I CHING AND MEDITATION.

Beyond its use as a divination tool, the I Ching is a guide to the complete meditation process from beginning to end. Woven into its rich fountain of symbols are precise, instructions on how to develop the skillful means to refine our spirit to its highest potential.

We learn in the I Ching that the single most important factor in working with the life force is taking action at the right timing.

The purpose of this course is to learn how to use the I Ching as a guide to the life force and the Taoist meditations. Often as we attempt to integrate the Tao practices in our lives we find ourselves improvising and guessing how to do things properly. This guessing becomes a permanent feature of our energy work because we lack a solid foundation on the basic principles of the life force.

The archaic language of the I Ching is often a powerful barrier to understanding its teachings. In this course we'll learn to gain access to the inner meaning by going directly to the trigrams and hexagrams. By doing that we bypass the written words and interact directly with the archetypal forces of the cosmos.

We'll go over each of the 64 hexagrams integrating at the same time the meditations and energy practices the I Ching suggests. This course is open to anyone, regardless of their I Ching experience. Everyone should bring a copy of the Richard Wilhem translation of the I Ching.