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Other I-Ching prediction styles
There are few I-Ching prediction styles:
The first style, which is the most popular style, is coin tossing. This is what I have been teaching you. I am sure that you have seen some other I-Ching books which teach you how to toss the coins and read the quotes. None of those books are teaching you the correct stuff. The correct way is: If you decide to toss the coins, you are not allowed to read the quotes. Coin tossing and I-Ching quotes should not be used together. Why? Because everytime you get an I-Ching sign, you are allowed to read only 1 quote. But if you use the coin tossing style, it's very possible that 3 or 4 lines would move. Each moving line gives you a quote. If 3 or 4 lines move, which quote should you read? You are only allowed to read one quote! What if 5 lines moved? Which quote should you read? Are you going to read all 5 quotes? That's why I don't teach people how to read the quotes. I never read the quotes, but I am more accurate than people who read the quotes.
The second style is to get an I-Ching sign based on the exact moment a question is asked. For example, if someone calls you now on the telephone and asks you a question or mentions about something, you just record the year, the month, today's date, and the exact time which the question was asked in order to get a number. Then you divide, add, and subtract this number in order to get an I-Ching sign. I decided not to teach my students this style for mainly two reasons:
| Year | Month | Date | Hour |
| w | cn | y | t |
Then you derived an I-Ching sign which reflects that person's fortune.
Let me ask you one question: What if another person phoned you 3 minutes
later? What are you going to tell him? "Oh! I don't need to get the
sign for you. I already got it. It's right here! Someone just called me
3 minutes ago, and I got the sign for this hour already! Since you also called me at
the same hour, your fortune is exactly the same as the guy who just called me 3 minutes
ago. I told that person he will die this month. Since you called me at the
same hour, you will die this month too!" Is this what you will say to people?
Let's say we have 10,000 I-Ching masters all over the world. If 10,000 people all
over the world ask their questions all at the exact same time, will they all receive the
same answer?
Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889 at 6:30 pm. So every child who was born on that day and at 6:30 pm grew up to become as powerful as Hitler? Everyone of them died in the same year as Hitler? That's why the bible forbids time observing. Sometimes astrology style is accurate, but it's not accurate enough. Why is astrology style not as accurate as coin tossing style? Because astrology is dead, and coin tossing is live! Every toss is unique. If one does not understand the meaning of the sign, he can toss again to get a clearer sign from the Lord. That's why coin tossing style is far more superior than astrology style.
The third method is to get a sign from mother nature. For example. One thousand years ago, one of the most notorious Chinese prophet Shou Kan-Je one day saw an old man walking by with a sad looking expression on the face. Prophet Shou asked the old man what's wrong. The old man replied, "Nothing is wrong." Shou felt strange and got an I-Ching sign using the following technique: The old man is represented by the sign "Chen". (Chen represents an old man.) So the top gua is "Chen". The old man walked from South to North. South is represented by "Li". Therefore the bottom gua is "Li". Then prophet Shou calculated that day's exact astrological position, read the I-Ching quote, and told the old man that within five days the old man's life will be in danger. Five days later, the old man was choked to death by a fish bone in a wedding banquet. I also refuse to teach people this style simply because it's too difficult for foreigners to master. This style requires a very thorough understanding of I-Ching quotes. Prophet Shou told the old man that his life will be in danger based on one quote "There is no fish in the bag. Danger!" Now I don't give a shit what this quote means. I simply think this is not something that a foreigner can master. I mean most of my students are foreigners. These I-Ching quotes were written in ancient Chinese. Most Chinese nowadays don't have a clue what these quotes mean. I mean I don't have a clue what they mean. How can foreigners master I-Ching using this style?
Another style is to have someone write a few words, then count the strokes of the words, get the total of the strokes, calculate, and derive an I-Ching sign. Since most of my students are foreigners, they can't write Chinese. So forget this style. Coin tossing is the best!
Some guy told me something which made a huge impact on my philosophy. This is what he said, "Hey! It doesn't matter how you get your job done. As long as you get it done, you are a professional. Some engineers program with C ++. Some use Quick Basic. And others might use Perl or Java. As long as you can write a program that works, you are a good software designer." So I think it's unnecessary to teach people all of the styles of I-Ching. If coin tossing works the best, just stick to coin tossing. Hey! As long as coin tossing allows you to accurately predict the future, why care about other styles?
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