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A kinder I Ching?

An email from Quinn in New Zealand, about I Ching translations:

“I have been throwing the I-ching for years, My father taught me how, and I have to say I nearly drove myself crazy.

It’s almost unintelligible, sometimes I get the sense that by the time you understood it in its entirety you wouldn’t need it any more, and if you had the right view of things, you wouldn’t need it at all, or any oracle for that matter.

The Richard Wilhelm version is quite terrible for someone like me who is already quite self judgemental, and can make you feel really worthless. I know in a sense it’s your ego resisting, but would it not make more sense to write an interpretation of the hexagrams that would not fire up the ego, aggravating the problem, and would be compassionate of the fact that none of us can really expect to be truly enlightened. We do our best.

I Ching questions for the 26th

Here are the questions for next Saturday’s webinar – or at least some of them. (We’ll get through as many of the listed questions as we possibly can, while still allowing time for questions from the people there on the day. Stephen wants to talk about all of them –… Read more »I Ching questions for the 26th

Webinar news

Here’s an audio message for you, about the webinar on the 26th. Just click the blue ‘play’ button!

Hexagram 38, line 1 and Sai Weng

There is an old Chinese story – I haven’t been able to find out for sure where it comes from or how old it really is (anyone?) – known as Sai Weng shi ma: the old man of the border loses his horse. You probably know it…

The old man has a horse and a son, and the neighbours think him very fortunate. Then one day his horse runs away, and the neighbours commiserate. ‘What bad luck!’ they say. ‘Maybe,’ says he.

ICC: One Minute Millionaire 24.2.5 to 60.

I Ching Community Discussion Forum: One Minute Millionaire 24.2.5 to 60. Some good interpretations here into an interesting project. Could be a thread to watch.

Hexagram 15 and Josh Hinds?

Has Josh Hinds, motivational writer, ever heard of the Yijing? Maybe, who knows. But this article of his on integrity sounds eerily reminiscent of Hexagram 15. What caught my eye is the title: ‘Hold Tight to your Integrity’. The name of Hexagram 15 is based on a character for ‘uniting’… Read more »Hexagram 15 and Josh Hinds?