{"id":723,"date":"2012-03-11T13:59:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T12:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/?p=723"},"modified":"2022-04-10T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T12:13:19","slug":"i-ching-and-acupuncture-why-acupuncture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/archives\/723","title":{"rendered":"I Ching, the Book of Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/i-ching\" target=\"_self\" title='The I&nbsp;Ching (Chinese &#63968;&#32147;, y&igrave; jing, W.-G. I&nbsp;Ching, auch: I Jing, YI&nbsp;Ching, Yi King; \"The Book of Changes\") is based on cosmology and philosophy of ancient China, particularly Daoism (Taoism). Basic ideas behind the I Ching include balance of opposites and acceptance of change. The book describes the world in 64 images which in turn&hellip;' class=\"encyclopedia\">I Ching<\/a> is a highly complex yet simple philosophical system which describes our world&rsquo;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&nbsp; to this change, these changes, to adapt&nbsp; to bring ourselves into harmony with the world around us.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/hexagram\" target=\"_self\" title=\"A hexagram is formed by two trigrams, with the movement going upwards, just like plant growth: in divination the hexagram is built from bottom to top and later read accordingly. Read more: Structure of a Hexagram Read more: Overview hexagrams\" class=\"encyclopedia\">hexagram<\/a>s of the I Ching show us these possible developmental paths of our inner being. If one follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/interpretation-model\" target=\"_self\" title='The&nbsp;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\"). Read more: https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/archives\/1550' class=\"encyclopedia\">interpretation model<\/a>, the steps towards the solution can be discerned in the sequence of the individual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/trigram\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The eight trigrams are the basis of the I&nbsp;Ching. They are composed of three solid (Yang) or broken (Yin) lines. Two trigrams form a hexagram, one image of I&nbsp;Ching. The colored trigrams link to the respective chapters in the I Ching Course where they are explained in detail. Chinese Name Traditional Image Traditional Characteristic Modern&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">trigram<\/a>s and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/core-character\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Lines 2, 3 and 4 form a hexagram's first core character, line 3, 4 and 5 its second core character. Both core characters highlight the hexagram's internal dynamics by showing how the two trigrams are linked together and interact.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">core character<\/a>s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The I Ching is a highly complex yet simple philosophical system which describes our world&#8217;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\u00a0 to this change, these changes, to adapt\u00a0 to bring ourselves into harmony with&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/archives\/723\">Weiterlesen:<span> I Ching, the Book of Changes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[147,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-en","category-material-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}