Melkiades - yijing. Yi_king. I Ching ♦ The Book of Changes. According to the original meaning, the attributes [sublimity, potentiality of success, power to further, perseverance] are paired. When an individual draws this oracle, it means that success will come to him from the primal depths of the universe and that everything depends upon his seeking his happiness and that of others in one way only, that is, by perseverance in what is right. The specific meanings of the four attributes became the subject of speculation at an early date.
The Chinese word here rendered by "sublime" means literally "head," "origin," "great. " This is why Confucius says in explaining it: “Great indeed is the generating power of the Creative; all beings owe their beginning to it. This power permeates all heaven.”3 For this attribute inheres in the other three as well. The beginning of all things lies still in the beyond in the form of ideas that have yet to become real. But the Creative furthermore has power to lend form to these archetypes of ideas. Yijing Research. Harmen's Dagboek. In this article no in-depth explanation of Chinese characters, hardly references, just an interesting story.
There is a fascinating link with hexagram 29 and a passage from the Mozi 墨子. The name of this hexagram, kan 坎, means 'pit, hole in the ground, trap'. But used doubled (kan-kan 坎坎) it is an onomatopoeia for the sound of drumming, as in the poem Fa Tan 伐檀 in The Book of Odes: 坎坎伐檀兮Kan-kan go his blows on the sandal trees... Often when a character is doubled it is a representation of a sound. 來之坎坎The kan-kan of coming/approaching... Something which produces a kan-kan sound is approaching. YiKingDay Calendrier insolite, "astrologie du troisième millenaire", climat journalier, Voyance, QUINTE turf, homeopathie. Divination. I Ching: Richard Wilhelm Translation. I Ching - The Book Of Changes. Yi King, le Livre des Mutations - Yi Jing. Yijing Hexagram Names and Core Meanings. Introduction The Yi tells us that a good Cauldron needs a good handle, that a good Well needs a long enough rope and a bucket that doesn't leak.
In both cases, these symbols are most useful when they are accessible, when they can be grasped, when you can get a grip, and when you can retrieve what you need from the ground or the fire. The Gua Ming or Hexagram Name is the first and most obvious way to get a grip on the coherent sets of ideas that each of the Hexagrams represents. It is therefore to our advantage to clear up some of the great confusion that has grown up around them. It might be useful to introduce this within an outline of the five main areas or branches of Yixue or Yi Studies, with the most time spent on the second, Core Meanings, of which Gua Ming is a subset. 1) Cumulative Experience. Bricolage: Construction or creation from a diverse range of available things. Confirmation Bias. Unlearning. 2) Core Meanings. 3) Zhouyi Yili.