You’d think I’d do this automatically by now, and go unerringly to the best possible question to get the clearest and most direct answer. It ain’t necessarily so… 😕 Someone ordered a reading with the question, ‘What would be the difference between taking option a or option b?’ (I can’t… Read more »The benefits of thinking about the question…
Dobro asked, “How can it be advantageous to carry out what one thinks right, and at the same time to abstain from moving things in a conscious direction?” Helpful and thought-provoking answers here.
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: Hexagrams of sleeping and dreaming? Peter asked, “what hexagrams reflect processes of sleeping and dreaming?” Some good – and interestingly different – suggestions are coming up. Do you dream in water, light or thunder?
I Ching Community Discussion Forum: 14.1…negative or not? ‘No intercourse with what is harmful, In no way at fault, Hardship is thus not a mistake.’ or ‘Having no commerce with trouble. To never be wrong Is a hardship, but otherwise not a mistake.’ (Brad) Or even ‘Not associating with violent… Read more »I Ching discussion: hexagram 14 line 1
Hexagram 44 seems to be the most-debated hexagram of the lot. Should we be afraid of what the yin line in the first place represents? Of encroaching evil, temptation, the thin end of the wedge? (Not to mention the unspeakable horrors of ‘a bold girl who lightly surrenders herself’.) Or should we be nurturing a new life, welcoming it with respect? Much discussion ensues.
When I read good books, I sometimes find myself wanting to pencil in a hexagram in the margins. These excerpts from Paulo Coelho’s Veronika decides to die seem to me to paint a vivid picture of Hexagram 44 – an aspect of it, at least.
‘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’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
