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A tree on a mountain develops slowly according to the law of its being and consequently stands firmly rooted – Hexagram 53 And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain, The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet – Li Po The I Ching is an ancient system with different methods of […]
We have formed a firm decision that Odysseus has waited long enough. He must go home – The Odyssey Susan Sontag’s On Photography is an old but important book. She explains how to understand photographs as you do with a poem or novel. How they are constructed, what is the message, how do they make […]
You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough – Miyamoto Musashi The firm and the yielding displace each other, and change is contained therein – Ta Chuan (Ten Wings) Miyamoto Musashi is famous for The Book of Five […]
There seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous. – Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek We have formed a firm decision that Odysseus has waited long enough. He must go home. – The Odyssey There’s a difference between the I Ching system and what people write about it. The first […]
Bringing things very remote, and independent on one another, into one view, the better to contemplate and discourse on them, united into one conception, and signified by one name. For there are no things so remote, nor so contrary, which the mind cannot, by this art of composition, bring into one idea; as is visible […]
In addition to its use as an oracle, the Book of Changes also serves to further intuitive understanding of conditions in the world, penetration to the uttermost depths of nature and spirit. The hexagrams give complete images of conditions and relationships existing in the world – Wilhelm First, extend your vision, second, widen your information, […]
We know what we are but know not what we may be – William Shakespeare These rules, the sign language and grammar of the Game, constitute a kind of highly developed secret language drawing upon several sciences and arts, but especially mathematics and music…capable of expressing and establishing interrelationships between the content and conclusions of […]
The world’s secrets are hidden inside silence – Erling Kagge What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence – Ludwig Wittgenstein When you read the I Ching often, a particular hexagram will emerge. It might be the name of it, the text you read, or the symbol you sense and intuit. That […]
We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for – Nietzsche The psychophysical event includes the observer just as much as the reality underlying the I Ching comprises subjective, i.e., psychic conditions in the totality of the momentary situation – C.G. Jung According to Carl Jung the Feeling Function is unbalanced in Western society, […]
The Yi has two aspects: the spatial aspect of correlation of things, and the temporal aspect of succession of things. The symbolic representation of nature must exhibit both aspects of reality, and this is aptly done by the invention of the trigrams where changes are exhibited together with the forms of things – Chung-Ying Cheng, […]