If you want to connect trigrams to the lines of a hexagram: Zhang Li 张理 from the Yuan dynasty has an interesting method for it. Yijing Research Center: www.yjcn.nl If you like my content: buy me a coffee! ko-fi.com/harm...
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@svenchristensen69874 ай бұрын
always nice to get news from you, Harmen. Sincerely, Sven from Denmak
@HansKr4 ай бұрын
Another tool in the interpretation toolbox, I'll definitely try it out. Great video!
@davidwalker61834 ай бұрын
Thank you for a most interesting lesson. It would be easy to write a small essay on the material provided here. I really appreciate your efforts. Thank you.
@YiTubeChannel4 ай бұрын
Thanks David. I've been thinking about writing a blog about this but currently making video's is easier for me.
@freedda14 ай бұрын
Thanks Harmen. Some questions / ideas: Referring to the last graphic, where you assign a trigram to each individual line of the hexagram, this assumes that you tossed three coins in sequence, and not altogether (as you'd usually do for Yi divination), is that correct? And if the above is correct, this means you'd be doing 18 (3x6) coin tosses for each hexagram, yes? And ... (if the above is true), as an alternative I'm thinking I could toss the coins as I normally would, but assign 1st, 2nd, 3rd place to them based on the distance each was from me. This way I could generate a line and a trigram at the same time. And finally, if I understand you correctly, there is no interpretive system that goes with this method of generating trigrams from lines. Therefore, we can (or would need to) develop our own 'guidelines' for how we read or interpret these trigrams.
@YiTubeChannel4 ай бұрын
1. yes 2. yes 3. exactly. that's the idea 4. indeed, Zhang Li did not give any hints on how he thought this method could be applied in divination. Divination was not his concern here - he mainly wanted to show how all parts and numbers that are related to the Yijing are interconnected.
@freedda14 ай бұрын
@@YiTubeChannel - Thank you.
@advandepol75374 ай бұрын
Some people are of the opinion that yarrow stalks is the true way of casting, but not for me. After some time in the session I wonder what I am doing, as I have practically a hand in the outcome. I am still surprised that it gets attention.
@YiTubeChannel4 ай бұрын
It gets attention because it is the method advocated by early sources. It is connected to the early practice of the Yi which in itself is justification to study and apply it. But personally I don't care how a hexagram is generated - as long as randomness and meaningful chance are involved any method will do.