The I Ching (Book of Changes)
← all texts · Taoist & Chinese · core c. 1000 BCE; commentaries later
What this is
The oldest Chinese classic — a divination system of 64 hexagrams built from broken and unbroken lines, with the philosophical "Ten Wings" that turned it into a cosmology of change. Legge's translation is on sacred-texts.
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The gods & things in it
The TaoCompanion reading path
What to read alongside it, and why.
The Tao Te Ching
Taoist & Chinese
The Way (Tao Te Ching) and the changes (I Ching) are the twin roots of Chinese thought.
Sun Tzu — The Art of War
Classical wisdom
Sun Tzu's strategy assumes the I Ching's logic of shifting situations.