The I Ching (Classic of Changes) — one of the oldest of the Chinese classics, combining an ancient divination system of 64 hexagrams with philosophical commentary, influencing Confucian, Daoist, and Neo-Confucian thought for millennia.
The 64 hexagrams and their commentary encode a theory of dynamic change (yi) as the fundamental nature of reality; the Ten Wings (philosophical appendices) interpret the hexagrams cosmologically; Neo-Confucians used it to ground metaphysics; Daoists found in it the wu wei philosophy of non-resistance.
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