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The I Ching or Book of Changes: A Guide to Life's Turning Points |  | Author: Brian Browne Walker
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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ISBN: 0312098286
Dewey Decimal Number: 133
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Publication Date: September 15, 1992
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For centuries, The I Ching or Book of Changes has been consulted for sage advice at life's turning points. When its wisdom is sought with sincerity and sensitivity, this Chinese oracle will help to promote success and good fortune and to impart balance and perspective to your life. Its everlasting popularity lies in the lessons that it teaches about how to use your positive qualities in order to attain life's greatest rewards-prosperity, understanding, and peace of mind.
Brian Browne Walker's new, highly accessible translation of the I Ching, because it is clear and direct, allows you to make the wisdom of the ancient Chinese sages your own. Brian Browne Walker has studied the Chinese language for twelve years, and has studied and practiced Taoist philosophy with a number of teachers in the United States and abroad. Among his mentors are a Taoist master in California and Sawat Pracheron in Thailand.
This new translation's easy-to-use format and contemporary language will be a boon to new users. Devotees of the I Ching will find that this version enhances their understanding of the ancient text.
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The I Ching or Book of Changes May 15, 2010
Jane Connell (Alabama)
This book is simple and straight forward, easy to use. I would recommend it. I am a beginner to I Ching. I have used I Ching online for over a year and decided that I needed to try something else. The accuracy is proving to be rather eerie during this stormy period through which I am nagivating. This book has helped me focus and has been, along with other things, my GPS. Especially useful when one is not used to listening to one's own inner guidance system. I also purchased "A Guide to the I Ching" by C. Anthony. It is more complicated and complex. Life is complex enough and answers, I think, should be simply stated. I found Brian Walker's book "The I Ching or The Book of Changes" to be a very useful tool for me. My recommendation is purchase it if your looking for guidance during these fast changing ("Book of Changes") turbulent times we are moving through. If your reading this then your searching, and from my point of view it should be a good starting book for you too.
Wishing you well,
Bioedjc
 The I Ching Simplified April 26, 2010
Bohdi Sanders, Ph.D. (Loveland, CO)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is a wonderful way for the beginner to learn to use the I Ching and to understand how it works. So many works on the I Ching make the whole process of using the I Ching as an oracle seem so complicated that the beginner just plain gives up and as a result, never follows through with trying to use or understand the I Ching. This book completely boils the I Ching down to the basics and gives the reader/beginner a chance to understand how to use the book without being overwhelmed. Another thing that I really like about this book is that it is organized without a ton of side notes or commentaries, thus allowing the reader to simply read the wisdom of the I Ching without having to sift through all of the added thoughts of the author. This is great for someone that is only interested in reading the wisdom of the I Ching without any other comments. The translation is also a very simplified translation that is easy for most people to understand and to apply to their own life.
The reason that I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 stars has to do more with the printing of the book and not the work itself. The paper used for this book is not the best quality paper to say the least. I love to highlight books that are filled with useful wisdom and the paper used in this book doesn't really allow for that as the highlighter bleeds through this paper. Also, the edge has a rough cut, I assume to give the book a feel of being an old book or of having character, but I am not a fan of the jagged edges either. Both of these issues are more of a personal preference on my part and have nothing to do with the content of the book. Overall, I think this is a great book for the reader who is a novice as far as the I Ching goes. I like it and I think that you will also. It is definitely worth your consideration.
Bohdi Sanders, author of Wisdom of the Elders
Master Emotions, Timing, Decisions; Master Timing, Master Decisions, Flow in Synchronicity, Universal Timing February 7, 2010
LAVERN J. DE WILDE (Fort Collins, CO)
Brian Browne Walker's "The I Ching or Book of Changes," assists one to a higher understanding of how to master inner calm and stability for better decision making, during the changing times of one's life, and the inner landscape of one's continually changing inner emotions. The elegant suscinct simplicity can be more difficult for some, such as those who have a propensity toward a "changable nature," or a "mutable nature." Each of us in some area of our lives may need more assistance in discerning the timing of necessary action or nonaction. Further, nonattachment and detachment are important factors in allowing the universal energies to synchronistically work on one's behalf. Therefore, this is a specific tool to keep in one's library for continual study and utilization of the necessary steps presented to master emotions, practical timing and thinking in decision making. With fine-tuning one's methods of calm inner stability, one will continue to gain greater self-mastery, understanding and wisdom for better timing, decision making, and inner peace.
Knowledge, Insight, and deep understanding October 12, 2009
Eclecticus (England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like the way how the I Ching is explained and presented to the reader in this book. I found it very clear and easy to understand, and I like the way how the information found in the book, is presented in a simple but quiet attractive, page layout, and how it was finally edited. To read the I Ching as a philosophical work, like one does when reading the Tao Te Ching is fine, and it could help us to gain more knowledge, and wisdom, or understanding, and deep insight, for it's advice is good and well balanced. But to use it as an Oracle or a fortune teller, would not be a good idea, for it would be breaking one of God's commandments, found in Deuteronomy 18:10-12 "There should not be found in you anyone...who employs divination, a practicer of magic or anyone who looks for omens or a sorcerer, or one who binds others with a spell or anyone who consults a spirit medium or a professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of the dead. For everybody doing these things is something detestable to Jehovah, and on account of these detestable things Jehovah your God is driving them away from before you. You should prove yourself faultless with Jehovah your God." If one doubts of God's existence, it still would be better to apply the I Ching as an intellectual source of wisdom and understanding, rather than to use it as an Oracle or fortune teller, because in this way, not only it would save time, but it would be possible to make a question and instead of selecting a single hexagram or point of view, one could select a few hexagrams, or even all the I Ching's hexagrams, or points of view, and reflect on how it's advice could be applied to answer a particular question, or to help solving a personal problem. To select an hexagram this way would be much more personal and probably much more useful, and the possibility of selecting more than one hexagram, would add an extra point of view and an extra angle from which, one could consider his particular question or personal problem, thus, offering a more complete view and a better understanding of what is involved, allowing us to reflect more deeply about how to solve a personal problem or how to answer a particular question, and to find the best answer or solution to it.
- Eclecticus
Living a plentiful life August 13, 2009
P. M. Youn
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Recently, I read a Japanese saying: When you stop travelling, you'll have arrived. This saying marked my life.
I always lived in the fast-lane, forcing things to happen the way I wanted to, and although I consider myself a successful person and had all which I desired, I was stressed most of the time. I learned this lifestyle from my parents, both of whom are very successful, but then, one day, looking at them carefully, I saw that my dad has had several knee & hip operations, ending up with a hip prosthesis, and my mother has high blood pressure, risking herself or paralysis if it gets too high. Stress can be fatal.
So I decided to change my definition of success and life a fulfilling life without stress. The I Ching has the profound messages to do that. It talks about the importance of being patient, gentle, accepting, honest, and calm.
At the end, the delightful truth is that I have everything I need right now to be happy and plentiful.
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