Reading this book was like trying to read a rock in the dark with your eyes close. I was opaque! Hard read. Maybe I'm just too dumb. I've read the Tao Te Ching, two times, currently doing my third, all different translation, and my fourth is coming by mail, so I thought I would like the I Ching, but it was less philosophical, it it, but less, and it had a lot more of divination, myth, even a fable style to it and the way the translator present it, with the symbol and their meaning, for someone who has not basis at all in the language, it was hard and complicated. The book has gone back from millennia to reach us so it probably have some sense, but too far fetch and too deep for me. I respect the text, but I didn't like it or find anything for me in it!