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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall of relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things – Nietzsche Love looks not with the eyes, but with […]
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 […]
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow – Aeschylus And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown – William Shakespeare My first political vote was for a Green party as a protest against the principle two. The second was a vote for a main party, opposing the other, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]