In 1996, after my mother passed away unexpectedly, I began to understand and study "The Book of Changes" through a friend's introduction. The initial idea was very simple. I wanted to master the knowledge of the Book of Changes to improve my self-protection ability to predict the future and prevent diseases and disasters, so that I would not be in a hurry and be unprepared when encountering problems.
? I went to the bookstore to buy relevant books and read them quietly. There are two books that have left a deep impression on me, one is "Lecture Notes on Predictions of the Zhouyi" by Mr. Shao Weihua, and the other is "Comprehensive Interpretation of the Complete Book of Predictions of the Zhouyi" by Mr. Zhou Qinwen. About half a year later, I became proficient in the two methods of predicting six lines and predicting plum blossoms. I began to intentionally make small-scale predictions for my family and friends.
? Shao Kangjie of the Song Dynasty and Zhu Xi were both famous Yi scholars. Learning the Yi Jing is inseparable from their works. Among them, Zhu Xi's "The Modern Translation of the Yi Jing Asking for Divination" had a profound impact on me, and I used it. After reading this book for nearly half a year and taking a lot of notes, I have gained a certain familiarity with hexagrams and divination. Shao Kahn's description of the easy numbering of plum blossoms is also my favorite. The method of using the easy numbering of plum blossoms is quite flexible. Actions, words, data, sounds, etc. can all be used to make hexagrams. This was of great help to me in later practicing hexagram initiation and interpretation.
? When studying the Book of Changes and divination, it is more important to study examples. Mr. Shao Weihua also specially compiled a large number of cases in his practice for this purpose, involving many categories such as theft, litigation, marriage, disease, disaster, etc. It is very beneficial to read it. Combined with the prediction principles of the Book of Changes, this case explains things in simple terms and is a good platform for learning the Book of Changes.
? During the time when I was studying the Book of Changes, I participated in Mr. Shao Weihua’s correspondence class and taught myself the knowledge of the number of plum blossoms. At the same time, I also learned to use the Zhouyi prediction method I learned to make predictions for my familiar friends to test my learning effect.
? I remember it was a summer evening when a tall, lanky man about thirty-five years old in a black suit came to me and said that he had also participated in Mr. Shao Weihua’s Zhouyi prediction correspondence class and came to me. I asked for advice on trading techniques and shared rubbing techniques with me.
? I asked him how he knew me, and he told me that he knew my address from the roster of students in the correspondence course. oh! This is a caring person, he remembered the contact address I left. No matter what, he is also my classmate, and communication is necessary.
? So, I let him into the room. After he sat down, he took out the folded paper from his pocket, opened it and handed it to me.
? I shook the paper and took a closer look. The content is a prediction of the passage of my life, involving official luck, wealth, marriage, family, life span, etc.
? He and I are the only locals in the correspondence class. And when registering for study, you must register and leave a record of your birth date, so he checked the perpetual calendar and converted it into the lunar calendar birth date, commonly known as the eight-character prediction. Based on what he had learned, he specifically made predictions for me about life events.
? I am very touched. After reading this greeting gift, I held his hand excitedly and didn't let go for a long time.
? I stayed with him for dinner, asked for his address, and told him that I would go see him tomorrow. He left quite happily.
? I worked overtime all night, looked up his birth date in the classmate list, looked at the perpetual calendar, approved his horoscope, and made predictions about major events in his life. Unlike him, I increased his career projections.
? In the prediction, I exhausted all the knowledge I had learned, and I repeatedly combined the meaning of the lines of the hexagram to have a deep understanding of the things that I was not sure about but definitely happened or affected his life until I was sure. Only then did he stop.
? I met him at the appointed time the next day. After a few pleasantries, I handed him the paper analyzing his life predictions.
? He looked at it very carefully, almost putting his eyes on the paper. After reading it, I read it several times again, then raised my head and said to me, your prediction is really right! You predicted a lot of things that happened to me.
? He told me that my prediction that he would have a bad fate was absolutely correct. He has killed people with guns. He sighed and told the story.
? It was a few days after he moved to Talang Township with his parents. He stole his father's shotgun to hunt wild gazelles. He walked through a dense grass and found that the tall weeds were moving. He picked up his gun and fired several times in a row. When he saw no movement, he ran over to see what was going on. Who would have thought that what he was shooting was not a yellow sheep but an old man who was defecating.
? The old man lay in a pool of blood and was lifeless. He got into serious trouble and was arrested and sentenced to one year of supervised release, causing his parents to lose a lot of money.
? He then said, you predicted that someone in my family would die on the verge of death, which is also true. He was a little emotional when he talked about it.
? He told me that his father used to be a gatekeeper at the reservoir. One day, Wu Tianen from the water conservancy camp brought people to inspect the quality of the dam project under construction. His father's appendix was inflamed and the pain was terrible. The father was alone at this time, crying and begging Wu Tianen for help.
? Wu Tianen knew that it was still dozens of kilometers away from the nearest hospital. If he drove the person there, he might not be saved. Wu Tianen was worthy of doing great things. He quickly arranged for a rural veterinarian to be found nearby and ordered an operation immediately. The veterinarian was so frightened that he begged Wu Tianen for mercy and vowed not to take the job. Wu Tianen got angry and grabbed the veterinarian and said, "I will write you a note. I will be responsible for the death of the person." The veterinarian then nodded and performed the operation.
? The veterinarian asked him to light a fire, grill the scalpel in the fire for a while, and then asked Wu Tianen to tie his father tightly to an old door panel. There was no anesthesia at the time, in order to prevent the patient from moving around due to pain. Surgery can only do this.
? In the wilderness, the veterinarian looked calm and cut open his father's abdomen with a scalpel. The father screamed like a pig, and passed out from the pain. Two hours later, the veterinarian finally finished the trouble and took out the inflamed appendix. He then sutured the wound with casing sutures and simply bandaged it.
? My father’s life was saved, thanks to Wu Tianen and the brave veterinarian.
? After he told me these two stories, he breathed a sigh of relief. He then told me that what he couldn't understand was that I predicted his current career correctly, and also said that he would soon sell off his belongings and go back to his hometown alone. He repeatedly told me that he was really impressed by me. I was more capable than him in learning the Book of Changes and he wanted to learn from me.
? He opened a small shop at the entrance of the vegetable market near the District Regulation Office. The business was light and he could only make ends meet. He has not married yet and has long planned to close down and return to his hometown.
? When he left, he came to my office to see me again. I had nothing to give him, so after thinking about it, I took off the Daoguang Tongbao copper coin that had been with me for more than a year from the key ring on my belt and gave it to him. Copper coins are used to shake fortunes. It is said that the older they are, the more spiritual they will be. I said to him, they are all fortune tellers, please keep them in mind! He was a little excited, took my hand and shook it as an answer.
He asked me to change him some 100 yuan bills from the bank business department downstairs, and then left. Later, we contacted several times on the phone. Later, he changed his contact information and couldn't contact him. I don't know how he is now?
? I once had a dream to combine the metaphysics of the Book of Changes with my business. That is to say, in terms of the qualitative content of infrastructure investment project evaluation, the introduction of the prediction content of the Book of Changes will definitely have an impact on accuracy. The decision will have a positive effect.
? I told this idea to Wang Xin, the senior approver of the superior approval department. He looked at me in surprise and said nothing, and for a long time he only said one thing to me: You will hit a wall.
? But I didn’t give up and started writing the outline of the article "Zhouyi Forecast and Infrastructure Investment Project Evaluation". I wrote more than a dozen items at once, including defects that occurred during the project evaluation operation, how to use the I Ching analysis method to make up for it, etc.
During this period of time, in addition to pondering the writing of this article, I also wanted to use real practical experience to verify my right and wrong.
? On Friday, there are few customers coming to the general office. I wanted to leave a little early and asked my colleague Liang Siqing to guard the door until get off work, but he made an appointment with a boss to talk about project investment and said he would be there soon.
? We had to wait for the boss to come.
When the boss came, he opened the door and greeted Liang Siqing first. I was sitting in the back room and looked up to see a long-haired girl in a red skirt pushing open my door, followed closely by the boss and Liang Siqing.
? Seeing this situation, a hexagram came up in my mind instantly, which is the hexagram of up and down. This is the 38th hexagram of the Book of Changes, and the hexagram is called Huo Zehui. Remember this hexagram says that if there are too many obstacles, it will be difficult to achieve, and even if you achieve, you will suffer losses.
? I felt confident and didn’t give up my seat. I just said to the boss, I don’t need to read your materials. I already know the content. Your company’s conditions are not met and the business cannot be cooperated. It's not right for them to stay there in a daze.
? It has become a habit for me to use the I Ching Duan Gua to refuse cooperation in investment projects, and it has had some foreseeable results. I have saved myself and my friends many times from a lot of possible risks and losses.
? I never hide from my subordinates that I use this method to make project investment decisions, and Liang Siqing knows it.
? I did not persist in doing this for a long time. The main reason is that today's society is still biased and does not recognize Yi Xue. In the eyes of most people, this is superstition and a deceptive trick. I have seen many people who set up fortune-telling stalls and tell lies. The reputation of the I Ching was ruined by these people.
? Sima Qian said that "King Wen was imprisoned to perform the Book of Changes". In King Zhou's prison, King Wen of Zhou studied Fuxi's Bagua and deduced King Wen's Bagua, which spread throughout the world. It is said that King Zhou killed Henchang's son and made meat cakes for King Wen to eat in order to test King Wen. King Wen chewed it with tears in his eyes and ate it. After being released from prison, he overthrew the Shang Zhou regime.
? Great men and counselors who have made great achievements in history are all familiar with the Book of Changes. And used this to help obtain the country and the country. The dictionary says that the Zhouyi has a simple dialectical viewpoint. In the classification of the Five Classics, the Yi Jing is the first of the group of classics.
? What we often say, "Heaven moves vigorously, a gentleman strives to constantly strive for self-improvement" comes from the Qian hexagram; "The terrain is Kun, a gentleman carries things with great virtue" comes from the Kun hexagram.
Reading Easy can change our perspective on everything. The book "The Mystery of the I Ching" by Taiwanese Yi scholar Zeng Shiqiang is worth reading. The wisdom of the I Ching is its value.
In fact, one must learn some knowledge of the Book of Changes in one’s life.