Easy I Ching Tutorial

Watch this simple video for an easy way to get started with the iChing. Though it's thousands of years old, the iChing continues to assist and influence decisions today by helping tap into the subconscious to find the answers that were always there. No matter your background, beliefs, or persuasions, the iChings is an amazing tool!
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[@paxwallacejazz]

Wow I'm still not clear about how but will watch again. I'm a poor street musician a once professional American Jazz pianist Now residing in Denmark as an illegal immigrant . Playing almost daily. This particular reading is so apropos regarding my current situation which is ostensibly good and improving as long as I'm zealous about plying my trade my surrendered action my practice my little contribution. Somehow in this last part of my journey there's just no room for any ego or anything that's not at service to forward motion.☯️

[@trythinking8967]

Clearest explanation of how to use the coins and the book. Thanks!

[@sachavan]

Got it! Thank you so much for taking the time to do your videos.🙏🏽

[@JohnSmith-wp7vf]

Mister, the book left from you is the best. But, there is much better book from the same author published 2002. It is the best book ever written, the answer and the cure for humanity. Absolute clarity.

[@isaisa8888]

Thank you so much for your video! I appreciate the time and effort you took in putting this together!!!

[@topworldnews777]

Love the power point presentation circa 1982

[@ivanorokkhito9727]

Best explanation . Thank you very much.

[@deansheridan]

So when do you read #25? You only read #10.

[@albertonoquestivax8486]

good morning, I would like to understand the meaning of the lines of change or mutable, they give another hexagram and how should this new hexagram be interpreted? thank you

[@dopamineland3550]

Didn't get it. You placed the coins with hand instead of letting them fall randomly...

[@ryokan9120]

Why do you recommend the small coins over the large coins? I'm just curious.

[@ANTONIUSBLCK]

So that we can see clearer the results in the video

[@YiTubeChannel]

I'm jealous. You copy of Wilhelm looks so shiny new! How do you keep it that way? Keep up the good work!

[@Dmtcadet]

Please explain why Pearson’s book says heads is 2 and tails is 3 but you say different my good friend

[@jamesolsen6179]

You are correct that Pearson in "The Orginal I Ching" shows Heads = 2 and Tails = 3 on page 47 - which I noticed when I got her book. However, every other book I have seen that deals with American Coins does it the other way. Heads = 3 Tails 2 - as do internet sites such as Wikihow. Obviously, I thought it wise to teach the most common method. Two early Engish language books refer only to Chinese coins. Wilhelm's The I Ching book's appendix refers to Chinese coins with the "inscribed side" as "yin" = 2 and the "reverse" "blank" side as "yang" = 3. But, since his book was translated to German in the 1920's and then translated to English in the 1950s it is not clear to me what coins to which he refers. Blofeld's I Ching from 1965 pretty much says the same thing. However, recent books from the 70's-on have Heads 3 and Tails 2 - looking at some random examples from my collection by Kartcher, Alphred Haung, Joseph Yu, Seabrook - they all use the values in the video. Pearson, who attempts to be "precise" in her translation may have translated the "inscribed side" as heads for an American coin = "yin". I just look for Endnotes to see if she had a reference - only a general reference to the Tso Chuan (Zuo zhuan in Pinyin) - the Legge translation which I have not read in full - it is generally a history - but saw no reference to the Coin Method and was probably written well before most scholars say coin method was invented. All that being said, it is your mind-set and the random event that counts - more than exact method. Manipulating Yarrow Stalks is older than coins, and different, and just as valid - you can see this in another of my KZbin video. In my view, the three coin method comes up with the same odds for the four possible lines (broken/unbroken x changing/unchanging) either way - so I would advise you as I advise anyone else I teach - using the method and values that are most comfortable to you

[@Dmtcadet]

James Olsen wow thank you so much for the detailed reply it’s really going to be helpful as I am just start to use my I Ching. I will definitely check out your videos! Another question- so could you possibly explain the yin and yang concept and to which value they are related? If this is too much don’t worry but if you could elaborate I would greatly appreciate

[@jamesolsen6179]

@@Dmtcadet The Yin-Yang concept has a long history and got associated with the broken and unbroken lines gradually after the I Ching was invented. Here is a video that explains it in relationship to how I use the I Ching: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIjMqJRjrJx3l80.

[@jamesolsen6179]

As to how they are related, the I Ching in its orignal form did NOT associte Yin the a broken line nor Yang with an unbroken line. The values for the changing broken line being six is specified in the original Chinese - the number 6 followed by the line number is how it actaully reads from 2000+ years ago. The same for 9 for an unbroken changing line. The methods for getting the 6, 7, 8, or 9 from 2000+ years ago using Yarrow Stalk manipulation was lost. The question, hexagram, etc is written down in various ancient documents, but not the method - no one thought they had to explain what everyone already knew I suppose. The Coin method was invented sometime after Christ. The Yarrow Stalk method used now was "reinvented" by a leading Confucian Scholar some centuries back, reconstructing it from the Great Treatise. The Chinese today use several other methods as well. My conclusion is that the method is not nearly as important as your mind-set and your relationship with whatever Hexagram you do get - the theory being whatever you do the "fates" or your connection with something greater than yourself will guide your hands.

[@ariana5819]

the dragon is tail man not face

[@valerieholt3625]

Right! dragon is yin (tails)

[@Zo_Rox]

To be honest, unless you have enough cultivation of the field and you tap into the power of taoism deities or your master's ancestories, then it might work. Else it will never really work.

[@jamesolsen6179]

Thank you for your comment. And, I honor your tradition and would encourage you to give the I Ching a try if you haven’t already. It works for me and the people I teach. As one long time sage said during a dialog about the theory of the I Ching - that is what counts - whether it works for the person using it. The result of my studies of the I Ching is that the I Ching has been approached in a number of ways - and works best if one connects with it in a spiritual way. Yes, connecting with the Daoist Deities or sinking into to the Dao itself has worked, and is a long-standing tradition for approaching the I Ching. However it was also used by Confucians who saw it as the first Confucian Classic, and Buddhists, for millennia . It has been used by Christians for a century or so. I wrote a book about what I learned, I Ching of a Thousand Doors. I only claim to share what I have learned so far - these are my thoughts.

[@gregmcclimonds8399]

Taoism and the I ching are not in any way connected... so your opuon has absolutely no validity here