Chinese artefacts in the British Museum
Search results for China from the BM’s online gallery of their collections. Stunning images of neolithic jade – and look down the bottom of the page for links to short articles and collections of images.
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Chameleon Book
Chameleon Book – a new translation of the Zhouyi by Freeman Crouch.
From the downloadable pdf sample (introduction, appendices, five hexagrams), this looks fresh, bright and intelligent. There are very useful suggestions for divination and imagining yourself into the imagery. (Eg ‘you are soil to be worked, you are a mare’ or ‘seeing the self as a kingdom’.)
ICC: Hexagrams 23 and 24, and spiritual hierarchy
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Spiritual hierarchy Last November, Val asked Yi if there was such a thing as spiritual hierarchy. The answer was Hexagram 23 changing to 24. This reading surely emphasises that there are differences, like those between the junzi and the ‘small people’ of the top line,… Read more »ICC: Hexagrams 23 and 24, and spiritual hierarchy
Ancient China – The British Museum
Ancient China – The British Museum I’ve spent far, far too long browsing this. (Yes, I know it’s meant for 9 to 11 year olds.) The maps of ancient China are great (select your dynasty); you can explore the interior of a Zhou tomb (with abundant photos of vessels, weapons… Read more »Ancient China – The British Museum
ICC: Light on the Dark Bird
ICC: Light on the Dark Bird Freeman Crouch, he of the remarkable Chameleon Book, has revived this topic. Light is being cast on the character and the trials of Jizi.
A kinder I Ching?
An email from Quinn in New Zealand, about I Ching translations:
“I have been throwing the I-ching for years, My father taught me how, and I have to say I nearly drove myself crazy.
It’s almost unintelligible, sometimes I get the sense that by the time you understood it in its entirety you wouldn’t need it any more, and if you had the right view of things, you wouldn’t need it at all, or any oracle for that matter.
The Richard Wilhelm version is quite terrible for someone like me who is already quite self judgemental, and can make you feel really worthless. I know in a sense it’s your ego resisting, but would it not make more sense to write an interpretation of the hexagrams that would not fire up the ego, aggravating the problem, and would be compassionate of the fact that none of us can really expect to be truly enlightened. We do our best.
I Ching questions for the 26th
Here are the questions for next Saturday’s webinar – or at least some of them. (We’ll get through as many of the listed questions as we possibly can, while still allowing time for questions from the people there on the day. Stephen wants to talk about all of them –… Read more »I Ching questions for the 26th