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Los Treinta y Dos Puentes

El Volumen Uno desciende: treinta y dos capítulos de enseñanza, uno por cada par especular de hexagramas. El Volumen Dos asciende, y conviene leerlo hacia atrás: treinta y dos personas, cada una detenida en el último aliento antes de una decisión. Entre ambos hay una página en blanco. Lo que tiras decide lo que lees.

Prefacio: Tres puentes, un río →

Volumen Uno · El Descenso

Se lee hacia adelante, del capítulo 1 al 32

Capítulo 1The Creative and the Receptive: Before Anything Begins
Capítulo 2Difficulty and Folly: Beginnings Are Chaos and Ignorance
Capítulo 3Waiting and Conflict: Two Faces of One Force
Capítulo 4The Army and Holding Together: The Two Origins of Order
Capítulo 5Small Taming and Treading: Moving When Your Reserves Are Thin
Capítulo 6Peace and Standstill: Why Good Times Are Most Dangerous
Capítulo 7Fellowship and Great Possession: Union Comes Before Abundance
Capítulo 8Modesty and Enthusiasm: Humility's Strength, Elation's Trap
Capítulo 9Following and Repairing: When to Go With It, When to Fix It
Capítulo 10Approach and Contemplation: Step In, or Stand Back to See
Capítulo 11Biting Through and Grace: Bite First, Then Adorn
Capítulo 12Stripping and Return: The Seed the Dark Winter Keeps
Capítulo 13Innocence and Great Taming: The Price of a True Word
Capítulo 14Nourishment and Excess: When the Load-Bearing Beam Bends
Capítulo 15The Abyss and the Radiance: Clarity When You Cannot Go Around
Capítulo 16Influence and Duration: What Begins a Bond Is Not What Keeps It
Capítulo 17Retreat and Great Power: The Hard Part Is Knowing When to Stop
Capítulo 18Progress and Darkening: When Rising Light Must Hide
Capítulo 19Family and Opposition: Why Estrangement Must Cost
Capítulo 20Obstruction and Release: The Knot Unties in Time
Capítulo 21Decrease and Increase: Why Giving Can Add and Taking Can Cost
Capítulo 22Breakthrough and Encounter: What You Cast Out Returns
Capítulo 23Gathering and Rising: One Fare, Two Roads Upward
Capítulo 24Oppression and the Well: Who Drinks First in a Dry Year
Capítulo 25Revolution and the Cauldron: What to Cast the Heat Into
Capítulo 26Shock and Stillness: The Jolt You Must Go Still to Hear
Capítulo 27Gradual Progress and the Marrying Maiden: Arriving as the Junior
Capítulo 28Abundance and the Wanderer: The Stranger Inside the Full House
Capítulo 29The Gentle and the Joyous: When Truth Cuts Against the Joy
Capítulo 30Dispersion and Limitation: Scatter Before You Can Gather
Capítulo 31Inner Truth and Small Exceeding: The Largest Lands Smallest
Capítulo 32Why the I Ching Ends Unfinished: Completion and Incompletion

Volumen Dos · El Ascenso

Se recomienda leerlo hacia atrás, del capítulo 32 al 1

Capítulo 32In the Besieged City, the Clock-Mender Keeps Winding
Capítulo 31The Scribe Unrolls the Slip and Reads the Name
Capítulo 30On the Eve of the Carving, He Is Certain of One Wrong Word
Capítulo 29The Bridge Nearly Done, They Ask Him to Bless the Central Pier
Capítulo 28The Seal Still on the Desk, the Last Boat South Already Midriver
Capítulo 27Three Days to the Wedding, One Thread Left on the Loom
Capítulo 26Storm Night, Lamp Oil Enough for Only One
Capítulo 25The Decree to Close the Forge Came While the Iron Was Red
Capítulo 24Ninety Days of Drought, Two Arm-Spans of Rope Left
Capítulo 23The Day the List Went Up, He Counted His Fare Three Times
Capítulo 22The Soldiers Walk In as the Storyteller Reaches the Name
Capítulo 21The Night They Divided the House, Under Their Father's Tablet
Capítulo 20On One Side the Sick, on the Other the Ban
Capítulo 19The Night Before the Ship, He Told No One at Home
Capítulo 18One Changed Character Would Free the Historian
Capítulo 17Thirty Li From Home, a Letter From His Old Troops Catches Up
Capítulo 16The Words in Her Sleeve Could End a Seventy-Year Feud, or Ruin Him
Capítulo 15The Ferryman Says No One Crosses Today. He Reaches Into the Water
Capítulo 14On Payday at the Mill, She Laid Two Letters Side by Side
Capítulo 13In the Hall of Justice, He Knelt Across From His Rescuer
Capítulo 12The Night the Hearth Burned Down to Its Last Handful
Capítulo 11In the Night Court, the Magistrate Holds the Brush Over a Verdict
Capítulo 10Eighth Year at the Tower, the Prince Saw the Beacons of Home
Capítulo 9The Night the River Rose, His Hand Went to the Gong
Capítulo 8The Night Before He Hands Over the Seal, the Clan Begs Him to Stay
Capítulo 7Carrying the Alliance Letter into the City That Killed His Brother
Capítulo 6The Night the Merchant Shut His Doors
Capítulo 5The Rain Hasn't Fallen, and the Boat Is Already at the Lock
Capítulo 4At the Muster Table, an Old Man and a Boy Hang in the Same Decision
Capítulo 3Three Years Dry, the Village Stands at His Door Demanding a Date
Capítulo 2The Last Student on the Mountain Asks a Question She Cannot Answer
Capítulo 1The One Who Is Reading a Book Reaches This Page