I Ching
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 reaches […]
Mono no aware 物の哀れ – the pathos of things 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 Philosophy of Change It’s worth remembering that I Ching […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Everything happens. Nobody has something forever. This is how we have to live. – Haruki Murakami The form and shape in which the process of time presents the existence of its moments. – G.W.F. Hegel Opposition and attraction are fundamental principles of the I Ching. People meet together or pull apart, for which there […]
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. […]