I found this quotation from Thomas Merton in a beautiful book by Lenedra J Carroll, The Architecture of All Abundance, which I bought from Cygnus Books: “There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence… activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most… Read more »Light on Disentangling
Hexagram 24, Returning, is made up of the trigrams for thunder within the earth: Hexagram 25, Without Entanglement, has thunder below earth’s complement, heaven: Thunder is the vital spark, often human will and initiative. In a time of Returning, the wise old kings would ‘close the gates. Itinerant merchants did… Read more »Trigrams in the sequence from 24 to 25
Weekly readings are a blessing and a joy. I’m finding that the richest rewards come from asking an open-ended question every weekend, and keeping this separate from my readings about whatever pressing issues have come up. Stephen Karcher wrote that the basic question we ask oracles – the question behind… Read more »Weekly I Ching readings
Actually, my computer is dead. It died quite suddenly yesterday night – it was working, and then it wasn’t. End of computer, at least until the manufacturer fixes it. So I am not available for readings, or answering emails, or indeed writing posts and sending you a lamentably overdue newsletter.… Read more »My computer is away
… in I Ching-land, that is… I will be releasing a very small, very low-priced, and I hope very useful beginners’ product at the end of this month. I’ll let you know what it is later, when I’ve fixed on a title 🙂 . If you’re not a beginner, you… Read more »Coming up in early 2006…
Andreas Schöter presented a paper at last year’s International Conference on the Yijing and Contemporary Civilisation in Taiwan, which you can download from this page. (Follow the link to his report on the trip.) I’ve just done so, and hope to be able to understand parts of it.
Wishing you a very happy, peaceful and fulfilling 2006!
