China
The Book of Changes
Dr. White presents The Book of Changes in two volumes with the original Chinese text plus his translation and a detailed commentary that includes practical exercises that will give you direct experience of the changes in terms of your own life. Volume 1 also contains an introduction that discusses the relationship of the Book of Changes as it developed in China with the earlier system of changes that the ancient Egyptians developed. These new research findings brought to light by Dr. White are available nowhere else!
Articles and Essays
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"The Art of Whistling"
Ch’eng-kung Sui’s Poetic Essay on Whistling with translation and analysis by Dr. White
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The Hexagram Sequence
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Untranslated Texts
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"The Heart Sutra and the Mayan Tzolkin Calendar"
by Dr. White
Here is an interesting coincidence for those of you interested in Chinese Buddhism, the Mayan Tzolkin calendar. The symbols in each sequence repeat numerous times, but in different combinations and with different nuances. -
"Sakyamuni Buddha's 12-Step Cycle of Attention"
by Dr. White
When Sakyamuni Buddha began to explain his remarkable insight, he outlined four truths: suffering exists, accumulation of stress increases suffering, dissolution of suffering is possible, and there is a path to achieve that. He explained that human consciousness tends to cycle endlessly through a mutually conditioned chain of codependent states of existence. Then he suggested how it is possible to slip out of the cycle even though the cycle is automatic and each component is completely codependent. From one viewpoint it is difficult or even impossible. From another viewpoint it is simple and effortless.