易I CHING
研学 · Inquiry Studio研

Where the book is argued, not answered

研学 is a study room, not a consultation. Pick a figure, and 易見 will think it through with you — how the two trigrams act on each other, where the figure sits in the sequence and beside its opposite and nuclear forms, what the Judgement and Image actually say, and where readings genuinely differ. No advice, no verdict, no comfort.

Open inquiry問學 No figure chosen

The inquiry happens in the conversation. Study answers are held to a different standard than readings: specific, comparable, and honest about where a claim rests on a school of commentary rather than on the text itself.

The Sixty-Four六十四卦

Choose a figure to think with

King Wen order. Choosing one opens it for study — not for divination.

The Eight Trigrams八卦

The forces the figures are built from

Three lines each, stacked two by two. Ask about any of them in the panel — how it behaves alone, and what changes when it sits above rather than below.

How to study here研法

Four questions worth asking of any figure

I · 一

Trigram as verb卦象

Each trigram is a movement, not a noun — heaven pushes, earth bears, water sinks, fire rises. What is the upper trigram doing to the lower one here?

II · 二

Opposite and nuclear錯互

Invert all six lines and you meet the figure's opposite; reverse them and you see the same situation from the other end; read the middle four and you find what is germinating inside. Ask about any of the three.

III · 三

What the text claims經文

The Judgement and the Image are short and often strange. Ask what a line actually says before asking what it means — and ask which translation you are reading.

IV · 四

Where readings split異解

The book has been read by diviners, by Confucian commentators, and by men out of office. Where their readings split, the split is usually the interesting part.