Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“not based on abstract ideas or fixed concepts, but on visual reality as revealed in pictures and diagrams... their [the trigrams and hexagrams] main function... is a means of helping us to see into nature's ways with a view to bending ourselves to suit those ways instead of trying to conquer nature and win power over it... it emphasizes individual destiny and the importance of time in human life... compassion and self-reliance, agelessness and enlightenment, service for the good of all, deeds without selfish profit, non-violence and tranquility, and the recognition of eternal change, or transformation”

Anagarika​ (Lama) Govinda 1898 – 1985 CE
(Ernst Hoffmann)
Pioneer of Tibetan Buddhism to the West

from Inner Structure of the I Ching

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Transmutation

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I Ching