Today: Accept the impasse that has been reached.  Wait for a favorable time to move. – from the I Ching

Accept the impasse that has been reached.  Wait for a favorable time to move.

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Tao Te Ching – Verse 36 – If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand

39 – Thirty-Nine  Chien / Obstacle

Ominous roiling in the Crater Lake atop the Volcano:
When meeting an impasse, the Superior Person turns his gaze within, and views the obstacle from a new perspective.

Offer your opponent nothing to resist.
Let a sage guide you in this.
Good fortune lies along this course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

The Obstacle lies in obstinance.
An insistence on only one way of proceeding has brought things to an impasse.
You may either continue banging your head with irresistible force against this immovable object, or you might step back and survey this situation from a fresh perspective.
Which is immobile here — the obstruction or your attitude?

Six at the beginning [yin at bottom] means:

Advance will meet with opposition; Remaining in place will meet with praise.

Going leads to obstructions,
Coming meets with praise.

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When one encounters an obstruction, the important thing is to reflect on how best to deal with it. When threatened with danger, one should not strive blindly to go ahead, for this only leads to complications. The correct thing is, on the contrary, to retreat for the time being, not in order to give up the struggle but to await the right moment for action.
63 – Sixty-Three  Chi Chi / Aftermath

Boiling Water over open Flame, one might extinguish The other:
The Superior Person takes a 360 degree view of the situation and prepares for any contingency.

Success in small matters if you stay on course.
Early good fortune can end in disorder.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Victory at the expense of another is a merciless taskmaster.
The precarious balance here is reflected in the lines of the hexagram: each of the yin lines rests upon a strong yang line — a seemingly perfect arrangement.
But the scales will be tipped with the change of any one line.
And there WILL be change.
Tireless vigilance and an answer to every challenge — that is the uneasy Seat of Power occupied by the conqueror.

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Today: “Have faith in your own self because you are a self” – Yogi Bhajan

“Have faith in your own self because you are a self. Nothing is beyond self, nothing was beyond the self, nothing shall be beyond the self, because you are a self in the beginning and a self in the end; therefore, once you realize the self you will be a realized self, then everything will realize you.” Yogi Bhajan

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