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What is the foundation for assuming the Yi Ching works for divination?
What is the foundation for assuming the Yi Ching works for divination? The only rational I have ever heard is that there is no random chance in the universe. If you throw four coins the universe gives you the answer you need. A person seeking divination would have to accept that throwing the coins is not a purely random event.
I use the Yi as more for philosophy and self development than divination these days, but I do find it speaks to me like a person.
I will investigate Carl Jung's preface to Wihelm's edition.
a peculiar interdependence of objective events among themselves
Same here, I am very hesitant to use the I Ching for predicting the future, due to a possibly unfortunate skeptical nature, but it's great for helping one get to the root of a problem. And in this... if the book is good, filled with good knowledge and good advice, then using it in your life is, well, good. And perhaps having a system for using it "randomly" makes it that much better.
If someone would devise an easy method for using the advice of say the Tao Te Ching, The Bhagavad Gita, the Bible, or even the token self-help book you have lying around, perhaps it would operate on a function akin to the I Ching But not quite, because there is that special something built into the I Ching from the start.
And I don't entirely rule out what Jung calls synchronicity or even divination in the sense of determining the future. The universe is so vast, how am I to judge?
In the conventional view, qualitative methods produce information only on the particular cases studied, and any more general conclusions are only propositions (informed assertions).
I don't know how it works, but I interact with the Yi daily anyway. It seems to have the same rules as the universe itself and whatever you think that means at the time. I've viewed the world as unfolding beautifully and I saw the Yi as doing the same. It really is like everyone has posted, what you are open to.
Interactive hormonal dancing. And to think it happens as a passing glance in a crowd, even if only in your imagination.
Imagination becomes reality, according to the I Ching (Hex 4 - Line 4, Wilhelm ed.); but only if persisted in long enough. That's the power of dreaming, which power is often misunderstood and misapplied. Thus the warning against persisting in "empty," that is, unprofitable and misguided "imaginings."
Imagination becomes reality, according to the I Ching (Hex 4 - Line 4, Wilhelm ed.); but only if persisted in long enough. That's the power of dreaming, which power is often misunderstood and misapplied. Thus the warning against persisting in "empty," that is, unprofitable and misguided "imaginings."
cjgait
I still think it is wu wei. I will have to look it up. I know the term used is not tai qi, although perhaps that term could be used also. But the supreme all, (which can be tai qi alright) does carry the connotation of non-doing.
Gene
You mean that really wasn't Jesus on my toast?
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