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The Baguazhang I-Ching of the Genchitaofu Way: Updated Version

by Peter Hainzl
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798243363242
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 186
  • Original Price: GBP 7.46
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 223 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Taoism

This is not a traditional I-Ching commentary.
It presents the I-Ching as a Taoist system of embodied cultivation and transformation.

This book reimagines the I-Ching as a living Taoist system of cultivation, rather than a tool of fortune-telling or symbolic interpretation. Grounded in pre-Han cosmology, internal alchemy (Neidan), and martial practice, it presents the trigrams as stages of lived transformation-conditions that are entered and embodied, not merely read or interpreted.

The work is image-driven, using carefully constructed black-and-white illustrations to transmit structure and relationship before words. Text serves as orientation rather than explanation, allowing engagement with the Tao through practice, positioning, and sustained discipline. In this way, the I-Ching is restored as a functional map of change rather than a reflective or predictive system.

Readers familiar with the Wilhelm-Baynes translation and its Jungian psychological framing will notice a deliberate contrast. Where Wilhelm emphasises moral guidance, symbolic meaning, and inner reflection, this book shifts the I-Ching away from interpretation and toward embodied Taoist action. Hexagrams are treated not as archetypal images of the psyche, but as operative states of transformation, entered through movement, timing, and lived alignment rather than contemplative analysis.

Written for Taoist practitioners, internal martial artists, and serious students of Chinese cosmology, this work offers a non-divinatory, practice-based approach to the I-Ching that stands apart from both classical commentary and modern psychological readings.

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