Looking at the relationship between the Book of Changes and the Commentaries through the two Hexagrams of Heaven and Earth

Philosophy and Culture 31 (10):29-55 (2004)
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Summary: "I Ching" and "Yi", in China is an influential classic by, but can still suspect that the classical origin of the chapter, "Book of Changes", "Yi" If there is no heaven and earth two hexagrams, we Although it can not be considered worthless, but China and even Europe and the United States, must Mandarin eclipsed, its so not him; book world people's thoughts, especially those with ideas of truth and morality, and not necessarily lack all, future generations of scholars, will also play on its moral basis. On the truth, too, that the general principle of truth: the existence of God and day, with this general principle, the real answer about U.S. personnel there will not be there, because the "Yi" in the presence of certain Qianyuan : Qian family said: "Great is Diana Qianyuan, Wan materials before, is the unification day, the rain cloud line facilities, logistics and product line, Ming Zhong Shi. into six time, long time to six days to Imperial. roads change, the working life, Paul co-Japanese, is Lee Ching and the first out of Shu Wu, Xianning nations. "on the ground, said J to home Zai Kun Kun Yuan, BANBUTSU, Edward is smooth. Kun thick loading, Germany together boundless. With Hiromitsu large materials is as Henry. "About people, copulative said:" Cardiff adults who, with the world meet their moral, together with its sun and the moon out, and the seasons of its order, and the spirits of their guitar music. Priori Vladimir violate the days, acquired the Mukden . days and Vladimir violation, while the situation in person or Down? conditions in ghosts or Down? "These three paragraphs of the word: Is the world people always steel play, all other details, which you can to apply in all chapter have pointed out, do not have to be repeated since, readers will naturally be read.: The book of Changes and the Commentaries are classic works of influence in China, but undoubtedly the Hexagrams Heaven and Earth are the most important. Although this canonical work cannot be said to have no value at all without these trig rams, its luster would certain pale without them, in both China and in the West. This is precisely because in Chinese thought the notion of the Cosmological integration of Heaven , Earth and the Human, especially the concepts of truth and morality, are certainly incomplete without Qian Kun and their commentaries. Later scholars use them as the basis for the development of concepts of Truth and of Morality. In regard to Truth, this is the general principle of truth. Without the existence of Heaven or of God, there would be no general principle for Truth, and so in human affairs the notion of the Good, the True and Beautiful would not exist. The reason is that the Commentaries on Book of Changes affirm the existence of a primal ness of Heaven. The commentary on the Heaven Hexagram reads: Great indeed is the primal ness of Heaven! The Ten Thousand Things materially begin and is arrayed across the skies; the clouds move and the rain fall and all things take shape. The Great Brightness ends and begins again; the six position are seasonally formed. The season ride the six dragons across the skies. As to Earth , the commentary reads: Extreme indeed is the Primal ness of Earth! The ten-thousand things come to life and then, following the heavens, Earth broadly supports all things. Its virtue coalesces without bonds, containing great brightness, and all living • things come to fruition. As to Man, he acts in accord with the nature of Heaven and Earth, and the day and night is in accord with the alternation of brightness and dark, with the for seasons acts in accord with order of the seasons, and acts in accord with the fortunes shaped by the spirit. Heaven does not violate the fundamental principles , and obey the dictates of the times. Heaven does not violate them, How much less the Spirit? These three paragraphs are based upon the general principles of the Cosmological unity of Heaven, Earth and Man. All of the other details to be derived there form can be read by the reader in the text proper, and so there is no need to repeat them here

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