Yi Jing For The Spiritual Traveler - free download until 31 dec.

[Trojina]

You did - you asked Yi and Yi told you all about these things did it. You're a joke and a very unwelcome one. What you did is make up some waffle to support your sick views. Still at least you can't advertise your garbage here anymore you will have to try to get money for your 'book' somewhere else. Donate button indeed ...yes if you donate to this person you donate to hatred of women, hatred of Jews, hatred of black people, hatred of gays. makes you wonder what 'Jian' is ? He was waffling on about Swedish men yet says he's Dutch who knows. Anyway don't waste money on him he's a liar. Deliberately leading people to his 'archive' where his sicko views were aired in the name of Yi.

'Spiritual Traveller' My Backside - if you entitled your book 'How to be caught out bullshitting and spreading hatred and evil on the internet' by A Troll it may catch on.

 

[hilary]

Comment from Harmen Mesker on Facebook (reproduced here with permission):

This pdf gives me deja vu to Legge's translation:
"What occurs is (was, might, will, or should be) (as) a hidden dragon; One (what occurs) is (was, might, will, or should be) not acting overtly (explicitly), and/or under the occurring circumstances."
The commentary is even worse: "Creativity (light, activity, greatness, strength, firmness, masculinity) is (was, might, will, or should be) occurring (and/or required) (as) at (and/or in) the feet (in the beginning, when young, those who are young, on the floor), and/or in the way of (and/or when) moving (advancing, in the way of doing things)."
The pdf is an almost 1000 page course on 'How to Butcher a Chinese Classic to Death'. It also copies numerous texts from other books without understanding their original context:
"Profile, most / least auspicious, special note, special indication:
These are paragraphs directly quoted from "The Astrology of I Ching", by W.K. Chu / W. Sherill [sic HM], sometimes slightly adjusted for the occurring context.
"Profile" - This describes the character of someone with the hexagram and/or line that applies for his/her Chinese Astrology birth-chart. It can generally be applied for the one (or for that which is occurring) at the center of a matter at hand."
The 'most/least auspicious' texts in Sherrill & Chu's book should be read in accordance with the birth hexagram and how it relates to the seasons etc. (it has nothing to do with 'karma' as S&C claim.) Quoting it out of context gives a false idea of the original text and its usage.

...What happened to the trigrams? Moving lines? Their function and applicability are not addressed. The reader is urged to read and nothing else.
This pdf stands far from what the Yijing actually is.

 

[hilary]

I'll close this thread now. I don't need an oracle to tell me that anti-semitism is evil.