used as political tools by some people who did not mean well, as
well as by some who did. Further, it means that the religious feeling
attached to moral values and to the various kinds of health that are
possible for human beings is not an illusion. It is a natural
experience and need. And this implies that we share a common
consciousness and a common source.
But there it is. China is building itself, a giant country of giant
possibilities that will come to ruin if no meaningful system of
moral values underpins it. America is transforming itself too, a
powerful, inventive country of enormous resources in materials and
energy. But it has to rebuild a moral system that abandons the
hollowness and destructiveness of the old morality and creates a
workable, meaningful moral life by doing what Americans are good
at: using whatever materials are at hand, including the I Ching - to
contact the divine world.
How Ancient China Came to America: The I Ching as Bible
Longhua Temple, Shanghai
