'The Way' is a wide road.

"There are many ways forward, and many choices along the way."

This weekend while at a MBS Fair I was showing someone the easier and more direct way to select the hexagrams of The TAO I CHING with a set of ELEMENTS. This person was not impressed, even though I could demonstrate a more dynamic flow of energy, and 'symbolic' manipulation of the hexagram, much more than using those coins. The two objections were that they preferred to use the yarrow stalk method ( I never thought of that; long winded, and they may have a certain rhythm to them when you use them properly), and that using the Wilhelm version they could read into the Readings what they wanted.

I replied by saying that I thought that this was a little pointless, since all the Readings would simply confirm, or strengthen, what they already knew. But they weren't listening.

Two thousand years ago (Chinese scholars will know this period of 200 B.C. - 200 A.D. as a great revolution, or a complete disaster of interpretation) the issue was clear enough. There were two flows of energy. One towards material involvement, and the other towards spiritual awareness, BOTH used in the world to full effect. Someone came along and put a label on these flows, and called them "Yin" and "Yang". The rest is a history of esoteric confusion. Because of this people will spend the next 2000 years pursuing one flow of energy, or another, to get the reults they want. This caused, and causes, a chain reaction and chain of events that alters the world. Here we are ! We can't change the past, and we can't change the world (people will do what they want), but we can change ourselves, to see, and feel, and use, a different kind of eneregy. An energy that we were told about two thousand years ago. The introductory chapters of The TAO I CHING explain it all. But they weren't listening.

But hey !, we can change our destiny.