…fortunately the level that we will be dealing with the I Ching is at a level before the written commentary The commentaries begin with Confucius and come from there to the present time, but the parts of the I Ching that we will be dealing with are far…

…that the universe is coalescing, melting down, turning into a hyperdimensional alchemical object. Recall this morning that I quoted Confucius from the I Ching, saying, the person who properly understands this sacrament, this sacrifice, can hold the universe in…

…might be sometime during the week there's a wonderful passage I can't remember which hexagram it is but it's a Confucian saying Confucius said the person who rightly apprehends the meaning of this sacrifice can hold the world in the palm of their hand…

…crowd all alive at one time? Thales, Anaximander, Lao Tzu, Cyrus the Great, Buddha, Mahavira, the prophet of the Jain religion, Confucius, Heraclitus, And then I'm leaving out the lesser life. What a dinner party these people could have had. The great thing…

…a dinner party these people could have had. The great thing about, now let's see, Buddha was 38. We're not sure about Mahavira. Confucius was 26. They could have gone drinking and taken Heraclitus along. He was only 15 at the time. And if they'd run…

…there have been vast changes over the past 2,000 years between the early version, what was it, about 2,000 years that Confucius, does anybody know, was it about 2,000 years that Confucius brought out the definitive edition of this a little more than…

…years between the early version, what was it, about 2,000 years that Confucius, does anybody know, was it about 2,000 years that Confucius brought out the definitive edition of this a little more than that a little more than that but at the beginning of…

…etc., began to come in, spread over the earth. Now, the I Ching that we know and that we have today stems from Confucius, primarily, and scholars of that time who were part of the You know, the standard pattern is the warlords take over and then…

…You know, the standard pattern is the warlords take over and then the scribes and the priests do the propaganda job. And Confucius, as great as he was, and he was very great, also falls under the category of the patriarchal propagandist in this lineup…

…should get together and write a new I Ching, clean up its act. It's a great book, and it... It deserves better than Confucius did 2,000 years ago. It's time for an update. Let me conclude with my own personal attempt at validation because one of the…

…our midst. And the idea of the Messiah is born, which is an incredibly peculiarly western idea. I mean, Buddha, Lao tzu, Mencius, Confucius. These were guys. A messiah is a horse of a different feather. A messiah is not exactly a human being. A messiah…

…of ideas were very concentrated. You know there was a 40 year period in the 5th century BC when Lao Tzu, Mencius, Confucius, Parmenides, Ezekiel and several other luminaries all if they had air tickets could have had a dinner party together. Well that's…

…our midst and the idea of the messiah is born, which is an incredibly peculiarly western idea. I mean buddha, Lao Tzu, Mencius, Confucius, these were guys you know, a messiah is a horse of a different feather. A messiah is not exactly a human being. A…

…our midst and the idea of the messiah is born, which is an incredibly peculiarly western idea. I mean buddha, Lao Tzu, Mencius Confucius these were guys you know a messiah is a horse of a different feather. A messiah is not exactly a human being you…

…and look at the bottom of that trough, there was a moment when you could have had a dinner party when Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, Pythagoras and Ezekiel could have all gotten drunk together had they been able to find each other right back there in the…

…ninth I have no idea what that means. Let's answer first umm 526 b c. Oh it's the Greek Renaissance, It's Plato, Pythagoras, Ezekiel Confucius, Lao Tzu. Hey I think it's time to knock off. You should quit when you're ahead you know, yes most of my left…

…be manipulated and cultivated. And I really see Taoism as something broader than the nature religion that arose in southern china pre Confucius and so forth. I see it as the kind of natural way of being in the world that tribally alive societies settle…

…ideas were very concentrated. You know, there was a 40 year period in the 5th century b c when Lao Tzu, Mencius, Confucius, Parmenides, Ezekiel and several other luminaries all if they had air tickets could have had a dinner party together. Well that's…

…land disturbance. There are processes which if allowed to run on indefinitely, would wreck the whole system and pitch it into chaos. Confucius said no tree grows to heaven, and what he meant by that is it's fruitless to project any process to infinity…

…disturbance. There are processes which if allowed to run on indefinitely would wreck the whole system and pitch it into chaos. But Confucius said: no tree grows to heaven, and what he meant by that is: it's fruitless to project any process to infinity…