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Approach to the I Ching "If I were given 50 more years of life, I would dedicate them exclusively to the study of the I Ching and in this way, I would avoid many of the mistakes I have made throughout my life". Confucio Puedo corroborar la sabia respuesta de Confucio porque, tras casi medio siglo de mi vida dedicado al estudio del I Ching, puedo hacerla mía sin ningún género de duda. I can reconfirm Confucius' wise answer because, after almost half a century of my life devoted to the I Ching, I can fully endorse it without any doubt. Beyond my opinion, I can also subscribe the words of Carl Gustav Jung when in 1948, in his foreword to the translation of Richard Wilhelm's I Ching, a reference work known to all scholars of the Book of Changes he stated: “I cannot answer the thousand questions that this extraordinary book raises . The I Ching is not offered accompanied by evidences and results. On the contrary, he waits patiently until he is discovered. To some people, will appear as clear as day. To others it will appear as gloomy as twilight and to a third it will appear as dark as night. To others who does it not like, they do not have to use it and anyone who opposes to it don’t required to prove their veracity. But one thing is certain: the I Ching is undoubtedly the right book to the wisdom lovers" But ... What the I Ching is? Throughout history, the Wisdom has been forwarded through books of knowledge, open with no restrictions of any kind to all those who come to them. One of these universal treasures of knowledge is the I Ching, which is known as the Book of Changes or Mutations, a book born in China and that with its 4,000 years of existence is probably one of the oldest Books of Wisdom in the world, but the oldest. The I Ching is also a way of knowledge as well as an oracle book. As a way of thought, it is the original source from which the two great currents of Chinese Thought emerged: Taoism and Confucianism. As an oracle book, the I Ching is an infallible method of prediction that allows us to know how the secret Matrix of the Universe works to correctly adapt our actions, eliminating the margin of uncertainty in which human beings habitually make mainly our ordinary decisions.

In other words, in its oracular aspect, the I Ching acts as a self-aware GPS that indicates the most efficient route to reach the destination that we have marked, although it indicates, at the same time, those other routes that, according to the decisions that freely let's take it, they will take us to other alternative destinations, equally possible and real. The real essence of I Ching thought is based on two great principles: The first: permanent change is the rule of the universe. The second: there are no irreconcilable opposites but a unique indivisible and complementary reality beyond the appearances. Yin and Yang, day, and night, male and female, and feminine, Good and Evil… All is One! Contraria sunt complementa. Therefore, the Universe in a permanent change, the present is the unfolding of the past and the future is 8


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