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Episode 82: On The I Ching

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The Importance of a Stable Elements in the Yiching

There is a stable element in all this, namely the hexagrams themselves. Those have not changed. The 64 hexagrams are fucking carved in stone digital. You can't change them. It would make no sense to make any changes to them. And they have been constant since 3000 years ago. So it is in itself an instance of the becoming that it allows us to divine. There is one passage in Wilhelm's own edition that does suggest that yoga, mystic union or transcendence could be found in Yi-Jing.

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