George Harrison Used Chinese Philosophy to Write 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'

George Harrison relied heavily on Eastern philosophy. When he grew disenchanted with Western thinking, the East drew him in. Something in it connected with George and helped him understand himself and the world a little better.

In his 1980 memoir, I Me Mine, George said Chinese philosophy helped him write one of his biggest songs with The Beatles, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”

“Around the time of writing ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ I had a copy of ‘I Ching,’ the Chinese classic ‘Book of Changes,’ which seemed to me to be based on the Eastern concept that everything is relative to everything else, as opposed to the Western view that things are merely coincidental,” George wrote.

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