We have seen earlier that the hexagrams with which the I Ching responds to us are messages from our unconscious to our daily consciousness. This sounds beautiful at first. In practice, however, it quickly becomes clear how challenging it is: How should one understand the meaning of the I Ching’s response to the question formulated during the consultation? And how can one work with or implement these answers concretely?
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Follow the Path of the Dao: A Western Approximation
The interpretations of individual hexagrams (as for example hexagram 11 – peace ) start out with Eastern concepts, but from there successively move on . If one wants to follow this approach further and interpret the hexagrams from a perspective that is even stronger rooted in Western thinking, philosophical anthropology provides a good framework.
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I Ching, the Book of Changes
The I Ching is a highly complex yet simple philosophical system which describes our world’s immanent change and declares change itself as the basic principle of the universe (cf. Govinda 1983). And the wisest thing for us to do is to subordinate to this change, these changes, to adapt to bring ourselves into harmony with the world around us.
So it is not at all about subjecting the world. We cannot. But what we can do is make changes where we can make them: in our own consciousness.
The hexagrams of the I Ching show us these possible developmental paths of our inner being. If one follows the interpretation model, the steps towards the solution can be discerned in the sequence of the individual trigrams and core characters.
Art, Philosophy, Acupuncture – and the I Ching
I am an artist and a philosopher. And on many long journeys I traveled with Richard Wilhelm’s translation of the Book of Changes in my luggage. With varying success. The original texts are, let’s face it, rather inaccessible.
Trigrams, Elements, Functional Circuits
Interpretation Model
The no2DO interpretation model splits a hexagram into upper and lower trigram (“lower trigram”,”upper trigram”), and both core character (“first core character”; “second core character”).
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