… that doesn’t exactly mean there’s a sudden lack of I Ching things to read. For instance… The ‘Memorizing the I Ching’ threads continue apace, moving through hexagram 26 and on to hexagram 27. I don’t know how much is being memorised along the way, but they’re full of good… Read more »I may have gone quiet, but…
My reading for this week is Hexagram 4, line 1: ‘Sending out the ignoramus, Fruitful to make use of punishing people, Fruitful to loosen fetters and shackles. Going on in this way is shameful.’ I think the way my brain is(n’t) working just now is a nice illustration of the… Read more »Brain fetters (and hexagram 4)
A client who’s working on my I Ching course had received Hexagram 35, line 1. In Stephen Karcher’s comments on the line, she found reference to ‘using a net’ and wondered what this meant. So – not unreasonably – she asked Yi what to make of the ‘net’.
There are several new I Ching books available that I don’t have time to review just now. But still, the least I can do is pass on the news. So… The first is from Ewald Berkers of EclecticEnergies. You can download a copy of his translation and commentary, as used… Read more »New I Ching books
You know, for a venerable Chinese institution, Yi gets about a bit. I’ve personally read for people from the US, Canada, South America, UK, Austria, Portugal, India, Israel, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia, just to name the ones I can remember for now. And now look: Yi has its… Read more »Yi’s lives
When did you last encounter a Yijing translation where the introduction engendered such curiosity that you were itching to read it through? Quite. I’m sure this isn’t supposed to happen, but with the Chameleon Book, Freeman Crouch’s translation, I find it does. He reads the Yijing as a historical document,… Read more »The Chameleon Book
Treading the tiger’s tail
