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you can't really finish it, in a good way
A translation into a mixture of English and Latin. Some commentaries are translated."Horses wheel; They pull at odds. A wife is sought. A Destination Is Auspicious, Hoc bonum. All things Profit, In nullo non convenit."On the Image: Both the seeking and the Destination Show clarity, Claritas."[Author’s commentary] Yin Line in Yin Place. The bride ‘goes’ with her suitor. All is ‘clear.’ This Line Resonates with Yang in First Place. This is the right moment, advises Magister Liu. True Yang Energy i...
This is a great introduction to the I Ching. First of all, it contains the whole I Ching with lots of commentaries and explanations, historical ones and those from the author. And secondly, the introduction by John Minford was excellent, with a history of divination that progressed to the I Ching, as well as very useful examples of how to actually DO it--when I first got the book and flipped through it, it seemed all fine and dandy, but although you can flip through the hexagrams, how do you act...
This is a deep and satisfying book. That is an understatement. I see this becoming one of the few books that I read repeatedly over the decades.I kept thing of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People while I was reading this book. It is a book of practical wisdom.My other thought while reading this book is that if King Wen had lived in our time he would have been famous for creating a startlingly brilliant psychology tool such as a diagnostic survey or a therapy tool.
This is a review of the John Minford 2014 Viking-Peguin translation of the I ChingFor what is otherwise a gorgeously presented volume, Minford’s I Ching translation and commentary is overall a disappointment. With so many translations of this ancient Chinese classic in English, one wonders why this one is “the essential translation” – have others now been superseded? Minford has clearly done a lot of research, providing plenty of background and cultural context for his text, but his choices mar
