Over the weekend, I found myself with a bit of a communication problem. The details aren’t important: I wanted to help and encourage someone to do something he was finding hard. I tried a few different approaches, succeeded only in being annoying, and finally asked Yi for advice on how… Read more »Open book
I just came across this poem by Gregory Luce, who’s seeing hexagram 3 in the clouds.
The Shuogua, ‘explanation of the gua’, is the Yijing’s 8th Wing. It’s in three parts: the first is an origin story of how the sages made the Yi from first principles; the remaining two describe the characteristics of the individual trigrams. You’ll occasionally find references to these characteristics in Wilhelm’s… Read more »Stephen Karcher: Shuogua
At http://www.hermetica.info, you’ll find a new edition of possibly the best Yijing resource on the web. Bradford Hatcher’s Book of Changes includes a ‘Matrix’ translation (a parallel text of Chinese and English), books on history and structure, and a complete translation with in-depth, thought-provoking commentary – and for some unfathomable… Read more »Hermetica I Ching: new edition
There’s a very popular free online I Ching at Ewald Berkers’ ‘Eclectic Energies’ site. He’s just updated his site to replace the omnipresent Wilhelm/Baynes translation in this reading with his own work. He’s produced a clear translation and succinct commentary on the Zhouyi texts (the ‘Judgement’ and lines). The commentary… Read more »New I Ching translation at EclecticEnergies
Mick Frankel, a man of much I Ching wisdom and good sense, will be giving an introductory workshop on the I Ching at 8pm this Wednesday (7th March). He says: My workshop, “An Introduction to the I Ching” will be at 20:00 next Wednesday, 7th March at the Phoenix Rising… Read more »I Ching workshop on Wednesday
I’ve started re-reading Bede Griffiths, Return to the Centre, a wonderful book I first attempted to understand when I was 16. This time through, I have help. I think of hexagram 29, the Repeating Chasm, as a dark place of bottomless depths. Yi talks of ‘holding fast your heart’ here,… Read more »Bede Griffiths on the Abyss
