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Book Review: C.G. Garant's Designer's Book of Change

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The Designer's Book of Change by C.G. Garant is an interesting interpretation of the Yijing through the eyes of a teacher of design. It looks at the universal principles of good design and nicely draws wisdom from the Yijing to support those principles. The author has created a work of interest to all Yijing readers looking for balance and meaning.

See our full review at: https://contemplatingiching.wordpress.com.

Barbara
 
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Sorry, couldn't make it through the introduction on the Kindle sample of this. When people completely distort the history of Chinese philosophy, using a Barnes & Noble Daoist POV...it just turns me off. Call me a curmudgeon, but it annoys me. The material is out there, in several languages, commonly available. He also doesn't know the difference between millennium and millennia, which raises my spelling/grammar police heckles.
 

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It's amusing that in the only Gua that concerns design explicitly (the Ridgepole of 28)
all we get is bafflegab and nothing whatsoever about the Yijing.
The verbiage is a bit like a Dilbert cartoon. http://www.atrixnet.com/bs-generator.html
 

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The Designer's Book of Change by C.G. Garant is an interesting interpretation of the Yijing through the eyes of a teacher of design. It looks at the universal principles of good design and nicely draws wisdom from the Yijing to support those principles. The author has created a work of interest to all Yijing readers looking for balance and meaning.
See our full review at: https://contemplatingiching.wordpress.com.
Barbara

Thanks for the review , Barbara , though , from an esoteric point of view , I would be tempted to replace the word «design» by the word «WORK» or by the name of any other profession undertaken with mystics.

Possibly the word «design» is'n but another equivalent for «TAO».

Garant, the author, has a page «The Desgin Paradigma» with complete example of H.61, here, «Faithfulness»
that ended with the following advice:

Only have faith in that which you know is correct and righteous.
Source: The Designers Book of Change, Humanics Publishing Group, C.G. Garant
http://www.thedesignparadigm.net/2013_03_01_archive.html

Easy to say but, how to proceed? Maybe the advice is DON'T TRUST AT ALL. How do we know if the things we know are correct. No knowlege is perfect. When we are sure to know the truth , we are wrong.

The advice is followed by a nice discourse, but too abstract for me.

I will tray with H.41 you quote and tell you.

All the best,


Charly
 

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It's amusing that in the only Gua that concerns design explicitly (the Ridgepole of 28)
all we get is bafflegab and nothing whatsoever about the Yijing.
The verbiage is a bit like a Dilbert cartoon. http://www.atrixnet.com/bs-generator.html
Hi, Brad:

I've tried asking the «Corporate B.A. Generator». Its answer was:

intrinsically build orthogonal testing procedures
Generated with: http://www.atrixnet.com/bs-generator.html

Maybe true but I will go to ask the RIDGEPOLE for clarification..

Best regards,

Charly
 

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