July 9 - 12, 2009
Joey Yap took to the classroom over the course of four days of July 9 to 12, 2009, to teach his Yi Jing Mastery Series Modules 1 and 2. Both modules saw a good turnout of students were keen to learn more about this ancient and respected art of divination.
In Module 1, or Traditional Yi Jing, students received an introduction to the fundamentals of Yi Jing. Students were made to understand the concept of Yi, as well as the principles of Yin and Yang. Joey explained to the students the reasons why the Yi Jing became the famous Oracle of China, before telling them that they'll get to learn exactly why for the rest of the duration of the class!
The emphasis was on the Original Gua Texts in Module 1. Joey emphasised the importance of these texts, as it would be next to impossible to derive the true wisdom and meaning of the Yi without it. Factors such as Ba Gua Arrangements and how to read Gua were an integral part of this Module, and students were also taught the common terminologies that were a part of the Yi Jing.
Module 2 focused more on the Plum Blossom Numerology, which is a subsystem of the Yi Jing. First, Joey carefully taught the students the complicated Plum Blossom Method, and then revealed the highlight of the class - how to calculate and derive the Hexagrams. One is able to divine and predict for practically all aspects in one's life - everything from health and career to missing persons, weather, travel, and more!
Joey had commented that this was a particularly intelligent and astute class, as they seemed to pick up complicated and sophisticated concepts with ease!
Students left the class with a deeper knowledge of Yi Jing, and for some, it was a completely new perspective from what they had always assumed it to be. It was no longer a "dead" philosophical text, as some had thought, but a practice and an art that was alive and fully relevant to modern life as it was to Chinese civilisation thousands of years ago.
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