Shao Yong Quotes on Nature
Shao Yong (1011–1077), one of the principal founders of the Northern Song Neo-Confucian synthesis, gave eleventh-century Chinese natural philosophy its most ambitious numerological cosmology in the Supreme Principles Governing the World (Huangji jingshi). The framework constructs a comprehensive symbolic system — extending the Yi Jing trigrammatic and hexagrammatic apparatus into a cosmic chronology of "epochs, eras, rotations, and generations" — through which the underlying mathematical structure of the natural and historical world is exhibited. The distinction between the "prior heaven" (xiantian) and the "posterior heaven" (houtian) arrangements of the trigrams is principally Shao Yong's contribution to the subsequent Neo-Confucian tradition.
Quotes
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Attributed to Shao Yong:
“The numbers of the Book of Changes are the bones on which the world is hung.”
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Attributed to Shao Yong:
“Heaven, earth, and man are three layers of one continuous pattern.”
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Attributed to Shao Yong:
“There are no events; there are only configurations of the changes.”
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“An Interview With World-Renowned Yogini Sharon Gannon” by Alicia Silverstone, in TheKindLife.com (17 September 2014) .”
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