Today: Meet the ignorance of others with patience and compassion.” – from the I Ching

Meet the ignorance of others with patience and compassion.  They cannot be persuaded with mere words.  Abandoning them as lost exacerbates the problem.  Engaging them may put your integrity into question.  Meet them where they live with kindness.

Meditation:  Meditation: Melt Negativity – From the Master’s Touch 19970425

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Tao Te Ching – Verse 63 – Act without doing; work without effort

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43 – Forty-Three  Kuai / Breakthrough

A Deluge from Heaven:
The Superior Person rains fortune upon those in need, then moves on with no thought of the good he does.

The issue must be raised before an impartial authority.
Be sincere and earnest, despite the danger.
Do not try to force the outcome, but seek support where needed.
Set a clear goal.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Your iron will must come to the forefront now.
It will take great personal determination to resolve the situation in question.
Your adversary would love to force you into an angry display.
That would legitimize his opposition to you.
Such a berserker rage would drag you down to his level.
You must resolutely take a public stand against what he represents, but refuse to engage him.
Without compromise, you show others the way to higher ground.

Nine in the third place means:

Keep a tight lock on your mouth.
It takes resolve to face the insults silently, but they will prove harmless, and others will gradually warm to your sense of dignity.

To be powerful in the cheekbones
Brings misfortune.
The superior man is firmly resolved.
He walks alone and is caught in the rain.
He is bespattered,
And people murmur against him.
No blame.

Walk in rain

Walk in rain

Here we have a man in an ambiguous situation. While all others are engaged in a resolute fight against all that is inferior, he alone has a certain relationship with an inferior man. If he were to show strength outwardly and turn against this man before the time is ripe, he would only endanger the entire situation, because the inferior man would too quickly have recourse to countermeasures. The task of the superior man becomes extremely difficult here. He must be firmly resolved within himself and, while maintaining association with the inferior man, avoid any participation in his vileness. He will of course be misjudged. It will be thought that he belongs to the party of the inferior man. He will be lonely because no one will understand him. His relations with the inferior man will sully him in the eyes of the multitude, and they will turn against him, grumbling. But he can endure this lack of appreciation and makes no mistake, because he remains true to himself.
47 – Forty-Seven  K’un / Exhaustion

A Dead Sea, its Waters spent eons ago, more deadly than the desert surrounding it:
The Superior Person will stake his life and fortune on what he deeply believes.

Triumph belongs to those who endure.
Trial and tribulation can hone exceptional character to a razor edge that slices deftly through every challenge.
Action prevails where words will fail.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

This is the realm of the Shaman.
You have exhausted every alternative, spent yourself completely, taxed body and mind beyond your former limits.
Survival and salvation lie beyond your reach now.
Only transcendence to a new existence — a higher plane of being — will see you through.
The Old You is just a dry husk.
You can’t return to it.
Metamorphosis is the only grace offered.

Today: “I do not know how I exist, but still I am existing, and this is the wonder of reality.” – Yogi Bhajan

“I do not know how I exist, but still I am existing, and this is the wonder of reality. And this whole realization came to me when I uttered one little sound: Wha, wha, wha.”
Yogi Bhajan

Existence is the reality, “Wha” is the bliss:
Meditation: NM190-19951031-Connect Yourself to the Reality

“Ang Sang Waheguru” is both:
Meditation: KWTC7-19910705 – Self Hypnotic Trance – Self Bliss

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