The I Ching is a 3000 year old Chinese text and has played an important role in Taoism, Confucianism, and Chinese Buddhism as well as in the cultures of China, Japan, and Korea. According to Wikipedia: "The text describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy that is intrinsic to ancient Chinese cultural beliefs. The cosmology centres on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change".
It can be read simply for edification but it is best known as a oracle. Each chapter has a hexagram constructed of lines and half lines. People consulted the oracle by throwing stalks of the plant yarrow and randomly constructing the hexagrams and then would find the verses associated with that hexagram. Well skip all that by pushing a button.
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