What is the purpose of learning the Book of Changes?

Thinking without doing anything is the basic spirit of the Book of Changes, and it is also the basic accomplishment that people who study the Book of Changes must first practice and possess. It runs through the whole process of studying the Book of Changes. Cohesion Biography says: "I ching has no thoughts, no actions, no movements, and a sense of the world." In other words, the Book of Changes has no thinking, no human factors, pure and natural thoughts, and can perceive heaven and understand the principles of everything in the world. It is the nature of the universe to think about Chinese studies without doing anything. Only when the fortune teller enters the realm of thinking without doing anything and combining with heaven can he predict effectively and accurately, just like performing a play and singing a play into a role, can he have a good effect.

Sacrificial ceremonies prescribed by the ancients include fasting, hand washing, incense burning, tribute, prayer and standing still. The form is very complicated, but there is only one purpose, all of which are to guide the fortune teller into the pious realm of doing nothing and integrating with heaven. Only in this way can divination be accurate.

After getting the hexagrams, we must maintain a high degree of thinking and inaction if we want to accurately understand the true meaning of the hexagrams, and then seek good fortune and avoid evil. From the image of hexagrams, the rhetoric of hexagrams, the order of hexagrams' names and the relationship between hexagrams' names, we can feel the heaven and decide to follow it. Otherwise, even if the divination is accurate, it will lead to regret because of mistakes. And many times, when divination grows in the realm of inaction, there will be a leap and unconsciously enter heaven. So you don't have to go to divination.