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Taoist I Ching
by Thomas Cleary
from Shambhala

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Great Tool For Feng Shui, but be warned
  The book opens you to understanding yourself in dangerous positions, positions you may not otherwise be aware of. It is nothing close to conventional wisdom of the west. But I have found it is a necessary tool for my house design and understanding the changes present in it according to the Heaven or upper trigrams, studied in their placement on my birth chart, and the Earth or lower trigrams as the rooms are in different positions of the home, direction-wise. If you were to consult this book without a house... more info

• A great edition
  I have several editions of the i-Ching, but this is the one I would take to a desert island. This iteration of the text and commentary is relatively recent -- 18th century -- and very well developed.
  Each book in Cleary's i-Ching trilogy -- Buddhist, Taoist and the Tao of Organization -- offers something unique and appealing. The Taoist i-Ching is the most metaphysical of the three and the most developed. Although the Buddhist i-Ching is a bit more human and friendly, Taoist thinking tends to mesh... more info

• In depth translation of a Chinese classic.
  The I Ching is considered by many a guide book for life. The book contains a sequence of 64 "hexagrams." Each hexagram is accompanied by an explanation of its meaning and sayings for each of it's 6 lines. Also, each of the hexagrams in this translation includes commentary composed by the Taoist adept Liu I-ming in 1796.
  The book can be read in many ways, for example; reading one or two of the hexagrams a day. This is the type of book that is better taken in bits as opposed to being read in long... more info

• Intersting, but problematic on its own.
  There seems to be a certain amount of confusion over the purpose of this version of the Yi-Ching. The publisher's blurb leaves it equaly uncertain. Liu I-ming's text-commentary which appeared in 1796, effectively used the symbols of the Yi-Ching to indicate inner processes based on Taoist yoga. To put it another way, Liu I-ming's commentary, alludes to microcosmic energy cycles which mirror the macrocosmic cycles reflected in the Yi-Ching. Without the 'nei-kung' or inner teaching which animates the process,... more info

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