Thank you very much Khoo for this. As you gathered I already know (very little) of this:
Each year is made up of 12 months represented by each animal sign and every 12 days is also represented by each animal sign. Each day is also designated into 12 two hour blocks representing the 12 animal signs. The animals signs follow this order - rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. Andre: This I found very interesting and whilst walking through the one-tree forest in Ruili came across this on a round wall. Asking my students for its meaning they did try to explain but it remains very difficult ( not only my understanding but also their English explanations). I was however pleasantly surprised when they asked me my birth year (1954-Horse) and birth day, Sunday (Bird?) and they were exuberant in their reactions. It appears the combination had some significance. Khoo: Chinese cosmology is one of a space time continuum worked out combining and reconciling the collective and the individual at the same time. This is the map; navigate it as you will. In this sense, the Chinese world view is alliterative, in that the chinese language and its 'reasoning' is very much in dealt with in relation to the universe than based on subject object reductionism. Khoo may I ask you then..the Emperors have been replaced by a party system which leaves the people completely powerless. From what I see and hear and feel, through my Western glasses and ears and patterns, this reconciling the individual and the collective makes little sense to me.I see so much waste of ideas, initiative, creativity. If individual patterns cease to count, be important...where do we go? Surely this is also something Pirsig suggests...the importance of individual patterns because they are a (potential) carrier of ideas. Am I way of track in the way I see and feel this? Very thought provoking post. Andre Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
