The I Ching Handbook: Decision-Making with and without Divination [Paperback]

Mondo Secter (Author), Chung-Ying Cheng (Preface)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 25, 2002

The I Ching Handbook introduces readers to the ancient Chinese text and instructs them in using it as a tool for strategizing and decision-making. Mondo Secter’s innovative approach to interpreting the hexagram meanings is accessible to both beginners and advanced users. The book also explores the process of divination through casting. Black-and-white illustrations and charts are provided.

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"Mondo Secter’s The I Ching Handbook is a uniquely useful book in a market flooded with new interpretations of ancient Asian classics. This book is a truly ling or spiritually attuned and inspired masterpiece. This is the most useful presentation of the Chinese Book of Changes in our day, to be recommended to the beginner as well as savant."
—Michael Saso, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Chinese Religon, University of Hawaii, and author of Taoism and the Rite of Cosmic Renewal

"Mr Secter is on the leading edge of inquiry in a field that is interpreting eki kyo or I Ching as relevant to modern science and decision or problem-solving processes."
—Yoshio Hayashi, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Keio and Musashi Universities, Tokyo

About the Author

Mondo Secter is a scholar of Chinese cosmology and philosophy whose works focuses on the application of I Ching principles to modeling culture and organizational cross-cultural (East / West) collaboration. He lives with his spouse, Ari Tomita, in Vancouver, B.C.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books (September 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556434154
• ISBN-13: 978-1556434150
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,598,083 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent primer and guide, February 14, 2011

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This review is from: The I Ching Handbook: Decision-Making with and without Divination (Paperback)

The I Ching is one of the deepest as well as one of the oldest works composed by man, a subject of endless fascination, contemplation and study. And, until Robert Legge first presented his translation into English in 150s years ago, westerners had scarcely heard of it, much less become involved with its use and multiple layers of meaning. Since then, especially since the German Richard Wilhelm's work in the 1920s, there has been increasing interest and a building avalanche of books on the subject.

For the student new to the subject, Secter's Handbook must be considered an excellent choice. It is short, easy to read, and gets the reader into the concepts presented, and into using the I Ching, very quickly and clearly. Secter has also presented his own graphical interpretations of the eight trigrams, has developed user aids to take one through the line changes to new hexagrams, and takes the convoluted, vague and frustratingly difficult to interpret translations from the Chinese found in Legge and in translations of Confucius' commentaries, and turned them into clearer, though not less deep and thoughtful, hexagram interpretations and additional line comments. This is of inestimable value to those new to the I Ching.

Secter also explores a number of ways the I Ching is used, and touches on further layers of meaning, but is clear that this is not meant to be an exhaustive exploration. Rather, it is an accessible guide meant to be used and reused, to be lived with, and as such it succeeds.

4.0 out of 5 stars Review for the I-Ching Handbook, October 11, 2011

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This review is from: The I Ching Handbook: Decision-Making with and without Divination (Paperback)

Very useful book. It provides clear and brief explanations of all the hexagrams. It also has the originality of presenting the concepts of the evolutionary and the contrary hexagrams which help a lot with the understanding and the interpretation of the hexagram received.
Recommended to all those who want a brief interpretation of the i-ching oracle.