Category: Chinese Philosophy
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Bazi, the Four Pillars of Destiny: A Comprehensive Guide
Bazi explained, how it relates to the Chinese zodiac, and much more. The Four Pillars of Destiny, also known as Bazi (八字), is a Chinese fortune telling technique that attempts to calculate your fate based on the day and time you were born. Your birth chart will consist of four pillars/columns, one for the year,…
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10 Steps to Learning Chinese Philosophy
How to learn Chinese philosophy? This seems like a daunting task at first glance. However, it need not be so difficult if you have a good approach to learning it. I will give some recommendations and provide some of my own experiences on how I approached learning Chinese philosophy that I hope will be helpful…
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I Ching Yarrow Stalks and Coins: A Helpful Guide to Consulting the I Ching
So let’s say you finally grabbed yourself a copy of the I Ching. You open up and realize that it’s full of hexagrams with descriptions tied to each of them. Then how do you consult it? Lucky for you, there are all kinds of ways to consult it. The most traditional way to consult it…
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Poker, Dugu Nine Swords, and a Wheelmaker From Zhuangzi
What a poker game, a sword fighting technique in Jin Yong’s wuxia novels, and a wheelmaker in Zhuangzi can teach us about specific knowledge. You’re playing a game such as poker, and you have just bluffed your small hand. Your goal by bluffing is to scare all the other players into folding and quitting their…