{"id":1506,"date":"2026-07-03T16:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masterlimfengshui.com\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:35:19","slug":"%e6%98%93%e7%bb%8f%ef%bc%9a%e7%9d%bd-%e5%90%8c%e4%ba%ba-%e8%af%bb%e6%87%82%e4%ba%ba%e6%80%a7%e7%9a%84%e7%81%b0%e8%89%b2%e5%9c%b0%e5%b8%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masterlimfengshui.com\/en\/%e6%98%93%e7%bb%8f%ef%bc%9a%e7%9d%bd-%e5%90%8c%e4%ba%ba-%e8%af%bb%e6%87%82%e4%ba%ba%e6%80%a7%e7%9a%84%e7%81%b0%e8%89%b2%e5%9c%b0%e5%b8%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"The I Ching: Kui &amp; Tongren \u2013 Understanding the Gray Areas of Human Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I always disappointed when making friends?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it&#039;s not that others have changed.<br \/>\nIt&#039;s because you initially imagined the other person to be too perfect.<br \/>\nMany people make a common mistake in interpersonal relationships.<\/p>\n<p>When you first meet someone, you think they are perfect and trustworthy.<br \/>\nBut when she discovered his flaws one day, she began to feel disappointed, even thinking, &quot;So this is the kind of person he is.&quot;<br \/>\nBecause we are used to viewing people in a black-and-white way.<\/p>\n<p>They&#039;re either good or bad people;<br \/>\nIt&#039;s either excellence or failure;<br \/>\nThey&#039;re either friends or enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The Kui hexagram in the I Ching speaks of the differences and disagreements between people.<br \/>\nMany conflicts don&#039;t arise because the other person has become worse.<br \/>\nRather, it&#039;s when we discover that we have differences and shortcomings that...<br \/>\nThis leads to conflict, and even complete rejection of the other side.<\/p>\n<p>However, what the Kui hexagram truly wants to tell us is...<br \/>\nIt&#039;s not about rejecting differences, but about accepting &quot;harmony in diversity&quot;.<br \/>\nPeople are never exactly the same; they are different.<br \/>\nThis does not mean that anyone is right or wrong.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Tongren hexagram discusses how people establish relationships.<br \/>\nTrue &quot;sameness&quot; is not about demanding that others be exactly the same as yourself.<br \/>\nIt&#039;s not about idealizing the other person.<br \/>\nInstead, it is about recognizing each other&#039;s shared values.<br \/>\nThey are also able to accept each other&#039;s differences.<\/p>\n<p>Yin contains Yang, and Yang contains Yin;<br \/>\nPeople with strengths also have weaknesses;<br \/>\nPeople who have made mistakes may also have a kind side.<\/p>\n<p>A truly mature person<br \/>\nI won&#039;t condemn someone entirely just because I see their flaws;<br \/>\nWe will not blindly worship someone just because of their merits.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705When judging people, consider the whole picture; \u2705When getting along with others, leave room for maneuver.<br \/>\n\u2705Accept that others have gray areas, \u2705and remind yourself that you also have gray areas.<br \/>\nBecause none of us are perfect.<\/p>\n<p>When you stop defining others in black and white, you&#039;ll find that...<br \/>\nThere is less disappointment and less conflict between people.<\/p>\n<p>True wisdom<br \/>\nIt&#039;s not about dividing people into good and bad, but about using # to understand the complexity of human nature;<br \/>\nTrue maturity is not about demanding perfection from others, but about learning to find common ground in differences and to tolerate differences within those commonalities.<\/p>\n<p>This is the wisdom of life that the Book of Changes teaches us.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kui hexagram in the I Ching speaks of the differences and disagreements between people.<br \/>\nMany conflicts don&#039;t arise because the other person has become worse.<br \/>\nRather, it&#039;s when we discover that we have differences and shortcomings that...<br \/>\nThis leads to conflict, and even complete rejection of the other side.<\/p>\n<p>However, what the Kui hexagram truly wants to tell us is...<br \/>\nIt&#039;s not about rejecting differences, but about accepting &quot;harmony in diversity&quot;.<br \/>\nPeople are never exactly the same; they are different.<br \/>\nThis does not mean that anyone is right or wrong.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Tongren hexagram discusses how people establish relationships.<br \/>\nTrue &quot;sameness&quot; is not about demanding that others be exactly the same as yourself.<br \/>\nIt&#039;s not about idealizing the other person.<br \/>\nInstead, it is about recognizing each other&#039;s shared values.<br \/>\nThey are also able to accept each other&#039;s differences.<\/p>\n<p>Yin contains Yang, and Yang contains Yin;<br \/>\nPeople with strengths also have weaknesses;<br \/>\nPeople who have made mistakes may also have a kind side.<\/p>\n<p>A truly mature person<br \/>\nI won&#039;t condemn someone entirely just because I see their flaws;<br \/>\nWe will not blindly worship someone just because of their merits.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705When judging people, consider the whole picture; \u2705When getting along with others, leave room for maneuver.<br \/>\n\u2705Accept that others have gray areas, \u2705and remind yourself that you also have gray areas.<br \/>\nBecause none of us are perfect.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,8,11],"tags":[203,145],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sharing","category-yi-jing","category-xuan-xue","tag-203","tag-145","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterlimfengshui.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterlimfengshui.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterlimfengshui.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterlimfengshui.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterlimfengshui.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masterlimfengshui.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/masterlimfengshui.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterlimfengshui.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masterlimfengshui.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterlimfengshui.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masterlimfengshui.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}