I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Spiritual hierarchy Quotation of the month, from Dharma: “Methinks it redundant for Yi to talk “about” love since the whole book itself is a major portal that leads us directly to it.” (Also go to the top of the page and search on ‘Dharma’ to… Read more »ICC : Spiritual hierarchy
If you haven’t already visited this page and launched into a feeding frenzy of downloading, go now. Brad has converted everything to pdf format, so it’s viewable on any computer. If you don’t have the means to unzip the files already, try Izarc for Windows or Stuffit expander for Macs.
It may have taken me a month, but I’ve got the CD of the webinar with Stephen Karcher ready for you, finally. It includes the screen recordings, transcript, and extra explanatory articles with slides from the webinar, and costs £12 including postage. Full details here I’ve also made a few… Read more »The CD is ready!
Hexagram 23 is the Pair of 24, Returning, which Nelson asked about. Unlike Stripping Away, the Judgement of Returning concludes that there is harvest in having a direction to go.
This could get particularly confusing, as the Daxiang (the Image) says that this is time to stay home and most definitely not tour the border regions. But I think this is is a snapshot of just one stage in a whole cycle described by hexagram 24 – and that ‘having a direction to go’ fits naturally within the broader context.
From Nelson:
“Under #24 it says, favorable to have somewhere to go. What does this mean?”
Yijing Dao – ‘The Original I Ching Oracle’ by Rudolf Ritsema and Shantena Augusto Sabbadini Steve Marshall has reviewed the ‘new’ Yijing from Rudolf Ritsema, which is a revised version of the original Eranos I Ching, the Ritsema/Karcher with concordance. (To be published on April 30th, I think, so I… Read more »Yijing Dao – ‘The Original I Ching Oracle’ by Rudolf Ritsema and Shantena Augusto Sabbadini
Harmen Mesker has added some entries in English to his blog. One is a critique of Robert Benson’s ‘I Ching for a New Age’, which I didn’t buy when I picked it up in a local bookstore. The general ‘everyone sucks but me’ attitude is feeble, I think, and the basic approach to the text is depressing:
