What do you mean by "metaphysically pointing to the Tao and physically pointing to the device"?

1, "the metaphysical refers to the Tao, while the metaphysical refers to the device" means: Tao, the origin of the universe, the metaphysical ontology, transcending all worldly existence, including the causal relationship of space-time energy. Device, tangible existence, magnifying glass, name, that is, the truth axiom of arts and sciences, is the carrier of Tao.

2. This content comes from the Book of Changes, which is an important category of China's ancient philosophy. In Confucian philosophy, it refers to intangible or unformed things, which are symmetrical with the "physical" meaning of tangible or shaped things. It is used to explain the relationship between Tao (metaphysics) and Qi (metaphysics), that is, the relationship between source, ontology, objects and phenomena.

Extended data:

1. The Book of Changes refers to three books of changes: Lianshan, Guizang and Zhouyi. Among them, Lianshan and Guizang have been lost, and there is only Zhouyi in the world.

The Book of Changes is a book about changes, which has long been used as "divination". Later generations know more about his philosophy, thus becoming a profound dialectical philosophical work. "Divination" is to predict the development of future events, and The Book of Changes is a book that summarizes the laws and theories of these predictions.

3. On the theory of "three changes". Zhou Li "holds the method of three changes, one is easy to connect mountains, the other is easy to return to Tibet, and the third is Zhouyi, all of which have eight classics, and the other six classics have four". That is to say, in the Zhou Dynasty, three books, Lianshan Yi, Guizang Yi and Zhouyi, were easily controlled by fortune tellers to predict state affairs, military wars and sacrificial activities. ?

4. The Book of Changes is a philosophical work of China in ancient times, which demonstrates and describes the operating law of things based on the dualism of Yin and Yang. It classifies the characters of all things in the world and heavenly stems and earthly branches's Five Elements Theory, even accurate enough to predict the future development of things.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Metaphysics Baidu Encyclopedia _ I Ching