I-CHING SCIENCES

[Os3y3ris]

There are 8 trigrams composed of only three bars. Those are what you see displaed in the bagua. The hexagrams are each made up of two trigrams, their meanings being loosely derived from the combinations of elements in the trigrams that form them. For example, Earth and Earth gets you "field" or "reteating", while heaven and heaven is force.

[CIVILISON]

Damn! That's a nice science!

Peace O!

[Healthy Merking]

hex = 6
tri = 3

hexagram is a 6 lined figure
trigram is a 3 lined figure

a hexagram is composed of 2 trigrams (3 + 3 = 6)

[CIVILISON]

So what the deal?

The I Ching contains 124 trigrams then?

PEACE

[CIVILISON]

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I should receive the book tomorrow, by the way...

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[Healthy Merking]

8 trigrams

8 trigrams in all combinations form 64 hexagrams

so yes

if you totalled all the trigrams there would be 128

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[CIVILISON]

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Man, I swear I triple checked that 64+64 would equal to 124!!!

Mwaahahahaha!

When you try to do something, nothing is done!

PEACE and thank you for the input!

[Os3y3ris]

8 trigrams. That means they can be matched to 8 other trigrams including themselves. 8 times 8 is 64. 64 hexagrams. Math ends there.

[Healthy Merking]

os3y3ris said:

8 trigrams. That means they can be matched to 8 other trigrams including themselves. 8 times 8 is 64. 64 hexagrams. Math ends there.

nuff said

PEACE

[Healthy Merking]

civilison said:

Peace!

I understand that the Bagua is significant to the I-Ching. 8 of the 64 trigrams are included in it. How do you cee this, and is their arrangement relevant?

yes

that arrangement is significant



it corresponds with the cycle

if you are familiar with supreme math:

1 = fire = knowledge
2 = earth = wisdom
3 = lake = understanding
4 = air / metal = freedom / culture
5 = water = refinement
6 = mountain = equality
7 = thunder / wood = build / destroy
8 = wind = born

obviously with some adjustments

PEACE

[CIVILISON]

I got my copy last night and did some preliminary studies.

More questions:

Each Hexagram/Chapter seems to be divided into four sections:

1. The Hexagram itself.
2. Overall Judgment (which seems to be an explanation of the Hexagram). Is this Confucius’ explanation?
3. Image. What is this about? What image? The Hexagram?
4. Components. I understand this section breaks down each line. Broken lines are yin (represented by number 6?) and full lines are yang (represented by number 9?). What is the significance of this? Why is every line broken down like this?

The I-Ching seems to utilize a lot of animal symbology. For instance, Hexagram 1 talks about a dragon. I can see the dragon as being the aggressive, fire, yang force driving the world. The Creative.

So far, I am pretty perplexed and at the same time can feel the tremendous wisdom that can be gained from this work.

There is a lot of Mathematics to it as well.

I feel like a whole bunch of diggers who unintentionally are about to find a gold mine!

Amazing!

PEACE!

[Healthy Merking]

1. The Hexagram itself.
2. Overall Judgment (which seems to be an explanation of the Hexagram). Is this Confucius’ explanation?

yes

3. Image. What is this about? What image? The Hexagram?

the image that a hexagram could conjure in the mind - a metaphor in nature

4. Components. I understand this section breaks down each line. Broken lines are yin (represented by number 6?) and full lines are yang (represented by number 9?). What is the significance of this?
Why is every line broken down like this?

i will get back to you on this

cant answer intelligently right now

it has to do with divining techniques of forming hexagrams - altogether not too important

aceep

[Healthy Merking]

oh yeah - also remember that all of the imagery and symbols are metaphors

metaphors metaphors

keep ya head above the water

peace

[CIVILISON]

Peace LIGHT!

I appreciate you helping me out on this.

I am looking forward to your forthcoming inputs!

PEACE

[CIVILISON]

Also, I Ching makes me thing about how they came up with the idea of the Hexagram.

What a beautiful concept!