The Tao of Success: Navigating Life’s Forces for Optimal Outcomes
The Tao of Success elucidates the precise mechanics governing life’s pivotal events and the underlying forces that shape all occurrences. Ancient Taoists pioneered analytical methodologies to investigate these forces, identifying discernible patterns of change and systematizing strategies for success to effectively address them. This wisdom empowers individuals to align their daily actions with universal laws, thereby enhancing the pleasantness of every aspect of life.
A clear and potent instrument of Taoist Wisdom, the Tao of Success is structured into three integral components:
- The Study of Universal Change through Symbols and Signs: This involves the analysis of symbols and signs that represent the infinite transformations occurring throughout the cosmos. These phenomena are governed by precise laws rooted in physics, chemistry, biology, geometry, algebra, and other branches of mathematics.
- The Tao of Change (Social Philosophy and Transactional Psychology): Represented by sixty-four hexagrams, each comprising six lines, this study illuminates developing stages within individual or group transactions. Recognizing specific patterns enables the development of successful, detailed, and accurate strategies to overcome adversity. The Tao of Change is an invaluable resource for those aspiring to cultivate wealth, power, harmonious familial relations, social standing, and comprehensive foresight.
- The Space and Time I-Ching System (Forecasting Events): This practical application is founded on the principle of cyclicality – the understanding that all past events will recur in some form, and all future events have already transpired. Akin to Albert Einstein’s insights, ancient Taoists recognized the illusory nature of time and studied situations within a comprehensive space-time framework. This led to their development of a method for interpreting events within our temporal concept, providing the key to “forecasting” or perceiving future occurrences.
The Eight Pillars of Taoism collectively encompass every facet of daily existence. They are meticulously designed to fulfill our fundamental physical needs in a manner that enables the realization of our full human potential. Through this holistic cultivation, one may transcend the degenerative aspects of time and live in harmony with the Tao, or the Divine.
(Adapted from Dr. Stephen T. Chang, The Complete System of Self Healing).