I Ching and the Wisdom of Life (易經與人生智慧)

Minda and I joined Prof. Peng’s (彭泓基教授) introduction course for I Ching named “I Ching and the Wisdom of Life” (易經與人生智慧) and the first lecture held on 25^th Mar 2023. The course has four lectures. I would like to summarize some key points for sharing below. 

Firstly, Prof. Peng introduced the basic concept of Chinese culture. The key purpose is to learn to be man of honor (怎樣做人).

Then he explained what is wisdom. Wisdom in Chinese is separated into two characters. “智” related to decision making and “慧” is how to choose. 

And then Yin and Yang Transformation and the concept of “Change” and “Balance” were discussed.

After that Prof. Peng briefed the concept of “Tao” (道) and the principle of “I” (易道).

One of ancient concepts in Chinese culture is Five Elements (五行) and its generate and restrain each other (相生相克).

Prof. Peng also compared the different between Chinese culture and Western culture.

Finally, he explained the basic concept of “I Ching” and the word of “I” (易) that is combined sun and moon meaning the changing.

Then Trigrams (八卦) was introduced. 

Lastly, Trigrams expanded to Hexagram (六十四卦) were briefed. Time is flied and we will continue in next Saturday Morning class.

After the lecture 1 finished, I introduced HKSQ and World Alliance for Chinese Quality to Prof. Peng.

Reference:

Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) - http://www.hksq.org/index.asp

彭泓基教授 - http://www.cwmhk.org/speakers_3_1.html

彭泓基教授 - https://www.master-insight.com/author/penghongji/

屈機TV (屈基論) - https://www.youtube.com/@wgtvhk/playlists