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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us – Nietzsche But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea – T.S. Eliot The six lines of a hexagram are layers of a situation. The Wilhelm I Ching refers to kings, rulers and common […]
Good ends, as I have frequently to point out, can be achieved only by the employment of appropriate means. The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced – Aldous Huxley There is a philosophical wisdom implicit in the divinatory […]
God comes forth in the sign of the Arousing; he brings all things to completion in the sign of the Gentle; he causes creatures to perceive one another in the sign of the Clinging (light); he causes them to serve one another in the sign of the Receptive. He gives them joy in the […]
The future is real, the past is all made up. Everything everywhere is always moving forever – Logan Roy We should let history illuminate thought, but we also should let thought illuminate history – Chung-Ying Cheng Why do we like mafia drama? Scorcese’s films are best sellers and we are fascinated with Don Corleone, […]