Canadian Yi Jing Society

[sergio]

Take a look at this site and its philosophy.
http://www.universeyi.org/Yi_Jing_EN/profilehistory.htm
The site seems to be n longer working.I tried e-mailing them but no response.Another "kill Confucius"site....
Sergio

[sparhawk]

Through thoroughly examining the ancient literatures regarding Yijing, this book approach to the entire process of origin and development of the statement that Yijing is originally a divination book. The truth of the process is: in the 8 thousand-year history of Yi Academy, the statement has prevailed only for a limited period of about 2 thousands of years from Ban Gu (32-92), a scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, who first assumed this statement,

Wow!! 8 thousand years?!?! That statement alone should be a deterrent for any serious student of the Yi to keep on visiting.

[fkegan]

Their definition of divination use of the Yi as abuse seems more the tipoff to me they are weird, though I must admit taking "Fu Xi, the legendary first Dynasty of Chinese rulers" as an actual marker for 8,000 year time line is both illogical as well as twisted. If he is legendary can he also be real? And if legend is your factual basis what grounds do you have to decry divination so much?

Reminds me of a Federal agent of some anti-Drug bureau commenting at a college conference on marijuana that he would never try any of the marijuana he handled as contraband since he might like it and then he would be a hopeless addict on his way to the darkest depths of human depravity...

They hate divination and Confucius and applaud what they see as scientific efforts by Taoists... I once looked at an Edmonton newspaper in the library--temperature forecast -40 degrees for the low, -20 for the high. When I lived in Toronto, a friend who took a course on 19th century (Anglo) Canadian lit noted they were taught that the lack of material in this subject matter was suitably explained by the length and severity of the Canadian winter--too cold for the mind to function and write coherently.

Frank

[dobro]

Sergio, Luis, Frank: I thought you'd be proud to hear that you personally know the entire Canadian Clarity Yi Jing Advanced Research and Keen Coffee Club! We (well...*I*, actually...) have regular meetings and discuss (well...sort of think about) I Ching topics well into the morning most days. We're (again, *I*, if truth be known) are not a 'kill Confucius' sort of organization. We're not like that. We don't have to be. He's dead already.

You can join if you like, but you have to move to Canada. And buy me coffee.

[sparhawk]

Canadian Clarity

Hmmmm, that sounds like a great name for a new brand of vodka... :D

[sergio]

Dear Dobro:
I am honored to be considered a member in good standing of such an exclusive and secret society.I fulfill at least one of their basic requirements:I live in Toronto-Ontario.
I have a vested interest in defending fellow musician Kong Zi from the Repressing Scholar Kommitee-How could a musician be such a bad influence?As is usually the case with most musicians is not the message they delivered but how the fans interpreted it...
but,wait a minute!...He is dead? Noooooooo!...Porca miseria!You can kill the man but not the idea! KONG ZI LIVES!.
Sergio

[dobro]

Kong Zi... Wasn't he one of the Gang of Five?