The content includes two parts: Jing and Zhuan. The Classic mainly talks about 64 hexagrams and 384 hexagrams. Today, we are going to talk to you about the modest hexagrams of the fifteenth of the sixty-four hexagrams.
Sixty-four hexagrams of Yijing
It is recorded in Zhou Benji Historical Records that the King of Wen "imprisoned the eight diagrams and sixty-four hexagrams". After being framed by Hou Hu, King Wen was imprisoned by Yin Yi for seven years. King Wen has been in prison for seven years and has never fallen. He devoted himself to the study of the Eight Diagrams in the Book of Changes and deduced the sixty-four hexagrams recorded in the Book of Changes.
Sixty-four hexagrams are derived from eight diagrams. None of the sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes is all good, and none is all bad. There are good things and bad things, and there are good things in bad things, but one of the sixty-four hexagrams is considered to be all good, and that is modest hexagrams.
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"Modesty" here means "humility". The main divination is a divination, which is like a mountain, and the yang number is 1. Using mountains to create a modest image means that a modest person should be like a mountain, not self-deprecating, not self-affectionate, not showing off, not hiding, and treating all people and things around him sincerely.
The word "modest gentleman" is believed to be familiar to everyone, and this sentence comes from it. The original text is: "Gentleman, used in Sichuan and Kyrgyzstan." Modest gentleman, it is a blessing to cross the river with this virtue.
In Biography of the Elephant: "Modest gentleman, humble self-herding." It means: a modest gentleman can cultivate himself with humility.
There are sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes, and each hexagram has its own bad luck at different stages. At different time nodes, the good or bad of hexagrams is its corresponding relationship. Only modest hexagrams, his characteristic is that all six hexagrams are auspicious! So he is the best of the sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes, and there is no one.
Modesty symbolizes that people are new to society, and they are easy to be ignorant of depth and sharp-edged. At this time, we should be more modest and cautious, and we should not be complacent. What a gentleman does is modest, reasonable and aboveboard. Only in this way can we get more help, have a smooth and auspicious future and achieve great things.
Humility is a virtue.
Taoist Laozi once said: "I have three treasures: I am kind and frugal, and I dare not be the best in the world." The expression "dare not be the first in the world" here is a kind of "modesty". So do Buddhists. To what extent are Buddhists modest and selfless? This is the ultimate in modesty.
The Bible says, "As long as you are modest, everyone thinks others are better than themselves". It is very dangerous for a person to be complacent because he has made some small achievements, stop working hard and think that everyone around him is not as good as himself.
China, known as the "state of etiquette", is polite but not humble. This is not a person who really understands "etiquette". A "modest" person will be empty, just like a deep well that keeps storing water. Only in this way can they constantly absorb more nutrients, and those who feel great after eating enough water will eventually run out.
When Cai Yuanpei, a famous educator and revolutionary in the 20th century, attended an exhibition of China's famous paintings in London, pelliot, a French sinologist at that time, thought that he was very proficient in these China's famous paintings and knew everything. So I am immersed in my own world when I am on tour. Mr. Cai Yuanpei just whispered, "Yes, yes," and his face was flat and calm. Later, Lin Yutang mentioned the scene at that time and could not help feeling: "This is a wonderful picture of China people's self-restraint reflecting foreigners' ostentation. "