Judy, Someone should tell our politicians in Washington DC to consult the I Ching to solve the debt-ceiling crisis. They better hurry before it's too late.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Great article. I like this quote also: "..Uncertainty is not just an adventitious fault that can one day be eradicated. It is also a part of being a human, with limited knowledge, in an endlessly complex world. And given that we will never have the complete knowledge to which we might aspire, we must always act in the twilight between certainty and uncertainty, between knowing and unknowing." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Now there is the kind of man I would like to meet. Someone looking to have their opinions and fixed ideas proved wrong. Someone who welcomes the opportunity to be thrown into a world of newer, different possibilities perhaps putting them beyond their current comfort zone. It takes no small amount of courage to feel like this. This is how I read it anyway. Reminds me of a guy called RWC. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote: Fascinating essay on the I Ching by Will Buckingham, a philosopher and novelist. Money quote: "...Sitting with the coins or yarrow stalks in my hand, going through the ritual of asking the I Ching a question, I am not looking for some irrational mystical guidance. Instead, I am looking for a release from the prison of competing certainties, a way of letting loose the simmering doubts and confusions that accompany all thought, so that I can take advantage of their creative richness. In other words, I use the I Ching not as a certainty machine, but as an uncertainty machine. Dissolving false certainties, it integrates the fact of unknowing into the fabric of my thinking, opening me up to hitherto unimagined possibilities, scattering the monotony of my either-or dilemmas into a myriad of forking paths...." Read more: http://www.aeonmagazine.com/altered-states/the-i-ching-is-an-uncertainty-machine http://www.aeonmagazine.com/altered-states/the-i-ching-is-an-uncertainty-machine http://www.aeonmagazine.com/altered-states/the-i-ching-is-an-uncertainty-machine http://www.aeonmagazine.com/altered-states/the-i-ching-is-an-uncertainty-machine
