The Trigrams and Symbolic Associations
The origins of the I Ching pre-date literacy. We can not begin to imagine today what it was like to live in an enviornment that did not include the Internet, telephone, electricity-you name it-and be solely dependant upon nature. The people of prehistoric China had to have respect for and awe of nature that in many ways has been lost to our consciousness today. The ancient Chinese did not see themselves as separate from the enviornment in which they live.
Trigram Ch'ien The Creative Heaven
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Yes, we forget. Somehow motor cars and central heating and all of that lets us pretend that we are not so much a part of nature.
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