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Why Yijing Advocates Intuition? Aren't we suppossed to be Logical and Objective?

Yijing (I Ching) emphasizes intuition not as a mystical shortcut, but as the highest level of wisdom — one that arises when knowledge, experience, and timing merge into harmony. Here’s why it teaches that intuition is the only sustainable way to make decisions and solve problems:

1. Logic Works Only for Known Variables — Life Has Too Many Unknowns

Yijing teaches that the world is in constant change (变, bian).
Rational analysis depends on fixed data, but most real-life decisions happen amid uncertainty.
Intuition bridges this gap — it reads the “energy between the lines,” sensing direction when data is incomplete.

Hexagram 57, Xun (巽 — Wind): move gently, yet penetrate deeply — this is intuition in motion.

2. Intuition Aligns You with the Flow of the Dao (道)

The Dao represents the natural rhythm of the universe.
When you decide purely by logic or ego, you go against that flow.
When you decide by intuition, you sense timing — what the Yijing calls “knowing when to advance and when to retreat” (進退有時).
Such timing creates effortlessness and sustainability — the essence of wu wei (無為, “action without struggle”).

3. It Integrates Yin and Yang — the Complete Perspective

Logic is Yang: analytical, outward, structured.
Emotion is Yin: inward, feeling, receptive.
Intuition unites both — seeing the whole picture, not just one side.
A leader who uses intuition perceives harmony, not conflict, between head and heart.

4. Decisions Become Sustainable When Rooted in the Heart

Yijing views the heart (xin, 心) as the true “mind.”
Decisions made from the heart have internal alignment — they don’t require endless external justification.
This inner coherence allows decisions to endure change without collapse.

5. Intuition Is Trained Through Stillness and Reflection

Yijing divination isn’t superstition — it’s a process that slows the mind to tune into deeper awareness.
In that stillness, intuition speaks.
The more one consults the Yijing with sincerity, the sharper this intuitive muscle becomes.
That’s why sages say, “The Yijing does not predict — it reveals what you already know.”

In short:

Logic is a lamp that lights the desk.
Intuition is the dawn that lights the world.
Yijing guides leaders to use both — but to lead with intuition, for only that connects to the unchanging Way amid changing times.

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