Treasures lie within /
revealing themselves when shared /
revealing yourself
Once you discover the treasures that lie within you, you will instantly and completely abandon pleasure seeking and mindless hoarding and consumption.
Begin by sharing what you value most. The delight you witness in the other is infectious, producing an instant emotional resonance within yourself, perhaps small and easily overlooked. If you doubt, you can test this effect by repeating similar gestures of giving. Once you realize the source of the gratification within yourself, changes in your own character will begin to happen.
You will see that your treasures lie within yourself. Your appreciation of them comes not from grasping and possessing, rather from the gratification generated by the resonance produced in the act of sharing.
You alone have a choice. You can become increasingly greedy, empty, unfulfilled, resentful, contemptuous, hateful, miserable and profoundly unhappy (like Ebenezer Scrooge). Or, you can be liberated from all those things once you choose to recognize and begin to share your wealth (like Scrooge’s materially poor yet grateful and generous family, or like the liberated Ebenezer Scrooge himself).
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Tao Te Ching – Verse 44 – Fame or integrity: which is more important?
Today: “If you can sacrifice your limited ego, you will always get in return an unlimited spirit” Yogi Bhajan
Previous previous previous reading: “The mind can be controlled by two methods. The mind follows breath and breath is the tender charge of God.”
Meditation: NM0406 – Know the Best of You – Share the Best with Others
Some thoughts on my friend’s message before vision quest
Meditation: NM091 – 19921110 – Self Emboldenment, Engagement, Vision
Meditation: Breath to Conquer Time Space and Destiny
Meditation: Magic Mantra-19760426
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58 – Fifty-Eight. Tui / Empowering
The joyous Lake spans on and on to the horizon:
The Superior Person renews and expands his Spirit through heart-to-heart exchanges with others.
Success if you stay on course.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
This is the sign of true companionship.
The principals in this situation exchange energy, ideas and feelings, constantly invigorating and encouraging each other to new heights of Spiritual achievement and Self-discovery.
This exchange is not for the glory of the Team, but for furthering the process of each individual’s ‘Te’, or pure potentiality.
Six in the third place means:
Arguing and negotiating to win love and joy.
Self-defeat.
Misfortune.
Coming joyousness. Misfortune.
‘The Romans of the Decadence’ – Thomas Couture, 1847
True joy must spring from within. But if one is empty within and wholly given over to the world, idle pleasures come streaming in from without. This is what many people welcome as diversion. Those who lack inner stability and therefore need amusement, will always find opportunity of indulgence. They attract external pleasures by the emptiness of their natures. Thus they lose themselves more and more, which of course has bad results.
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.
