YI JING OR I CHOU
ONE INDIVIDUAL'S [ MIS - ] [ ? ] UNDERSTANDING
Table of Contents

1. Copyright Information
2. Publication History
3. Acknowledgements
4. Introduction
5. A Further Note
6. Introductory Quotes
7. Main Text
8. Trigram Movement
9. Hexagram 41: Some Comments
10. Hexagram 31: Some Comments
11. Creating Hexagram Families
12. Time and the Yi Jing
13. Hexagram Families
14. Questions for Interpretation
15. Hexagram 42
16. Hexagram 27
17. Sequence by which to Study the Yi Jing
18. Appendix A: Yarrow Stalks
    • Obtaining Yarrow Stalks
    • Making Wands
    • Consecration Ritual
    • How To Throw Yarrow Stalks
    • Throwing the Stalks: 384 Stalks
    • Throwing the Stalks: Diviner's 6 Wands
    • Throwing the Stalks: Diviner's 64 Wands
    • Throwing the Stalks: Crowley's Version: 6 Wands
    • Throwing the Stalks: 12 wands
19. Appendix B: Seeds
    • Consecration Ritual
    • Consulting The Yi Jing Using Seeds
    • Using Beads
20. Appendix C: Coins
    • Appropriate Coins
    • Personal Experiences
    • Consecrating Coins
    • Throwing Three Coins
    • Aleister Crowley's System for Throwing Coins
    • The Eight Coin Pa Qian Method
    • The Coins of Ko Yuen
21. Appendix D: Using Dice
    • Consecration of Dice
    • Using Normal Die to construct a Hexagram
    • Alternate Method of Constructing Hexagrams
    • Eight Sided Die
22. Appendix E: Other Methods
    • Using Turtle Shells
    • Oracle Bones
    • Using F-16 and F-15 Aircraft to cast hexagrams
    • Casting Hexagrams in a Subway Station
    • Using People
    • Divination by Pacing a Circle
23. Appendix F: A Synopsis of Interpretation
24. Appendix G: Attributes of Bigrams and Trigrams
    • Trigram Attributes
    • Bigram Attributes
25. Appendix H: Attributes of the Five Elements
26. Appendix J: Historical Timeline
27. Appendix K: History
    • History of the Yi Jing
    • History of the Dao De Jing
28. Appendix L: The Yi Jing as a Model for Growth: A Personal Tale
29. Appendix M: Arrangements of The Hexagrams
    • King Wen Arrangement
    • Fu Xi Arrangement
    • Mawang Dui Sequnce of Hexagrams
    • Base Arrangement of Hexagram
    • Lama Govinda's Recitified Order of the Hexagrams
30. Appendix N: An easy way to remember trigram names and attributes
31. Appendix O: The Yi Jing and Meditation Techniques
32. Appendix W: Trigrams that are found in the Hexagrams
33. Appendix X: Hexagrams Deconstructed and reconstructed: A Graphical Representation
34. Appendix Y: Transliterations
35. Appendix Z: Computer Software
36. Bibliography
    • Books and Journal Articles
    • Audio and CD Recordings
37. Reading List
38. Online Resources / Links / etc
39. Books on Daoism and the Yi Jing
40. Chinese Source Texts
41. A Daoist Glossary
    • Letters A - C
    • Letters D - E
    • Letters F - K
    • Letters L - N
    • Letters O - Z
42. Introductory Notes to the Translations
43. Introductory Quotations
    
    1. Ch'ien
    2. K'un
    3. Chun
    4. Meng
    5. Hsü
    6. Sung
    7. Shih
    8. Pi
    9. Hsiao Ch'u
    10. Lü
    11. T'ai
    12. Pi
    13. T'ung Jen
    14. Ta Yu
    15. Ch'ien
    16. Yü
    17. Sui
    18. Kui
    19. Lin
    20. Kuan
    21. Shih Ho
    22. Pi
    23. Po
    24. Fu
    25. Wu Wang
    26. Ta Ch'u
    27. Yi
    28. Ta Kuo
    29. K'an
    30. Li
    31. Hsien
    Heng
    32. Tun
    33. Ta Chuang
    34. Chin
    35. Ming Yi
    36. Chia Jen
    37. K'uei
    38. Chien
    39. Hsieh
    40. Sun
    41. Yi
    42. Kuai
    43. Kou
    44. Ts'ui
    45. Sheng
    46. K'un
    47. Ching
    48. Ko
    49. Ting
    50. Chen
    51. Ken
    52. Chien
    53. Kuei Mei
    54. Feng
    55. Lü
    56. Sun
    57. Tui
    58. Huan
    59. Chieh
    60. Chung Fu
    61. Hsiao Kuo
    62. Chi Chi
    63. Wei Chi
44. Introductory Notes to the Outline / Study Guide
45. Introductory Quotations
    
    1. Ch'ien
    2. K'un
    3. Chun
    4. Meng
    5. Hsü
    6. Sung
    7. Shih
    8. Pi
    9. Hsiao Ch'u
    10. Lü
    11. T'ai
    12. Pi
    13. T'ung Jen
    14. Ta Yu
    15. Ch'ien
    16. Yü
    17. Sui
    18. Kui
    19. Lin
    20. Kuan
    21. Shih Ho
    22. Pi
    23. Po
    24. Fu
    25. Wu Wang
    26. Ta Ch'u
    27. Yi
    28. Ta Kuo
    29. K'an
    30. Li
    31. Hsien
    32. Heng
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    35. Chin
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    39. Chien
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    41. Sun
    42. Yi
    43. Kuai
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    46. Sheng
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    48. Ching
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    51. Chen
    52. Ken
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    55. Feng
    56. Lü
    57. Sun
    58. Tui
    59. Huan
    60. Chieh
    61. Chung Fu
    62. Hsiao Kuo
    63. Chi Chi
    64. Wei Chi
46. Introductory Notes to my Commentary
47. Introductory Quotations
    
    1. Ch'ien
    2. K'un
    3. Chun
    4. Meng
    5. Hsü
    6. Sung
    7. Shih
    8. Pi
    9. Hsiao Ch'u
    10. Lü
    11. T'ai
    12. Pi
    13. T'ung Jen
    14. Ta Yu
    15. Ch'ien
    16. Yü
    17. Sui
    18. Kui
    19. Lin
    20. Kuan
    21. Shih Ho
    22. Pi
    23. Po
    24. Fu
    25. Wu Wang
    26. Ta Ch'u
    27. Yi
    28. Ta Kuo
    29. K'an
    30. Li
    31. Hsien
    32. Heng
    33. Tun
    34. Ta Chuang
    35. Chin
    36. Ming Yi
    37. Chia Jen
    38. K'uei
    39. Chien
    40. Hsieh
    41. Sun
    42. Yi
    43. Kuai
    44. Kou
    45. Ts'ui
    46. Sheng
    47. K'un
    48. Ching
    49. Ko
    50. Ting
    51. Chen
    52. Ken
    53. Chien
    54. Kuei Mei
    55. Feng
    56. Lü
    57. Sun
    58. Tui
    59. Huan
    60. Chieh
    61. Chung Fu
    62. Hsiao Kuo
    63. Chi Chi
    64. Wei Chi
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    385. The Wings of The Yi Jing
         
         1. T'uan Chuan
         2. T'uan Chuan
         3. Hsiang Chuan
         4. Hsiang Chuan
         5. Hsi Tz'u Chuan
         6. Ta Chuan
         7. Wen Yen Ch'uan
         8. Shuo Kuo
         9. Hsuuml; Kuo
         10. Tsa Kua
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    Illustrations

    • Chinese Word for Yi
    • Chinese Word for I Chou
    • Trigram Names
    • Trigram Arrangements
    • Diviner's Arrangment
    • The Dragon Horse
    • The Tortoise
    • Trigram Cycles of Change
    • Sequence of Sexual Union
    • King Wen Arrangement of the Hexagrams
    • Fu Xi Arrangement of the Hexagrams
    • Mawang Dui Sequnce of Hexagrams
    • Base Arrangement of Hexagram
    • Trigrams that are found in the Hexagrams
    • Hexagrams Deconstructed and Reconstructed

    Tables

    • Trigram Names: Blofeld (1965: 216)
    • Alternate Names for the Various Orders.
    • Table of Bigram Energy
    • Codons and Bigrams
    • Codon Messages and Hexagrams
    • Trigram Movement Direction
    • Table of Permutation Values
    • Trigram Families
    • Hexagram Families
    • Trigram Families: Alternates
    • Hexagram Families: if A is on Top
    • Hexagram Families: A on Top: New Hexagrams
    • Haxagram Families: If A is on Base
    • Hexagram Families: A on Base: New Hexagrams
    • Trigrams Abbreviations
    • Trigram Familes
    • Hexagram Familes
    • Alternate Trigram Family
    • Hexagrams, with Trigram "A" on top
    • New Hexagrams
    • Hexagrams, with Trigram "A" on the base:
    • New Hexagrams
    • Sexual Union
    • Lines as Body Parts
    • The Thirty Six Involvements
    • Determining the Appropriate Time
    • Branches and Stems
    • Date of the Season
    • Trigram: Sex and Family Alignments
    • Making trigrams from hexagram lines
    • How to Derive the Other Hexagrams
    • Example of Other Hexagrams: Hexagram 42
    • More comprehensive example list.
    • Invalid Hexagrams
    • Hexagram Construction
    • The Method of Sixteen: Colors and numbers
    • Composition of United States Coins
    • Table of the Coins of Ko Yuen
    • Construction of Hexagrams using die
    • Timeline of Chinese History
    • Topic Breakdown of the Dao De Jing
    • Transliteration of Words

    Lists

    • The Cosmology of Huai Nan Tzu
    • Some Assumptions about Fu Xi/a>
    • Other Values for Hexagram Families
    • Lines: Heaven, Earth and Man
    • Lines: Essence, Subject and Object
    • Lines: Type of change that is indicated
    • Lines: Reflections of People
    • LInes as Chess Pieces
    • Energy Conditions
    • Questions to ask about the lines
    • Questions to ask about each trigram
    • Questions to ask about each Hexagram
    • Pecking Order for Trigrams
    • Pecking Order for Hexagrams
    • Hexagram Interpretation
    • Trigram Interpretation
    • Missing Hexagram Interpretation
    • Interpretation of Specific Hexagram Constructs
    • Sections of the Yi Jing which are commentary
    • Values of Yarrow Stalks after the First Manipulation
    • Values of Yarrow Stalks after the Second Manipulation
    • Values of Yarrow Stalks after the Third Manipulation
    • Major outline of Hexagram 34
    • Comment on the lines of Hexagram 34

    Quotations

    • Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: XLI
    • Two to the power of Six rule
    • The Dao Created the ONE
    • The Dao Created the T'AI CHI.
    • Hexagram 41: Image: Wilhelm/Baynes (1950/1977: 159)
    • Hexagram 31: Image: Wilhelm/Baynes (1950/1977: 123)
    • Hexagram 63: Judgement: Blofeld (1965: 20)
    • Hexagram 63: Lines: Blofeld (1965)
    • Hexagram 64: Image: Blofeld (1965: 210 - 211)
    • Hexagram 4: Image: Wilhelm/Baynes (1950/1977: 406)
    • Eclesiastes 3: 1 - 8 ( King James Version & The Way)
    • Dao De Jing: Blakney ( 1955: 101)
    • Hexagram 42: Image: Wilhelm/Baynes: (1950/1977)
    • Hexagram 27: Image: Wilhelm/Baynes: (1950/1977)
    • Prayer to Consecrate Yarrow Stalks
    • Prayer when using Seeds to Consult the Yi Jing
    • Prayer to use when consulting coins
    • The Yi Jing as a Roller Coaster
    • The Reader's Digest Condensed Version of the I Ching
    • Why Make Mortar

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