Introduction
The “Theory of Relativity” you must have heard of is the cornerstone of modern physics. In fact, in traditional Chinese philosophy, there is also a cornerstone of the “Theory of Relativity”, which has also greatly influenced the theory of traditional Chinese medicine. It is “Yin and Yang”. Today, let us see the close relationship between all things in life and yin and yang.
What is yin and yang, is it an unfathomable philosophical concept, or is it an ancient Simple contradictory thinking? Let’s not rush to a conclusion, turn over the “Nei Jing” several times, and read the sentences with yin and yang carefully several times. The source of external changes is the tool used by the ancients to analyze the world, and the basis for all TCM treatments. Let’s calm down and experience the definition of yin and yang in the classics.
Let’s classify the definitions of yin and yang, first look at the following similar definitions:
“The four seasons of yin and yang are the beginning and end of all things, and the origin of life and death.”
“Yin and Yang are the way of heaven and earth, the rule of all things, the parents of change, the origin of life and death, and the house of the gods. In this.”
“Those who have penetrated the sky since ancient times, the origin of life, originates in yin and yang.”
“The five yin and yang are the way of heaven and earth, the rule of all things, the parents of change, the origin of life and death , the mansion of the gods, but it doesn’t make sense.”
The ancients created the concept of yin and yang. Simple philosophical concepts, let alone complex metaphysical concepts, let alone yin and yang be understood as contradictory concepts in the theory of contradiction. Yin and Yang are “the beginning and end of all things”, that is, the birth and end of the universe is governed by Yin and Yang, “the foundation of life and death”, that is, for all living beings between heaven and earth, yin and yang are the decisive factors. The foundation of life and death.
We then combine the “Tao Te Ching” and other pre-Qin classics, read it repeatedly, and experience the ancients with heart awareness of the world. All the objects around us, including you and me and even the whole world, how do we describe all these things?
As I write, there is a pot of orchids in front of my desk , how can I describe this pot of orchid?
I describe it as having slender leaves, I describe it as a perennial herb, and the description of it all is Static and partial, how will we look at this pot of orchid when we calm down and unify our thoughts with heaven and earth?
This object in front of my eyes, it came into this world a few years ago, and in a few years it will be Leave this world, so we can’t describe this potted flower with a static picture, but in a dynamic way.
Whether it is describing the world, a plant, or a leaf of the plant, it should be dynamic Only descriptions in motion fit the reality of things, because the nature of the world is that everything is dynamic. If we are addicted to a certain static part, it means that we are confused by appearances, and firmly believe that only what we see is the truth. This is like a blind person touching an image. This way of thinking will only keep denying and never get the truth.
When we describe the world dynamically, we will find that the whole world is changing over and over again, day by day, year by year. From the perspective of one year, the heaven and earth experience the changes of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and all living animals and plants in the heaven and earth experience this change together with heaven and earth.
From spring to summer, the temperature is getting higher and higher, the sky and the earth are getting richer, and animals are beginning to Active; from autumn to winter, the temperature of the earth is getting lower and lower, the sky and the earth are getting more and more withered, and the animals have begun to hide.
Things in the world are changing in such a harmonious cycle, there must be an invisible inside this cycle of changes. It is guided by the power of human beings, or like a blower in ancient life, moving one by one, causing the changes of heaven and earth. This one is the yin and yang that the ancients believed.
A person’s life is like heaven and earth, and major changes in rhythm are experienced through the robust growth of teenagers and middle-aged and old age. As the body ages, the human body changes every year. Every day, every breath, the human body changes rhythmically, and it is the yin and yang that dominates all changes.
Therefore, the ancients said that Yin and Yang are the source of everything, the source of heaven and earth, the source of life, and they dominate all the time. The direction of the movement of heaven, earth and life. Experience with heart “the principles of all things, the parents of change, the origin of life and death”.
In other words, the ancients believed that there was an invisible force between heaven and earth surrounding a central point in It fluctuates up and down, independent but not changed, and it moves around without danger, just like a sine curve fluctuates up and down around the coordinate axis. The ancients did not understand modern mathematics, so the ancients used a Tai Chi diagram to represent this movement. This movement also exists in all life between heaven and earthInside the life, and all the changes of life, whether beneficial or harmful, are caused by this fluctuation, and it can even be said that everything in this world is the projection of this fluctuation, the center of this fluctuation The point or central axis was called the Dao by the ancients (the ancients also called the entire range of fluctuations the Dao), and this up and down fluctuation is the yin and yang.
Because the change between heaven and earth tends to the center point, it can last forever, when the change deviates from the center point will go to extinction. The middle way is the act of keeping to the center point and returning to the center point from time to time. Therefore, the ancients believed that the most precious thing between heaven and earth is the Tao at the center point, and the act of guiding all changes away from the center point to make them tend to the center point is virtue.
If we combine the theory of ancient mathematics, how will our understanding of “yin and yang” be different Cognitive? Looking at the nature of the disease and the principles of traditional Chinese medicine treatment in this way, what new insights will there be?
- Represented by ancient mathematics (ie, arithmetic), this central point Or called one.
- People get sick because the distance from the center point exceeds the scope of health. to correct the deviation of human qi.
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Taoism is an ideological system that has a profound influence on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine. What philosophical truths convey to us the relationship between “yin and yang” and the world?
- “Tao creates one, one creates two, two creates three, and three creates all things, All things bear yin and embrace yang, and rush into harmony.” If everything was static, there would be no such a world, because immobility means that there is no change, and there is no such thing as a world without change.
- The starting point of Chinese culture is to observe the changes of heaven and earth objectively. The Classics is a book that records in detail the various changes between heaven and earth. The initial starting point of this change is “one”, which is one with the Tao.
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“Yin and Yang” is not a simple philosophical concept, nor a complex metaphysical concept, it is contained in our every breath, every day, every year.
- A person becomes an independent person from the beginning with breathing. The expression of qi in and out of the human body is accompanied by the inhalation of qi in and the exhalation of qi out, and all changes in the human body begin. This exhale and one inhale are “two”.
- People change in a small cycle with each exhale and one inhalation, and their qi will also follow the sky and the earth. The qi changes in spring, summer long, autumn harvest, and winter storage. This is also a cycle; a person’s life is born, grows, grows, grows old, and has a cycle like breathing.
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Zhong Jing Li Law
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