Hi Scorpio fellas, and everyone else that happens to read on this forum, I'm new here and there is something I would like to share with you. The I Ching (Yi ying) is an old book from China and it is used as an oracle, I've been using it for one year or so now, and I definitely do not know how they did it but one way or another it has managed to make me wonder, how?, in this regard I am not sure if it really works as some mystic oracle or it is just some psychological thing either way I still find it a great book. I first got to the I Ching by reading to a psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung (comparable to Freud in importance) from whom I read his foreword:
The main lesson in the I Ching is that times change, the work of man is to adapt and be prepared to those changes and thus make our actions in accord to them. Is to bring about our best to this world according to the (changing) time we are in.
You crushed his coins! Hahaha!, maybe you did him a favor if he would not leave the house without consulting it, I would have just use any other coins I find of my liking :-) but it is true the hexagrams are quite difficult to interpret and some times they might feel too generic, on the other hand the changing lines help to give a more specific situation and context, either way I have not left my skepticism behind about the I ching but from time to time the judgments I've received keep me in awe is almost scary :-I Still it may just be a well written book facing a hopeful mind.
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The I Ching (Yi ying) is an old book from China and it is used as an oracle, I've been using it for one year or so now, and I definitely do not know how they did it but one way or another it has managed to make me wonder, how?, in this regard I am not sure if it really works as some mystic oracle or it is just some psychological thing either way I still find it a great book.
I first got to the I Ching by reading to a psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung (comparable to Freud in importance) from whom I read his foreword:
http://www.iging.com/intro/foreword.htm A great way to start with the I Ching and create your own conclusions.
and the introduction by Richard Wilhelm; http://www.iging.com/intro/introduc.htm<BR>
Here is the Link to the book itself, Wilhelm's translation; http://www.akirarabelais.com/i/i.html<BR>
A different translation; http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ddiamond/table.html<BR>
and one more translation; http://www.sacred-texts.com/ich/index.htm
I personally use the three of them to try to understand the readings better and get the best out of them.
The main lesson in the I Ching is that times change, the work of man is to adapt and be prepared to those changes and thus make our actions in accord to them. Is to bring about our best to this world according to the (changing) time we are in.