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I-Ching |
The philosophy of I-ching is focused on the idea of change. Change is eternal - both for the comical and the human world - and therefore it is necessary to know in due time how to adapt to it. We can see here the oracular function of I-ching, namely that of connecting our activity to the temporary conditions and to correct those tendencies that couldn't be successful in a given social or comical context. The I Ching (Wade-Giles), "Yì Jīng" (Pinyin), also known as Changes, Classic of Changes; and Zhouyi, is one of the oldest of texts.[1] The book contains a divination system the West African Ifá system. In Western cultures and modern East Asia, it is still widely used for this purpose. The standard text originated from the ancient text transmitted by Fei Zhi, c. 50 BC-10 AD) of the Han Dynasty. During the Han Dynasty this version competed with the bowdlerized new text version transmitted by Tian He at of the Western Han. However, by the time of the Tang Dynasty the ancient which survived Qin’s book-burning by being preserved amongst the peasantry, became the accepted norm among Chinese scholars. The text of the I Ching is a set of oracular statements represented by 64 sets of six lines each called hexagrams. Each hexagram is a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines, each line is either Yang (an unbroken, or solid line), or Yin (broken, an open line with a gap in the center). With six such lines stacked from bottom to top there are 26 or 64 possible combinations, and thus 64 hexagrams represented. The hexagram diagram is composed of two three-line arrangements called trigrams. There are 23, hence 8, possible trigrams |
Rameshwar Parsad |
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