Enjoy your walk and walk in your joy. Joined May 3, Messages 2, Reaction score Wish I could remember how I first got involved with the I Ching. It think it was about 25 or 30 years ago when I first cast a hexagram. What happened? How time flies! Joined Jan 10, Messages 73 Reaction score 0. But it was roughly about 10 years ago and came from an interest in Taoism. I bought a book back then called I Ching; The Number One Success Formula and used it a couple of times back then but can't remember it being very useful.
For each hex it took a page to prescriptively say what it meant, then added a sentence to say it might not mean that - not very inspiring, but it was an early step on a long path.
I dusted off my old I Ching and again it was not much help, but the translations I could now access via the web were, and Hilary's advice on various books led me to Karcher's which has been a very beneficial investment - I find it gives me an image and a 'feel' for where the path is.
So, in summary. I've about 6 months real experience divining with Yi, about 37 years experience with life, and I blend them with my intuition as I walk along the path. Thanks to all of you for helping me re find Yi and for helping me see the path more clearly.
Without this community I don't think I'd be with Yi now. Joined Jun 19, Messages Reaction score 1. Hi Frank, I remember very clearly first coming accross the I Ching.
I was about 13 and was nosing around my hippie brothers bedroom, fascinated by all his hippy paraphanalia - joss sticks - pipes, indian bedspreads etc. It was and he'd returned from the Indian hippy trail.
There was a copy of Wilhelm, lieing amongst his stuff and I was immediately fascinated by it and carried it off to my room and kept it, feeling like I'd made a great discovery. The fact that it didn't make alot of sense to me didn't worry me, I just knew I'd found something good -and almost something I recognised.
Over the years I have never really fully abandoned it - sometimes asking questions 10 times a day, sometimes not using it at all for months.
Strangely though I have never taken a scholarly interest in its background and still have no idea what 'mutual gua' is and only ever consider the primary hexagram and changing lines, like Candid I never quite got why we need the nuclear hexagram. Joined Jul 10, Messages Reaction score 0. The first time, hu? Well, it was full moon, we were at the beach, a soft warm summer breeze caressed our naked bodies Joined Jul 6, Messages 30 Reaction score 1. I first encountered the Yi Ging on April 20th,, before then unbeknowest to myself I had been living a very Taoistic life, going with the flow of the times.
Before the encounter I was already pretty deep in Chinese philosophy and practice, utilizing the astrology, Feung Shui, and looking to take up Accupunture as a career; with the latter two arriving in my life around ages During that time I had heard of the Yi, but never knew of its importance with my current journey.
One fine morning while visiting a friend in Asheville, North Carolina; I happened to look down at the floor and I noticed that my friend was supporting his child's crib with a black book. As I looked closer I began to make out Chinese Characters. Eager to learn something new I lunged at the book, and caaaarrrefully slid it out from under the crib to read the title: I Ching The book of Changes, Stephen Karcher Version , for some reason I got excited; as if I found an old friend.
As I read through the preface and first couple of chapters my whole body tingled. I couldnt sleep, trying to cram as much info as possible before it was time to return home to Georgia.
I recall picking a random hexagram about a question "What should i do about my music? I felt the answer to the depth. Since then I've divined with my stalks on various occasions, all of which had to be revised once I got help from this site :-] P. Hope I didnt upset anyone with that "Old" thing at the beginning, waddya expect from a snotnose?
Joined Aug 19, Messages Reaction score 5. At the time I saw everything through Laozi-tinted glasses. I thought the I Ching was a kind of Tao-machine for figuring out which way the current was traveling so I could? A couple of years later I found Legge, but the event that really changed my appreciation for the Yi was the publication of the first American edition of John Blofeld?
Unlike earlier translators, Blofeld was primarily interested in practical divination, and knew how ordinary people in modern China used the Yi. Even so, the Yi remained mainly a curiosity for me, and I was pretty much through with it by There were more exciting and easier ways at hand to explore one? Fast forward twenty years to the evening of September 4, I was on vacation at the beach, and I had a stack of used books I?
One of them was an obscure textbook called? The Mysteries of Religion? Clark, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. I have no idea why I bought or decided to read this book, but after a few unexciting, academic chapters, Clark began to develop an extremely odd theory he called? The Angel in the Book.? In this sense, a book like the I Ching Clark cites the Yi as an example is an actual living being, and the Oracle is as real an existence as you or I.
If this is true and Clark thinks it is , then it is very likely the Yi possesses powers of perception and analysis unfamiliar and unavailable to us except through divination.
OK, this sounds boring, but it shot through my brain like a bolt of lightning. Here was a professional philosopher rationally arguing in support of divination with original arguments I had never heard before. Not just phony divination? From that September evening until now I have been studying the Yi solely for the purpose of understanding divination.
And you guys, each and every one of you, are my teachers. Thank you. Joined Sep 14, Messages 58 Reaction score 0. I came across 'The Book of Change' in a bookshop in the early s, not knowing what it was, despite working in a library with a section full of the I Ching. I was looking for something to help me 'change', whatever I meant by that. I discovered it wasn't like anything I'd come across before, but was soon completely hooked.
Has it helped me 'change'? Others will have to be the judge of that. I do know I'm only now beginning to appreciate its lessons another relative oldie - 53 in a couple of weeks - still getting Hexagram 4 an awful lot! Wow, Lindsay, you are old! I mean old! First throw in 63? I was still in high school then. Didn't know x from y. And the I Ching, I had never heard of it. Why you must be Hmmm, come to think of it, that's how old I am too. Kts, 53?
Why you are just a youngster. But then there is old, and there is also old souls. I suppose we all fit into that latter category. Yeah, you gotta be our age to appreciate life. And the older we get I'll take a hundred and fifty thank you, in fact, why stop there? With modern advances in medicine, maybe we all will live to a thousand, by then we will begin to learn to appreciate the gems in the book of changes.
Begin being the operative word there. It's really an exposition of I Ching for Christians, to persuade them that I Ching isn't as incompatible with their faith as they might think. I've had a variety of reactions from Christians, clerical and lay, to whom I've talked in the past about I Ching - from the 'I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole' reaction from a 'born-again' colleague at work who had a former interest in Wicca, to a disappointing incomprehension from some clergy.
I wanted to say "But don't you see, this is real! The reward for the most novel way of discovering the I Ching must go to the very young Dandy! Finding it under a sleeping baby's crib! There has to be something symbolic going on there doesn't there?
Well, Kts, whether at fault or not Some people are not ready. There are so many variations of Christianity it is not even funny. The rate of virological failure 6. A meta-analysis showed that a lower pill burden was associated with a lower risk of virological failure and drug resistance compared with multiple-tablet regimens.
In our study, only Antiviral potency may be different among the three different nNRTIs used in this study. Efavirenz has been shown to have more potent binding affinity to the reverse transcriptase. Therefore, the high prevalence of K65R mutation in our patients who failed the first-line regimen could provide some information on the factors associated with the emergence of RAMs to TDF.
First, the coadministered antiretrovirals in the first-line regimens could influence the emergence of K65R. The prevalence of K65R mutation was significantly higher in our patients receiving 2 NRTIs plus nevirapine than that in those receiving efavirenz-containing regimens Second, in our patients with virological failure with resistance to TDF, only Because of the small sample size, we could not determine the factors that might contribute to the differences.
The average PVL at treatment failure was 4. The WHO treatment guidelines recommend that second-line therapy should consist of 2 NRTIs plus a ritonavir-boosted PI in those who fail to respond to the recommended first-line regimens.
If failure occurs on a TDF plus lamivudine or FTC -based first-line regimen with emergent K65R, zidovudine plus lamivudine should be used as the NRTI backbone in the second-line regimens before the genotypic resistance report is available. Poor adherence, however, may remain a major determinant of virological response in individuals on second-line cART, 26 because wild-type HIV strains were detected in There are several limitations to our study.
Since the majority of these patients A substantial proportion of the patients discontinued first-line nNRTI-containing regimens owing to adverse effects, yet the rate of short-term virological failure to nNRTI-containing regimens remained low for patients who were able to tolerate the regimens in Taiwan. Boosted PIs containing second-line regimens were used in We would like to thank the patients for their participation in this study.
The funding sources played no role in study design and conduct, data collection, analysis or interpretation, writing of the manuscript, or the decision to submit it for publication. Preliminary analyses of these data were presented as abstract no. The other authors report no conflicts of interest in this work. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U.
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This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Background Increasing trends of resistance-associated mutations RAMs to non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors nNRTIs have raised concerns about the effectiveness of the regimens in the national HIV treatment programs in resource-limited countries.
Results Seventy-one patients 6. Introduction Combination antiretroviral therapy cART consisting of 2 nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors NRTIs and 1 non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor nNRTI remains the recommended first-line regimen in the World Health Organization WHO treatment guidelines for adults with HIV-1 infection in low- and middle-income countries, with boosted protease inhibitor PI -containing regimens as the second-line therapy for patients who fail the first-line cART.
Open in a separate window. Figure 1. Flow chart of the study. Plasma HIV-1 viral load measurement and genotyping According to the national HIV treatment guidelines, determinations of PVL and CD4 counts are performed 4—6 weeks after initiation of cART, and subsequently every 12—16 weeks within the first year and every 24 weeks thereafter in patients who have achieved viral suppression.
Statistical analysis Variables were summarized as proportions for categorical variables and the mean values and SDs for continuous variables. Two trigrams combine together to give the six lines that represent one of 64 possible hexagrams. For more on the numerical properties and associations see our Luo Shu magic square section.
The Yi Jing was consulted for scientific inquiry, for example in alchemy; and astronomy as hexagrams are associated with both the lunar and daily solar cycles; as each particular day of the month or time of day had its own associations. From this evolved the practice of doing certain actions on particular days and at particular times. The yin-yang division is a binary system and this stimulated Leibniz to think that the Chinese had developed a binary counting system centuries before the West, however this is not true, the Yi Jing had never been used for counting.
Because it claimed to provide an explanatory system for all things it became an obstacle to further scientific development and was incompatible with western science when this reached China in the late 19th century.
Some idea of the power of the Yi Jing can be seen from the belief that the invention of wooden boats first came from the book. The commentary states that it is advantageous for crossing a great stream and so it is interpreting as stating that wood is the suitable material to use for making boats. The Yi Jing dates back about 3, years when it was probably used purely for divination.
Although it is claimed to date from the start of the Zhou dynasty there is no direct evidence to support this. It is the Yi Jing commentaries that have as great a value as the hexagrams themselves, they reveal much about Chinese thought, history and philosophy. Daoists just as much as followers of Confucius hold the book in great esteem. In the Tang dynasty a faster method using three coins was introduced.
However the probabilities are not the same in the two methods. The two readings in combination give 64x64 possible readings which make it a very large and complex system.
See our yin-yang section for more on derivation and background. However only the Zhouyi has survived intact and has the all important commentaries. The arrangement of hexagrams has puzzled scholars for centuries as there are strong patterns of related concepts within the ordering.
As the original text was written so long ago the original symbolism and meaning has been lost and reconstruction is a matter of scholarly conjecture. The ideal structure for a hexagram is for yin lines to occur at 2 and 4 but yang lines at 3 and 5 counting lines from the bottom. The top two lines are associated with heaven spirit , the middle two with people mind and the bottom two with earth body.
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