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denis_m said:The words yin and yang were drawn out of Qian and Kun by philosophically minded people. Maybe Qian and Kun were too raw and full of associations with fertility magic, so philosophers came along and rationalized them into yin and yang.
denis_m said:There's really no need to go into Chinese philosophy when working with the I CHING. And you're right, there's no point in mystifying the differences between Western and Eastern thinking.
denis_m said:There's really no need to go into Chinese philosophy when working with the I CHING. And you're right, there's no point in mystifying the differences between Western and Eastern thinking.
I should mention that through all my four years at Taiwan University, I was a source of much merriment on account of the malapropisms I uttered. Once, for example, instead of saying sheng chan, "produce," I said xiao chan, "miscarriage," meaning a miscarriage in pregnancy. All the girls in my dorm room burst out laughing.
From: Julie Lee Wei: Dogs and Cats: Lessons from Learning Chinese
at: http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp138_learn_chinese.pdf
Good stuff but, you know, it is kind of pissing me off that those files cannot be printed. Does the author thinks we are glued to a screen 24/7?
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