The wisdom of I Ching

Chapter 114: Don’t Think About Health Preservation——No Illness, No Medicine
【Original Code】

Ninety-five, there is no disease of ignorance, and there is no joy in medicine.

"Xiang" said: "There is no false medicine, you can't try it."

——"Book of Changes Wu Wang"

【Interpretation】

"Wu Wang" hexagram nine and five lines say: If you do not act rashly and occasionally contract some minor illnesses, you can achieve satisfactory results without using medicine to recuperate.

"Xiang Zhuan" said: If you don't act rashly and get sick, you don't need to take medicine, because medicine can't be tried indiscriminately.

The hexagram image of the hexagrams in "Wu Wang", the upper hexagram is the sky, the lower hexagram is the thunder, and the thunder in the world is powerful. Who dares to act recklessly and act recklessly?So the symbol is not presumptuous.Do not act recklessly, hold it right, and feel at ease, which is naturally beneficial to health preservation and disease prevention.

The ninety-five line of "Wu Wang" is the master of one hexagram. It is masculine and upright, and the lower part corresponds to the yin and soft six-two. The upper and lower yin and yang echo each other, and are naturally harmonious. It is like a strong body, which enhances the inner immunity, so occasionally some minor illnesses, There is no need to take medicine, and the disease will disappear naturally, which is "youxi".Of course, this remark does not negate the therapeutic effect of drugs.Because the premise of "do not use medicine to be happy" is that the body and mind are "innocent", that is, follow the laws of life and act uprightly, so as to achieve the goal of physical and mental harmony.

Don't think wildly in life. Mental diseases caused by negative emotions cannot be cured by medicine. A good mood is the guarantee of mental health.Those who behave in disorder or behave chaotically in life often feel restless when they ask themselves in the dead of night. Over time, their inner balance is lost, and their bodies are in a state of yin and yang imbalance for a long time, and they will suffer from madness or aggravate the disease.

【Category】

Story [-]: The heart is wider than the house

There was a rich man with ten thousand pieces of gold, thousands of houses, and many wives and concubines.Suddenly one day, the rich man got a strange disease. He searched for doctors and medicines everywhere, but no matter how he was treated, he couldn't get better.Seeing that his life was dying, he had to send someone to invite a famous pastor to pray for him.

Unexpectedly, after seeing the rich man, the pastor turned and left.The rich man's family chased after him and asked what happened.The pastor replied: "Your master is terminally ill and there is no cure. You should stop chasing me."

The rich man's family was puzzled: "My master has only been ill for a few days, why do you say he is terminally ill?"

The pastor said: "Your master has been ill for many years, but he doesn't know it."

The family members asked, "How did he get this disease?" The pastor said, "Because he slept in the open all year round and caught wind and cold."

As they walked back, the family thought: "My master has a rich life and countless houses. How can he sleep outside? How can he feel the cold? This pastor really has a false name. It seems that this is just his crazy talk." After the family returned , Then he told the rich man exactly what the pastor said.

After hearing this, the rich man thought for a while, and suddenly came to realize. He sighed and said, "What he said was not crazy. What he meant was that although I have thousands of mansions, my heart is extremely empty. I have been muddled all my life, without a good home. Like those people who sleep on the streets!"

Indeed, the width of the house is not as wide as the heart. A mansion can make a person's life comfortable, but it cannot fill the void in his heart.When you feel lonely, it is probably because you have closed the doors and windows of your soul. As long as you bravely open the doors and windows of your soul and let your heart receive the sunshine and the spring breeze, this loneliness is easy to get rid of .

Story [-]: Self-imagined worries
One night, a man was driving in a secluded countryside, but for some unknown reason, the tire of his car suddenly became flat. He wanted to change a new one, but found that he did not carry a jack.When he was anxious, he found that a farmhouse not far away was still lit, and rushed over to ask for help.

As he walked, he thought: "Is there anyone in the house?" "Will the owner of the house have a jack?" "If there is one, what if this guy won't lend it to me?" The more angry he became, finally, when he knocked on the door of the farmhouse, he punched the farmer on the head and yelled madly: "Put away your damn thing!"

What makes this story ridiculous is that it reveals the psychology of those cranky people, and people can't help but think of the stories of unfounded worries.However, in real life, such people are not uncommon.

A man thought he had cancer, so he went to see a doctor.The doctor asked him, "What's wrong with you?" He replied, "I don't feel anything wrong."

The doctor asked again, "Then where does your body hurt?" He said, "Nowhere hurts."

The doctor asked again, "Have you lost weight recently?" He said, "No."

After hearing this, the doctor couldn't help asking: "Then why do you suspect that you have cancer?" He said: "The book says that cancer has no symptoms in the early stage, and this is the case with me now!"

Franklin once described such people as "insomnia"."Insomniacs can't sleep because they're worried they're going to lose sleep, and they're worried because they're not sleeping!" he said.

Mark Twain also sighed in his later years: "Most of my life is worrying about things that never happened. There is nothing more stupid than worrying about nothing." It can be seen that negative emotions can affect people more than any other force. our life.Therefore, if you want to live a happier life, it is the wisest way to maintain good thoughts and emotions.

Story Three: Keeping My True Colors
Martha Juerty was sensitive and shy since she was a child, because her body was always too fat, and her chubby face made her look extremely bloated.Martha's mother was very rigid, and she thought it was useless to make clothes beautiful.

She always said to Martha: "It's easy to wear loose clothes, but narrow clothes are easy to break." She always guided Martha to wear clothes with this idea.

Martha never played with the other kids, not even in gym class.She has a very low self-esteem and feels that she is "different" from other people and is not likable.After growing up, Martha married a man who was several years older than her. Her husband's family was very good and he was full of love for her.Martha tried her best to be like them, but she didn't change herself.

Everything they did to brighten up Martha only made her withdraw even more into her own world.Martha lived nervously every day. She cut off all social activities and was even afraid of hearing the doorbell.Martha secretly admits her social failures, but doesn't want her husband to find out, so every time they're a couple in public, Martha pretends to be happy.Afterwards, Martha would feel sad about this for several days. She couldn't think of the meaning of life and thought of committing suicide many times.

One day, her mother-in-law talked to Martha about how she raised her children. She said: "No matter what happens, I will ask them to keep their true colors." "Keep their true colors!" This sentence suddenly awakened Martha!At this moment, Martha realized that the reason she was so distressed was because she had been forcing herself to adapt to an environment she didn't like.It was the mother-in-law's casual sentence that changed Martha's life in the future.

Martha later recalled: "In one night, my whole person changed. I started to be myself, I started to study my personality and strengths, and I did my best to learn about color matching and other clothing knowledge in a way that suits me. to get dressed. Also, I volunteered to make friends, and I joined a club—it was a small one at first—and I was a little nervous the first time they let me in. But every time I spoke, I have a little more courage to interact with people. Gradually, I discovered the joy of interacting with people, which I never thought I could get. Later, when I raised my children, I always freed myself from pain Lesson taught them: 'No matter what happens, stay true to yourself.'”

The poorest, most painful, and unfortunate people in the world are those who have lost themselves.Many people live like they are at a masquerade party. They wear all kinds of false masks, hide their real selves behind the masks, and keep it as a dark secret that scares them.When a person abandons the pretentious appearance and becomes his true self, he will have unparalleled satisfaction and ease.

Story [-]: Do not worry about inferiority complex
Romulo, who once served as the foreign minister of the Philippines, is short and only 1.63 meters tall with shoes on.At first, like everyone else, he was ashamed of his height.So he tried wearing high heels, but this method made him extremely uncomfortable mentally. He felt that he was deceiving himself and others, so he threw away the high heels and decided to use unremitting efforts to make himself "tall".Later, in his life, he really became a successful person and achieved many achievements-all related to his "shortness", that is, his short height made him successful.

In 1935, most Americans did not know Romulus.One day he was invited to the University of Notre Dame to receive an honorary degree and give a speech.That day, President Roosevelt, who was tall and tall, was also invited to attend. After Roosevelt finished his speech, he still blamed Romulo for "stealing the limelight from the President of the United States" with a smile.What is more memorable is that in 1945, at the founding meeting of the United Nations held in San Francisco, Romulo was invited to give a speech as the head of the Philippine delegation.

He stood in front of a podium that was almost as high as him, waiting for everyone to be quiet, and then solemnly said: "Let's treat this venue as the last battlefield!" There was a burst of applause.In the end, he concluded his speech with the words "Maintaining dignity, words and ideas are more powerful than guns...the only indestructible line of defense is mutual assistance and mutual understanding", and he was greeted with stormy applause from the audience.

Romulo analyzed afterwards: If a big man said this, the audience would only applaud politely, but he is a short man who looks as weak as the Philippines, which has just been independent for a year, so dignified. Speech will achieve unexpected results.It was also from that day that the countries of the United Nations began to look up to the little Philippines.

From this incident, Romulo believed that short people had more talents and advantages than tall ones.Although short people are always underestimated at first, but with active and brave performance, it will be easier for others to look up to them. , it became a shocking move.

Self-confidence has a profound impact on people.We must learn to use self-confidence and a positive attitude to obtain physical and mental health.If you are not bothered by low self-esteem, your attitude towards life will improve and you will have a healthy lifestyle.

【The Heart of the Book of Changes】

Some people like to go to the doctor when they are sick, and they get injections and medicines, but they don't get better.In fact, he doesn't know that what he has is a heart disease. Sometimes, a person thinks too much and is tired. In fact, he doesn't need injections and medicines. As long as he adjusts his mentality, his body will get better. ", "heart disease needs heart medicine doctor" truth.

People's physical and mental health are inseparable and affect each other. Only by maintaining a positive and healthy mind can we have a good body.Be aware that medication for mental illness caused by negative emotions cannot be cured.

In today's society, many people are often in a state of intense competition in order to survive and develop.If it is moderately tense, it is good for progress and good for health, but if this kind of tension is too much, so that it has a bad attitude in the face of setbacks and blows, it will constitute a "depression" that is common in today's society—— Pessimistic and world-weary, likes to "enclose" himself, lacks interest in things around him, and lives alone. If this continues, even a healthy body will give birth to disease.

Happiness is not just a feeling, a state of mind.Impetuousness, vanity, jealousy, suspicion, resentment, greed, remorse, depression, etc. are psychological viruses, which can destroy people's psychological immunity, stifle people's happiness, and breed people's pain.In order to keep yourself happy forever, you must resolutely and thoroughly eradicate these viruses.

(End of this chapter)