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I Ching Readings: Interpreting the Answers |  | Author: Wu Wei
Publisher: Power Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Pages: 308
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 094301543X
Dewey Decimal Number: 291
EAN: 9780943015439
ASIN: 094301543X
Publication Date: April 10, 2005
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I Ching Readings is the only book ever published that shares the real-life stories of people who have consulted the I Ching--their questions, the answers they received, and the events that followed. Wu Wei's informative stories show how the I Ching unerringly guides people to success and how misinterpreted guidance can lead lives off track. In this unique work, you will also learn how to understand and interpret answers you receive from the I Ching and, just as importantly, how to phrase your questions to obtain the best possible answers. "It is a great comfort," says Wu Wei, "to know that no matter how monumental our problem, there is a solution to it that will put us in a better situation than we were before the problem arose." I Ching Readings is an indispensable companion to the I Ching, the classic Chinese book of wisdom.
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Awfully Good November 9, 2009
rain cloud (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The i ching is a very weird thing. At times it seems so responsive it's like talking to someone. At other times less so. But there's no getting around the fact that there's something very odd that happens with it.
So, after you finally realize you've gotten hold of one of the strangest things in your life you are confronted with the challenge of dealing with it.
The answers it gives you can be obscure at times (other times strikingly literal!). The quality of the answers also depends on how you derive the hexagram. I think the guy who wrote this book had some very sound ideas about both of those issues. He teaches you how to use yarrow sticks to derive the hexagrams (not nearly as hard as it sounds; the harder part is getting the yarrow sticks; the answer is google).
And more interestingly, he takes you through several real life readings and shows you how they played out and how they were interpreted by him. I think if you really want to do this i ching thing you should probably read this book. It's like a lesson in how-to. There are people on the net trying to sell lessons in this and charging a whole lot of money. These are probably as good for just a few bucks.
All that said, you should understand i ching was originally used for divination. Later confucian scholar/moralists got hold of it and put a very conservative, uptight veneer on it. I don't think it's helpful to be told 500 times "be straight-laced and color inside the lines."
I don't like the i chings that get heavy handed with that type thing. Alfred Huang's is good. Stephen Karcher's is very good, if a bit overly optimistic and loopy at times. But I can't recommend the i ching itself put out by this author (wu wei). It's just too confucian for me. "Be uptight and moral; be a sunday school teacher." He didn't say that, I'm just being sarcastic, but you get the idea.
However, some of his ideas are great--he explains that the premise for i ching is that The Universe is a conscious being and by consulting the yarrow sticks you are asking it's opinion on something. He also teaches you how to frame a question (the best way being, "If i do so-and-so how will it be?" It's excellent. So, for lessons in i ching using this guy is tops. If you're really interested in this you won't regret. Also, he's very clear that this thing is for divination, not jungian psychology or some other side road.
Good luck.
Truly unique October 29, 2005
Nigel J. Yorwerth (Bozeman, MT USA)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I don't think there is any other book on the I Ching quite like this one. It actually gives real-life examples of people who have studied the I Ching - their questions, the answers they received and the events that followed. Illuminating and practical.
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