Today:”Using the mind to try and convince the mind to be still ” Yogi Bhajan

“Using the mind to try and convince the mind to be still is like stopping a hurricane by blowing on it. There is too much going on.” Yogi Bhajan
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Today: Wake up and know the truth – I Ching

Wandering around in loveless relationship, just endure.  Circumstances will intervene to set you straight on a true path.  Wake up and know the truth.

Read the text from Richard Wilhelm's translation of the I Ching

Affection as the essential principle of relatedness is of the greatest importance in all relationships in the world. For the union of heaven and earth is the origin of the whole of nature. Among human beings likewise, spontaneous affection is the all-inclusive principle of union.
Here the situation is that of a girl married to a man who has disappointed her. Man and wife ought to work together like a pair of eyes. Here the girl is left behind in loneliness; the man of her choice either has become unfaithful or has died. But she does not lose the inner light of loyalty. Though the other eye is gone, she maintains her loyalty even in loneliness.
The shock of continuing thunder brings fear and trembling. The superior man is always filled with reverence at the manifestation of God; he sets his life in order and searches his heart, lest it harbour any secret opposition to the will of God. Thus reverence is the foundation of true culture.

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