Today: “Use your valuable resources to offer what is needed.” – from the I Ching

Use your valuable resources to offer what is needed.  Look beyond material support.  Look to your unique qualities to do the most good.

Meditation: KWTC 19970630 – For Faculty of Self Engagement

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#14, Line 4, #2

The Fire of clarity illuminates the Heavens to those below:
The Superior Person possesses great inner treasures — compassion, economy, and modesty.
These treasures allow the benevolent will of Heaven to flow through him outward to curb evil and to further good.

Supreme success.

You have become an instrument of Heaven’s will, offering a balance in the world around you.
It is not swashbuckling prowess or uncanny talent that qualifies you for this office, but your simplest gifts — your modesty, your compassion, your economy.
Because you can see clearly who most needs a miracle, Heaven’s bounty is being put at your disposal.

Nine in the fourth place means:
He makes a difference
Between himself and his neighbor.
No blame.

Fire illuminates the base of the Mountain:
The Superior Person realizes he has not the wisdom to move the course of the world, except by attending to each day’s affairs as they come.

Success in small matters.
This is a good time to begin something.

The emphasis now is on form, not function — on the sizzle and not the steak.
The environment around you is not one of depth, and you are appreciated now for your image, not your essence.
You perfectly fill a role, and no one is seeing the genuine you.
Still, you are being listened to and watched.
Use this influence to further your goals as much as possible.
Even if you don’t feel understood, you can perhaps connect with a few isolated hearts.
Relax and enjoy the attention.

This characterises the position of a man placed among rich and powerful neighbors. It is a dangerous position. He must look neither to the right nor to the left, and must shun envy and the temptation to vie with others. In this way he remains free of mistakes.1


1. Another generally accepted translation of the line is as follows:

He does not rely on his abundance
No blame.

This would mean that the individual avoids mistakes because he possesses as if he possesses nothing.


 


Today: “If you want to relate to the unseen” – Yogi Bhajan

SSSYWa“If you want to relate to the unseen, all you have to do is sit down in a very easy and common position and imagine, image in, that you are reaching Him. Don’t think you are performing a miracle; this is an easy thing.” Yogi Bhajan

Sat Nam!
Ram Anand

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