Keeping a Glad Mind
Oppressive situation.
Blessings.
Proving the sage.
Be trustworthy
Words untrustworthy.
The I Ching has a deep history. Its roots lie reach down into the oracle bone divination of the Chinese Bronze Age, and its philosophical commentaries dating to the third century BCE secured its place as a central text for Chinese thought. The I Ching eventually arrived in Europe by the way of the Jesuits. The German philosopher Leibniz and psychoanalyst Carl Jung brought to it an ever-widening circle of attention and respect.
People who consult the I Ching have a complex relationship with it. Some approach the I Ching as a spiritual teacher. However, the I Ching shares more than wisdom; through its readings, it offers a conversation.
Louise for the past several years has worked on her own I Ching commentaries, a collection of hexagram essays, which she calls the The I Ching of Interbeing, a project, she says, remains very much a work in progress. You can access her I Ching here.
We asked the I Ching what it would like to share with you in its first Meat, Complicity and Thou reading. We received from the I Ching Hexagram 47 with a moving line in the 4th place, which appears below, using Louise’s I Ching hexagram essay.
