Tag Archive for: Yi Jing

Pythagoras and Fu Xi: Brothers from another Mother
Some of the concluding portions of Homo Mysticus that tie together deep metaphysical concepts from Pythagorean philosophy (as embedded in the tetractys) and the I Ching (Yi Jing), the Classic of Changes, from deep Chinese antiquity.
As…

The Eight, The Four, the Three and the Two
We’ll walk through Buddha’s teachings here for a moment but before we get to Buddha’s awakening we must look at how the Buddha arrived at the Bodhi tree to begin with. He was the son of a prince, and when he was born his father was told…

As Easy as One, Two, Three
Numbers are an interesting thing really
One could, elementarily (both figuratively and definitively)
Break down the Western and Eastern ways of thinking
Into as easy as 1, 2, 3 - A, B, C
Pythagoras starts with the Monad,
From which the great…