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Summary: Meet a new and treasured friend!
Review: The I Ching workbook has a unique feature which allows you to track the appearance of the hexagrams in your readings. The forms also allow you to track lines that change frequently in certain situations. This is an excellent way to develop your thinking about certain aspects of your life. I quite enjoy this feature, and it has helped greatly in my fledgling understanding of the hexagrams. That being said, R.L Wing's translation is rather dry and uninspiring. It is intended to facilitate understanding, but the poetry which first attracted me to I Ching in the first place is eschewed in favor of prose dissertation. That's precisley how it feels, as though someone had written an academic thesis on the hexagrams. This, in my opinon, makes it extremely difficult to form an intuitive response to the text. Still, I reccomend the workbook simply for the journal feature. You may or may not have the same response to the translation. If you do, there are other translations that you can refer to, while still using the tracking feature to follow the influence of the hexagram. Better still, combine insights from both translations. A more poetic viewpoint actually helps render the thesis more inuitively intellegible. An excellent tool for exploring the hexagrams in your own life.
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Summary: Unique structure, uninspring translation
Review: The I Ching workbook has a unique feature which allows you to track the appearance of the hexagrams in your readings. The forms also allow you to track lines that change frequently in certain situations. This is an excellent way to develop your thinking about certain aspects of your life. I quite enjoy this feature, and it has helped greatly in my fledgling understanding of the hexagrams. That being said, R.L Wing's translation is rather dry and uninspiring. It is intended to facilitate understanding, but the poetry which first attracted me to I Ching in the first place is eschewed in favor of prose dissertation. That's precisley how it feels, as though someone had written an academic thesis on the hexagrams. This, in my opinon, makes it extremely difficult to form an intuitive response to the text. Still, I reccomend the workbook simply for the journal feature. You may or may not have the same response to the translation. If you do, there are other translations that you can refer to, while still using the tracking feature to follow the influence of the hexagram. Better still, combine insights from both translations. A more poetic viewpoint actually helps render the thesis more inuitively intellegible. An excellent tool for exploring the hexagrams in your own life.
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Summary: The Book Of Change
Review: The I Ching Workbook is an interesting treatest on change. It is based upon the Yin and Yang thinking, or to put it another way, upon Inductive and Dedeuctive logic. It assist the user to make decisions in times of change, and gives an excelent thought pattern based upon 5000 years of experience of Chinese leaders. It will give the user an insight into the new experiences, that come along with change, and help him grow into a more sophistcated person. There are arguments that support the use of the I Ching. They are that it will give you the experience of great men over 5000 years and arguments that do not support such a change. For example, If you follow the Oracle's advice, are you follwing your true nature or are you following some long dead man's advice that may not apply to your situation. To use the I Ching is your choice. To make changes in your life is your choice. To expand your thinking to both inductive and deductive logic is your choice.
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Summary: Wonderfully accurate!
Review: This book is amazing. I recommend it as a beginner's I Ching. But as you learn from the book and grow you will find that its the only I Ching book you will ever need. The simple explanations are very profound, when you are ready to discover the profound.
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Summary: Wonderfully accurate!
Review: This book is amazing. I recommend it as a beginner's I Ching. But as you learn from the book and grow you will find that its the only I Ching book you will ever need. The simple explanations are very profound, when you are ready to discover the profound.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: This book is indeed a Workbook for using the I Ching. There are so many books about the hexagrams, but not many go into enough detail as to how to really USE them from a practical perspective, and leave the reader to figure it out for him or herself. R.L. Wing's interpretations of each hexagram are more detailed than one usually finds. As the other reviews indicate, Wing keeps a impartial distance, however, and that requires the user to read between the lines to apply them to their own circumstances. For each hexagram, he gives several paragraphs where one gives an interpretation if you're asking on a personal matter, another if the question has to do with career, another if your question is about family relationships, etc. For myself, I used it heavily when I found myself in a new job or with new acquaintances and found it to be extremely useful in navigating the political ups and downs and figuring out who to trust. I spent a while asking deeper and deeper questions into each area and it helped me to transform my professional relationships and find a more meaningful career. Thanks, R.L. Wing!
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Summary: Finding your Tao
Review: This is a wonderful book for those not interested in deciphering the English translation, which can be most difficult. It is straight forward, with all the information needed for imediate use. It stirs your imagination to desire the highest ideals, and gives information on exacting those ideals or actions. Years ago I studied an english version of the I Ching, but never understood it as clearly as I do now, and therefore only applied it to problems. After reading the brief but concise info on how and why this book is used, I am applying it to all aspectds of life, living, my enviornment, and more; with ease and awe!
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Summary: Finding your Tao
Review: This is a wonderful book for those not interested in deciphering the English translation, which can be most difficult. It is straight forward, with all the information needed for imediate use. It stirs your imagination to desire the highest ideals, and gives information on exacting those ideals or actions. Years ago I studied an english version of the I Ching, but never understood it as clearly as I do now, and therefore only applied it to problems. After reading the brief but concise info on how and why this book is used, I am applying it to all aspectds of life, living, my enviornment, and more; with ease and awe!
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Summary: I CHING demystified!
Review: While I am still a novice at working with the hexagrams, I was frustrated with trying to make sense of I Ching, until I found this workbook. Sometimes, it just takes a picture or a simple chart to make things clear.
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