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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.

Hexagram 38, line 1 and Sai Weng

There is an old Chinese story – I haven’t been able to find out for sure where it comes from or how old it really is (anyone?) – known as Sai Weng shi ma: the old man of the border loses his horse. You probably know it…

The old man has a horse and a son, and the neighbours think him very fortunate. Then one day his horse runs away, and the neighbours commiserate. ‘What bad luck!’ they say. ‘Maybe,’ says he.

Hexagram 15 and Josh Hinds?

Has Josh Hinds, motivational writer, ever heard of the Yijing? Maybe, who knows. But this article of his on integrity sounds eerily reminiscent of Hexagram 15. What caught my eye is the title: ‘Hold Tight to your Integrity’. The name of Hexagram 15 is based on a character for ‘uniting’… Read more »Hexagram 15 and Josh Hinds?

I Ching and business

An email that arrived the other day…

“Hi

I was recently introduced to the IChing by some good friends and I am very pleased with its content and outlook on life.

Bearing in mind that the IChing constantly mentions the ‘collective ego’ as the main obstacle to the true self – how do I approach business areas from an IChing point of view i.e. if I try my best to earn money then it is my ego which is getting involved and not my true self.

So, can the IChing be applied to business at all or is it simply a matter of doing one’s best to get to the true self and let the sage handle all money areas ?

Light on 56, line 1

Every once in a while there’s a Yijing line that brings a quotation to mind, or a quotation that brings a line to mind, and suddenly comprehension bursts in. It just found its way in for me, to a quartet of lines. Hexagram 56, line 1: ‘The wanderer: fragments and… Read more »Light on 56, line 1