November 15-18, 2008
The Yi Jing Mastery Series Modules 1 and 2 were held at the Grand Mercure Roxy Hotel in Singapore over the course of 4 days from November 15 to November 18, 2008. The class saw a good turnout of old and new students were all keen to learn more about this ancient and respected art of divination.
In Module 1, or Traditional Yi Jing, students received an introduction to the fundamentals of Yi Jing. Students were made to understand the concept of Yi, as well as the principles of Yin and Yang. The Yi Jing has long been used as an Oracle in China, and in this class Joey explained the history of this celebrated texts and its roots and different approaches.
Joey also taught the students how to read and derive meaning from the Original Gua Texts. Joey emphasised the importance of these texts, as it would be next to impossible to derive the true wisdom and meaning of the Yi. Factors such as Ba Gua Arrangements and how to read Gua were an integral part of this Module, and students were also taught the common terminologies that were a part of the Yi Jing.
Module 2 focused more on the Plum Blossom Numerology, which focused on the Plum Blossom subsystem of the Yi Jing. First, Joey carefully took students through the Plum Blossom Method, and then revealed the highlight of the class - how to calculate and derive the Hexagrams. One is able to divine and predict for practically all aspects in one’s life - everything from health and career to missing persons, weather, travel, and more!
This Module was a lot more intensive than the first one, but students appreciated the vast amount of knowledge they gleaned from learning the Plum Blossom Method, as this gave their a Yi Jing understanding a whole new level of sophistication and depth.
Students left the class with a deeper knowledge of Yi Jing, and for some, it was a completely new perspective from what they had always assumed it to be. It was no longer a "dead" philosophical text, as some had thought, but a practice and an art that was alive and fully relevant to modern life as it was to Chinese civilisation thousands of years ago.
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