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I Ching/ Yijing (was Re: musicalexemes (was Re: Interesting Words)

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Friday, November 9, 2001, 6:28
In a message dated 07.11.2001 08:42:47 AM, annis@BIOSTAT.WISC.EDU writes:

>People of course use this as a fortune telling system, and >some people insist it should be a meditation or thinking tool. In any >case, the Yijing permeates Chinese thought.
One may even argue it is the very Cornerstone of all educated Chinese culture! (That everything else that came after it - the Tao Te Ching/Daodejing, The Art of War, etc. - is just elaborations based on the Oracle - the Book of Changes).
> I even study a martial >art that uses the Yijing as an approach to fighting.
Bagua, right? czHANg

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William Annis <annis@...>