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VERY lifelike ! as ..... that looks just like me coming home from the pub with two mates !

Excellent life hack: exercise.

That's because Leibniz who introduced binary mathematics to the West and became de facto the father of the computer binary system was familiarized with the I Ching by a Jesuit missionary in China, a personal friend of his, who translated it and sent it to him. Leibniz was very impressed and put the idea to good use. Too bad we never see credit given where credit is due in such cases. Leibniz is credited with inventing it instead...

Xpeng Iron man - he can do tai chi !

Hello family I'm so excited to be a member of this family, hopefully I'm welcome?

Welcome, take a look around. - Trunk

That is very interesting. I want to comment on it, sometime after I figure out what an i ching is.

Why would I ask a question about the multiplication table?.. I wanted to see what meaning you assign to the operation you proposed. Meaning. Here's how the I Ching is really generated. It reflects the actual process of the separation of wuji into yin and yang and the emergence of the trigrams and hexagrams. The linear sequence has been created because in a book you go line by line rather than in a circle, is all. Confucius is reported to have been asked, at the end of his very long and fruitful life, if he has any regrets. "Just one... I wish I had fifty more years of life to dedicate exclusively to the study of the I Ching," he responded.

I had similar luck, one terrible professor each in physics, chemistry, and math, my three favorite disciplines. I guess they were valued by the university for their research but they failed miserably as teachers.

Yes, as I get older, I find sitting in the squat position to be wonderful for my hips and low back, promoting strength and flexibility. It's a position many of us in the West are unfamiliar and uncomfortable with, favoring always sitting in chairs.

The Self, our Being, is awareness. ~ Sri Muruganar To remain unconscious of Being is to be trapped within an ego-driven wasteland of conflict, strife, and fear that only seems customary. ~ Adyashanti The false self grows and thrives in unconscious being. When we are asleep to Being, our attention becomes entranced by mind—the vast array of ideas, images, beliefs, habits, opinions, and judgments that we have been conditioned to identify as self. ~ Adyashanti The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.~ Eckhart Tolle "There is no conflict in you, the Self. If there is conflict, it is between thought and thought. As long as the sense of 'I' and 'other' is believed, conflict is inevitable,". ~ Mooji

It is 8 x 8 = 64 8 trigram x 8 trigram = 64 hexagrams

I am a Brazilian researcher focused on energetic techniques from different traditions. My work includes the study of North Indian tantra and its practical methods. I also research exorcism in the Christian and Jewish traditions, as well as techniques I have developed myself through personal practice and comparative analysis. In addition, I study Mesmerism and its historical methods, along with some modern energetic schools that are less central but still useful for understanding different approaches to subtle energy work. My interest is mainly practical and comparative, examining how these techniques function and how they relate to each other across cultures and lineages.

Bem vindo, Isso parece muito interessante e estou ansioso para ouvir o que você tem a dizer. (sorry for my crap Portuguese) A.

Thank you! The original was a little out of focus, but here it is--down at the Family Duck:

Welcome!

Thank you! And thank you for the introduction!

Hello! I am new here, and would like to introduce myself. Funny enough, I did not originally find this forum because of Eastern traditions, but rather due to Western esoteric traditions. I found some exceptionally insightful conversations around Franz Bardon and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, but consumed those topics passively. As I've continued my own study and practice, I recently read Draja Mickaharic's book Practice of Magic. In his chapter on ceremonial magic, he refers to a system of correspondences that precedes the Kabbalah and has eight spheres to the ten Sephiroth of the Tree of Life. He says that those who use this system call it "The Eight" and that the I Ching is an effect of this system. I suspect (but as of yet have no way to confirm!) that he must therefore be referring to the bagua. This inspired me to start reading more about Chinese esoteric thought, which is underrepresented in Western mysticism and magic, which seems to have only gone so far east as India until quite recently. And that brought me back here! Hoping to learn more and maybe have something of my own to contribute. Thank you!

Hi. Welcome to the forum. @Nungali is an expert.

Welcome!

Good to see VH, used to love reading his books when younger.

I think it's one of the least mysterious statements in the I Ching. A favorable beginning (yuan), penetrating progress (heng), beneficial appropriateness (li), and steadfast correctness (zhen) -- throughout the I Ching Yuanheng Lizhen stands for the "green light" in response to your divination. A "yes," rather than what the outcome of other inquiries may be -- "maybe," "possible but not likely," "don't go there," "a hard no."

这听起来很有趣，我期待听到你有什么要说的。