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:
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Cradles
Now at last I understand what Hexagram 19, Nearing, can have to do with mourning. This is from LiSe’s post to this thread:
Two pieces of excellent news for ‘Yi people’:
Steve Marshall is updating his blog again at http://www.biroco.com/journal.htm. On April 2nd (scroll down!) he wrote about hexagram 25, line 2 – something I’ve been wondering and speculating on for years.
Hello – just to say I am back at work. Backlogged… dozier than usual… but doing readings and giving feedback on ecourse assignments in the usual way.
‘A cup, a drink, and a plate,
Using earthenware,
Letting them in on ropes from the window.
In the end, no mistake.’
Someone is confined in the Pit – someone reaches them in simple ways. I’ve seen this often enough as advice on how to keep a relationship alive through impossible times… the connection always felt like the one ray of light. But now I have a reading that makes me see an alternative perspective.
Nelson commented on the ‘Kinder I Ching’ page: “Aren’t you all confusing various ‘interpretations’ with a ‘translation’?”
Well – yes, we are. But then they are already inextricably confused.
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Depends on the version that you use A superb thread, with wonderful insights on translations and versions in general, and what Yi might have to say about love or lust through these many voices.
