Today: “Trust in the promise of new leadership.  Do not be led astray by factions arising from tribalism.  Keep your eye on the prize.” – from the I Ching

Everything we have experienced has brought us the promise of prosperity.  Maybe you were chosen through the grace of God, but now it’s on you to deliver.

Meditation: NM0406 – Know the Best of You – Share the Best with Others

A reading for the year 2021

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55 – Fifty-Five  Fêng / Abundance

Thunder and Lightning from the dark heart of the storm:
The Superior Person judges fairly, so that consequences are just.

The leader reaches his peak and doesn’t lament the descent before him.
Be like the noonday sun at its zenith.
This is success.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are in a position of authority in this situation.
Archetypally, you are the New King, returned from your quest to claim your throne.
However, you are enlightened enough to realize that you are merely a part of a cycle, and that you must someday yield your throne to the new kid in town, the younger, faster gunslinger, the young turk, the next returning hero, the next New King.
Fretting about the inevitable descent is senseless.
For now you must play your role to the hilt and use this gift of power to govern your world as best you can.
You are the best person for the job.
That’s why you were chosen.
Give it your personal best.

Chên is movement; Li is flame, whose attribute is clarity. Clarity within, movement without-this produces greatness and abundance. The hexagram pictures a period of advanced civilisation. However, the fact that development has reached a peak suggests that this extraordinary condition of abundance cannot be maintained permanently.

THE JUDGEMENT

ABUNDANCE has success.
The king attains abundance.
Be not sad.
Be like the sun at midday.

It is not given to every mortal to bring about a time of outstanding greatness and abundance. Only a born ruler of men is able to do it, because his will is directed to what is great. Such a time of abundance is usually brief. Therefore a sage might well feel sad in view of the decline that must follow. But such sadness does not befit him. Only a man who is inwardly free of sorrow and care can lead in a time of abundance. He must be like the sun at midday, illuminating and gladdening everything under heaven.

THE IMAGE

Both thunder and lightning come:
The image of ABUNDANCE.
Thus the superior man decides lawsuits
And carries out punishments.

This hexagram has a certain connection with Shih Ho, BITING THROUGH (21), in which thunder and lightning similarly appear together, but in the reverse order. In BITING THROUGH, laws are laid down; here they are applied and enforced. Clarity [Li] within makes it possible to investigate the facts exactly, and shock [Chên] without ensures a strict and precise carrying out of punishments.

 

For 2021: “What was broken nearly beyond repair through malfeasance can now not only survive, but also flourish. ” – from the I Ching

What was broken nearly beyond repair through malfeasance can now not only survive, but also flourish.  The evil perpetrated by the bad actors has turned on themselves  and begun to consume them and render them impotent.  It’s time to break the precedent for shameless notoriety and its dark corrupt practices and replace them with humility and grace.  Your example will shine and become contagious in a new age.

Meditation: LA822-950201-Healing the Physical

If you can, do this meditation daily for 40 days.  Then, if able, keep it up.    When you are strong enough, keep going on and on  — paraphrasing Yogi Bhajan in a lecture from 1995 at Yoga West.

YB: “…whatever happens to you, it will start happening you after forty days, keep it to yourself. Do not talk, do not telephone, do not disturb, don’t even call me. Whatever is happening, the unconscious is loading, unloading itself and finally you will be free of all the garbage – mental, spiritual and physical. You will be as clean, as cleanliness can be. It’s all up to you. But just remember, if you do one day this hand, next day the other side, it’s alternative day and my personal advice to you is, do not be freak out and do not do more than eleven minutes, don’t try to become hero. Your body cannot take more than eleven minutes. It’s different, I am master, I can do anything I want but any good person with a good sense and good health, just eleven minutes.

Student: Do you stop after forty days?

YB: If you stop, the benefit will stop. After forty days, it will start working in higher subtle body, at your arc body, at your other nine bodies, it will start working and you will start feeling, wider and wider and wider and wider, it’s a very good experience. And it will be fun. If you do not think that you can do it otherwise, you need a mantra, the sound current, the Shabad, the word, the word is Har. The sound is Har, there are six words, rest is all hanky-panky and donkey, monkeys, there are only six words in the word. Har, Harey, Hari, Wa He Guru, that’s it, rest is, five Tattvas are Sa Aa, Ta Aa, Na Aa, Ma Aa, Sat Nam, which we say to each other Sat Nam. It means, it is a power to give the energy to the Tattvas”

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36 – Thirty-Six  Ming I / Eclipsing the Light

Warmth and Light are swallowed by Deep Darkness:
The Superior Person shows his brilliance by keeping it veiled among the masses.
Stay true to your course, despite the visible obstacles ahead.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

This time calls for a saintly effort to turn the other cheek.
You have been deliberately injured.
Going blow-for-blow will only escalate this war.
Abstain from vengeance.
Show all watching that you are above it.
Sidestep your aggressor’s headlong charge, giving him the opportunity to fall on his face.

Six at the top means:

Not light but darkness.
First he climbed up to heaven,
Then plunged into the depths of the earth.

Here the climax of the darkening is reached. The dark power at first held so high a place that it could wound all who were on the side of good and of the light. But in the end it perishes of its own darkness, for evil must itself fall at the very moment when it has wholly overcome the good, and thus consumed the energy to which it owed its duration.

22 – Twenty-Two  Pi / Grace

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.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

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.

 

Today: “If there is a purpose other than compassion in all relationships in your life, you will also find pain in that relationship.” – Yogi Bhajan

“If there is a purpose other than compassion in all relationships in your life, you will also find pain in that relationship.” Yogi Bhajan

Meditation: NM0414-20010905 – Correcting the Sensory System

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