Discovering I Ching
Start point. Discovering the I Ching:
I Ching ... undoubtedly one of the oldest books known and which is also currently studied and consulted.
It is a book of messages, expressed in images and analogies.
It is a book to reflect and with which one can interact. Ask the book a question and he will respond through 64 archetypal images, called Hexagramas, offering his teaching. That is why he is usually called teacher or oracle.
We invite you to visit the following articles to get a general idea of the topics related to I Ching. They are especially written as an introduction, so that whoever has arrived from the hand of curiosity understands that it is not something distant and inaccessible. It is a mistake to be afraid of the I Ching. But it has also been a mistake to try to impose an Eastern form of communication - and to understand reality - to a Western civilization. IChingSite.com aims to bring the Book of Changes into a form in which it can be friendly received.
Being a book of Chinese origin, there are many translations, interpretations and comments that take the original metaphorical form and represent it in different ways. Some maintain almost their pure state, others add extensive comments and explanations, oriented to different contexts. However, the richness of the messages is precisely in its universal application, for which it is important to understand it beyond the words and vision selected by each author. In general it is through the reading and reflection of several different texts that one manages to incorporate the substance and intention of each message.
At the moment IChingSite.com offers the version perhaps most widespread and recommended to start, Richard Wilhelm's.
