Chris Lofting's I Ching Plus

Copyright (C)2000-2004 C.J.Lofting

Context

1 - Context is facts oriented. 2 - Context was facts oriented but now not sure. 3 - Context is values oriented. 4 - Context was values oriented but now not sure 1 - Context is about what was/what is/what will be. 2 - Was the above but now not so sure. 3 - Context is about what could have been/is NOT/could be. 4 - Was the above but now not so sure. 1 - Context is Proactive. 2 - Was proactive but now not sure. 3 - Context is Reactive. 4 - Was reactive but now not sure

Text

1 - Text is facts oriented. 2 - Text was facts oriented but now not sure. 3 - Text is values oriented. 4 - Text was values oriented but now not sure 1 - Text is about what was/what is/what will be. 2 - Was the above but now not so sure. 3 - Text is about what could have been/is NOT/could be. 4 - Was the above but now not so sure. 1 - Text is Proactive. 2 - Was proactive but now not sure. 3 - Text is Reactive. 4 - Was reactive but now not sure

NOTE - ENSURE YOU PRESS BOTH RESETS BEFORE YOU TRY IT AGAIN!!! DO NOT PRESS SUBMIT IN EITHER FORM UNTIL YOU HAVE ANSWERED ALL SIX QUESTIONS (or accept the displayed defaults)

Pressing submit will present a page of three frames across the page in the order of:

• Hexagram that is CAUSING the CHANGE (if any). (the universal context, stimulus). Hexagram of HEAVEN.
• LOCAL Hexagram that is CHANGING; hexagram of MAN. (bottom trigram is LOCAL context).
• Hexagram that is RESPONDING to the CAUSE; hexagram of EARTH (the universal response).

You have three choices in behaviour:

1) The "Causal State" reflects the flow of the context. To go with the flow, adopt the characteristics of the associated ' responding' hexagram, or, if there is none, then then the response is the characteristics of the cause; cause and effect are 'one' - self-referencing.

(2) The "Current State" or "Changing State", YOU, reflects tension between text and context. To assert the characteristics of this hexagram as context you need to neutralise the changing lines. If there are no changing lines then you are 'in the flow' and need to do nothing.

(3) The "Future State"or "Becoming State" reflects what will develop if you do nothing in response to any changes etc. IOW this is the 'preferred' response to the stimulus and if you stay around long enough you will turn into it; reflects its characteristics.

In the above questions, the top three questions deal with LOCAL context, i.e. YOUR perspective or THEIR perspective or a situation etc. The bottom three questions reflects the text, what or who is working within the context. As you move up through a hexagram you move from the raw to the refined and as such the 'raw' is the context that, in concert with some text leads to an expression, in this case the hexagrams. You can thus put yourself as text in a context or as a context interacting with text. Context and Text can be objects, relationships or a mix of the two. From this perspective, this LOCAL perspective, one can derive the stimulus/response of the surrounding environment in general - the dynamic of HEAVEN/EARTH which you are witness to, and a part of.

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