What is the I Ching (Yijing) Book of Changes?

[@Vort317545]

I consult the I Ching daily for insights. Amazingly amazingly accurate. Many respects to the Chinese people for bringing us the I Ching.

[@Tarotjackpot]

I also enjoy Wayne Dwyer

[@RyanEdmondsMyLifeAsRyan]

​@Contend4Truth only YOUR scripture. Yours isn't the only holy scripture in the world... just the only one that encourages rape, slavery, racism, misogyny and homophobia. Your scriptures were written by human beings.

[@mrgenetics4063]

@@Tarotjackpotthat’s the devil working …. Why do you believe in this nonsense?

[@TheMissmauramac]

I came upon this video hoping to understand more about the I ching and then I saw the rest of your body of work and I think I'm about to become a benebell wen junkie. Your website alone is a one stop shop to all of my curiosities. I'm very grateful to have stumbled upon your practice! Thank you!

[@kaos7186]

Very interesting work! As a member of the Chinese diaspora, the pre-buddhist traditional Chinese magic has always been a common and interesting yet inaccessible topic. Thanks Benebell!

[@BenebellWen]

So happy to be making this connection!

[@mershane6114]

​@BenebellWen how do I purchase the oracle cards?

[@johnhogan9114]

​@@BenebellWen I was wondering if you can help me?

[@mtango9985]

Im amazed, you are truly a old soul, a higher being from the spiritual plane. Your a rare individual! Bless you❤❤❤

[@ScruffyNomad]

I just purchased your book. What a treasure it is. Thank you.

[@proximity037]

It is

[@gibarcellos]

I just got a deck of i ching cards as a gift from a friend, now I really wanna understand this knowledge and culture I had no idea existed

[@TamuNgina]

I am so looking forward to your new YiJing Benebell, already put my preorder in. Yay!!!

[@billys16-7]

I’ve been a longtime student of the I Ching. I feel a sentient connection with it and hold it in such reverence. It leaves me flabbergasted, it is endlessly intriguing. It is the ultimate guide and teacher, a true gift and blessing to all who are truly interested in growing and evolving. Benebell your knowledge is astounding, I’m so grateful for you and your channel ( newly discovered for me) Fascinating content, you are such an authority thank you 🙏

[@kristerlinder]

★ Dear sister Wen - SO looking forward to this! Can't wait.

[@BenebellWen]

Thank you so much! I can't wait for the book to finally be released into the world. 💖

[@TamuNgina]

And BTW, I absolutely DIG the appropriateness of your attire. You look stunning! I am so excited for your forthcoming translation.

[@BenebellWen]

Thank you! 💕 Tried to look halfway presentable since this is a video series to promote my new book. The 2022 online version of a book tour I suppose. 😂

[@thegoodthebadandtheugly579]

This was very useful as an intro for me for I Ching. I am exploring mythology, tarot, storytelling and many other related topics and I found your video very interesting and informative. Thank you!

[@naturalexplorer]

Wow. There is an incredible amount of information packed into those 10 minutes. Need to review it all slowly to better digest it. Some years ago I managed to came to understand the inter-relation of the 8 trigrams and 64 hexagrams to the I Ching. Surprisingly it seemed very simplistic compared to how I previously viewed it as being really complex. I liked this simplicity very much but seem to have lost its simple nature that I had previously developed. Need to actively apply it. Look forward to the release of your book as this may catalyse me into exploring it much more deeply - regain that simple perspective.

[@BenebellWen]

It is definitely both simple and complex, like all truths. 😁 My hope was just for this video to invite interest in the I Ching. 💕

[@johndoe4073]

This was one of the best explanations of the I Ching I have ever come across! Thank you for this wonderful presentaiton. 🙏🏾

[@manuelsamperio8559]

You crammed so much info in this video! The I-Ching is such an interesting divination system with so much depth to it.

[@briana9918]

Benebell, I'm deeply grateful for you and your videos. Thank you for sharing your incredible and fascinating wisdom

[@thesewisecards]

Loved this and I'm SO LOOKING FORWARD to getting your book and seeing your take on this life-changing book! Also, just wanted to THANK YOU for all the free avaliable content and resources you give away freely on your channel AND your website, your generosity is beyond words. Thank you 😊❤️🙏

[@okwaleedpoetry]

thank you for your diligence in spreading knowledge

[@SYAgencies0379]

Thank you for explaining so well, the understanding of how Havana time is counted and the ancient way of eternal time.

[@lukassubstanzentanz3053]

I just heard about this in an interview of terrence mckenna. I wanted to learn something about it and this video did a really good job! Thank you

[@thormusique]

Wow, thank you so much! This is the best summary of I Ching I've ever heard. Perhaps strangely, I was very much drawn to the I Ching, as well as the Tao Te Ching, and the Analects of Confucius even before I was 10 years old. And I continued to consult these texts (and used yarrow stalks for the I Ching) into adulthood. For whatever reason, I'd got away from them for some years, and just recently I found myself dreaming specifically about the I Ching, so I've taken it as a sign, as I continue to have very fond memories of having consulted all these texts in my early years and believe those experiences to have been responsible for shaping the course of my life. And having been a buddhist for several decades now, I'm very grateful for those Chinese texts in that they shaped the sense of ethics and morals I continue to hold dear. I'm very much looking forward to reading your book on the I Ching. Cheers!

[@brokeheartwolf3733]

May You and Yours have a Blessed 2023🙏🙏🙏☯️☸️❤️🌺🌸

[@BenebellWen]

You too, Wolf! Happy New Year!

[@danielschulman4909]

This is Excellent. Thank you! I am in an endless state of wonder over the precisely appropriate insights the Zhouyi offers me every time I consult it. You have packed so much essential foundation into these ten minutes.

[@SYAgencies0379]

I will be posting the complete trigrams of next guard of changes mathematics for you all.

[@lisanicolesarkisian4636]

Exceptional! I know this is a world of energy. I am an energy healer, play Tai Chi Chuan, have read a lot about TCM and Taoism. I am a Tarotist and Astrologer and Herbalist. I can feel the moods in Energy, mine and the world. And I while I have been interested in the I Ching, I have never really been able to get past the image of “the blocks”, to really see them as what they are: fundamental living elements of the Universe! In this short video you have clarified so much for me. I am excited about the I Ching, really for the first time and look forward to a long and deepening relationship with it. Thanks so much for all your generous work!

[@NotsoEthos]

Wow thank you! I randomly bought a copy of the I Ching a while ago. I only just picked it up and started reading. The accompanying history in the book felt overwhelming to me... I only bought the book because Taoism has always interested me. Feeling overwhelmed, I felt like I had to watch a video to help make sense of what I read and I found your video. This video shares so much knowledge, I'm feeling doubley overwhelmed! But it's in a good way. It opens my eyes to an entire world of wisdom I didn't even know existed. Please pardon any misuses of my language. I'm processing the information and I'm amazed

[@mauricejones5962]

Your presentation is by far my favorite. I look forward to your book.

[@Russell6906]

Hi Benebell. I loved this video! It's extremely well done. Thanks so much for making it! I'm planning to watch some of your other ones now (this was my first). I'm just getting in to the I Ching right now. Since you didn't mention it in your video, I'll say it for anyone reading this comment. Benebell is currently writing (or has finished writing?) a book called "I Ching: The Oracle" that is expected to be published on September 26, 2023 (9+8+7 = 24 = 2+4 = 6 😊). I'm wondering if you might have made a mistake with the binary codes for Mountain, Wind, Thunder, and Lake at 2:45 mins.? If Yin = 0 and Yang = 1 and Younger Yang = 01 and Younger Yin = 10, then the numbers are being read from bottom lines to top lines. Following that logic, Mountain, Wind, Thunder, and Lake would be 001, 011, 100, and 110, respectively, I think. But perhaps I'm the one who's mistaken! By the way, I'm an INFJ as well. 😊

[@billkeidan270]

Thanks, Benebell. I have used it and know that it works, but your explanation is the first one that explains how it works.

[@ethangrey113]

this is an incredible introduction to the system! thank you 🙏

[@Skylerdouglas731]

Thank you so much for making this video! I've been wanting to study the I Ching for a little while now, but that's been difficult firstly because I was not even sure just exactly what the I Ching even was in the first place. So much info nicely packed into a brief video; I'll be returning to this video as I continue my studies.

[@RaAyla369]

I’m deeply interested! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!

[@Psychonaut-93]

Thank you so much for your teaching!

[@karinmartinez6160]

Thank you for all you do! I cannot wait for the new book to arrive 🙂

[@hugoheros4928]

Just ordered your book can't wait!

[@steveparadox1]

Brilliant explanations for a complete lay person such as myself. Thank you

[@irismaxj]

Just pre-ordered this book! Can’t wait to receive and read on it after Jan 13 2023 🎉 Ps: I m currently immersed in your magnificent work of “holistic tarot”, sincerely appreciating and enjoying all the techniques, knowledges, historical relevancies and insights you have woven into this magnum opus❤

[@BenebellWen]

Thank you so much for your kind words about holistic tarot! And thank you for supporting my work and pre-ordering this book! Means a lot to me! 💖

[@Lisa_Papez]

Thank you for this! Also.... because you're you, I'm going to assume it's not an accident that your shirt sort of resembles a water over fire hexagram (if I let my imagination continue the pattern down a little further). If it's an accident, it's incredibly synchronous, no? A quick google says that Water over Fire, Hexagram 63 can also be called "After Completion". Go you! Congratulations on your upcoming book!!!

[@BenebellWen]

I cannot begin to express how cool it is that you picked up on this! The original cover design the publisher presented me with for this book featured hexagram 63. I had conveyed to them that I didn't think hexagram 63 was the best hexagram to have emblazoned that large across the front cover forever and ever. 😅 I gave them a short list of more auspicious hexagrams for them to choose from, and they ultimately went with hexagram 30, which is what you now see on the cover art. So the fact you picked up on hexagram 63 is really pretty cool and magical! 😍 I did intentionally pick this dress for the binary color scheme situation going on. 😁 And I also liked that the style of the dress had just a little hint of Asian inspiration to it. And yes I did notice the two bit string of binary colors going on down the center, but didn't necessarily see hexagram 63, but that is so cool how you picked it up because that was the first hexagram featured on my book cover!

[@Lisa_Papez]

@@BenebellWen Ooooooh that's so cool!! :D :D

[@JustAnotherYou2]

Wow you’re an amazing teacher! Thank you!

[@MemeAnalysis]

Great one

[@canayoneren6951]

Thank you! Awesome explanations!

[@mtango9985]

Will be buying your book.

[@bernwalters3527]

I've had copy of the I- ching since the 80's, and have used it a few times. Please tell me what order to watch this series as to learn more about its use...

[@markboudreau1410]

@6:00..... Ok, now you're just hurting my brain! Do you have any books on this that I could go through slowly? Thank you!🙏🙏❤️

[@en5357]

I am so excited for this map of the yijing and the linguistics component. Thank you!! 非常兴奋！

[@BenebellWen]

So happy that you're interested!

[@Allahu_Akbar_the_one]

Very articulate explanation. I have to say, I love mathematics and to see that, Leibniz the founder of Calculus, used I-Ching really fascinated me. Had no idea!

[@LuizGuilhermeZamaro]

I'm really curious about how East Asia may have interacted with civilizations from out of oyr planet in remote past. I deeply believe I Qing was "received" as you mentioned. But it's unclear for me the borders between spirituality in the remote past and possible interactions with ekevated beings from other places or dimensions. Many are the registers of lost civilisations like Mu in the Pacific, from where wisdom may have traveled to continents close to it. I would love to hear your view of it.

[@NeshamaB]

✨💛🙏 much gratitude

[@justseaningaround]

Fantastic. Thank you. I’m spending more and more time investing in understanding of the Human Design system and this i-Ching information is super helpful and interesting. 🧡🐳

[@crystalearth33]

Ty 🙏

[@thomasjordan3241]

Is your book going to cover systems of Yi Jing divination such as Wen Wang Gua or Plum Blossom numerology Ms Wen? Definitely pre-ordering this one.

[@BenebellWen]

Jing Fang's work is mentioned for sure, and yes to plum blossom numerology.

[@thomasjordan3241]

@@BenebellWen Many thanks!

[@yisraelaker6696]

Can you make how to use moon block pls

[@dth92301]

Thanks I will share this with like minded people. So looking forward to your book to accompany The Tao of Craft

[@LouValcourt]

Thank you for this. I found this so fascinating. I love the mathematics of this and learning the history.

[@BenebellWen]

Hey Lou! Happy New Year! And thank you so much!

[@LouValcourt]

@@BenebellWen Happy New Year to you too!

[@acesjeff]

This is advanced gold. 🙏🏻

[@hollo0o583]

just the similarity to basic computerscience… my brain is blown away.

[@thecannyshow8354]

Fascinating!

[@MarleneTheresa]

Amazing. I’ve only just begun to study I Ching and made a goal to get serious about that study in 2023. I can’t wait to add your book to my resources. Any chance your I Ching course will be available again or your I Ching deck will be available on mpc? Ooh or maybe new versions of either of these? I'm excited regardless. Thank you for all your free resources and guides. My little nerdy heart appreciates you so!

[@BenebellWen]

Not sure yet about the specifics, but I do plan on putting together a free companion course for the I Ching book, similar to the free companion course I put together for Holistic Tarot. :-D

[@MarleneTheresa]

@@BenebellWen That's fantastic, thank you. I'm looking forward to it. Also, would love to know what you think of Barbara Walker's I Ching deck. Like why do you think she chose the Fu Hsi arrangement? It's part of my study this year. I've also been fascinated by the I Ching/Tarot Court correspondences. Thanks again!

[@BenebellWen]

@@MarleneTheresa I haven't seen the deck so don't know much about it. ❤️

[@linyenchin6773]

Concice! Even though I still dislike redundant suffix, which isn't seen as redundant by those who use the mouth for breathing. Thank you for your content.

[@jonathanwilson6043]

How does this connect with quantum computing?

[@iremarbezerra9593]

Hi! Thank you for sharing this info. I would like to know what is the best way or method to work with I Ching: coins or sticks?

[@BenebellWen]

There are quite a few different methods, in addition to coins and yarrow stalks. :-) Not sure there's a "best" method, but rather, you'll decide for yourself that one of the many methods happens to work the best for you. So my book covers many approaches in the hopes that each will find their own.

[@autumnly3409]

What the difference between Iching and Fengshui?

[@mrpo3496]

Will your book cover on guide to practically interpet answers? I don't get why i get answers like Family (hex 37) or Marrying Maiden (hex 54) on questions that totally have no relation to it

[@BenebellWen]

It's hard to say whether you're already receiving a practical answer, without knowing the question. And whether a specific line reference is relevant, which might be answering the question very directly, i.e., auspicious vs. inauspicious, yay or nay. For example, receiving Hx. 54 isn't literally a prognostication of a concubine, but could be instructions to the course of strategic to take to achieve success. It's the Oracle giving you the blueprints to a strategic plan to get what it is you want. Hx. 37, The Family, might be showing you *who* is actually controlling the situation, from an unseen position, or talking about the need for interdependence in the matter at hand, or again, if the divination method points to a specific line of the hexagram, then that line itself is giving you the message.

[@LisaHart17]

Amazing. Thank you.🙏🏽☯️❤

[@kennethchapin8722]

I have a "W"tang tattoo on my neck. Your explanation is beautiful, great. Thank you.

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

🙏

[@mabelstarot888]

your the best teacher ❤

[@mauricejones5962]

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?!

[@JimmyHandtrixx]

did you find any information? is this book missing vital info?

[@mauricejones5962]

@@JimmyHandtrixx I haven't found it yet. Hopefully she will eventually see the comments and respond. I don't think the book is missing anything. I just think she never explains it or I'm just overlooking it. I think we should keep at it with the hopes of her seeing a need for it. 🙂

[@JimmyHandtrixx]

@@mauricejones5962 ok maybe if i put this comment it will bump it up top?? not sure how these things work 😄

[@mauricejones5962]

@@JimmyHandtrixx Hopefully 🙂

[@normanleroy1874]

The I Ching is my favorite form of divination for it's philosophical depth. You have historically important philosophers like Zhu Xi and Cheng Yi writing commentaries on it and that's like having Descartes and Kant writing Tarot interpretations. I always get something to think about when I cast the I Ching.

[@thesewisecards]

@Norman LeRoy mine too! Love that analogy of having Kant and Descartes interpret Tarot! Indeed, I love I Chings depth, and even though Tarot was my 1st "love", I Ching has become my go-to oracle. Not only because I feel it's more accurate for future predictions but the guidance we get from it really makes us think about things 😊

[@LadyVTavora]

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[@moonsofourmother2815]

Really great insight into I Ching. It's so fascinating that numbers are considered to derive from circle and square. Thank You for making this video.

[@darkfaetarot]

Thank you for this explanation which helps synthesise a huge wealth of information. I especially find the numerological underpinnings with the I Ching amazing... I am interested given my own investigation into the relationship between numerology, mandalas and the creation of the Universe. I look forward to the next installment.

[@bluelilacfawn]

so excited for this book benebell, i'm so over these white guy translations

[@linyenchin6773]

I call it the book of change, since I loathe redundant suffix. Change is change, be it one point or all points of change, change is only change.

[@Teller3448]

The problem with Daoist texts is that key words dont have precise meanings or have several meanings. I'm almost finished reading 'The Scripture on Great Peace' The Taiping Jing and the Beginnings of Daoism...and the translator comments on this problem many times. Being vague is the easiest of all strategies for any teacher. Still, its a deep dive into the cultural world of ancient China before Buddhism.

[@linyenchin6773]

I like to visualize the 8 trigram all cycling around my body in clockwise spiral fasion overlaying the numbers that are vounted out in forming the tesla multiplication table. 1 is Heaven, 2 is Earth, 3 is Fire, 4 is Water, 5 is Wind, 6 is Thunder, 7 is mountan and 8 is Lake. 13 is Wind, 25 is Heaven, 37 is Wind again with thay flipping back and fourth indefinitely mating the two as one. I see see this pairing as reflectimg the 4 bigram within the 8 trigram and I am trying to see those 4 pairs as the binary pulse of my unfolding time in this world but it's not working out since I am not all that bright.

[@savantofillusions]

I Ching states Yinyang does not mean female and male?

[@jamesnammack7535]

Instead of asking a historian about the extent of Confucious' influence on the I Ching, you can do a divination about it. That will give you a more accurate answer.

[@安稳先生-k6g]

I am a Chinese, and the Book of Changes is very mysterious. We won't read this book unless it is specifically for research, because you will become addicted and can study it for a lifetime. If you understand everything, then death is not far away

[@jamesnammack7535]

There are no rules. You can consult an oracle as many or as few times as you wish. Using an oracle often will not cause you to get closer to death. That is crazy superstition.@@安稳先生-k6g

[@Dee8Bee]

I don’t think I’m gonna really learn the I-Ching. But I want the book because it’s from Benebell…

[@BenebellWen]

Aww, that's a huge compliment! Thank you!

[@Dee8Bee]

@@BenebellWen its well deserved. You make so much free content and courses. It’s only that I have learning difficulties that it doesn’t stick. But I still wanna buy it! 😆

[@thesewisecards]

@@Dee8Bee not sure of the specifics of your learning difficulties, but for me it also has been hard to learn different topics. Have you tried Mind maps? You can do one for each hexagram, and draw little doodles and add colors and mnemonics to make it easier to remember the information. Mind maps, mnemonics and flashcards have been life-changing for me! 😊

[@kennethchapin8722]

Ersala lagwin, Allan wats

[@crystalblue38883]

Are you aware of how "Human Design" has combined the I Ching with astrology and the Kabbalah? another dimension of information.

[@jamesnammack7535]

Your book does not mention Stephen Karcher, Ph.D. who is currently the leading English-speaking authority on the I Ching. He has written numerous books on the I Ching, but there is no evidence in your book that you have read any of them. In his book, How to Use the I Ching, he introduces what he calls the Step Figure. This is a legitimate way to include additional hexagrams in your divinations. In your book, you make no mention of that. You are totally unaware of these Step Hexagrams. This is inexcusable, is it not?

[@kennyshortcake999]

Why’s it ‘inexcusable’? I think Ms Wen knows her subject inside out without any help from a ten a penny academic 🎉.. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@jamesnammack7535]

Karcher is the leading English-speaking authority on the I Ching. Wen seems to be unaware of his existence. By any standard, that is inexcusable, genius.

[@misshudson612]

WOW half and half

[@Tvtvtvtvttv]

looks like the old Kingdom of Corea's flag.

[@crazypikachucrcr7529]

(☮☮🀄🀄⛩⛩💥💥🐰🐰🎄🎄🦇🦇☯☯) BETWEEN THE( EAST AND WEST) EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY HAPPENS TWICE?

[@philippemeysman5338]

A very accurate presentation of the I Ching, but much too fast. You should take more time to explain it properly for people who have no the less notion of this so valuable approach of reality!

[@proximity037]

Send that book in satelite .i tell you

[@devonthedivinesolarchild9413]

I'm a (Black God) ,generator, operator destroyer. Peace ♥️🖤💚

[@proximity037]

Classic

[@misshudson612]

🤔

[@ipproductions]

The most powerful low spatial, high temporal resolution oracle. Perfectly combined with the high spatial, low temporal resolution oracle of sidereal astrology.

[@HaroldChrist-t9w]

Runte Passage

[@Kostly]

At least they tried.

[@pbat118]

How a 64bt pc works..Basically an ai

[@mrgenetics4063]

Can’t believe people believe in this 😂

[@crazypikachucrcr7529]

XXZ IS BORN AGAIN AS HER BODY MARKS ARE ON THE SAME PLACE , XXZ PASSED AWAY AND ARRANGED THAT HER MOTHER AND FATHER WOULD HAVE HER AGAIN. THE POINT WAS JESUS CHRIST WAS FORSAKKEN YET IS PRAISED AND WORRSHIPPED AND CRLEBRATED BY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. ALSO IF READING THE BIBLE AT THE SAME NICCODEMIS WHO APPROCHED JESUS CHRIST ABOUT HOW CAN ONE ENTER HEAVEN AS A SINNNER WANTING TO CHANGE DISRESPECTS THE WOMAN AND DOES NOT GIVE HIS MOTHER HONOR ...... CJK ASK WHY? AS THE BGOVERNMENT SAW FIT TO NOT ALLOW GIRLS OF ORIENTAL RACE TO BE IN SCHOOL OVER GENERALIZING KIDDNAPPEING AND ABDUCTION IN THE USA

[@lisanicolesarkisian4636]

yawn.

[@PinkYellowGreen2023]

It is not accurate. It only gives you a proposed reality of what is happening or going to happen. I've studied it next to my Bible and clearly understood the Bible verse that warns Christians not to rely on divination. This book was an unimportant lesson in my life. It also kept talking about me marrying someone and I AM SUPER SINGLE with no one I'm interested being present. The reality of life proved all it said was wrong.

[@DrMARDOC]

Please Dearest Sister! Please please please stop mispronouncing “ YANG” for the sake of Western Friends understanding and improving language skills! Hsieh Hsieh ni!

[@tewtravelers9586]

Go away

[@craighamilton2063]

another spiritual quest perhaps?? one feels the pull.

[@purrbugaloo]

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