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Summary: An Integrated and Thorough Guide to Spiritual Development
Review: This book is not for those who seek a mere (and instant) answer for every divination and then continues with life. This is a handbook for spiritual development. The book restores originality of I Ching context, with our minds given total freedom to interpret the texts. All 500 pages of divination pages exhibits every 'gua' (Hexagram) and its corresponding 'yao' (lines) as they are, with explanations limited only to their ancient Chinese context. It portrays the meaning of each figurative element of every ideograph, effects of relationship between two trigrams within each hexagram, sequencing logic of the guas, meaning of the decisions and Confucius' commentaries within their ancient social customs, and effects of progression and transformation of each yao from bottom to top, along with relationships between neighbouring yaos. Therefore, a deep meditative state of mind is required to fully understand the texts and relate them to our specific context of divination. Every gua has a lot of wisdom to learn from, hence it is highly recommended to read the entire passages for every gua thoroughly. The clarity of Master Huang's translation enables us to further exploring and comparing different guas with lucid comprehension, for that the original nuances are explained faithfully. I even feel that it is a good habit to read the entire book even when we are not seeking divination. The more we know every gua in the same way we know more of each of our friends, the more we cultivate our spiritual understanding of life and its cyclical changes. Going forward, the farther we grow, we could eventually come to appreciate that I Ching is, afterall, a truly integrated oracle with thorough guides in many (if not most) aspects of life and spiritual building.
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Summary: truly Complete
Review: this is by far the best translation I've read, it simply outdoes any other English translation. it focuses on the ancient Chinese tradition that follows the I Ching, and has a great deal regarding the history that it carries over the three thousand years of its exsistence.
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