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Dedicated to Grand Master Sango Kobayashi, Ph.D; My wife Diana, All my children, Laura, Jeremy, and Kenny, Who have aU loved and helped me so much
Acknowledgments Most of the material in this book is based on workshops on the I Ching and related subjects that I have taught over the past ten years.Thanks, therefore, are due the many students who attended these workshops and whose questions helped me clarify this material all the more. I am also greatly honored to have Dr. Sango Kobayashi as my personal mentor in the I Ching and lowe him a great deal for his generous instruction. I would also like to thank Dr. Jay Sordean who helped me very much for many years as program director of the Japanese-American Acupuncture Foundation OAAF), Inc. All my friends from the California Acupuncture Association also assisted me greatly in keeping my spirit up during the process of writing this book. Finally, I am very grateful for the considerate encouragement and intelligent advice I received from Bob Raws and Honora Lee WoUe in preparing this book for publication. Without their friendly support, this book could not have manifested the way it is.
Notes on This Edition Except tor the title of the I Ching, Chinese words used in this edition have first been given in pinyin romanization foUowed in parentheses by the Wade-Giles system. Hopefully, this will make this book more easily usable to practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine who are familiar with pinyin romanization and / Chmgreaders and users who are typically more familiar with the Wade-Giles system. We have chosen to simply use the Wade-Giles I Ching in the title of this book since that is its most recognizable form to the majority of this book's potential readers. Although this book may be used by practitioners of any and all healing arts, since it stems from the Chinese tradition, much of the medical terminology is couched in the language of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Readers unfamiliar with the basic theories and tenets of Chinese medicine should see Ted Kaptchuk's The WebThaI Hils No Weaver published by Congdon & W~ed.
Foreword The I Ching is the essence of Chinese philosophy. Conceived some 6,lXXl years ago by Fu Xi,a legendary sage, it is the magnum opusof Oriental metaphysics. Without the principles of yin and yang of the I Ching, one cannot even envisage Oriental philosophy. Besides being the preeminent book of Chinese philosophy and wisdom, it is also a book of divination based on a superb system of binary representations of patterns in the universe completed by King Wen of the Zhou Dynasty. Accepted as the most reliable method of prognostication, the I Ching has been used by tens of thousands of people in the Orient as an oracular method regarding every conceivable subject in human life. Now, it has been transplanted in the West and has begun producing some significant results. The author of the present work. Dr. Miki Shima, has not only studied the I Ching in depth but has also practiced it profoundly for the past 25 years. The thing that so impresses me about Dr. Shima is that he has been tirelessly casting the I Chi'lg every day and that he has gathered an immense amount of practical knowledge on the art of divination from his direct experience. I know a great many people who study the I Ching, but I have never met anyone who practices this divination like Dr. Shima. This is what makes him different from traditional I Chitlg scholars. I know for a fact that he has kept very good records of his divination and that he studies them over and over again for long periods of time. The present work is, therefore, derived not only from his academic endeavor on the subject of the I Chi,lg but also directly from his personal knowledge and experience. Since Dr. Shima began his career as a practitioner of Oriental medicine more than 20 years ago, he has become a master oj using the I Dung in the medical field. He is extremely good at diagnosing and detecting deep etiologies. He is