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That's so weird!
Moments before I saw the image, I was thinking, I should buy myself the I Ching, then I scroll down, and there you have this image! Very curious indeed.
Olá Paulo,
today’s serendipitous google image search for an I Ching graphic brought me to this page…
It’s too long a story to tell… In short, I’m online because of a good friend, Ken. And on Facebook I share with my friends in graphics and words; this month I’ve an 37 visuals series that triple counterpoints 3 themes (leaving home; I Ching; Paṭikkūlamanasikāra).
This is how I’ve transformed your graph (it will not be released to my friends until 28 days from now) you and your readers are the first to see:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=239733&l=a202d97015&id=1605468234
the link is universally open to all (regardless if you are a Facebook member or no)
best regards,
Will
no comment…..!!!!
I love how art makes simple otherwise concepts which can become confused, complex, contested et al.
A cool picture.
Well, introduced me: i’m a girl who live in Makassar-Indonesia, South East Asia.
I really like the consulting procedure Katya Walter describes in her book “Tao of Chaos”. She uses glass stones color coded in a set ratio. (16 stones). I inherited a very interested book about I Ching from my grandfather. “The Secrets of the I Ching” by Joseph Murphy it is based on the Wilhelm/Baynes book. The judgement, the image and the lines for each Hexagram are based on the bible.
Satora
It looks like an eye, the eye of universe…
and we can see different spheres, inside which we live, we dream, we love…
Sometimes, in each eye, is a wonderful universe of ideas, and inside us, is a way to look for the exit, and finding another eye…
Love to all of you
Patricia
It’s beautiful!
every point is linked to the previous and the following one, and all points have the same importance.
Again far eastern culture shows us that the truth lives among us (the kingdom of the sky is among us) in a harmonic, neverending circle.
have a nice day.
christina
Thank you all, many new informations, I have never thought of. Thank you Tania, although this is too much for me being an ignorant. Thank you my beautiful Wanbliska I put it in my favourites.. and then, it is in French…Next life.
Have a nice day.
LOVE,
THELMA
p.s. The future in my age in not …very interesting1 Predicting what..???
Seeing the picture makes me think how much the lines are in symmetry. One line out of place will mar the whole image.
Thank you Tania
The text of the I Ching is a set of predictions represented by a set of 64 abstract line arrangements called hexagrams (卦 guà). Each hexagram is a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines (爻 yáo), where 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 conceptually subdivided into two three-line arrangements called trigrams (卦 guà). There are 23, hence 8, possible trigrams. The traditional view was that the hexagrams were a later development and resulted from combining the two trigrams. However, in the earliest relevant archaeological evidence, groups of numerical symbols on many Western Zhou bronzes and a very few Shang oracle bones, such groups already usually appear in sets of six. A few have been found in sets of three numbers, but these are somewhat later. Note also that these numerical sets greatly predate the groups of broken and unbroken lines, leading modern scholars to doubt the mythical early attributions of the hexagram system.[3]
Each hexagram represents a description of a state or process. When a hexagram is cast using one of the traditional processes of divination with I Ching, each of the yin or yang lines will be indicated as either moving (that is, changing), or fixed (that is, unchanging). Moving (also sometimes called “old”, or “unstable”) lines will change to their opposites, that is “young” lines of the other type — old yang becoming young yin, and old yin becoming young yang.
The oldest method for casting the hexagrams, using yarrow stalks, is a biased random number generator, so the possible answers are not equiprobable. While the probability of getting either yin or yang is equal, the probability of getting old yang is three times greater than old yin.
The yarrow stalk method was gradually replaced during the Han Dynasty by the three coins method. Using this method the imbalance in generating old yin and old yang was eliminated. There is no theoretical basis for indicating what should be the optimal probability basis of the old lines versus the young lines. Of course, the whole idea behind this system of divination is that the oracle will select the appropriate answer, regardless of the probabilities.
There have been several arrangements of the trigrams and hexagrams over the ages. The bā gùa is a circular arrangement of the trigrams, traditionally printed on a mirror, or disk. According to legend, Fu Hsi found the bā gùa on the scales of a tortoise’s back. They function rather like a magic square, with the four axes summing to the same value (e.g., using 0 and 1 to represent yin and yang, 000 + 111 = 111, 101 + 010 = 111, etc.).
Sorry a bit long imfo – but I love the trigrams and I have a bagua -of these energy lines in a tattoo on my lower back …it represents all areas of life ,elements ..Blessings Tania
Dear Paulo,
Very interesting Mandala. It looks like the Shao Yung’s Old Family Mandala. The book of changes we know as the I Ching is based on the the Chou I or the Book of the Chou Dynasty.
Filika,
Satora
Belíssimo!!!
Muito lindo essa mandala com os hexagramas do Iching e todo o movimento da trama do desenho.
Amor,
União “criativo e receptivo”
complemento “Yin e yang”
EXCELSO !
Beijos,
Mari Raphael.
I’ve never seen that picture before. It reminds about “spirograph” I made when my mother came to visit me as a child. I really liked it. Maybe my first drawings. :)
I ching is fabulous. One of the best book of self correcting I’ve ever seen. It’s a very clever one, full of images, taken on natural things: elemental, seasons… Its teaching is sweet, but sometimes could be harsh. The only thing I can say, it is that for me, it’s always about my only true truth.
I used to have one that disappeared. Yes, I had to lost nearly all my things one day. But I think I also will buy it again. Because it’s good to through the sticks everyday. And follow the virtue about.
My beautiful Thelma,
Waiting for the day I could use the book, I found an alternative. Though I don’t go often, to be true. I’ve to write, and for now, I’m following here.
But you could go to that page, I found the best for IChing in the web. http://www.afpc.asso.fr/wengu/wg/wengu.php?lang=fr&l=Yijing&no=0
Love for all.
That’s so weird!
Moments before I saw the image, I was thinking, I should buy myself the I Ching, then I scroll down, and there you have this image! Very curious indeed.
The I Ching or The Book of Changes: An ancient Chinese divination manual and book of wisdom.
I was trying to find more about the I Ching and the philosophy about it and I ended up with ….the 20th century composer John Cage!!
So, my dearest Paulo Coelho, you really read our ‘comments’and you give us the answers in the Blog!! THANK YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN. I mentioned yesterday the concert of my friend pianist playing…. nothing. So John Cage was the composer and the name of the piece is: 4’33″.
I wish I could read the I Ching.
LOVE,
THELMA
To me seems one Mandala.The house of God.A labyrinth ,a drill for tibetan monks.I hope I am near to the right meaning.Also the chinese name suggest that.I am very interested in knowing as much possible on that curious symbols.