Yi Jing Ethics: Lessons of a Daoist Master from the Wudang Mountains

by Xing De (Main Author), Johan Hausen  (Translator)

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Yi Jing Ethics: Lessons of a Daoist Master from the Wudang Mountains lays the groundwork for any form of divination technique from ancient times to modern China. It skilfully traverses the moral principles that enable the diviner to gain access to and establish a communion with the higher spiritual forces that facilitate accurate and effective predictions. Steeped in Daoism and its theories, the abbot of the Five Immortals Temple, Li Shifu, takes the reader on a journey of transformation into becoming an accomplished yet humble and compassionate diviner, in line with the Daoist and Buddhist cultivation of merit and the Confucian virtues of being a noble person.

Yi Jing Ethics: Lessons of a Daoist Master from the Wudang Mountains is the preparatory first volume to a forthcoming and wide-ranging text on using the Yi Jing for healing, which will contain a comprehensive and practically applicable divinatory method for healing. Each chapter explores the values and virtues of the Yi Jing and its relationship to karma. The requirements of a successful casting are considered in depth, including incantations which are presented to the reader in Chinese, English and pinyin for ease of learning, as well as the procedure for offering incense. The volume is rounded off by a series of colourful and engaging stories from Chinese legend on divination and Li Shifu’s personal reminiscences of some of his own remarkable castings and their dramatic effects.

This short book, and the larger text to which it is a precursor, aim to bring a new appreciation for the milieu of an indigenous, unadulterated Yi Jing practice in China. Situated within its Daoist and local religious communities, this mode of divination is part worship, part union with higher forces to glimpse through a crack in the wall that separates the present from the future for the sake of assisting humanity.

The book is an introduction to the key tenets of the Yi Jing that, according to Chinese tradition, one must internalize before progressing further with one’s studies of divination. Its ultimate goal is to build a foundation for bettering the world through prognostications that are aligned with the character and nature of the dao – and thereby to eliminate or considerably reduce the effects of bad karma. This is the incredible power of Yi Jing divination, if we can withstand the temptations of egoism and commercialism to misuse it, as Li Shifu teaches us with great wisdom.

Yi Jing Ethics – Table of Content

Yi Jing Ethics – Sample