Sam Crane has a great Taoist blog, the Useless Tree, where he’s branching out into I Ching divination – it looks as though he’s making ‘Friday I Ching blogging’ a regular thing. At the beginning of August, he asked: Will the six party talks on North Korea succeed? Yi says:… Read more »I Ching on international politics
..with photos 😉
We’re having an informal session sharing I Ching readings today at 6pm UK time (that’s US Pacific 10am, Mountain 11am, Central 12 noon, Eastern 1pm, 7pm or later across Europe). This one is free (I hope to recoup costs later by selling the recording). To attend, just log in here… Read more »Free readings webinar today
‘Above the mountain is thunder. Small overstepping.
Noble one in actions exceeds in courtesy,
In loss exceeds in mourning,
In using resources exceeds in economy.’
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: What if the I Ching doesn’t know? Quale started this thread by asking: “Do you think the answers the I Ching gives come from inside (from your subconscious) or outside (from the universe, or the cosmos or whatever)? I remember reading a theory saying that… Read more »What if the I Ching doesn’t know?
Harmen has put together a stunning ‘reading list’ of online articles on Yi and early China. Here it is – impressive stuff.
I’ve just been looking at an article by Edward Shaughnessy about the Fuyang Zhouyi: a fragmentary copy of the earliest part of the Yi, dating from 165BC. And what struck me most forcibly was how little has changed. The fragments show hexagram and line texts more or less identical to… Read more »A living tradition
