Introduction

Planning ahead with I Ching

World’s oldest surviving book

How a book written more than 5,000 years ago can guide you in today’s planning? 

It is hard to believe!  But if you’d take a close look at it, you’ll be amazed how I Ching, perhaps the world’s oldest surviving book, can be so forward looking — and so relevant to how you live and work today. 

While it does tell us what we can learn from the past, it is more on the immutable laws that we’ll need to know when planning for the future.

Named Yijing (易经) in Chinese, the book has been aptly translated as The Book of Changes — as it teaches us how to dealing with changes in life, work, business and anything under the sun.  It has been revered as the most prominent classics throughout the Chinese history. 

It has a powerful, and mystical, way of connecting us to the future.  It guides us to see the potential for changes, and leads us to examine elements in the situation we inquire about.  It provides us with advice — often in a metaphorical way– on how a situation can be handled, or improved upon. 

It is invaluable to all of us. 

It helps us to derive more from our life, our business, and the world around us.   

As a source of wisdom, it is centered around a model of 64 hexagrams that provides us with an early systems view of the universal.  It uses primal imagery of nature — from fire, water and wind to lake — to illustrate the order of the universe.   It demonstrates to us how changes take place — in both random and yet orderly ways.  It helps us to see beyond the limitation of our experience, and direct our attention to the root of all things. 

Although only a book of less than 5,000 Chinese characters, it is a wonderful guide to business and life, enabling us to be prophetic and clairvoyant, thereby according us with a powerful competitive advantage.

So how can you find out more about the book?

This is what this website is about.

It is also what I have been working hard on.  I hope you will feel what I share useful.

Enjoy reading!