YijingWonderingandWandering

Illustrations used in our book, of paintings owned by museums, are not reproduced online because of difficulties in getting permission for their use. So we ask you to imagine here a Qing Dynasty painting of a gray sky, dark at the top, fading to light below, with one white egret (crane?) soaring in from the upper right.

The phrase, a white crane in the clouds is used to describe moral integrity.

Illustrations used in our book, of paintings owned by museums, are not reproduced online because of difficulties in getting permission for their use. So we ask you to imagine here a Song Dynasty painting of mist and clouds rising from a valley, obscuring all but the hint of a distant mountaintop. In the lower left corner a scholar reclines on a rocky ledge, dwarfed by the scene he contemplates.

Illustrations used in our book, of paintings owned by museums, are not reproduced online because of difficulties in getting permission for their use. So we ask you to imagine here a Song dynasty painting of a rushing stream snaking out of the mist between banks studded with bamboos, large and small. If you look closely you may see several well camouflaged ducks.

Illustrations used in our book, of paintings owned by museums, are not reproduced online because of difficulties in getting permission for their use. So we ask you to imagine here a Song dynasty painting of the movement of water plants and a bright carp swimming in a pond.

II. Dragon Gates, The Way of Being and Non-being