Many believe that the Tao Te Ching contains some universal truths which have since been independently recognized in other philosophies, both religious and secular. Each modern language interpretation (including even interpretation of the three-character title, of which there are dozens) differs at least slightly and occasionally profoundly from the next. Depending on how one reads them, some chapters could have three or more interpretations, ranging from practical wisdom for the common man to advice intended for kings to even the odd medical recipe. The following are some concepts and principles ...

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The I Ching symbolism is embodied in a set of 64 abstract line arrangements called hexagrams (卦 guà). These are each composed of six stacked horizontal lines (爻 yáo); each line is either Yang (unbroken, a solid line), or Yin (broken, an open line with a gap in the centre). With six such lines stacked from bottom to top in each hexagram, there are 26 or 64 possible combinations and thus 64 hexagrams. Each hexagram is considered to be composed of two three-line arrangements called trigrams (卦 guà). There are 2^{See also:}

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Several of the methods use a randomising agent to determine each line of the hexagram. These methods produce a number which corresponds to the numbers of changing or unchanging lines discussed above, and thus determines each line of the hexagram. I Ching divination - Cracks on turtle shell. The turtle shell oracle is probably the earliest record of fortune telling. The diviner would apply heat to a piece of a turtle shell (sometimes with a hot poker), and interpret the resulting cracks. The cracks were som ...

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In 1982, Lam won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Action Direction, in the film Prodigal Son. Prodigal Son featured what is widely acknowledged as amongst the best Wing Chun caught on film, performed by Lam. He also underlined his acting talent by convincingly playing a frail, elderly Taoist priest in The Dead And The Deadly (1983). Lam's star did not rise until 1985, with the release of Mr. Vampire, the movie that fueled the hopping vampire genre. Lam was nominated for Best Actor for his role as th ...

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The success of Mr. Vampire eventually became burdensome on Lam, who found himself typecasted into the role. As the hopping vampire genre began to lose its popularity, quality roles for Lam also began to dry, aside from small roles in Swordsman (1991) and a supporting role in Pom Pom and Hot Hot, most of his roles were in low-budget movies. Lam also briefly became a direc ...

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Main Article: Quan Yin Method Master Ching Hai initiates sincere spiritual aspirants into the Quan Yin Method, also known as Inner Light and Sound meditation. This was the method Master Ching Hai claims to have used to attain enlightenment. Master Ching Hai contends that practice of the Quan Yin Method of meditation is the only way for a soul to become permanently liberated from reincarnation, and to avoid having to live out the karma it created during previous lives. Quan Yin meditation is also enjoyable a ...

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There are many possible translations of the book's title, as the meaning of the Chinese characters is somewhat wide. 道 (dào) is usually translated into English as "the way ahead", "the path ahead", or simply "the Way". This term, used by all Chinese Philosophers (including Confucius, Mencius, Mozi, the Legalists, etc.), has special meaning within the context of Taoism, where it implies the essential, unnamable process of the universe. 德 (dé) has the approximate English equivalent of "virtue" or "righ ...

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Chiang was officially elected President of the Republic of China by the National Assembly after the end of the term of President Yen Chia-kan on May 20, 1978. He was reelected to another term in 1984. At that time, the National Assembly consisted mostly of "thousand year" legislators who had been elected in 1947/8 before the fall of the mainland. Chiang maintained many of his father's autocratic policies during the early years of his term in office. He continued to rule Taiwan as a military state under martial law, as it had been sinc ...

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Ching Cheong, now chief China correspondent for the Straits Times, is presently detained in Beijing on charges of espionage. In the spring of 2005 he had entered mainland China on a Home Visit Permit, apparently to research former Communist Party leader, Zhao Ziyang. On April 22, 2005 he was charged with spying on behalf of a foreign intelligence agency and was arrested in Guangzhou. The PRC Foreign Ministry later reported that he had confessed to these accusations. Formal charges were drawn up on August 5th. He was charged with passing stat ...

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From its mythological origins in prehistory (see Fu Hsi) and the earliest dates of recorded history in China, the I Ching has been added to by a succession of philosophers, schollars and rulers. Thus, it reflects a thread of thinking and a common cosmology that has been passed through successive generations. Joseph Campbell describes the I Ching as "an encyclopedia of oracles, based on a mythic view of t ...

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The following material is drawn from analysis of the binary sequence of the hexagrams where the hexagrams are derived from recursion of yin/yang and so showing a property of the method - the hexagrams are all linked together and contribute to the expression of, the description of, each hexagram. The skeletal form of hexagram 55 is described by analogy to the under-exaggerated properties of hexagram 56 where we have a generic focus on issues of loyalty at a distance, foreign surroundings etc. Here in 55 the main issue is o ...

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Chiang died of heart failure and hemorrhage in Taipei at the age of 78. Like his father, he was interred "temporarily" in Tahsi Township, Taoyuan County, but in a separate mausoleum. The hope was to have both buried at their birthplace in Fenghua once the mainland was recovered. In January 2004, Chiang Fang-liang asked that both father and son be buried at Wu Chih-shan Military Cemetery in Sijhih, Taipei County. The state funeral ceremony was initially planned for Spring 2005, but was eventually delayed to winter 2005. It may be further dela ...

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The third of seven children, Lam attended Shun Yi Association Elementary School in Hong Kong for two years before leaving school. In 1963/4, he joined the "other" Peking Opera School in Hong Kong: that of Madame Fan Fok Fa (Fun Guk Fa), the "rival" of Yu Jim Yuen where Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung were trained at around the same time. In actuality, the schools were friends and students from both schools often mingled. A year after joining, Lam made his first public appearance. Madame reported Lam as a disobed ...

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Chiang Ching-kuo followed his father and the retreating Nationalist forces to Taiwan after the Nationalists lost control of mainland China to the Communists in the Chinese Civil War. On December 8, 1949 the capital was moved from Nanjing to Taipei. In early morning December 10, 1949, Communist troops laid siege to Chengdu, the last KMT occupied city in mainland China, where Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo directed the defense at the Chengdu Central Military Academy. The aircraft May-ling evacuated them to Taiwan on ...

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Chiang Ching-kuo followed his father and the retreating Nationalist forces to Taiwan after the Nationalists lost control of mainland China to the Communists in the Chinese Civil War. On December 8, 1949 the capital was moved from Nanjing to Taipei. In early morning December 10, 1949, Communist troops laid siege to Chengdu, the last KMT occupied city in mainland China, where Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo directed the defense at the Chengdu Central Military Academy. The aircraft May-ling evacuated them to Tai ...

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The son of Chiang Kai-shek and his first wife Mao Fumei, Chiang Ching-kuo was born in Fenghua, Zhejiang and had the courtesy name of Jianfeng (建豐). He had an adopted brother, Chiang Wei-kuo. In 1925 he went to Moscow to study communism on his own volition; his father agreed, since it seemed a sensible thing to do at the time because the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China were allied in the First United Front in preparation for the Northern Expedition. In Moscow, he was given the Russian name "Nikolai Vladimirovich Elizarov" a ...

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The son of Chiang Kai-shek and his first wife Mao Fumei, Chiang Ching-kuo was born in Fenghua, Zhejiang and had the nickname of Jinfeng (建豐). He had an adopted brother, Chiang Wei-kuo. In 1925 he went to Moscow to study communism on his own volition; his father agreed, since it seemed a sensible thing to do at the time because the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China were allied in the First United Front in preparation for the Northern Expedition. In Moscow, he was given the Russian name "Nikolai Vladimirovich Elizarov" and put ...

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When the Japanese occupied Singapore, the Japanese military authorities became concerned about the local Chinese population. The Japanese Imperial Army had become aware that the ethnic Chinese had strong loyalties to either Great Britain or China, with wealthy Chinese financing Chiang Kai-Shek's effort in the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance, which started back in July 1937. The military authorities, led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita, decided on a ...

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In 1947, the British Colonial authorities in Singapore held a war crimes trial to bring the perpetrators of the Sook Ching Massacre to justice. Seven officers, namely Lieutenant General Takuma Nishimura, Lieutenant General Saburo Kawamura, Lieutenant Colonel Masayuki Oishi, Lieutenant Colonel Yoshitaka Yokata, Major Tomotatsu Jo, Major Satoru Onishi and Captain Haruji Hisamatsu were charged with carrying out the massacre. While Kawamura and Oishi received the death penalty, the other five received life sentences. The court accepted the Nurem ...

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Hexagram 16 is named 豫 (yu4), "Providing-For". Other variations include "enthusiasm" and "excess". Its inner trigram is ☷ (坤 kun1) field = (地) earth, and its outer trigram is ☳ (震 zhen4) shake = (雷) thunder 15 - 16 Modesty to Enthusiasm A Seeker walking his own path will feel enthused. Like a car going down hill, the easy run can pick up dangerous speed and go over a sudden c ...

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Dick claims that he wrote The Man in the High Castle, using the ancient Chinese philosophical text the I Ching (or Book of Changes) to decide on plot development. He even blamed the I Ching for plot details that he was unhappy with in one interview. The I Ching is featured throughout The Man in the High Castle. It spread through the Pacific States after the Japanese began their occupation. Several characters, both Japanese and American, consult it for important decisions. Hawthorne, li ...

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