, Wang Mingyang, etc., whom the Chinese have repeatedly admired, do not possess objective idealistic thinking, and these people's thinking locks themselves in a single dualistic thinking, that is, intuitive and sensory thinking, due to the inheritance of "Zhou Yi", and cannot surpass this idealistic mountain that lies above human ideology, and only hovers above the two low-level consciousnesses of intuitive thinking and sensory thinking, which is the gap between Chinese culture and Western culture.

What's the use of always touting an already flawed culture to the sky? A gap is always a gap, and if you don't learn and catch up, you will never be able to catch up with the advanced civilization, and that's a fact.

Therefore, in ancient China, there was only scientific and technological methods, but no scientific methods, and you only wandered around in intuitive thinking and sensory thinking, how could it be possible to produce an objective and idealistic logical thinking method? and the logical thinking method is the only method that a scientist must have.

This is also the reason why Chinese religion is an atheistic religion, without objective idealistic logical thinking, it is impossible for you to recognize the existence of soul and spirit, and people who do not agree with the existence of soul and spirit can naturally only believe in atheistic religion.

Only recognizing the ideology of learning from things, which only exists in China, transcends the shackles of the principle of "Zhou Yi" and produces the third kind of objective idealistic logical thinking that naturally exists in human wisdom.

However, it is not accurate to completely deny that the Chinese do not have objective idealistic logical thinking, and the Chinese do not have objective idealistic logical thinking, not intentionally by the Chinese, all this is the result of the feudal dynasty's deliberate self-suppression.

Since ancient times, Chinese metaphysics have deliberately suppressed the emergence of the people's ability to think objectively and idealistically, and it is not that Chinese are born without objective idealistic thinking. Since ancient times, China's superstructure has not allowed the people to have too much objective idealism, because the issue is very sensitive, and it is better not to go further.

The reason for all this phenomenon is the result of the word "easy".

This has to say what is "easy" and what is "easy"? "easy", "say" has a word "don't", the vernacular interpretation is the meaning of not talking, there is a word "don't" under "say", saying is to speak, don't is not to don't, adding up naturally means not to speak.

If you don't let you speak, how can it be "easy"? If you don't let you speak, you will let you guess, and if you guess the process before and after the development of things, isn't it "easy"? Haha, how simple it is, so it's easy to change, flexible guess, guess and guess. These are the three truths of "change, changeability and change" that Yi scholars often talk about. Understood, it's easy to guess, guess is to measure, that is, to predict.

"Zhou Yi" is the theory used by the people of the Zhou Dynasty to guess, that is, to predict.

What is the basic theory of "Zhou Yi"? It is "Yi has Taiji, which is to give birth to two rituals, two rituals to give birth to four elephants, and four elephants to give birth to gossip." "That is, the principle of binary numbers that we learn from Western culture today, which is also the principle of computers.

What is Tai Chi, Kong Yingda said: "Tai Chi means that before heaven and earth are divided, the vitality is mixed into one, that is, the beginning and the one." "So Tai Chi is the round ball at the beginning of chaos, for one.

Therefore, Chinese culture began with a round thing in chaos, that is, Taichu and Taiyi. One two gets two, and a chaotic ball gives birth to a two-faced two-faced instrument.

What is Yi? "Shuo Wen" says: "Yi, degree also." "Degrees, laws, too. "The law is infinite in expansion and contraction, there is certainty, and there is no certainty. In layman's terms, what are the two instruments? It is two degrees that are half virtual and half real, which can be stretched and cannot be extended, and there is a definite and there is no definite dharma. It can be stretched and retracted, and it can be long or short.

Therefore, since ancient times in China, the law has been a scalable and contractable system, and it is in the mouth of the emperor, and the emperor will say that it will be long and short, and he will have the final say. Do you understand, the vitality is mixed into one, it is the birth of two instruments, the length is uncertain, but then again, it is really impossible to determine, who can determine how big the universe is, and scientists have not calculated how big the universe is.

I am not sure, I can't determine how big the scale of the "instrument" is, but it does not prevent the two instruments from giving birth to four images. What are the four elephants? Spring, summer, autumn and winter, also represent the four elephants of gold, wood, water and fire, east and west, north and south, left and right, left and right, green dragon on the left, white tiger on the right, Vermilion Bird on the top, Xuanwu on the lower and so on.

Eryi is uncertain, of course, spring, summer, autumn and winter, gold, wood, water and fire, east and west, north and south, left and right, left and right, left and right, right white tiger, upper vermilion, lower Xuanwu and so on four elephants are more varied, the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter are varied, gold, wood, water and fire, east and west, north and south, left and right, left and right, right white tiger, upper vermilion, lower Xuanwu and so on four elephants are even more varied, who can be sure, guess, predict. Hehe, easy, if you don't speak, I'll guess, how can I guess? Isn't this just four elephants gossiping, and this gossip is a tool for guessing. How about it, what a great ancestral root of Chinese culture, looking for certainty in uncertainty, looking for quantitative change in change, looking for unchanged in quantitative change, what a great and profound Chinese culture, hehe, poor my life, tired to death, I can't finish learning.

However, I look for quantitative change in change, and I look for constant change in quantitative change, I guess, measure and measure.

Chinese say when they meet and say have you eaten? This sentence has N meanings, both virtual and real, you guess, measure and measure. Have you eaten? You may not have eaten, nothing. You might also have eaten, really. Anyway, there are both fiction and reality, truth and falsehood, you guess it, so it is not surprising that China's abundant liars are the root of culture, hehe.

You guess, guess, test, when you can't guess fate, you better go with the flow, you have intuitive thinking and sensory thinking is enough, there is no inevitable need to produce any objective thinking, because objective thinking is too complicated, there are too many ego, populism, democracy, freedom, restless things, it takes a strong logical thinking ability, in order to dialectically distinguish the truth and falsehood, it is too difficult, such a big thing as transforming nature and changing fate will not bother you small people, you still have to be a good child, be your obedient people.

In fact, since ancient times, China's right class has not advocated the interface of ordinary people to improve their thinking ability, because when everyone's thinking ability is generally improved, fooling and suppression cannot be smoothly implemented.

This is Chinese culture. Don't say much, let's explain Zhou Yi.

2. Interpret the fifteen hexagrams of Zhou Yi

Zhou Yi's 16th hexagram Yu hexagram (Lei Di Yu).

The original text of the hexagram

Relaxed. Li Jianhou Xingshi.

"Sayings" Yu, the big one of the elephants. The accurate explanation here should be: Yu, Leye. "Erya".

Notes: Drumming loudly. Unveil sharp weapons, set up arrow towers, and rank the army.

Xiang said: Thunder out of the ground, Yu. The first king was a god who was happy and virtuous, and a god who was recommended by him to match the ancestors.

The sixth day of the first month

The sixth day of the first month. Mingyu, fierce.

Notes: Narugaku, march, ferocious.

Xiang said: The sixth day of the first month is loud, and the ambition is also fierce.

Sixty-two resignations

Sixty-two. Between the stone, not all day, Zhenji.

Jie, from eight from the person.

Note: The army is paraded on the stone base, and there is no end to it, which is sure to be auspicious.

Xiang said: Not all day, Zhenji, to Zhongzheng.

Sixty-three resignations

Sixty-three. Xuyu, repentance. Late regrets.

Xu, Zhang Mu also. Remorse, hatred also. "Sayings". Late, Xu Xingye. "Sayings".

Xiang said: Xuyu has regrets, and the position is inappropriate.

Notes: Wide-eyed Naraku, hate. Sluggishness is more hateful.

Ninety-four resignation

Ninety-four. By Yu, there is a great gain, no doubt, a hairpin.

By, arbitrary also. Friends, fellow teachers are friends. The food is finished. Hairpins, headdresses.

Note: Any chirp music, a great harvest, no doubt, the eunuch wearing the headdress has finished eating.

Xiang said: Yu Da has gained. Zhi Daxing also.

Sixty-five remarks

Sixty-five. Chastity and illness, eternal immortality.

Note: There must be something sick and can't die for a long time.

Xiang said: Sixty-five chastity disease, take the gang also. Eternal immortality, middle immortality.

On the sixth line

On Six. Darkness, success, no blame.

Notes: The music of the sacrifice to the dead, although sad, is worry-free.

Xiang said: The darkness is above, how can it be long.

This is an article on Mingle, and the hexagram is meaningless, but the Jiang family attaches great importance to it, and the names are taken from here.

There is a poem that says:

The army of eight is Kai-shek,

Why Tai Chi two rulers.

If the time comes, it will be treacherous,

It is difficult for Zhongzheng to end.