Idealism and superstition have always been attached to fortune tellers and horoscopes. The regular media has been heavily criticized in the public opinion, and even the four-character Zhouyi prediction cannot be seen in advertisements. Some private contributors have also followed suit and talked about some superficial truths. Unfortunately, after reading the article, it is obvious that most of the authors have not really understood and studied numerology, or their understanding is too superficial.
We must find out whether there is really an inevitable connection between idealism and destiny and fortune-telling. As we all know, idealism mainly has two manifestations, one is subjective idealism and the other is objective idealism. Idealism believes that the material world is the product of consciousness or spirit. Consciousness and spirit are primary, and matter is secondary. Subjective idealism regards the objective world as the embodiment or product of subjective consciousness. Objective idealism regards the objective world as the embodiment or product of objective spirit. Representatives of subjective idealism in China such as Lu Jiuyuan in the Song Dynasty believed that "my heart is the universe, and the universe is my heart." Another example is Wang Yangming of the Ming Dynasty who believed that "the heart is the master of heaven and earth", "the heart is the sky", "there is nothing outside the heart, nothing outside the heart, and no reason outside the heart". In the West, for example, Berkeley in England in the 18th century believed that "the object feels the same thing" and "existence is to be perceived." Another example is Dewey in the United States who said: "The world is my ideas, my activities, my experiences"... etc. Representatives of objective idealism in China include Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty, who believed that "reason comes from prior experience." In the West, for example, Plato of ancient Greece believed that there is a super-empirical and eternal "ideal world", and the sensory world is a copy or shadow of the ideal world. Another example is Hegel, the main representative of modern objective idealism. He believed that the essence of the world is the independent existence of "absolute spirit". The self-dialectical development of "absolute spirit" reaches a certain stage and externalizes into nature and human society. Another example is the gods and gods in general religions, which believe that the world was created by gods or gods.
If according to the logic of subjective idealism, all things are centered on the heart, and there is nothing outside the heart, and human consciousness and spirit determine everything, then the movement of human life has no objectivity, and the movement of life is also the result of the heart. Therefore, there is no necessary connection between believing in fate and predicting fate and subjective idealism.
If according to the logic of objective idealism, all things are the externalization of spirit and the product of God’s will, then the movement of human life is God’s arrangement. God sees who is comfortable or whose behavior is more beneficial to God. If respect is more in line with God's will, then whoever's fate will be better, otherwise, will be worse. The movement of human life does not have objective regularity. Things that do not have objective regularity are naturally impossible to understand and cannot be understood. It is calculated and predicted, so there is no necessary relationship between believing in fate and predicting fate and objective idealism.
In fact, having a grasp and prediction of the future is a common cognitive requirement in human life and practice. For the sake of agricultural and animal husbandry production and the convenience of life, we need to conduct weather forecasts, which is a kind of prediction; in order for the economy to operate stably and continuously, economists evaluate the economic conditions and economic development trends, which is a kind of prediction; for the sake of national political stability, the people To live a harmonious and happy life, politicians must also predict the political situation and direction. In his early years, Mao Zedong predicted that there would be a war between China and Japan within twenty years. In the early days of the Liberation War, he predicted that the Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek clique would be defeated in three to five years. If the political situation develops as predicted, these are all predictions. However, the above-mentioned predictions that are common to people are relatively consistent with people's way of thinking in daily life and the knowledge and education they receive, so people do not think it strange. As for the predictions of Yixue and Bazi numerology, in the past, under the background of traditional Chinese culture and education, not many people might have thought it strange, but today, even fewer people can understand and accept it. People either think it is strange, or they think it is weird. It is magical and mysterious, but the main thing is that people know too little about it.
Ordinary predictions are based on rational thinking from perceptual to rational understanding. They start with tangible and sensible phenomena, then analyze and summarize the most common things, and conclude The general laws of movement of things. Although there are many factors in the future that cannot be determined by rational thinking, we can still infer the movement trends of things in a certain period of time in the future based on past movement patterns and general theories.
But the limitation of this kind of prediction is that it can only make a rough prediction of the future based on general theory and past historical data. Factors for the future - even if this factor is extremely abstract. It can only make a rough estimate, but cannot make holographic abstract cognitions.
We have introduced the special source of understanding of Yi Dao. Its understanding of the universe, heaven and earth is very essential. "Xici" says: "The Book of Changes is accurate to the heaven and earth, so it can understand the way of heaven and earth. Looking up to observe astronomy, looking down to observe geography, this is the way to know the brightness. Therefore, the origin is the end, so we know the theory of life and death." That is to say, "Yi" is consistent with the movement rules of all things in the world. It summarizes the way of heaven and earth and "images" the life and death of the development of all things in the world in the form of hexagrams. Good and bad luck, "to make all things flexible". Yi "distinguishes things by categories", which regards all things in the universe as the same holographic isomorphic system, and makes the most essential analysis and classification of all things. Our ordinary rational thinking's analysis and prediction of things are all specialized analyses, and we can only make specific and probable judgments about the factors that affect the movement of things.
However, Yi Xue has simplified the complexity of all things and made the most essential classification. The internal and external pictures of the movement of things may appear complicated in detail, but the holographic factors are clear at a glance from the abstract point of view of Yi.
In the view of Yi Xue, not only the spatial factors of the movement of things are certain and clear, but also the temporal movement procedures and steps of the movement of things are not easy to determine. We usually analyze and judge the movement of things. For different things, we will also divide different steps and stages of movement. However, the division in Yi Xue is abstracted into the essential six-step movement of yin and yang.
Westerners once observed that the arrangement of the thirteen bees generated by the sixth generation of bees was completely consistent with the arrangement of the thirteen chromatic scales of the piano. Westerners were puzzled. But in the view of Yi Xue, this is the inevitable law and phenomenon of the movement of all things. The Book of Changes does not use the eight trigrams for predicting hexagrams, but the sixty-four hexagrams. Sixty-four is the sixth power of two, which is exactly the state of the hexagrams presented in the sixth step of the movement of yin and yang. This shows that in the view of Yi Xue The sixty-four hexagrams and three hundred and eighty-four lines, the "sixth generation" of Tai Chi movement, can also encompass the movement laws of all things, and holographically simulate the "sixth step" of all things when making specific predictions.
With clear classification and movement steps, the key lies in what factors affect and determine the movement state of a thing, and the certainty of the influencing factors in the future. Ordinary observation and prediction of the future status and results of the movement of things cannot accurately determine the influencing factors, because there are many unexpected and accidental factors that affect the movement of this thing. But from the perspective of Yi Xue, the factors that affect the movement of things are nothing more than the space-time energy of the "Five Movements and Six Qi" embodied by the stems and branches. The space-time energy of the stems and branches of the "Five Movements and Six Qi" is clearly arranged in the Chinese astronomical calendar under the guidance of Yi Xue thought. Therefore, ordinary prediction is like observing the terrain on the ground and making judgments based on experience to determine how and where the road ahead will go. Yi Xue prediction is like three-dimensional observation in the air. You can see the road ahead clearly. The certainty of prediction is naturally far higher than that of ordinary prediction, and it is difficult to understand by ordinary prediction. Because it is difficult to understand and understand a three-dimensional solid in a two-dimensional plane.
Bazi numerology is a branch of Yixue, a branch of Yixue, and its basic principles are the same. But it has its own special performance. The moment a person is born and comes to this world from his mother's womb, he senses and is endowed with the "qi" factor of the universe, heaven and earth at that moment, and determines his original material nature. Whether his future destiny can be calculated and determined depends on the factors that will affect his initial talent in the future and the certainty of these influencing factors. All things in life are colorful and complex, and cannot be determined from the perspective of rational thinking. Therefore, from the perspective of ordinary thinking, life is unpredictable and unpredictable, and the future often makes us confused and confused. However, from the perspective of Yi Xue Bazi numerology, all things in life can be classified as the "Great Luck" factors of the "first endowment"'s own movement and the annual luck factors of sixty years. All influencing factors in the movement of human life are specific manifestations of these two factors. As for these two factors, the "Great Luck" is arranged sequentially from the monthly orders of the eight-character horoscope, while the annual luck is clearly arranged in the perpetual calendar. Once the influencing factors are established, the movement of life can be determined and calculated.
So, believing in fate and calculating fate are not idealistic transcendental theories. On the contrary, it was the Chinese sages who had the most thorough and essential material understanding of the movement of the universe, heaven, earth and life, so they had the understanding and grasp that the movement of life can be predicted and calculated. If in the eyes of the ancients, life was an idealistic and elusive thing, intangible to both sense and knowledge, and a movement without objective materiality, then it would be impossible to use another material "image" to "image" it. If the view of destiny has been divided into materialism and idealism since ancient times, then in terms of cognitive transcendentalism, there can also be materialistic transcendentalism and idealistic transcendentalism. The movement of life is predictable and a priori in the view of Yi Xue Bazi numerology. It is a materialistic view of destiny and a materialistic a priori theory. It can be learned and recognized. Therefore, the fortune teller is not a mysterious god, he is a knower and practitioner of Yi Xue. He only calculated the movement of life according to the cognitive method of Yi Xue and the symbols of Yi Xiang. As long as you learn and understand it, its mystery will be eliminated. Just like we study other sciences, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, medicine, economics, etc. But the more secretive it is, the more it makes people feel idealistic and mysterious. We now all accept Chinese medicine as scientific, but when Westerners first came into contact with Chinese medicine, they felt it was mysterious and regarded acupuncture as witchcraft. We ourselves once thought that Chinese medicine was unscientific. However, the truthful understanding of the human body and the effectiveness of practice of traditional Chinese medicine have finally made people realize its scientific nature. Now Westerners have accepted the mysterious Chinese culture such as traditional Chinese medicine and qigong, as well as the Yixue culture. They have even established "Yijing" archaeological museums abroad, and organizations such as the International "Yijing" Society have also established a large number of yellow-haired, A Western Yi scholar with blue eyes and a tall nose.
But what is puzzling is the situation of Yi learning in China. We do not have a national-level Yixue research organization.
Chinese students have to go abroad to learn the basic knowledge of "Zhouyi". When mentioning "Zhouyi", people only associate it with fortune-telling. People have known it since childhood. I feel very mysterious about "The Book of Changes" and lack the basic common sense understanding. The Book of Changes and traditional Chinese medicine have the same origin, but the physiological hygiene theory from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine cannot be seen in the physiological hygiene class. The "Book of Changes" can be distributed in regular bookstores, but The evolution of the Book of Changes - Xiangshu prediction cannot be compared with the "Book of Changes".
But without the celestial and numerical prediction content including fortune-telling, how many features does "The Book of Changes" still have? How is it different from ordinary philosophy books? The strange current situation of Yi Xue and Numerology is really baffling! The most important reason for this is that it is believed that "The Book of Changes" is a book of divination and an idealistic feudal superstition. It only contains certain simple dialectical factors under the shell of divination. It seems to have improved slightly in recent years, and people have a more objective understanding of "The Book of Changes", but they are still very conservative.
It must be understood that predicting and calculating the movement laws of life is not a terrible idealistic thing. The development of human science has established a fascinating system of disciplines, including physiology, pathology, medicine, psychology, parapsychology, kinesiology, etc., which only focus on human research. All aspects of human beings seem to be researchable, material, regular, and scientific. Why is it that human destiny, the most comprehensive phenomenon of life, cannot be studied, predicted, and has no material objectivity? People who refer to fortune telling as idealistic have never thought about it: Is the movement of human life the only thing that cannot be studied and has no objective laws of movement? If the movement of life cannot be calculated, then it is an uncertain phenomenon without material determination. Then why is it still called materialism?
How much ridicule has been given to fortune tellers by so-called materialists who refer to predicting fate as idealism! One of them is that people who tell people's fortunes are not good at telling their own fortunes. How idealistic is this question? If a fortune teller can predict one's own fortune with just one calculation, wouldn't it mean that the subjective determines the objective? If you ask this question, then if a doctor knows how to treat diseases, he cannot get sick; if an economist understands economics, he should be the best at making money and the richest; if a military strategist knows how to fight, he should be victorious and never lose a battle.
What a question of idealism!
It refers to people who predict destiny based on idealistic transcendentalism. They do not really understand materialism, let alone what Yixue and numerology are. It is better to learn more and understand more. The thoughts of Chinese sages!