Brahman — The Ultimate Reality, Ground of Being

Brahman is not a god but the ground of all gods — 'that from which beings are born, that by which they live, and that into which they dissolve' (Taittiriya Upanishad 3.1). It is neither this nor that (neti neti), yet it is not nothing. No single hexagram maps to Brahman because Brahman is what all sixty-four hexagrams are expressions of. But if forced to choose: Hex 1 and Hex 2 together — The Creative and The Receptive — form the closest approximation. Yang and yin are not Brahman, but Brahman manifests as the interplay between them. The Upanishadic insight and the I-Ching's structural foundation converge here: behind all polarity lies a unity that polarity cannot contain. The pattern predates all its expressions.

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