Faithful, diligent /
Contemplate doubt within faith /
acting from your heart
Take guidance from your faithful and diligent practice, not allowing your choices to join whatever wind is currently blowing. Before you act, first contemplate any doubts in the context of your faith in your chosen life’s path.
Arousing Thunder and penetrating Wind.
Close companions in any storm:
The Superior Person possesses a resiliency and durability that lets him remain firmly and faithfully on course.
True resilience requires a flexibility that allows adaptation to any adverse condition, while still remaining true to the core.
He who does not give duration to his character
Meets with disgrace.
Persistent humiliation.
If a man remains at the mercy of moods of hope or fear aroused by the outer world, he loses his inner consistency of character. Such inconsistency invariably leads to distressing experiences. These humiliations often come from an unforeseen quarter. Such experiences are not merely effects produced by the external world, but logical consequences evoked by his own nature.
Thunder comes resounding out of the Earth:
Similar thunder roars up from the masses when the Superior Person strikes a chord in their hearts.
Whip up enthusiasm, rally your forces, and move boldly forward.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 27 – A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving
Today: “When your doubts are gone, then your fears will be gone.” Yogi Bhajan
Today: “When your doubts are gone, then your fears will be gone.” Yogi Bhajan
Previous previous reading: “The bonding of a community or nation lies in the compassion of its citizens and their integrity and devotion to shared principles. Greed, fear, mistrust and other distractions weaken the bonds and ultimately erase the human enterprise from history.”
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32 – Thirty-Two. Hêng / Durability
Arousing Thunder and penetrating Wind.
Close companions in any storm:
The Superior Person possesses a resiliency and durability that lets him remain firmly and faithfully on course.
Such constancy deserves success.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
Endurance is the key to success in this situation.
However, durability is not synonymous with stone-like rigidity.
True resilience requires a flexibility that allows adaptation to any adverse condition, while still remaining true to the core.
Can you maintain your integrity under any circumstance?
Can you influence the situation without giving opposing forces anything to resist?
Then you will endure to reach your goal.
Nine in the third place means:He must remain constant, or the only permanence will reside in disgrace. He who does not give duration to his character
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16 – Sixteen. Yü / Enthusiasm
Thunder comes resounding out of the Earth:
Similar thunder roars up from the masses when the Superior Person strikes a chord in their hearts.
Whip up enthusiasm, rally your forces, and move boldly forward.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
There is a rhythmic force, a world music, that lives deep in the Unconscious of each of us.
It’s a primitive drumbeat, a shaking rattle, a tribal chant that invokes the primal self to rise up and join the dance.
This is the enthusiasm that is generated now.
Not rhetorical persuasion, not a play on the emotions, but a charismatic, irresistible Call of the Wild.
Confucius said that the person who could comprehend this could ‘rule the world as though it were spinning in his hand.’
This is a time for instinct, not intellect — the Thunder from the Beneath.
