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I CHING

The Book of Change

A complete & unabridged

translation by

THOMAS CLEARY

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CONTENTS

Introduction ix

Consulting The Book of Change xi

Consultation Chart xviii

The Book of Change

1. The Creative i

2. The Receptive 3

3. Difficulty 6

4. Innocence 8

5. Waiting 11

6. Contention 13

7. An Army 16

8. Accord 18

9. Nurture of the Small 20

10. Treading 2 2

11. Tranquillity 24

12. Obstruction 27

13. Sameness with People 2 9

14. Great Possession 31

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THE BOOK OF CHANGE

15. Humility 33

16. Happiness 36

17. Following 38

18. Disruption 40

19. Overseeing 42

20. Observing 44

21. Biting Through 4 6

22. Adornment 48

23. Stripping Away 5o

24. Return 52

25. Fidelity 54

26. Great Buildup 56

27. Nourishment 5 8

28. Predominance of the Great 6o

29. Constant Pitfalls 62

30. Fire 65

31. Sensitivity 67

32. Persistence 69

33. Withdrawal 71

34. The Power of Greatness 73

35. Advance 76

36. Injury to the Enlightened 78

37. People in the Home 8o

38. Opposition 82

39. Halting 85

40. Solution 87

41. Reduction 8 9

42. Increase 92

43. Decisiveness 95

44. Meeting 97

45. Gathering 99

46. Rising 102

47. Exhaustion 104

48. The Well I o6

49. Change 109

50. The Cauldron

51. Thunder i i3

52. Mountains i i6

53. Gradual Progress 1i8

54. A Young Woman Going

to Marry 120

55. Abundance 123

56. Travel 125

57. Conformity 127

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58. Pleasing 1 29

59. Dispersal t 3 t

60. Regulation t 3 3

61. Truthfulness in the Center 135

62. Predominance of the Small 137

63. Already Accomplished 1 40

64. Unfinished 142

Notes 145

List of Hexagrams

Irith Their Primal Correlates

and Structural Complements

INTRODUCTION

158

The Book of Change is the most ancient and

most profound of the Chinese classics, ven-

erated for millennia as an oracle of fortune,

a guide to success, and a dispensary of wis-

dom. The ancestor of all Chinese philosophy,

it is the primary source for the pragmatic

mysticism of the Tao Te Ching, the rational

humanism of Confucius, and the analytic

strategy of Sun Tzu ' s Art of Mar.

The Book of Change was originally com-

posed over three thousand years ago by a

king and his son in the tutelage of a Taoist

sage. Six centuries later, the book was ana-

lyzed and annotated by Confucius, the great

scholar and educator. The result of this work

was the classic in the format known today, a

compendium of advice on the causes behind

the rise and fall of kingdoms and careers.

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THE BOOK OF CHANGE

The earliest function of the core symbols

of The Book of Change is traditionally said to

have been as a system of notation, a tool for

grouping associations and defining relations

symbolically. This system evol v ed into a lan-

guage of logic for describing the courses of

actions and events.

The sources of The Book of Change lore are

thus to he found in the origins of writing

itself, in the attempt to depict phenomena

and events in written symbols. The struc-

tures of The Book of Change represent dy-

namic patterns of causal relations; the total

design of the hook constitutes a symbolic

language generating descriptions of relation-

ships as they change over time.

The original recorded versions of The Book

of Change would have been inscribed on strips

of bamboo or wood, which when arrayed for

the purposes of consultation would not re-

semble a modern book in form or structure.

The internal order was maintained by the

relationships among the principal symbols,

which by virtue of their complexity allowed

several different systems of interrelation to

coexist within the internal order of the ab-

stract Book of Change.

Consulting

THE BOOK OF CHANGE

A con v enient method of consulting the

book is given in an ancient appendix attrib-

uted to Confucius, according to the follow-

ing directions:

Change has an absolute limit:

This produces two modes;

The two modes produce four forms,

The four forms produce eight

trigrams;

The eight trigrams determine fortune

and misfortune.

This formula summarizes the basis of the

structure of The Book of Change, from which

is derived the simplest method of drawing

specific advice from the hook.

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