Volume 4: A Brief Discussion on Zhou Yi and the Great Hexagram (Xunxia to Shang)
Greater, Donghua, profitable, Heng.
"Yi" said: "Big over", the big one is too big. "Dong Hua" is weak. Just after and in the middle, Xun and said okay, "there is a lot of benefit", Naiheng. It's a big time.
Interpretation: Dong, refers to the backbone of the house. radial, buckling. The hexagram of the great hexagram, the four yang are in the middle, the two yin are outside, and the masculine is called big, because the yang is prosperous in the yin, especially the ninety-two out of place, so it is called the big one.
The big hexagram is like the bending of the beam, if the middle of the beam is too thick; If you are too thin, you will be overwhelmed and bent, presenting a crisis.
When masculinity is excessive, it is necessary to use the middle way to regulate, and act humbly and happily, so as to advance and retreat in favor and obtain prosperity.
Geniuses are born in distress, and their determination is out of hardship, turning defeat into success, and it is at this time that righteousness is too great.
"Elephant" said: Ze extinguishes wood, it is too big; The gentleman is not afraid of independence, and he is not bored in everything.
Interpretation: Zeben Runmu, now Ze water is too big, but the wood, so there is the image of Ze destroying the wood, which is used as a metaphor to show that things are too much. Wei Ze destroys the wood, and the wood still stands upright. When a gentleman observes the great hexagram and understands that the villain is in power, the virtuous give way to the throne, and the society is in darkness, he should act independently, without fear, and live in seclusion without feeling bored.
On the sixth day of the first month, borrowing white grass, there is no blame.
"Elephant" said: borrowing white grass, soft in the bottom.
Interpretation: borrowed, padded. The strength of the first six is meager, but it is meritorious to help the sun with femininity, just like presenting sacrifices, the padding is made of white thatch, and the attitude is extremely cautious, so it can avoid the blame.
Ninety-two, dry intestines and barley, the old man gets his daughter's wife, there is no disadvantage.
"Elephant" said: The old husband and daughter's wife are too close to each other.
Interpretation: Plant, the new branch and bud of the tree. Match, match. Ninety-two masculine in the middle of the yin position, just like a withered poplar sprouting new branches, the old man marries a young wife, although there is a fault, but the combination of rigidity and softness, regain vitality, so there is no disadvantage.
Ninety-three, Dong Hua, fierce.
"Elephant" said: The fierceness of the building can't be supplemented.
Interpretation: Ninety-three is yang and yang, too rigid but not middle, can not be assisted by softness, just like the body in the roof beam is too rigid, showing the weakness of the original and the end, and there is a bending meaning, of course, dangerous.
Ninety-four, Donglong, Ji; There is it stingy.
"Elephant" said: Donglong's auspiciousness, unyielding.
Interpretation: Ninety-four is just in a soft position, rigid and soft, so because the masculinity is too much, the downward bending beams are uplifted upwards and calmed, so of course auspicious. But if there are other changes, there will still be problems.
Ninety-five, withered poplars are born, and the old man has no blame and no reputation.
"Elephant" said: Withered poplar is blooming, how can it be long? An old woman can also be ugly.
Interpretation: The Ninth Five-Year Plan is just right, which is too much, but because of it, it will go to heaven to decay the extreme yin, and barely yin and yang are combined, just like a dead tree giving birth to new flowers, and the old woman is worthy of a strong man, and there is no blame. However, the flowers of withered poplars cannot bloom for a long time; An old woman marrying a strong husband is a shameful and ugly thing, and it is not worth learning from.
On the sixth, it is too much to be wiped out, fierce, and not to blame.
"Elephant" said: The murder involved is not to blame.
Interpretation: The first six is the end of the great transgression, and with the yin of the declining extreme, the yang of the excess of the hand, a drop in the bucket, will suffer the same danger as crossing the river will drown the top of the head. But because of its femininity, the catastrophe is not his fault, so he can't blame himself.