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The meaningful half is 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 ... 61-62, 63-64
The random half is 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 ... 60-61, 62-63.
Hi Bradford,
Are you saying that the connection from odd to even numbers are the meaningful ones? Also, to anyone, is Xian Tian the same thing as the Sequence? I like what Tuck has shared.
Edit: I think I might get what Bradford said better, but need verification this is what he meant. Bare with me, but is it that hexagrams 1 and 2 for instance, they can be looked at together, yet 2 to 3 hasn't a link. 3 and 4 have a link, because they are opposites. So, down the line through all 64, if you put them in pairs, "1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 ... 61-62, 63-64" like Bradford suggests, they have meaning. And the rest is more random when looked at (like 2 to 3). ??
Hi, Brad:...
"The Sequence" is based on the "Hou Tian" or Later Heaven. This is either mathematically random or nobody has discovered an elegant algorithm for it.
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The mysterious sequence! Why 30 in the first half and 34 in the second? Why do the hexagrams exist in inverted pairs for the most part.
but still no explanation for the sequence.
There are WANKERS & WANKERS:It's my considered opinion that concerning yourself with the "King Wen" sequence, or any part of it other that the set of meaningful pairs, is very useful if you need distraction, or have a lot of time to waste. It's good for years and years of this. It isn't as rewarding as masturbation, however.
Hi, Lecubiste:The mysterious sequence! Why 30 in the first half and 34 in the second? Why do the hexagrams exist in inverted pairs for the most part. There are many patterns that a mathematician might try to use to sense the algorithm underlying the sequence, but none that have fully explained it.
Those that have compared the DNA sequence to the I Ching use lots of complex logic, but still no explanation for the sequence. I have seen it described as a trick. I seen it described as random. I think the answer is that no one alive today knows yet. Unriddling it would have profound implications for the race, but clearly we are not ready for that powerful understanding of nature yet!
For those who have eyes to see, this tale explains the entire mystery of the King Wen sequence. One can then be set free to return to the Yi and study it for its meaning instead.
Hexagram 50 is a ding because it has the visual appearance of a ding. Hexagram 27 is a mouth because it has the visual appearance of a mouth. Hexagram 10 is 'treading' because it looks like a shoe. In every case the hexagram's visual appearance determines its meaning.
Tom, I thought it was backwards to this idea. Didn't the Oracle bone character come first which is a picture of (for example) the 'ding'?
Then later adding to the meaning, the hexagram structure was added which beautifully resembled the original 'meaning' and thereby makes it richer and more complex?
.In every case the hexagram's visual appearance determines its meaning
Didn't the Oracle Bones determine it's meaning?
For example, 27.1
You let your magic tortoise go,
And look at me with the corners of your mouth drooping.
So, these hexagrams and text from before the Zhouyi, were they before Oracle Bones? Is that even a valid and answerable question? Are they unrelated to the Yi?
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