I Ching


“Like a part of nature, it waits until it is discovered. It offers neither facts nor power, but for lovers of self-knowledge, of wisdom – if there be such – it seems to be the right book

– C.G. Jung


 

I found the I Ching many years ago and I’ve studied and used it extensively. It’s a book in which philosophy, sociology, psychology and more are symbolised and examined. These are some of my writings. I go deep into the philosophy, which is rare.


 
There is a difference between establishing the I Ching and explaining it. The first has a logic of this means that within the system. It’s essential, but not sufficient or conclusive. The second is deeper but neglected, partly tracing back to the Ten Wings. They are a Confucian commentary, separate from the hexagrams.


 
There is a mystery layer to the I Ching because we don’t fully know how or why it began. There are other layers, relevant for today, where the book connects with ideas from Jung, Husserl, Hegel, Nietzsche, and other important thinkers.


 
Some people say the book is an oracle and I’m not interested in philosophy. But if they read for someone else, they dispense philosophy. Other people say the I Ching is a book of wisdom, not divination, but the same applies. If you find a relevant hexagram, it doesn’t matter how you do it, the wisdom becomes real not scholarly:


 

“Divination, therefore, becomes a practical way of fulfilling oneself in certain critical conditions of life”

– Chung-Ying Cheng, The Primary Way


 

“From this point of view, the I Ching is seen as a tool assisting the observation and understanding of the anatomy of events. This observation and understanding is in turn supposed to form a basis for living in harmony with the pulse of existential time. ”

– Thomas Cleary, The Taoist I Ching


Art I Ching 
Waiting in the Meadow
5 February 2025 by James 


Flying dragon in the heavens.


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I Ching Knowing
2 December 2024 by James 


Manifold data of the real


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Dragon I Ching: Why Now
6 November 2024 by James 


Make the I Ching your own


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I Ching Nine Three Quarter
2 October 2024 by James 


Words are but symbols


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I Ching Election
21 September 2024 by James 


Calm reflection


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I Ching Dialectic
1 August 2024 by James 


I Ching is not politics


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I Ching Retreat
26 July 2024 by James 


I Ching advises withdrawal


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I Ching Innocence
29 June 2024 by James 


Study it separately


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I Ching Photography Writing 
Komorebi Dreaming
16 May 2024 by James 


Light and the darkness


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I Ching Tao
21 April 2024 by James 


Partly Confucian and partly Taoist


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I Ching Meanings
10 April 2024 by James 


Be sensitive to the changes


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I Ching Clouds
1 April 2024 by James 


Individual beings develop


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Five Element I Ching
27 March 2024 by James 


Stands firmly rooted


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I Ching and Words
14 March 2024 by James 


Summarises his samurai philosophy


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I Ching Return
8 March 2024 by James 


His words are like stories,


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Since Feeling Is First
7 March 2024 by James 


Heaven is above, earth below


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Elegance of the Hexagram
22 February 2024 by James 


The Confucian Ten Wings,


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Tao of Creativity
19 February 2024 by James 


Yin and yang everywhere


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Voice of the Silence
15 February 2024 by James 


A particular hexagram will emerge


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Call and Response
11 February 2024 by James 


Ganying, correlative resonance


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I Ching of Things
8 February 2024 by James 


The attitude you have


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Fields of Action
8 February 2024 by James 


Pathways through the hexagrams


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Changing Energy
25 January 2024 by James 


The energies change


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Then Spoke the Thunder
25 January 2024 by James 


Shantih, shantih, shantih


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Night Walking
25 January 2024 by James 


Let thought illuminate history


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I Ching Twitter
18 January 2024 by James 


Manifests itself as kindness


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Six Lines
18 January 2024 by James 


Psychological phenomenology


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The Power of Maps
11 January 2024 by James 


Spirit, matter, and consciousness


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Tree on a Mountain
4 January 2024 by James 


Seems to be the right book


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Technology, Nature, Musk
9 November 2023 by James 


Unbroken sky not the earth


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I Ching Photography 
Outdoors Aesthetic
16 March 2023 by James 


Beginning of the world.


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The Tao of Photography
19 January 2023 by James 


Philosophically interesting photography


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The Land and the Street
15 November 2022 by James 


Immerse yourself in place


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January Down
20 January 2022 by James 


Leaves, growing slowly


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