Elemental Changes The Ancient Chinese Companion to the I Ching. The T'ai Hsüan Ching of Master Yang Hsiung Text and Commentaries translated by Michael Nylan
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Michael Nylan is Professor of Modern and Ancient Chinese Studies at Bryn Mawr College.<p>"In a time like ours, during which life is once again in danger of becoming lost in the maze of rational orders and worldly institutions, Yang Hsiung deserves renewed attention. Yang was not only the ideological strategist, he was also philosopher and poet. And he clothed his teaching of human orders in a well-planned systematic work, in which he projects the system and the insights of the Book of Changes onto his era."—Hellmut Wilhelm</p>
Composed in 2 B.C., as "The I Ching revised and enlarged," The Elemental Changes is a divination manual providing a clear method for distinguishing alternative courses of action. Structured in 81 tetragrams ( as opposed to the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching), the book offers much to the modern reader. Today in the West, The Elemental Changes is an essential tool for understanding the Tao as it operates in the Cosmos, in the minds of sages, and in sacred texts. It is also one of the great philosophical poems in world literature, assessing the rival claims on human attention of fame, physical immortality, wealth, and power while it situates human endeavor within the larger framework of cosmic energies.
The complete text of The Elemental Changes and its ten autocommentaries are here translated into accessible and, whenever possible, literal English. Following the Chinese tradition, supplementary comments are appended to each tetragram in order to indicate the main lines of interpretation suggested by earlier commentators.
Introduction
Method of Divination
Translation of the Mystery
List of Tetragrams
Tetragram 1: Center
Tetragram 2: Full Circle
Tetragram 3: Mired
Tetragram 4: Barrier
Tetragram 5: Keeping Small
Tetragram 6: Contrariety
Tetragram 7: Ascent
Tetragram 8: Opposition
Tetragram 9: Branching Out
Tetragram 10: Defectiveness or Distortion
Tetragram 11: Divergence
Tetragram 12: Youthfulness
Tetragram 13: Increase
Tetragram 14: Penetration
Tetragram 15: Reach
Tetragram 16: Contact
Tetragram 17: Holding Back
Tetragram 18: Waiting
Tetragram 19: Following
Tetragram 20: Advance
Tetragram 21: Release
Tetragram 22: Resistance
Tetragram 23: Ease
Tetragram 24: Joy
Tetragram 25: Contention
Tetragram 26: Endeavor
Tetragram 27: Duties
Tetragram 28: Change
Tetragram 29: Decisiveness
Tetragram 30: Bold Resolution
Tetragram 31: Packing
Tetragram 32: Legion
Tetragram 33: Closeness
Tetragram 34: Kinship
Tetragram 35: Gathering
Tetragram 36: Strength
Tetragram 37: Purity
Tetragram 38: Fullness
Tetragram 39: Residence
Tetragram 40: Law or Model
Tetragram 41: Response
Tetragram 42: Going to Meet
Tetragram 43: Encounters
Tetragram 44: Stove
Tetragram 45: Greatness
Tetragram 46: Enlargement
Tetragram 47: Pattern
Tetragram 48: Ritual
Tetragram 49: Flight
Tetragram 50: Vastness/Wasting
Tetragram 51: Constancy
Tetragram 52: Measure
Tetragram 53: Eternity
Tetragram 54: Unity
Tetragram 55: Diminishment
Tetragram 56: Closed Mouth
Tetragram 57: Guardedness
Tetragram 58: Gathering In
Tetragram 59: Massing
Tetragram 60: Accumulation
Tetragram 61: Embellishment
Tetragram 62: Doubt
Tetragram 63: Watch
Tetragram 64: Sinking
Tetragram 65: Inner
Tetragram 66: Departure
Tetragram 67: Darkening
Tetragram 68: Dimming
Tetragram 69: Exhaustion
Tetragram 70: Severance
Tetragram 71: Stoppage
Tetragram 72: Hardness
Tetragram 73: Completion
Tetragram 74: Closure
Tetragram 75: Failure
Tetragram 76: Aggravation
Tetragram 77: Compliance
Tetragram 78: On the Verge
Tetragram 79: Difficulties
Tetragram 80: Laboring
Tetragram 81: Fostering
Leap Year Differentials
Autocommentaries to the Mystery
Polar Oppositions of the Mystery
Interplay of Opposites in the Mystery
Evolution of the Mystery
Illumination of the Mystery
Numbers of the Mystery
Elaboration of the Mystery
Representations of the Mystery
Diagram of the Mystery
Revelation of the Mystery
Index