(Click on the picture to hear the text in a video) The Yijing, the Chinese Book of Changes, is a book of divination that is used by thousands of people all over the world. For more than twenty-five hundred years it is offering advice to those who hav...

素履往无咎 Su 素: in early texts almost exclusively used as a descriptive adjective: ‘unadorned, plain, not processed or modified’. This also means that what follows it is a noun, an object. We already see this usage on bronze inscriptions from aroun...

Heaven and Humankind Are One: Using the I Ching to Enhance Your Practice and Personal Life “If you wish to be a great doctor you should be well-versed in I Ching.” –Sun Simiao (581-682) Welcome to the I Ching, the 2,500 year-old tome used throughout...

In 2005 Dong Shan 董珊 from the University of Beijing came across a dagger-axe that was held in a private collection.   The axe, dated around 900-800 BC, contains an inscription:   一六一一一六，曰：鼑（鼎）止（趾）眞（顚）；鼑（鼎）黃耳，奠止（趾）...