The Eight Trigrams (八卦, Bā Guà)

[@BenebellWen]

Apologies, the editing and audio are a bit choppy. The timing of the slides and voiceover narration are off in a few places. Timestamps provided in the video description box. There’s also a write-up on my blog with supplemental written materials and reference downloads: benebellwen.com/2023/08/22/ba-gua-the-eight-trigrams/

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[@karennielsen9248]

Fascinating. I’ll have to watch it a dozen more times and study your book before it doesn’t all go directly over my head, but fascinating.

[@InternetSumerian-le6rp]

While there are 2x2x2, or eight, trigrams. 2 to the exponential power of 3. Then there are 2x2x2x2x2x2 , or 64, hexagrams. 2 to the exponential power of 6. Watching Luo Square and the He tu square helps me understand quite a bit more about this topic than I already knew. I think this should be the second video to watch about this topic. understanding Luo shus number 15 is 1+5 = 6 to understand why there are 6 lines in a hexagram, then understanding 8 trigrams that form the 8 by 8 grid of 64 hexagrams is the way it all works. 2 to the exponential powers are interesting to me because the basis of this is all binary, a 0 and 1 or an x and o, a positive and negative...a slow or busy day. polarity. positives and negatives.

[@rexnemo]

@@InternetSumerian-le6rp What I find intriguing is how the barcodes were allegedly inspired by the Hexagrams of the I Ching !

[@NigelJackson]

Thank you for this illuminating exposition on the Trigrams. The Former Heaven and Later Heaven arrangements of the Trigrams fascinate and puzzle me...the placement of certain Trigrams in both arrays is still mysterious to me. The Fu Hsi array of Former Heaven being based (according to Ong Hean Tatt) on the 'mutual production relationship' of the 5 Elements harmoniously giving rise to each other in circular arrangement reminds me of the paradaisical 'Golden Age' when primordial humanity and the world lived in accord with the Tao - whereas the Later Heaven array of King Wen, based on the 'mutual destructive relations' of the 5 Elements, where the Trigrams are arranged to overcome or conquer each other reflects conflict and defence... (The writer Ong Hean Tatt attributes the Generation cycle of Wuxing with Earlier Heaven Bagua, the Destruction cycle with Later Heaven array - but the 'Qimeng fulun' of I Ching and other Chinese texts actually state the reverse, correlating the Wuxing Destruction cycle to Early Heaven and Generation Cycle to Later Heaven array....which is right? I don't know...)

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[@rexnemo]

I find the explanations about magical squares absolutely fascinating . You have clearly done a lot of reading on the subjects that you discuss in these videos . Thank you for these interesting videos about a subject which is not easy to find out about .

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[@LouValcourt]

This is so fascinating! I love patterns and numbers in symbolism. To me it’s evidence that the Universe is not random but filled with order and meaning.

[@InternetSumerian-le6rp]

While there are 2x2x2, or eight, trigrams. 2 to the exponential power of 3. Then there are 2x2x2x2x2x2 , or 64, hexagrams. 2 to the exponential power of 6

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Best video on the topic

[@InternetSumerian-le6rp]

I am very impressed at how she explained how the Luo Shu square is the basis for the number 6 as 15 = 1+5=6. This should be basis introductory knowledge to understanding I ching but never learned of it or seen anything on other online pages until I saw this channel. Very excellent work

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[@macinvictus]

Super helpful...definitely integrating this

[@PlutoPlanetPower]

Thank you for another great educational video! I've always wondered and I'm curious if you've come across anything that discusses this - do you know where the hanzi come from for each of the trigrams? None of them actually have the meaning of their associated natural element. For example, 離 literally means to leave or be separated, but how did that come to represent Fire? Or 乾 literally means dry but represents Heaven in the Ba Gua. The characters for the 10 heavenly stems and 12 earthly branches also seem to have nothing to do with what they represent.

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[@iMystic418]

Thank you for this video (and your book)! It is profound material. I am a mathematician. And I have only recently discovered the "I Ching". It is helping me tie together, formally, many ideas I've been tackling from a merely intuitive perspective. Thank you again. ✌️🫶🦐

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[@InternetSumerian-le6rp]

I like helping people understand the i ching. I think the Three Truths and Cao Dai traditions are definitely relevant. Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian teachings all in one synthesis. While there are 2x2x2, or eight, trigrams. 2 to the exponential power of 3. Then there are 2x2x2x2x2x2 , or 64, hexagrams. 2 to the exponential power of 6. Hope I can help you learn something new, there are many mathematical properties of the book of changes

[@kwanelesigcau3218]

Interesting video, definitely over my head. I think I am battling to wrap my head around how north written below south on cardinal diagram. Silly struggle but I would like query this with respect to your research and expertise.

[@joelster23]

Hey Benebell, I really appreciate your work! I pre-ordered the new book as soon as I saw this. Re-edit: ok I have a totally different question: Why are Heaven and Lake considered Yin in polarity when they are Yang trigrams? Both on page 28 and in Appendix E of The Tao of Craft, they are listed as Yin and this is very confusing? Please help! 🙏

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[@tewtravelers9586]

It seems the trigrams would be perfectly paired corresponding to their shared bigrams. Using the five elements kind of throws me off…like turtles all the way down logic. Still, I absolutely love the Yi and its design. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

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[@expressionamidstcacophony390]

I've run into 「八極陣」, which is translated as "eight trigrams" by a couple different translators, but which doesn't seem to return anything useful when searched on dictionary or wiki sites. Any idea what these translators know that I don't?

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[@danielmenendez8249]

Hi Benebell, I think the “sunset” in image at 2:04 should be near the middle by autumn equinox. Could you please clarify this for me?

[@tangentreverent4821]

Have you heard of anyone using the former and latter heaven at the same time to examine the relationship of the environment and practitioner?

[@defiantclass]

Do the hexagrams have correspondences to compass directions?

[@InternetSumerian-le6rp]

I remember reading that neolithic chinese geomancy involved people putting metal lodestones (strongly magnetic natural iron) on pieces of wood floating in water to have them face northward. This is how compasses were discovered

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[@dakotapeters5654]

5:27 Do them in a zigzag pattern lol Sky, Moon, Time, Earth / East, Mountain, West, Winds. Seems like it fits pretty well not to mention sky is opposite symbol of earth wind is opposite of east cause wind always hits western side means it comes from east direction. That and moon and time are 2 different forms of reflection aparently but idk 😆

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All of the symbols diagonal from eachother and equally far apart are opposite of eachother

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I have purchased both Tao of Craft and your I Ching and there's just one thing I'm confused about: Surrounding the seal of the Lady of the Ninth Heaven in one diagram and the Early and Later Ba Gua in another are 36 hexagrams. I've gone page by page with other readers and we can't find any reference to these 36 hexagrams!! Can you please tell us the significance of these hexagrams?!

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8 Trigrams 64 Palms!!!✋🏾

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Asians are so good at m ...making things fit together perfectly, creating and solving puzzles, etc... wonder how good they are at matchmaking a man and woman together... just curious cause I'm not very good at it and my fellow Americans americant find or make a good match for me... is it just me?😅

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I Ching can be used in many ways. And it has many levels to reveal. I found it useful to "adopt" a trigram as a signature symbol. For me it is mountain. How did I choose mountain? It really came to me through using the book, and feeling that this image was somehow important to me. Another way to get into it is to do readings for someone on a regular basis. This gets you into the healing and mystical aspects. The publishing of this version by Benebell is a wonderful moment in and of itself in which we can learn more. It is a time to celebrate this opportunity and to dedicate time to this work. Thank you Benebell for this wonderful blossoming in the history of I Ching.

[@InternetSumerian-le6rp]

Imagine it as the inner way of seeing your own being illustrated as an archetype on which all change is based. that is why it is called the book of changes. also, the solid and broken lines are what binary was actually based off of, not the other way around. so you could picture each broken like as a 0 or 1, or an x and o for example. imagine each line as a busy and lazy day. an aggressive man and submissive female. look at the black and white Tao symbol as two intertwining snake, one good and one evil or negative and positive for example.

[@InternetSumerian-le6rp]

@@513coltrane I think the most important thing to understand is her videos of Luo Shu square. very fundamental. interesting articles about it and He Tu you can find elsewhere too

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77 comments and 888 likes as I watch this video the first time. hmm..

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Galactic and Celestial must be different. Humanity as a form of interference. Humans have five fingers and five toes. Our galactic domain is within the digital realm of five extensions, or five most furthest limbs. Humans possess five digits. This is the border of observation and perception; knowledge of existence within the realm of five digits.

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[@VonHumboldtZg]

is not a correct interpretation

[@adhyjc8]

Clarify please.

[@VonHumboldtZg]

@@adhyjc8 if u would argrue there are 64 sexagrams, I would argue more, because of the orientations

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[@BenebellWen]

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