Alexander Goldstein

Yi Jing: The True Images of the Circular Changes (Zhou Yi) Completed by the Four Sages (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since the main purpose of the first book of my trilogy entitled "The True Images, Numbers and Ideas of the Circular Changes" is to disclose the imagery of Zhou Yi's body text from the point of divining outcome interpretation, this is not the place to analyze in details the complex aspects of historical and philosophical background of the oracle's writing. Instead, I will try to reconstruct the original structure and multivalent meanings of the oracular images which has come down to nowadays in various interpretations. One primary flaw lies at the root of every translation that has been published hitherto is that each one seems only to translate the accompanying texts to the diagrams and lines without translating of the figures (gua) and lines (yao) themselves, which silently tell us a lot by virtue of their positions, oppositions, correlations, origins and surroundings. Here, I think, an injustice has been done to the oracle's translations that in the majority of versions sound oversimplified, if not to say 'shallow,' caused by our failure to understand its basic images and numbers (xiang-shu), on which the whole logic, internal structure and ethical principles have been built then throughout centuries. But even if we learn to discern them theoretically, we refuse to use them practically for divination. The Daoist system of the eight trigrams (ba-gua), in every sense of the word, is a source and essence of the "Circular Changes," as the Daoist elements enter largely into all aspects of human life; and a commentator or interpreter who holds fast to this belief is certainly the best expositor of the oracular text that suggests a multilevel communion with subtle constituents of the past and future unfolding in the twenty-four seasons and eight milestones of a yearly cycle with its five elements represented by virtue of casting-out fifty sacred yarrow stalks to reveal the oracular outcome in the light of practical wisdom of the ancients, the usage of which has never died out. (All those who need to see the Dao-Deist material with more granularities, I would refer to my book entitled Decoding of the "Lao-zi" (Dao-De Jing): Numerological Resonance of the Canon's Structure.)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alexander Goldstein
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301977857
• Artikelnr.: 48973722

Autorenporträt

Alexander Goldstein, a graduate of the Far-Eastern University in Sinology, lived and worked in mainland China for a period as a translator/interpreter, a manager, and a martial arts' practitioner. A certified instructor of 'Chang-quan' (external-style boxing) and 'Taiji-quan' (internal-style boxing), he is a lecturer of Chinese culture and traditions at the Open University in Tel-Aviv. He also is the author of Lao-zi's "Dao-De Jing," Chan (Zen) masters' paradoxes, "The Illustrated Canon of Chen Family Taiji-quan," a Chinese novel and some other editions, which are available in print and electronic publishing at most online retailers published in English, Spanish and Russian. What makes his books so appealing is profound analysis and authority with which various strains of the vigorous Chinese culture are woven into a clear and useful piece of guidance for a business person who conducts the affairs with far-eastern counterparties and for a counsellor who develops strategies that enable leaders to position their organisations effectively.