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The Tao is an empty vessel; it is used, but never filled The shape changes, But not the form – Tao Te Ching I’m constantly reading Richard Wilhelm’s I Ching and advise people to do so. You must however understand what it means. He wrote poetically and philosophically, not directly for you and your […]
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another...
Do you hear your own heart beat? – Master Po Ignorant armies clash by night – Matthew Arnold China was the first different culture which interested me. “Patience, Grasshopper” Master Po says to Kwai Chang Caine in Kung Fu. Then he snatches the pebble from Master Kan’s hand and his training is complete. […]
And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown...
Look, it cannot be seen – it is beyond form. Listen, it cannot be heard – it is beyond sound. Grasp, it cannot be held – it is intangible. – Lao Tsu And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight Where ignorant armies clash by night […]
The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes – Friedrich Nietzsche This is not altogether Fool, my Lord – William Shakespeare If you want to advance with the I Ching, read and study it separately from questions. Then when you […]
I’ve been for a walk (I’ve been for a walk) On a winter’s day (On a winter’s day) – California Dreaming We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows Komorebi is a Japanese word meaning […]
The images of the Book of Changes are of such sort that one can act in accordance with the changes and know reality – Ta Chuan Invisible threads are the strongest ties – Nietzsche People like the I Ching for different reasons. It’s validating and comforting they say, like talking with a wise friend. It’s […]
The serpent, however, and the eagle, when they found him silent in such wise, respected the great stillness around him – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra The I Ching states that Tai Chi gives birth to the two aspects of yin and yang. When yin reaches its peak, it produces yang; when yang reaches […]
What is above form is called Tao; what is within form is called tool – Ta Chuan (The Great Treatise) The Chinese philosophy, on the other hand, takes change and transformation as ultimate reality and truth. This of course bespeaks of the uniqueness and essential importance of Yijing and its philosophy – Chung-Ying Cheng, The […]