Today:”It is God who created you” Yogi Bhajan

“It is God who created you and it is to God that you will go. Nothing exists in between. This world is a temporary visitation. Visit it with love and remember that if you have not learned to leave this earth in happiness, your soul shall be stuck on this earth.” Yogi Bhajan

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Today: Give your attention to here and now – I Ching

Give your attention to here and now.  Do not look for rewards with ulterior motives.  Resist the temptation to lash out against transgressors.  That only feeds a cycle of action and reaction.  Rather, show them light and grace with good manners.

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

Man has received from heaven a nature innately good, to guide him in all his movements. By devotion to this divine spirit within himself, he attains an unsullied innocence that leads him to do right with instinctive sureness and without any ulterior thought of reward and personal advantage. This instinctive certainty brings about supreme success and “furthers through perseverance”. However, not everything instinctive is nature in this higher sense of the word, but only that which is right and in accord with the will of heaven. Without this quality of rightness, an unreflecting, instinctive way of acting brings only misfortune. Confucius says about this:
“He who departs from innocence, what does he come to? Heaven’s will and blessing do not go with his deeds.”
We should do every task for its own sake as time and place demand and not with an eye to the result. Then each task turns out well, and anything we undertake succeeds.
The situation is really difficult. That which is strongest and that which is weakest are close together. The weak follows behind the strong and worries it. The strong, however, acquiesces and does not hurt the weak, because the contact is in good humor and harmless.
In terms of a human situation, one is handling wild, intractable people. In such a case one’s purpose will be achieved if one behaves with decorum. Pleasant manners succeed even with irritable people.

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