This was such a good presentation! I've long wondered if this was the underlying reason the LBRP is an efficient banishing tool. Aside from the current that's present with it, your upper movement acknowledges "destruction" and the lower movement acknowledges "creation", neutralizing the space. It may or may not be born of the same core source. But I found the similarities between the Wu Xing and the mechanics of the LBRP really fascinating.
Oh my god, you're so wonderful! So much knowledge or second, it's amazing, thanks for the wonderful work you're doing for us all! I study kabbalah for some 5 years, but I study lots of other spirituality stuff from all over the world. If you could, would you please indicate literature within Chinese and Asian cultures that could link to kabbalah, hermeticism, wu xi, I ching, tarot, and even done stuff like extraterrestrial antique civilizations and possible influencers within those schools especially in China, India, southern India and Japan? I live in Brazil, almost every reference more available is rooted in judaeo-christian traditions. Oh my god, how I'm happy to fill the gaps within my heart! I'm a practitioner of Asian techniques for lots of stuff, from Japanese Mahikari, to I Ching and Taoism. So happy to find out there's so much content and books available though the door of your videos!!
Thank you for all your videos on Wu Xing. They help clarify the theory I try to get through reading but can never seem to understand. I’m hoping as I get to fully understand this system my Tai chi, Qigong, and Bodywork can all be more effective and rewarding. I also love digging into magic systems and you are the best resource I’ve found to help my western mind understand these eastern systems.
Another great effort in explaining the crucial ideas in english! Thanks and congrats~ Just one thing, I always feel drawing parallels between Wu Xing and the Buddhistic Mahabhuta or Godai is misleading, if not detrimental, especially to beginners. They are completely different concepts, just by divine reasons both used elemental forces as representations. It misleads people to try to extract "similar meanings" from, say metal and void, or even water and water (which has the same name but different essence). It's like fitting a foot into the wrong shoes
All her I ching videos are. Luo Shu square is excellent work for introducing people to this complicated topic. I like to tell people about how South Koreas flag features the trigrams, this kind of knowledge was and still is definitely considered important to the Confucian and Caodai practitioners. The tradition of three truths--Taoism Buddhism & Confucism represented by the three colors of the Cao dai movement en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caodaism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_teachings
This is so fascinating, thank you! I've studied jyotish and indian cosmology for some time, it is wonderful to get a different perspective upon these types! It seems to me more so that the book of songs could be of the nature of venusian, documents jovian, rites saturnine, changes martian and music mercurial; That would make songs metal, documents wood, rites earth, changes fire and music water.
I have a question about corrlations with western elemental or 4 humors theory; where would you say the western understanding of the element air might fit into the 5 movements? Wonderful presentation Dr Wen 💜☯
Love your videos keep up the great work! Wise FEM Woman thou art! Can’t wait for the new book. Maybe it’s on my end but something I’ve noticed is the sound seems off whenever your on screen. The last few videos I’ve seen seem to have some feedback or interference. I don’t know what it is but maybe look into it. Sounds fine when you voice over the images so I’m not sure if your using a different mic or if it’s a settings issue. I hope to learn more and will enjoy regardless. Thank you so much!
Yeah I've been asking James for years to help fix my audio and mic set-up situation!! lol. Something seems to be off but I personally would not be able to fix it. Sigh. So I'm at the mercy of waiting for someone to remedy my audio situation for me.
Wow, so much information in a concise and intelligent package. So the question for me arises, once I understand how the elements and energies are moving in a given situation. How can I apply that knowledge? How to take the I Ching reading and apply it as actionable items/task, etc. I am still learning ☯️ ☯️ ☯️
I'm /almost/ angry at the last part of you mentioning wanting to connect the Five Classics and the Wuxing but coming up short, because now it's going to live in my head rent-free, and I'm going to spend the next 3 years trying in vain to bash the puzzle pieces together like an astoundingly stupid monkey. But some thoughts...? To my knowledge (from reading Liji's Yueji chapter), music in ancient China was heavily associated with cosmological order and a natural method of cosmologically aligning behaviors of both rulers and the people with "what would be most harmonious"-- a metaphor that comes to mind is the notion of someone playing a drum to subconsciously influence people into marching to a beat. Book of Songs are a compilation of songs, part of which were recorded from the common folk-- a "realistic natural" state, perhaps? Or a result of how successfully the ruler have attempted to implement the cosmological order onto the masses. I'm not sure I'm making sense. But regardless. Book of Documents seem to primarily be about political philosophy and rulership; argumentation on what "true societal order" should look like and the philosophical steps to achieving it. Book of Rites continue this by presenting a rigid roadmap of actions (rituals) to that end. It is geared towards the living so that they, in a grounded, practical sense, could maintain connection with the divine (and maintain practical order) without necessarily trying to "understand" divinity. Book of Changes, on the other hand, steps past this focus on organizing the mortal world to favor instead understanding, and in a sense gaining the ability to manipulate the outcome of, divine secrets. So in summary, I suppose this is how the order appears to me, in my possibly delusional head: Book of Music -> Book of Songs -> Book of Documents -> Book of Rites -> Book of Changes -> Book of Music ie. Music is a way to assert "a" cosmological order in a natural way everyone innately understands, and the state of this order, ie. to what degree it is whole or not, is reflected in the songs the commonfolk create and sing. The songs sung, in a sense, collectively inform everyone of the state of the world (ie. in peace? at war?) through its contents. The current state of the world generally cause philosophical thinkers or "great men" to speak up about what they think would be the antidote to the specific ongoing strife. The winner of these philosophies butting against each other would then be implemented through establishment and observations of rituals, which often would attempt to connect the base mortal world with a higher plane of divinity and ideals. Once you have that bridge back to divinity, attempts to more deeply understand its inner workings could result in a new "refinement" in the understanding of cosmological order, which could then be softly implemented through music. How that might translate to states of Wuxing? (laughs in fear) Don't ask me I majored in biomedical engineering and am talking out of my ass Regardless, the "personality tests" seem to reflect the ideal behaviors of people who truly understood and took the contents and core of each classic to heart (in understanding divination, hopefully you learn to be wise as to not cause great upset; in understanding rituals, their places and reasons, hopefully you learn to be disciplined and the reasons why you must be so; in learning (harmonious) music, you train yourself into being in alignment with the ideal Heaven, etc), so I wonder if reverse engineering to get to the core of each classic would help get something closer to the more dynamic set of concepts that is Wuxing.
Thank you for another great video! One question - I've seen different sources explain how Metal supporting Water works and you mentioned some examples here - that Metal is providing minerals to Water or that Water is able to condense on Metal. I've also seen that Metal vessels provide containers for Water or that Metal melts and flows like Water. Do you know what the standard examples are that are typically given in most Chinese literature? It seems like this particular relationship is the most abstract amongst all of the creation and destruction relationships so any clarity you could provide here would help. Thank you!
One totally-just-jokes-but-on-second-thought-maybe speculation my friends and I have had was that ancient Taoist alchemists believed that potions containing mercury could endow you with immortality. :-D I wonder if it's premised on the belief that fortifying water solutions with minerals was the process of creating medicines for healing, thus Metal increases the powers and potency of Water. *shrug*
I have read that it was because water condenses on metal but is not absorbed into it. The image of dew collecting on a metal blade and rolling off comes to mind.
I am puzzzled why the buddhist and other asian associations don't call wood and metal by those names but call them wind and aether/sky? Or maybe I mean, why the chinese system calls them wood and metal. This has always confused me. This is different than the Ayurvedic explanation I heard which started with Aether out of everything arises...
There is no direct correlation to thyroid? I wish you had speculated on its possible correspondence. Thyroid issues are common and impact the mind and body in various ways, so always worth thinking about
@@BenebellWen People are skeptical of the chakras but everyone feels a lump in their throat when suddenly pressured to speak, or a pain in their heart, headaches when being frustrated. discomfort in the stomach when uncomfortable, and other feelings. That in my opinion is proof of the endocrine system and the energy centers being interwoven.
@@InternetSumerian-le6rpit doesnt prove chakras. chakras are created and alligned to the endocrine syste. even without chakras you still get a lump in your throat 😂 chakras is just a mind (spiritual) concept.
@@JimmyHandtrixx ive read they are clusters of nerves in the spine and the endocrine system. That is why a person feels sensitive there. The endocrine system to maintain s healthy state needs a balance of hormones.
As I am a God on Earth, the 900 years of ancient Chinese are alive. The SONG Dynasty Emporrer Empress! 😮...My Prophetess Ancient of ( FU ZI CHEIN LIA)☯️🦇🦇
Benebel ,did you hear of The Son of the Father of the Flood that was banished. The son went Far North west and slept with and created by sorcery ( man) ne an d ra thal. Far Southwest the Son of the Father of the Flood left the Far North West (England ) Edom. In the southwest, (African ) met a beast and made a (man)... My point (Yu) of the IChing; is that Son in other words, "Ham" is Chinese ;Ancient yet from Now known as China 🇨🇳. ☯️☮️✝️
This was such a good presentation! I've long wondered if this was the underlying reason the LBRP is an efficient banishing tool. Aside from the current that's present with it, your upper movement acknowledges "destruction" and the lower movement acknowledges "creation", neutralizing the space.
It may or may not be born of the same core source. But I found the similarities between the Wu Xing and the mechanics of the LBRP really fascinating.
Oh my god, you're so wonderful! So much knowledge or second, it's amazing, thanks for the wonderful work you're doing for us all! I study kabbalah for some 5 years, but I study lots of other spirituality stuff from all over the world. If you could, would you please indicate literature within Chinese and Asian cultures that could link to kabbalah, hermeticism, wu xi, I ching, tarot, and even done stuff like extraterrestrial antique civilizations and possible influencers within those schools especially in China, India, southern India and Japan? I live in Brazil, almost every reference more available is rooted in judaeo-christian traditions. Oh my god, how I'm happy to fill the gaps within my heart! I'm a practitioner of Asian techniques for lots of stuff, from Japanese Mahikari, to I Ching and Taoism. So happy to find out there's so much content and books available though the door of your videos!!
I love your videos because they seem useful both from an academic perspective and for practitioners.
Understanding Luo Shu videos is the most important introductory video to the Book of Changes I've ever found
Thank you for all your videos on Wu Xing. They help clarify the theory I try to get through reading but can never seem to understand. I’m hoping as I get to fully understand this system my Tai chi, Qigong, and Bodywork can all be more effective and rewarding. I also love digging into magic systems and you are the best resource I’ve found to help my western mind understand these eastern systems.
Thank you for the clear and concise presentation.
Your knowledge is vast
Fantastic. Very focused, very well organised and clear without being simplistic. Very rare to find this type of quality presentation
Really great job!
Great video on a foundational topic. Thank you Wise FEM Woman 🙏❤️🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸❤️🙏
Brilliant and beautiful video, thank you for creating and sharing this.
I'll be using Wise Fem Woman for the rest of my life. Thanks you are literally the best!💯
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bENEbELL wEN, tHANK yOU fOR pRODUCING AND SHARING.
Thank you for sharing. Very interesting and understanding of nature. Kia ora
Another great effort in explaining the crucial ideas in english! Thanks and congrats~ Just one thing, I always feel drawing parallels between Wu Xing and the Buddhistic Mahabhuta or Godai is misleading, if not detrimental, especially to beginners. They are completely different concepts, just by divine reasons both used elemental forces as representations. It misleads people to try to extract "similar meanings" from, say metal and void, or even water and water (which has the same name but different essence). It's like fitting a foot into the wrong shoes
That's very true! Metal from a Wu Xing perspective is very different from Akasha in the Buddhist perspective! You raise a very good point. Thank you!
This was a fascinating journey of a video.
All her I ching videos are. Luo Shu square is excellent work for introducing people to this complicated topic. I like to tell people about how South Koreas flag features the trigrams, this kind of knowledge was and still is definitely considered important to the Confucian and Caodai practitioners. The tradition of three truths--Taoism Buddhism & Confucism represented by the three colors of the Cao dai movement en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caodaism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_teachings
This was brilliant ! Thank you for this amazing lecture and introduction into oriental mysticism.
Most Excellent!!
Wonderful!
Great video, thank you.
This is so fascinating, thank you! I've studied jyotish and indian cosmology for some time, it is wonderful to get a different perspective upon these types! It seems to me more so that the book of songs could be of the nature of venusian, documents jovian, rites saturnine, changes martian and music mercurial; That would make songs metal, documents wood, rites earth, changes fire and music water.
Muito obrigado por compartilhar seu conhecimento 😊🇧🇷
thank you very much
Yaaaaaay! 🙏🙏🙏💔🐺/Gonna get it B👍🏼👍🏼☯️🕉️
Wu xing.
art: martial arts🥋.
type: classic element🔯.
class: guardian.
ability: elementumkinesis, elemental blast, elemental channelling, elemental combination.
purpose: to control all five elements.
user (for good): sun wukong/dasheng the monkey king🐒 (1st universe; currently), ninja steel rangers (13th universe; currently).
user (for evil): emperor han (1st universe; currently).
rarity: legendary.
role: power.
status: active.
color: various.
ELEMENTS.
1 fire🔥.
2 water💧.
3 earth🌎.
4 wood🪵.
5 metal🪙.
COLORS.
1 red🔴 (for fire).
2 blue🔵 (for water).
3 yellow🟡 (for earth).
4 green🟢 (for wood).
5 white⚪️ (for metal).
I have a question about corrlations with western elemental or 4 humors theory; where would you say the western understanding of the element air might fit into the 5 movements? Wonderful presentation Dr Wen 💜☯
Love your videos keep up the great work! Wise FEM Woman thou art! Can’t wait for the new book. Maybe it’s on my end but something I’ve noticed is the sound seems off whenever your on screen. The last few videos I’ve seen seem to have some feedback or interference. I don’t know what it is but maybe look into it. Sounds fine when you voice over the images so I’m not sure if your using a different mic or if it’s a settings issue. I hope to learn more and will enjoy regardless. Thank you so much!
Yeah I've been asking James for years to help fix my audio and mic set-up situation!! lol. Something seems to be off but I personally would not be able to fix it. Sigh. So I'm at the mercy of waiting for someone to remedy my audio situation for me.
your thorough coherence is easy to absorb;
even tho;
i know i am misinterpreting;
to a degree;
So there is a Taoist tradition of Rainbow Body? I had seen it mentioned but only briefly in a Taoist Qigong book.
Wow, so much information in a concise and intelligent package. So the question for me arises, once I understand how the elements and energies are moving in a given situation. How can I apply that knowledge? How to take the I Ching reading and apply it as actionable items/task, etc. I am still learning ☯️ ☯️ ☯️
Know the principle, apply it in your field.
I'm /almost/ angry at the last part of you mentioning wanting to connect the Five Classics and the Wuxing but coming up short, because now it's going to live in my head rent-free, and I'm going to spend the next 3 years trying in vain to bash the puzzle pieces together like an astoundingly stupid monkey.
But some thoughts...?
To my knowledge (from reading Liji's Yueji chapter), music in ancient China was heavily associated with cosmological order and a natural method of cosmologically aligning behaviors of both rulers and the people with "what would be most harmonious"-- a metaphor that comes to mind is the notion of someone playing a drum to subconsciously influence people into marching to a beat. Book of Songs are a compilation of songs, part of which were recorded from the common folk-- a "realistic natural" state, perhaps? Or a result of how successfully the ruler have attempted to implement the cosmological order onto the masses. I'm not sure I'm making sense. But regardless. Book of Documents seem to primarily be about political philosophy and rulership; argumentation on what "true societal order" should look like and the philosophical steps to achieving it. Book of Rites continue this by presenting a rigid roadmap of actions (rituals) to that end. It is geared towards the living so that they, in a grounded, practical sense, could maintain connection with the divine (and maintain practical order) without necessarily trying to "understand" divinity. Book of Changes, on the other hand, steps past this focus on organizing the mortal world to favor instead understanding, and in a sense gaining the ability to manipulate the outcome of, divine secrets.
So in summary, I suppose this is how the order appears to me, in my possibly delusional head:
Book of Music -> Book of Songs -> Book of Documents -> Book of Rites -> Book of Changes -> Book of Music
ie. Music is a way to assert "a" cosmological order in a natural way everyone innately understands, and the state of this order, ie. to what degree it is whole or not, is reflected in the songs the commonfolk create and sing. The songs sung, in a sense, collectively inform everyone of the state of the world (ie. in peace? at war?) through its contents. The current state of the world generally cause philosophical thinkers or "great men" to speak up about what they think would be the antidote to the specific ongoing strife. The winner of these philosophies butting against each other would then be implemented through establishment and observations of rituals, which often would attempt to connect the base mortal world with a higher plane of divinity and ideals. Once you have that bridge back to divinity, attempts to more deeply understand its inner workings could result in a new "refinement" in the understanding of cosmological order, which could then be softly implemented through music.
How that might translate to states of Wuxing? (laughs in fear) Don't ask me I majored in biomedical engineering and am talking out of my ass
Regardless, the "personality tests" seem to reflect the ideal behaviors of people who truly understood and took the contents and core of each classic to heart (in understanding divination, hopefully you learn to be wise as to not cause great upset; in understanding rituals, their places and reasons, hopefully you learn to be disciplined and the reasons why you must be so; in learning (harmonious) music, you train yourself into being in alignment with the ideal Heaven, etc), so I wonder if reverse engineering to get to the core of each classic would help get something closer to the more dynamic set of concepts that is Wuxing.
Thank you for another great video! One question - I've seen different sources explain how Metal supporting Water works and you mentioned some examples here - that Metal is providing minerals to Water or that Water is able to condense on Metal. I've also seen that Metal vessels provide containers for Water or that Metal melts and flows like Water. Do you know what the standard examples are that are typically given in most Chinese literature? It seems like this particular relationship is the most abstract amongst all of the creation and destruction relationships so any clarity you could provide here would help. Thank you!
One totally-just-jokes-but-on-second-thought-maybe speculation my friends and I have had was that ancient Taoist alchemists believed that potions containing mercury could endow you with immortality. :-D I wonder if it's premised on the belief that fortifying water solutions with minerals was the process of creating medicines for healing, thus Metal increases the powers and potency of Water. *shrug*
@@BenebellWen I had these notions too.
@@BenebellWen That definitely seems plausible! Thank you!
I have read that it was because water condenses on metal but is not absorbed into it. The image of dew collecting on a metal blade and rolling off comes to mind.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I wonder how we can recover the book of music?
👍
"🦇⚡️Fu Zi Tian Lia"☯️
I am puzzzled why the buddhist and other asian associations don't call wood and metal by those names but call them wind and aether/sky? Or maybe I mean, why the chinese system calls them wood and metal. This has always confused me. This is different than the Ayurvedic explanation I heard which started with Aether out of everything arises...
Lady...you've resurrected the dead
Ever see the film "Mystery of Chess Boxing"; Kung fu film with Ghostface killer.? Relevant to (FIVE ELEMENTS)☯️☮️🦇🤕🧠⚡️😘📽🎼
🔥 #WuTang 😏
There is no direct correlation to thyroid? I wish you had speculated on its possible correspondence. Thyroid issues are common and impact the mind and body in various ways, so always worth thinking about
See endocrine system under Wood. :)
@@BenebellWen People are skeptical of the chakras but everyone feels a lump in their throat when suddenly pressured to speak, or a pain in their heart, headaches when being frustrated. discomfort in the stomach when uncomfortable, and other feelings. That in my opinion is proof of the endocrine system and the energy centers being interwoven.
@@InternetSumerian-le6rpit doesnt prove chakras. chakras are created and alligned to the endocrine syste. even without chakras you still get a lump in your throat 😂 chakras is just a mind (spiritual) concept.
@@JimmyHandtrixx ive read they are clusters of nerves in the spine and the endocrine system. That is why a person feels sensitive there. The endocrine system to maintain s healthy state needs a balance of hormones.
I found the rainbow body, one time
As I am a God on Earth, the 900 years of ancient Chinese are alive. The SONG Dynasty Emporrer Empress! 😮...My Prophetess Ancient of ( FU ZI CHEIN LIA)☯️🦇🦇
Benebel ,did you hear of The Son of the Father of the Flood that was banished. The son went Far North west and slept with and created by sorcery ( man) ne an d ra thal. Far Southwest the Son of the Father of the Flood left the Far North West (England ) Edom. In the southwest, (African ) met a beast and made a (man)... My point (Yu) of the IChing; is that Son in other words, "Ham" is Chinese ;Ancient yet from Now known as China 🇨🇳. ☯️☮️✝️
It would be nice if you could stop incorrectly pronouncing “ YANG” as you do ( like rhyming with TWANG). Hsieh Hsieh Nin