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Herman (pt.3 )
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I Ching: Fu Hsi (Fu Xi) Order vs. King Wen Order:
According to the Webster dictionary, Heaven is the final place where the blessed go after death. This is Christian thinking but not ancient Chinese. I advise to use the word SKY
instead of Heaven as the symbol for the ultimate yin trigram (3 broken lines) as Ohsawa did because according to modern science, high up in the sky there is no light, dark, no gravity, but is cold and dark with almost no matter (comparatively) but mostly space. Contrary to SKY is the Earth, because it is very yang because earth is spinning itself by 1000 miles per hour speed and circling the Sun at 66,000 miles per hour speed the of 543,400,000 miles. If the SKY is yin then Earth is its complimentary opposite and is yang.
In the Fu Hsi Order of the I Ching all cardinal directions are polarized by opposite/complimentary trigrams:
North (SKY); three yin, broken lines is opposed in the South (EARTH) by three yang
solid lines.
Northwest (MOUNTAIN): two yin broken lines at the bottom is opposed by Southeast
(LAKE) which has tow yang solid lines at the bottom.
West (WATER): two yin lines holding one yang solid in the middle is opposed by East (Fire) which has two yang solind lines holding one yin broken line in the middle.
Southwest (WIND): two yang solid lines above one yin,broken line is opposed by Northeast (THUNDER): which has one yang solid line below two yin broken lines. Thus in the FU Hsi Order every direction shows harmonious balance. This is not true with the King Wen Order, however.
According to King Wen Order there is some orderliness in the North and South and East and West, however NW, King Wen names it Heaven (or Sky) and gives it the symbol of three yang, SOLID lines. This trigram is opposed by SE (WIND) and symbolized by two yang solid lines at the top of one yin, broken line instead of three yin broken lines to represent EARTH. This makes no sense. SW (EARTH) has three yin broken lines and opposed by NE (MOUNTAIN) symbolized by Keing WEn as two yin broken lines with one yang solid line on top. Again this does not show complimentary/antagonistic relationship. Therefore King Wen Order has half or no orderliness.
According to Fu Hsi order of trigrams, change is very orderly and gradual.
Yin/yang Order in Organs:
Ohsawa define the empty organs as yin in comparison to the solid organs such as the heart, kidneys, etc. Of course the stomach, intestine, and other digestive organs are active but not as much as the solid organs. Also digestive organs begin on the periphery inside the body where foods are first digested then go next into deeper region of the body. By King Wen’s standard digestive organs are governed by Heaven and considered YANG in Chinese Medicine.
But followers of the Fu Hsi system believe SKY or Heaven environment is YIN, therefore digestive organs being more to the outside are governed by YIN force.
From the standpoint of health, all organs are equally important, whether they are yin or yang. However, you will die if the solid, yang organs are (surgically) removed – heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, pancreas, etc. When yin organs are removed, like stomach (bladder, etc) you can live without it for a long time. But if you remove the heart it is fatal. I know some macrobiotic people living for a long time without stomach. Many colon cancer people get some part of colon removed and live for a long time as well.
If we decide yin and yang by fatality alone, then brain is the most yang of organs, But we con’t call it yang but instead yin because it sits at the highest part of the body and it
doesn’t move (only electrical activity inside) like other organs. Similarily, digestive organs are most peripheral and show less activity than yang (solid) organs.
Another reason the heart and kidney are called yang is because both are very active: 1) heart beats about 70 times per min. and pumps out 4-6 qts of blood per minute, 240-360 qts per hr. pr 5760 – 8640 qts per day when resting. It beats 150 times per minute and pumps out 20 qts. of blood per minute after vigorous exercise. This means heart pumps out 1200 qts. of blood per hr or more than one ton of blood after vigorous exercise. Heart is yang organ. 2.) The kidney’s job is to clean vein blood. It can clean 1.2 qtas of blood per minute, 72 qts, per hour, or 1726 qts. per day amd 14.4 qts of urine per day. This means kidneys have to o take care of almost two tons of blood and produce 14 qtas of urine every day. What a busy organ! 3) Lung repirates, The normal respiratory rate is 12 breaths per min or 6 qts of air per min or 360 qts per hr. or 8640 qts of air per day. This is much lighter than water, however. It is more critical than any food or drinking water, because lack of oxygen for three minutes in our brain means death. Therefore lungs are the most important organs which has to pulsate (expand/contract) constantly all the time – same as kidney, heart. It is understandable that lung cancer is the highest cause of death among all cancers.
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