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I don't understand. Sorry.I think we may need more then that to work with. What is oppsitely described?
Brother David.Mustafa, no offense taken, at least from me. I'd more likely to be offended if you didn't find the trigrams confusing!
That said, and as others have asked, what is it you're wanting to know? More about what the trigrams mean and how to make use of them? Or ...?
For the site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagua - actually, I find the second table more useful and clear. It's the one under the text, 'There are eight possible combinations to render the various trigrams (八卦 bāguà):'
In particular the columns with Translation: Wilhelm; Image in nature; Attribute; and Stage/ state I find most helpful. The first table may have some useful info, but since it covers so many correspondences with other systems and beliefs (zodiac, chakras, planets, meridians, Bushido, etc.), I find it confusing and not all that useful in understanding the trigrams.
The second web site you refer to - https://charmvirgo.wordpress.com - is equally confusing to me. There is some good info there, but you'd have to know how to sort through a lot of gobble-di-goop to get to it.
For more about the trigrams, some good sources might be:
I'd say that learning about and working with the trigrams is not all that straightforward, in that there are a broad range of associations and meanings that people have about them, and also because there are different ways (and some disagreement) about how to use them. Also, you have to remember (and consider) how the trigrams interact with one another within a hexagram and within a reading.
- If you have access to the WikiWing section of this site - https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/index.php?wiki/ - there are entries there about the trigrams. If you are a Change Circle member, there are a few threads I can point you to that I found helpful.
- Bradford Hatcher's Yi has a section about the trigrams. See his web page for where you can either download and/or buy a copy. (I've done both) - http://hermetica.info
- I think Hilary's book does as well, and she also talks about the trigrams (and Yi imagery) in the Foundations Course - https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/c/c/yijing-foundations/
For example, Earth above Heaven conveys quite a different meaning and relationship than Heaven above Earth - even though you looking at the same two trigrams. And (for me at least) what is being conveyed - even with identical hexgrams, trigrams and moving lines - will be different if I were asking about cleaning my house versus how to find creative inspiration, versus where to find a lost copy of the Yi.
All that said, I find them helpful, but I know some of how I work with them takes me a bit far afield from 'usual' Yi methods.
Best, David.
According to the wiki bagua link Chinese Zodiac i'm consciously sheep (everything, Qian), and subconciously tiger (Emptiness, Tiger). I'm born in the year of fire tiger 1986
Mustafa, first a suggestion: when you quote someone's post, you don't always have to use the whole thing - as you did with me, above. I often edit or pare down the quoted text to just what I'm asking about or responding to.1. I want to know about the lines in the trigrams/hexagrams. I think the start, the bottom line in trigrams is Grandmother/Earth/Kun and the top line Grandfather. Can you give me keywords for each line and combination ..., like loyality or kindness ....
So, are you wanting to learn about the Yi, or about the Chinese Zodiac? As I said above, I don't recommend the first table exactly because it goes off into too many associations that are not really about the Yi .... but this seems to be exactly the place you decided to go to ... so, again, I can't help you with the zodiac's tiger and sheep at all - or if they even have anything to do with the Yi.According to ... Chinese Zodiac i'm consciously sheep, and subconciously tiger ....
Yes, see the references I already gave you.2. Trigrams within a hexagram. Is there a brief text covering this?
Thank you brother, i'll take time to research this. Is Bazi theChinese name (and Japanese) name for Chinese zodiac?This isn't exactly yi jing, though.
And we don't calculate it like this, usually.
Here is some info:
Four Pillars of Destiny - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Many books for bazi out there, for people just starting I always recommend Kevins blog here:
Translating Trigrams/hexagrams to pillars and the other way around can be done in many ways. In general it depends how you want to use them later, as the way of "converting" is different depending on that. Some info here:
Here is calculator:
Web BaZi Calculator
www.bright-hall.net
Keep in mind the symbolic stars won't always be valid, as this is just showing potential.
Yes, among the many associations for the trigrams, there are the associations with family members. But while that is interesting, it might not be of immediate use to you without a more whole or complete understanding of the trigrams.Hillary Barrets book which I have calls, Qian/Chien or Heaven for father, and Kun mother .... many other sites calls them the foundation and grandparents. The other trigrams are children. For example Hillary Barret says Zhen is eldest son, and Gen youngest son, and Kan middle son. The other three are girls.
Yes, yin and yang are two of the associations with the broken and whole lines. I don't use or really pay much attention to yin/yang, so I can't help you with those meanings.A broken line is yin, and whole line is yang, i have casted many times. A hexagram is two trigrams. There are 8 trigrams, 8x8=64 hexagrams.
And as I said, Bradford Hatcher's Yi - along with Hilary's - will give you lots of info. about each trigram: he offers key words, and the symbolism (meanings), and the words associated with each from the Yi commentary (the 'Wings' or Shuo Gua).But i need keywords ....
Thank you brother, i'll take time to research this. Is Bazi theChinese name (and Japanese) name for Chinese zodiac?
@Gmulii - one idea I had is you might want to start a thread about Chinese astrology - or whatever it is you're describing here. It might be interesting to people as its own topic. D.Well... They have the 12 animals, that are "the earthly branches". And they are earthly representation of the elements.
@Gmulii - one idea I had is you might want to start a thread about Chinese astrology - or whatever it is you're describing here. It might be interesting to people as its own topic. D.
But i need keywords.
Do you know what the lines symbolizes? As in webdesign as i just discovered, i need a 'static page' to show the second objects in my webpage that are 'posts'.Do you mean something like:
active, strong, firm, above, leader
passive, weak, yielding, below, follower
bright, dry, hot, illuminating
dark, wet, cold, drowning
movement, shocking
stillness, calmness
gentle, subtle
joyous, satisfaction
Do you know what the lines symbolizes?
Sorry, I'm not sure what you are talking about there.So can you help me define static pages (the lines in particular, here) so my posts will show?
Yes thank you. I will translate this article briefly from Norwgian and would be happy for hearing about what you think.
American Robert Clonninger defined 3 temperaments (before there was 4, and in my understanding it had been long four, known as Sanguine, Choleric etc.)
The connection between Clonningers temperaments and personality disorders
- harm avoidance, HA
- reward dependence, RD
- novelty seeking, NS
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I think Qian is above like previous post by moss elk says, and this is arrow pointing down. Being on all 3 temperament pointing down is what is called shizoid, a diagnosis I had, now I have Asperger/Autism. Being a no-man but moral.
Kun is arrow up, a yes-man. He says yes to everything and consequently no to others. As arrow up she breaks down. She is confused and manic.
All children are Qian, they believe without exception in a higher power in heaven, the heaven the enviroment pointing down arrow towards the children on earth and Children are like Masters (in Tao Te Ching) and Masters are like Tao, leaders.
I think Qian is Tao, and Qian is Heaven. We could be cheap copies and we couldn't
Yeah, we arabs when we hear discourse we don't understand we say: "He's talking Chinese or something" as a Joke, an Ice breaker. We Arabs (And Muslims) believe we must follow laws, and normative prescrptions, and all this time there are possibly wrong or actually adapted theories to our time by contemporary scientists. All this time, we have the Qur'an which is a timeless masterpiece quite as confusing and deep as Chinese wisdom. For me, for scholars, Asia is the source of spirituality, mysticism and we value intelligence, and there is what i call west Asian wisdom (The Prophet Abrahams laws) and East Asian Laws (Buddhism, Taoism, I Ching etc). Our religions (both are Asian) are either circular/dharmic or linear/Abrahamic. Europeans are not "aliens", neither American, and Asians are not Superiour. Exactly like the Arab Muslim world is linear, Christianity is also linear. Linear means there is a 'first day' and 'final day' or Armageddon. All major beliefs including Buddhism and Hindism (and in extension Taoism and Zen) believe in a final day.But this is projecting the western views to the Chinese. And that isn't very good idea, when beginning with this, because in there stuff is just different. The heart xin 心 is what matters. So in that sense if we see shen神 as clarity in understanding the world, then if there are problems with that that is obstruction of the "shen of the heart", in that sense its something preventing that person to "see" clearly.
In that sense Kun will be confused and manic if shen神 is obstructed.
Kun will be manic if the hun魂 is too strong, but that is complicated to go into here and now.
If not, Kun will be the blank page Heaven will paint on. That is a good position to be in.
And Qi Gong is often viewed as only "aligning the heart(xin心)". We may practice for many years, develop internal alchemy, work with Kan and Li and the microcosmic orbit and the lightbodies and while all that may seem really nice, from their point of view, all of it is only done so we can "fix" the heart心 and the clearity when looking at the world.
The lines have meaning, but there are many ways to read a hexagram. As other members already mention in here that part of the system is rarely used, so going into it is better to be saved for later(if ever) for members here in my view.
But if you check the Jing Fang Palaces around the forum(Harmen has very nice info on them in the crane in the shade site), you can see how the Self moves through the lines and what roles it will take.
I get all this probably doesn't make much sense yet. However repeating the western view to it can be very misleading, as there is a lot of power in the way the East views all that. Up to you of course, but the Trigrams even in the later heaven arrangment are a lot more fun and good then the way they would look if connected to western views to personalities even more so if we view it as personality "disorders". As in there all that would be disorders of the heart心 and shen神.
I didn't mean to help me with site, i used the site as example. I meant I Ching. Like Gmulii undrrstood: "Allow heaven to write on your white paper". As i said, the paper can be black and get text erased forth - which is hard and troublesome. Text (black ink) or paper is sin, white paper is tabla rassa or purity.Are you asking me:
1-If I can help you with web design?
or
2-something to do with the I Ching?
Please keep your answer simple,
since there is some sort of language barrier.
Mustafa, I really have no idea what you're talking about, and quite honestly, it does not make a whole lot of sense to me. I gave you what I felt were good references but it seems you've instead decided to go of on all sorts of other directions that are unrelated and disconnected from the Yi. I can certainly see looking in different places and directions for understanding, but usually one does this with some sense of a solid starting place, which I'm not sure is present here.I didn't mean to help me with site, i used the site as example. I meant I Ching. Like Gmulii undrrstood: "Allow heaven to write on your white paper". As i said, the paper can be black and get text erased forth - which is hard and troublesome. Text (black ink) or paper is sin, white paper is tabla rassa or purity.
So you're not the one adressed (I didn't quote you, i quoted elk) and you're not sure. Did you google or even reflect on what I said? I'm Muslim! Why should i be ignorant? Muslims are generally hard-working highly educated people.Mustafa, I really have no idea what you're talking about, and quite honestly it seems a bit crazy to me. I gave you what I felt were good references but it seems you've instead decided to go of on all sorts of other directions that are unrelated and disconnected from the Yi. I can certainly see looking in different places and directions for understanding, but usually one does this with some sense of a solid starting place, which I'm not sure is present here.
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