Because it adds context to the story and entries, I am repeating something I wrote earlier. It fits in with the duality we each live and helps to make sense of it all.
Thoughts and ideas crystallizing over time. Standing only as symbols for all to follow.
Ancient traditions of the shaman who brought forth the proper way long before those present could begin to comprehend their true meaning. Oracle bones of tortoise shells to be collected and cherished as telling the wave of the future of the things to come and knowing all that will be.
Finding patterns and rendering judgments to be followed. Knowing the way of dragons and keeping them abreast of my progress as the everlasting goal. The ultimate objective simply to follow the signposts along the way to immortality. Each situation ultimately chasing beginnings and endings with the elements ultimately in charge. Their task simply to take turns coming to the forefront.
The I Ching following the true course of events. Establishing patterns and finding appropriate endings that must be followed. Reminding all that everything has origins and endings only to be repeated again and again. Understanding the true paradox found only in yang and yin.
The sixty-four stories that follow represent my own oracle. Each my own representation of the true meaning of the I Ching. As with when I was a small child growing up on the farm finding and keeping tortoise shells simply because they were there to be found.
In retrospect, I now know my purpose was simply to keep them safe and to honor them for a cause I could not then appreciate or understand. Except possibly to begin to know dragons even then.
(An original composition written upon the completion of the Chinese classic the I Ching to be used as the beginning or “Prologue” prior to the sixty-four entries to follow 3/31/94).
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