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We lost our money fighting Nazis (on our own for most of the tiime).

Your money.

We'll take the east Coast and the West Coast - you can have the middle.

Give us the colonies back!

And the dead guy wins on points.

Shhhhhh!

http://www.ichingonline.net/index.php For those who are a little lazy about coin or yarrow stalk methods this site is one of the better I Ching consultation sites. http://onlineclarity.co.uk Nice site with its own forum and blog - concentrates on divination use of I Ching. http://www.biroco.com/yijing/links.htm If you are interested in scholarly 'modernist' approach this is a good site with book reviews and links. http://grichter.sites.truman.edu/home/ Site containing a free pdf download of a translation of root text. http://www.amazon.com/The-Ching-Biography-Lives-Religious/dp/0691145091/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396190696&sr=8-1&keywords=I+ching+a+biography an excellent history of the I Ching from an academic. http://www.amazon.com/The-Original-Ching-Authentic-Translation/dp/0804841810/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396190781&sr=8-1&keywords=I+ching+original+pearson an attempted reconstruction of original root text (not completely convinced about this but interesting). http://www.amazon.com/I-Ching-Classics-Ancient-China/dp/0345362438/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396190858&sr=8-1&keywords=I+ching+shaughnessy translation of the MWD text (different order of hexagrams and some names). The groundbreaking thesis THE ORIGINAL "YIJING": A TEXT, PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION, TRANSLATION, AND INDEXES, WITH SAMPLE GLOSSES (I CHING, CHINA) by Kunst, Richard Alan, which in 1985 opened up the modernist approach to YiJing studies. available form here http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb/search.html

No its the odd one out which determines the line - so one head and two tails is a yang. Anyway that's the convention i use.

I keep reading the title of this thread on the index page as "Fake Boobs" ....

I've seen in given both ways. I think it is a confusion between chinese coinage and western coinage. Wilhelm and others give heads as yang - so two tails and a head would be a young yang line. I always use this convention and it seems to make intuitively more sense. Also from memory Chinese coins had a blank side and a side with the value of the coin. The side with the value was yin. So on our coins the tales side which has the value of coin is yin.

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I have Richard John Lynn's The Classic of Changes which I have 'studied' a little - I don't read Chinese so I rely on English translations completely. As to H1 - H2 interpretation I have been influenced by Stephen Karcher who regards the H2 as speaking about the subject and H1 as the situation/environment. But when I consult the Yijing I use the Judgement to give an image as to what is being said and the yaoci to indicate the specific phase of that process. Once I have an idea of what is indicated I just relate it back to the question in quite a 'free' or perhaps 'intuitive' way get my answer. Wang Bi seems to focus on the way in which the lines relate and resonate, support or weaken each other within the context of the Hex as a whole. I mostly use the Yijing for myself (occasionally friends and family) and have had good results - I use it periodically and sometimes do a kind of diagnostic exercise which comprises a series of follow-on questions and so generates a sequence of hexagrams. I've found this most helpful especially for questions about life or spiritual direction as it seems to hold up a mirror to my mind and takes me to places I would not get to by just contemplation alone.

Wang Bi in his Zhouyi lueli seems to see the hexagram as a whole which sums the Yijing's response to the question. So the sources which you call 'the oldest examples' pre-date him presumably - is that right?

This video seems to explain everything.

Sorry I have seen your first video - but it has been a while - I'll try to watch again.

Very nice video - and don't worry about your accent I have read in several places (but I would have to look up references if you want them) that the hexagrams came first (presumably from the method of the yarrow stalks) and the trigrams came later as a method of interpretation or perhaps to fit with the metaphysics of the number and symbol (?) interpretation. But you seem to be saying that the trigrams were the original basis. Is that right?

It bombed.

Perhaps the Blitzkrieg was just a cry for help.

Yueya, Even though a practicing Buddhist I am allergic to Dharma centres for that very reason - conflicting emotion overlayed with false emotion - but I won't go on about it. I think that there is actually an alchemical view of things - which some people get and some do not. Once you see it you can begin to work with it. Then as one tantric master said 'emotion is the path'.

Please continue with your discussion of emotion in alchemy (if you so choose). I would contribute but I fear then the discussion would be far too Buddhist

Love The Dharma Bums - great book - better in my view than On the Road.

Just reading that made me worry about being at all.