I Ching
I Ching
The I Ching, over the course of the Warring States period and early imperial periodit was transformed into a cosmological text with a series of philosophical commentaries known as the "Ten Wings." After becoming part of the Five Classics in the 2nd century BC, the I Ching was the subject of scholarly commentary and the basis for divination practice for centuries across the Far East, and eventually took on an influential role in Western understanding of Eastern thought...
advances beings boldly both certainty circumstance danger dangerous endures greatly grows head human ignorant inner meet resolutely responses stands strong superior vary weak
The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both