An Yijing, I Ching Welcome
 
Arts of China Seminars
 
 
 
 
Why An Yijing, I Ching Welcome?
 
 
                                                                            
Confusion about the name for the ancient Chinese book of wisdom and divination exists because Chinese words are not made up of letters of an alphabet, but pictorial images with sounds attached. Through time Westerners have come up with various schemes to alphabetize these sounds. I Ching, Yijing, Yi Jing, Yi Ching, I Jing, and Yi King are some of the ways the sounds representing the Book of Changes have been spelled. I Ching has been the English spelling of choice, but now we find Yijing used more and more frequently. It is the pinyin version developed and used by the Chinese and it definitely best represents the true sound. We choose it and encourage its use. Because of pinyin we now hear Beijing instead of Peking, and we hope some day that in the same way we will hear Yijing instead of Eye Ching.  
 
This title for our welcome page was chosen because we hope anyone searching for the subject will be able to find us. We think we have something of value to add to the many wonderful sites devoted to Yijing. Here you will find online our most recent publication, Yijing Wondering and Wandering, in its entirety. The authors, Jane Schorre and Carrin Dunne, want to share it with all, in the hope that it will be helpful to those who share their love of Yijing.
 
We believe our book is unique, in that it offers a possible explanation for the confusing hexagram sequence. For over thirty years Jane wondered about this mystery, finding only vague hints about it in her reading. This led to the first part of our book, Wondering, in which she tells of her discoveries about the sequence of the hexagrams, and their meanings, taking into consideration their relationships as thirty-two reflecting pairs, and their characters -- the Chinese names. Along her way, she retells selections from the classics of Laozi and Zhuangzi for illustration, clarification, and sometimes amusement. In the second part, Wandering, Carrin carries the meditation further, wandering through the labyrinth of trigrams, nuclear trigrams and line texts -- exploring psychological and spiritual meaning in the individual lines and their movements. Along her way, her discovery of the 'foursomes' leads to a kaleidoscopic view of Yijing as a whole and to a new approach ("a key, not the key") to meaning in Yijing.
Arts of China Seminars
 
We are a small non-profit organization incorporated in 1985 with the purpose of conducting educational activities to promote knowledge of Chinese art, culture and philosophy and its value to human understanding. This has included the sponsorship of learning events in taijiquan, calligraphy, and philosophy, and the publishing of books relative to this knowledge.
 
We hope you will enjoy wondering and wandering through the complete book here on our website, and that it will be of help in your own Yijing journey.
 
 
 
Yijing Wondering and Wandering is available at www.amazon.com
 
Our distributer is New Leaf Distributing Company: www.newleaf-dist.com/
 
Contact us at: arts-china@earthlink.net
 
Or: Arts of China Seminars, 1400 Hermann Drive #7H, Houston, Texas, 77004, U.S.A.
 
 
 
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