The Complete Idiot's Guide to the I ChingPenguin, 2001 - 321 páginas How would you like to have your own psychic hotline, available 24 hours a day? Readers will have just that with The Complete Idiot's Guide to I Ching, the 5,000-year-old Chinese book of divination and wisdom. In Chinese, "I" means Change and "Ching" means Book; hence, the Book of Changes. By throwing or casting yarrow sticks, coins, or seeds and interpreting the way they fall, I Ching provides one of 64 hexagrams, or possible pieces of advice. CIG to I Ching explains what the I Ching is, why it works, and offers a complete explanation of each hexagram. |
Contenido
Introducing the I Ching and Ancient China | 1 |
Ground Zero Understanding the Basics About the I Ching Book of Changes | 3 |
You Say I Ching We Say Yijing | 5 |
The Fundamental Basis of the Yijing | 6 |
A Model World | 7 |
The Spirits Speak | 8 |
The Number of Life | 9 |
The Yijing Science and MathematicsOh My | 11 |
The Newly Expanded Western Mind | 224 |
A New View for a New Millennium | 225 |
Making Sense of Qi | 227 |
Can You Spare Some Change? The Unchanging Truth About Yin and Yang | 229 |
The Great Big Bang of Creation | 230 |
The Circle of Life | 231 |
The Father of Heaven | 233 |
The Great Ultimate Taiji | 234 |
A Short History of the Ancient Chinese | 13 |
The Yangshao Culture | 15 |
The Xia Dynasty | 16 |
The Shang Dynasty | 17 |
The Politics of Shang | 18 |
Every Ending Marks a New Beginning | 19 |
The Virtuous Ji Chang | 20 |
Sibling Rivalry in the House of Zhou | 21 |
Divination Chinese Style | 23 |
The Almighty Turtle | 24 |
Turtle Shell Preparation 101 | 25 |
The Turtle Speaks | 26 |
Cast Your Lot | 27 |
Super Sleuth Zheng Zhenglang | 28 |
Whats Your Line? | 30 |
The Historical and Origins of the Yijing | 31 |
As the Story Goes The Historical Origin of the Yijing | 33 |
The Three Faces of Yi | 34 |
The Lianshanyi | 36 |
The Zhouyi | 37 |
Two Halves of the Whole | 40 |
The Ten Wings | 41 |
That Help the Yijing Fly | 42 |
Clipping the Wings | 45 |
Once Upon a Time The Mythical Origin of the Yijing | 47 |
The River Map | 49 |
The Luo River Writing | 50 |
Knots of Lines | 51 |
The Bagua Family of Eight Trigrams | 53 |
The Sixiang and the Hetu | 54 |
The Kian Tian Bagua | 55 |
Pulling the Luoshu Out of the Hetu Hat | 56 |
Learning to Use the Yijing | 59 |
How to Cast the Yijing | 61 |
Cast Your Fate | 62 |
Casting the Yijing Using Stalks of Yarrow | 63 |
Yin Yang and Away We Go | 66 |
What the Future Holds | 70 |
How to Interpret Your Yijing Reading | 73 |
The Lines They Are aChangin | 76 |
And the Answer Is | 77 |
The Yijing Predicts the New President of the United States | 79 |
Race to the White House | 80 |
Asking Heaven Again | 81 |
and Again | 82 |
The 64 Hexagrams A New Interpretation for the Twentyfirst Century | 85 |
Understanding the Principles of the Chinese Cosmos | 217 |
The Mystery of Qi | 219 |
The Essence of Qi | 220 |
The Changing Concept of Qi | 221 |
And the Qi Plays On | 222 |
The Yijings Qi | 223 |
Face and Vase | 235 |
Modern Science to the Ancient Oracle | 237 |
Gottfried Leibniz Binary Numeration and the Yijing | 239 |
The Life of Leibniz | 240 |
Binary Mathematics 101 | 241 |
Adding Binary Style | 242 |
Multiplying the Binary Way | 243 |
The Theology of Binary | 244 |
The 64 Hexagrams and the Binary System | 245 |
The Design of Binary | 247 |
Just a Coincidence | 249 |
Science Synchronicity and the Yijing Understanding a Holistic Universe | 251 |
Is It Synchronicity? | 252 |
and Meaningful Coincidence | 253 |
In Sync with Nature | 254 |
Wholeness and the Holomovement | 255 |
The Implications of Bohms Implicate Order | 256 |
A Quantum Potential of Possibilities | 257 |
Synchronicity and the Yijing | 258 |
Chaos Theory and the Yijing | 261 |
Chaos Defined | 262 |
Chaos Theorys Unassuming Beginning | 264 |
A Butterfly Flapping Its Wings in Hong Kong Sets Off a Tornado in Texas | 265 |
The Pretty Pattern of Chaos | 266 |
The Strangeness of Chaos | 267 |
Choosing the High or Low Road | 268 |
Closing In on Chaos | 269 |
Understanding and Applying the Ancient Tradition of Feng Shui | 271 |
Increasing Your Health Wealth and Relationships with Feng Shui | 273 |
Considering the Lay of the Land | 274 |
The Form School of Feng Shui | 275 |
The Business of Burying | 276 |
Urban Forms | 277 |
The Compass School of Feng Shui | 279 |
Kanyu See My Compass? | 280 |
Together Is Better | 281 |
Learning Yigua Feng Shui | 283 |
Determining Your Chinese Solar Birth Year | 284 |
Every Home Has a Trigram | 287 |
I Can Feel the Good Qi | 289 |
Charted Qi | 290 |
East Meets West | 291 |
All in the Family | 292 |
Yigua 501 | 294 |
Glossary | 295 |
Chinese Periods and Dynasties | 301 |
The Shang and Zhou Family Trees | 303 |
Learning More About the Yijing Ancient China and Related Applications | 305 |
Common Questions and Practical Answers About Divining the Yijing | 309 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Chinese Leadership Wisdom from the Book of Change Mun Kin Chok,Jianshu Min Vista previa limitada - 2006 |