Today: align yourself and your actions with universal laws – I Ching

Use inner contemplation to align yourself and your actions with universal laws.  Look beyond your biased view of yourself filtered by ego to modify your behavior and your relations with the world. Lose your points of view in this matter so you will be able to act based solely on the projected consequences of the action.  Relate with others as family.

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

Contemplation of the divine meaning underlying the workings of the universe gives to the man who is called upon to influence others the means of producing like effects. This requires that power of inner concentration which religious contemplation develops in great men strong in faith. It enables them to apprehend the mysterious and divine laws of life, and by means of profoundest inner concentration they give expression to these laws in their own persons. Thus a hidden spiritual power emanates from them, influencing and dominating others without their being aware of how it happens.
This is the place of transition. We no longer look outward to receive pictures that are more or less limited and confused, but direct our contemplation upon ourselves in order to find a guideline for our decisions. This self-contemplation means the overcoming of naïve egotism in the person who sees everything solely form his own standpoint. He begins to reflect and in this way acquires objectivity. However, self-knowledge does not mean preoccupation with one’s own thoughts; rather, it means concern about the effects one creates. It is only the effects our lives produce that give us the right to judge whether what we have done means progress or regression.
The family is society in embryo; it is the native soil on which performance of moral duty is made easy through natural affection, so that within a small circle a basis of moral practice is created, and this is later widened to include human relationships in general.

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SSSYWa“Some people acquire the habit of not admitting wrongs. Admitting wrongs to one’s own self is a chance for improvement. It is one of the highest virtues not because you will be judged by this world but you will be judged by your own higher consciousness. If you’ll just feel and understand that you will become beneficial, you will become virtuous. Your judge is your own higher consciousness.” Yogi Bhajan

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