Harinam and Healing Heart Center
Healer, Teacher, Yogi
Whoever is planted in the Tao
will not be rooted up.
Whoever embraces the Tao
will not slip away.
Her name will be held in honor
from generation to generation.
Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 54 – Whoever is planted in the Tao will not be rooted up”
When the heart is incomplete, be patient. The suitable companion and helper will appear.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 53 – The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths
Today: “Wherever one bows, there he will be blessed.” Yogi Bhajan
Lecture and Meditation: Patience Pays – LA-19831020
Meditation: NM091 – 19921110 – Self Emboldenment, Engagement, Vision
Meditation: Listening to Angelic Whispers – from the Mind
Meditation: Breath to Conquer Time Space and Destiny
Meditation: Magic Mantra-19760426
The stoic Mountain drains its excess waters to the Lake below:
The Superior Person curbs his anger and sheds his desires.
To be frugal and content is to possess immeasurable wealth within.
Nothing of value could be refused such a person.
Make a portion of each meal a share of your offering.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
This is an occasion for downsizing to fighting trim.
Simplicity and economy are strong defenses against the slings and arrows of Outrageous Fortune.
Whether this is a time of want or a time of plenty, it is an auspicious time to shed a dependency.
When three travel together, two will bond more closely, slighting the third.
If one journeys alone, he will meet a fellow seeker.
When three people journey together,
Their number decreases by one.
When one man journeys alone,
He finds a companion.
When there are three people together, jealousy arises. One of them will have to go. A very close bond is possible only between two people. But when one man is lonely, he is certain to find a companion who complements him.
Heaven’s motherlode waits within the Mountain:
The Superior Person mines deep into history’s wealth of wisdom and deeds, charging his character with timeless strength.
Persevere.
Drawing sustenance from these sources creates good fortune.
Then you may cross to the far shore.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
There are important precedents in this situation.
Others have trodden this Path before you, overcoming the same obstacles facing you now, and making crucial decisions at the same crossroads.
Study their journals, watch for their trail markings.
Gain inspiration and wisdom from the heroes and learn from the mistakes of those who chose a sidepath.
All were Seekers, explorers whose daring mapped a course you can follow.
The words and deeds of the finest can imbue you with the courage necessary to face what lies before you.
The great Way is easy,
yet people prefer the side paths.
Be aware when things are out of balance.
Stay centered within the Tao. Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 53 – The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths”
“Wherever one bows, there he will be blessed.” Yogi Bhajan
Meditation: NM0163 – Feel God Within You, The Kindness in You
In the beginning was the Tao.
All things issue from it;
all things return to it.
To find the origin,
trace back the manifestations.
When you recognize the children
and find the mother,
you will be free of sorrow.
Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 52 – In the beginning was the Tao. All things issue from it; all things return to it.”
Maintain discipline while not straying from your path. Remain self sufficient. Relying on others for sustenance often comes with a steep price.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 51 – Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao
Meditation: LA950 A00214 20000214 Develop Self-Reliance
Meditation: NM091 – 19921110 – Self Emboldenment, Engagement, Vision
Meditation: Listening to Angelic Whispers – from the Mind
Meditation: Breath to Conquer Time Space and Destiny
Meditation: Magic Mantra-19760426
Beneath the immobile Mountain the arousing Thunder stirs:
The Superior Person preserves his freedom under oppressive conditions by watching what comes out of his mouth, as well as what goes in.
Endure and good fortune will come.
Nurture others in need, as if you were feeding yourself.
Take care not to provide sustenance for those who feed off others.
Stay as high as possible on the food chain.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
You are a conduit in this instance, able to provide the sustenance needed by others.
Position yourself to nourish the truly needy and worthy.
Avoid situations where you might be coerced into supporting the parasites and vermin who deprive your true charges.
Your own nourishment is an issue here, too.
Remember Lao Tzu’s three Great Treasures:
Only the person possessed of Compassion, Modesty and Frugality can remain fit enough to stay free of desperation and keep control of the situation.
Climbing steadily toward nourishment,
you stray from the hill path to gather wild fruit.
You wander toward disaster.
Turning to the summit for nourishment,
Deviating from the path
To seek nourishment from the hill.
Continuing to do this brings misfortune.
‘Le café de nuit’ (The Night Café) – Vincent van Gogh, 1888 – Yale University Art Gallery
Normally a person either provides his own means of nourishment or is supported in a proper way by those whose duty and privilege it is to provide for him. If, owing to weakness of spirit, a man cannot support himself, a feeling of uneasiness comes over him; this is because in shirking the proper way of obtaining a living, he accepts support as a favor from those in higher place. This is unworthy, for he is deviating from his true nature. Kept up indefinitely, this course leads to misfortune.
The stoic Mountain drains its excess waters to the Lake below:
The Superior Person curbs his anger and sheds his desires.
To be frugal and content is to possess immeasurable wealth within.
Nothing of value could be refused such a person.
Make a portion of each meal a share of your offering.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
This is an occasion for downsizing to fighting trim.
Simplicity and economy are strong defenses against the slings and arrows of Outrageous Fortune.
Whether this is a time of want or a time of plenty, it is an auspicious time to shed a dependency.
“If you want to refrain from something, refrain when you are young. Youth is the time of life when you can do anything. It is during the time of old age that the bloody wolf declares, “Now I have become a vegetarian,” because after losing his teeth he can’t hunt anything.” Yogi Bhajan
Meditation: LA101 790419-Faith In Our Self And Our Own Discipline
Every being in the universe
is an expression of the Tao.
It springs into existence,
unconscious, perfect, free,
takes on a physical body,
lets circumstances complete it.
That is why every being
spontaneously honors the Tao.
Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 51 – Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao”
As human beings /
With every encounter /
we share our prana
Remember that being human, we share life’s prana with every engagement. Whether profound, uncomfortable or horrible, we make the most of it by elevating with our presence.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 50 – The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings
Today: “Poke, provoke, confront, and elevate. That is how your life must be.” Yogi Bhajan
Meditation: KWTC 19970630 – For Faculty of Self Engagement
Meditation: TCH2012 960727 – Warrior’s Exercise for Opening the Energy into the Shushmana & Balancing the Hemispheres of the Brain
Meditation: NM091 – 19921110 – Self Emboldenment, Engagement, Vision
Meditation: Listening to Angelic Whispers – from the Mind
Meditation: Breath to Conquer Time Space and Destiny
Meditation: Magic Mantra-19760426
Deep Waters Penetrated and drawn to the surface:
The Superior Person refreshes the people with constant encouragement to help one another.
Encampments, settlements, walled cities, whole empires may rise and fall, yet the Well at the center endures, never drying to dust, never overflowing.
It served those before and will serve those after.
Again and again you may draw from the Well, but if the bucket breaks or the rope is too short there will be misfortune.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
There is a Source common to us all.
Jung named it the Collective Unconscious.
Others hail it as God within.
Inside each of us are dreamlike symbols and archetypes, emotions and instincts that we share with every other human being.
When we feel a lonely separateness from others, it is not because this Well within has dried up, but because we have lost the means to reach its waters.
You need to reclaim the tools necessary to penetrate to the depths of your fellows.
Then the bonds you build will be as timeless and inexhaustible as the Well that nourishes them.
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| Wood is below, water above. The wood goes down into the earth to bring up water. The image derives from the pole-and-bucket well of ancient China. The wood represents not the buckets, which in ancient times were made of clay, but rather the wooden poles by which the water is hauled up from the well. The image also refers to the world of plants, which lift water out of the earth by means of their fibres. The well from which water is drawn conveys the further idea of an inexhaustible dispensing of nourishment.
Raga Kumbha meets a young woman at a well, and asks for water.1 |
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THE JUDGEMENT THE WELL. The town may be changed, However, there are two prerequisites for a satisfactory political or social organisation of mankind. We must go down to the very foundations of life. For any merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied is as ineffectual as if no attempt at order had ever been made. Carelessness-by which the jug is broken-is also disastrous. If for instance the military defense of a state is carried to such excess that it provokes wars by which the power of the state is annihilated, this is a breaking of the jug. This hexagram applies also to the individual. However men may differ in disposition and in education, the foundations of human nature are the same in everyone. And every human being can draw in the course of his education from the inexhaustible wellspring of the divine in man’s nature. But here likewise two dangers threaten: a man may fail in his education to penetrate to the real roots of humanity and remain fixed in convention-a partial education of this sort is as bad as none- or he may suddenly collapse and neglect his self-development. THE IMAGE Water over wood: the image of THE WELL.
1. The painting personifies Raga Kumbha, one of the eight sons of Sri Raga. Kumbha refers to a pitcher filled with water, which symbolizes an auspicious omen. A young woman is pulling a pitcher out of the well, while a young thirsty soldier, clad in a yellow choga (garment) and a white apron tied around his head draws her attention. The painting is based on one of the folk songs of Kangra valley that essays the accidental meeting of a husband and a wife. The soldier after his marriage to a young girl goes away on service for several long years. On his return he visits his father in law to fetch his wife. He meets a young woman at a well and asks for water. He also pays compliment to her beauty. At this she rebukes him sternly and rushes home. On her arrival at home, her mother asks her to put on her best clothes and ornaments as her husband had come. She attires in best of her finery, and when goes to meet him finds that he is the same person who met her at the well. Guilty of harsh words she had spoken to him at the well she attempts reconciliation and soon all misunderstandings are dissolved and they live happily afterwards as a loving couple. |
“There is a reason we are here and that reason is to remain graceful and face all ungraceful environments with grace. This is the purpose and it is a privilege.” Yogi Bhajan
The Master gives himself up
to whatever the moment brings.
He knows that he is going to die,
and he has nothing left to hold on to:
no illusions in his mind,
no resistances in his body.
He doesn’t think about his actions;
they flow from the core of his being.
He holds nothing back from life;
therefore he is ready for death,
as a man is ready for sleep
after a good day’s work. Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 50 – The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings”
Protesting with joy /
subtly with conviction /
melting hearts of stone
Protesting joyfully is the best way to proceed in a climate of imbalance and injustice. As long as you don’t forcefully present a distraction from the oppressors’ agenda, they will not bother with you and will remain content to continue to count their money while you subtly melt hearts of stone.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 49 – The Master has no mind of her own. She works with the mind of the people.
Today: “When you are conscious that you are breathing…” – Yogi Bhajan
Share The Magical Story of Mushkil Gusha with friends over a meal today.
Meditation: TCH2012 960727 – Warrior’s Exercise for Opening the Energy into the Shushmana & Balancing the Hemispheres of the Brain
Meditation: NM091 – 19921110 – Self Emboldenment, Engagement, Vision
Meditation: Listening to Angelic Whispers – from the Mind
Meditation: Breath to Conquer Time Space and Destiny
Meditation: Magic Mantra-19760426
Heaven shines down on the Marsh which reflects it back imperfectly:
Though the Superior Man carefully discriminates between high and low, and acts in accord with the flow of the Tao, there are still situations where a risk must be taken.
You tread upon the tail of the tiger.
Not perceiving you as a threat, the startled tiger does not bite.
Success.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
You have reached a perilous point in your journey.
This is a real gamble — not a maneuver, not a calculated risk.
The outcome is uncertain.
If it goes as you hope, you will gain — but if it turns against you it will cause serious injury, at least to your plans.
The best tack is extreme caution and a healthy respect for the danger involved.
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The name of the hexagram means on the one hand the right way of conducting oneself. Heaven, the father, is above, and the lake, the youngest daughter, is below. This shows the difference between high and low, upon which composure, correct social conduct, depends. On the other hand, the word for the name of the hexagram, TREADING,1 means literally treading upon something. The small and cheerful [Tui] treads on the large and strong [Ch’ien]. The direction of movement of the two primary trigrams is upward. The fact that the strong treads on the weak is not mentioned in the Yi Jing, because it is taken for granted. For the weak to take a stand against the strong is not dangerous here, because it happened in good humor [Tui] and without presumption, so that the strong man is not irritated but takes it all in good part. THE JUDGEMENT TREADING. Treading upon the tail of the tiger.
In terms of a human situation, one is handling wild, intractable people. In such a case one’s purpose will be achieved if one behaves with decorum. Pleasant manners succeed even with irritable people. |
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THE IMAGE Heaven above, the lake below:
Heaven and the lake show a difference of elevation that inheres in the natures of the two, hence no envy arises. Among mankind also there are necessarily differences of elevation; it is impossible to bring about universal equality. But it is important that differences in social rank should not be arbitrary and unjust, for if this occurs, envy and class struggle are the inevitable consequences. If, on the other hand, external differences in rank correspond with differences in inner worth, and if inner worth forms the criterion of external rank, people acquiesce and order reigns in society. 1. [Auftreten, the German word used for the name of the hexagram, means both “treading” and “conduct.”] |
“When you are conscious that you are breathing the charge of the Divine energy, the Cosmos, there is nothing more you require.” Yogi Bhajan
The Master has no mind of her own.
She works with the mind of the people.
She is good to people who are good.
She is also good to people who aren’t good.
This is true goodness.
She trusts people who are trustworthy.
She also trusts people who aren’t trustworthy.
This is true trust.
The Master’s mind is like space.
People don’t understand her.
They look to her and wait.
She treats them like her own children. Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 49 – The Master has no mind of her own. She works with the mind of the people.”
Be wary of obstinacy in relating with events and the world. Learn from experience before it is too late.
Today: “If you don’t have self-reliance, what do you have?” Yogi Bhajan
Meditation: LA004 780109 Experience the Experience
Meditation: LA724-920328 Reorganize Your Head, Be Positive, Lose Your Inherited Anger
Meditation: Listening to Angelic Whispers – from the Mind
Meditation: Breath to Conquer Time Space and Destiny
Meditation: Magic Mantra-19760426
Thunder regenerates deep within Earth’s womb:
Sage rulers recognized that the end of Earth’s seasonal cycle was also the starting point of a new year and a time for dormancy.
They closed the passes at the Solstice to enforce a rest from commerce and activity.
The ruler himself did not travel.
You have passed this way before but you are not regressing.
This is progress, for the cycle now repeats itself, and this time you are aware that it truly is a cycle.
The return of old familiars is welcome.
You can be as sure of this cycle as you are that seven days bring the start of a new week.
Use this dormancy phase to plan which direction you will grow.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
You are about to experience a rebirth — about to be given another chance, a new lease on life.
You have persevered, gone the distance through an entire cycle — through the Spring of hope or new passion, through a Summer of growth and building, only to be sacrificed like the archetypal Harvest King at the Autumn reaping.
You lie dormant like seed beneath Winter snows now, healing and absorbing new energies in preparation for the new young Spring coming shortly to your life.
Missing the return. Misfortune.
Misfortune from within and without.
If armies are set marching in this way,
One will in the end suffer a great defeat,
Disastrous for the ruler of the country.
For ten years
It will not be possible to attack again.
Terracotta Army, Xian
If a man misses the right time for return, he meets with misfortune. The misfortune has its inner cause in a wrong attitude toward the world. The misfortune coming upon him from without results from this wrong attitude. What is pictured here is blind obstinacy and the judgement that is visited upon it.
Whirlwinds and Thunder:
When the Superior Person encounters saintly behavior, he adopts it; when he encounters a fault within, he transforms it.
Progress in every endeavor.
You may cross to the far shore.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
Get ready to ride a tide of accelerated growth toward self-actualization.
A joyful awareness of the best within you, coupled with an acceptance of your Shadow, will provide a greater repertoire, a much bolder vision, and new depth and clarity that will compel you to expand your horizons.
“If you don’t have self-reliance, what do you have? You can cross the mountains, the oceans, the tragedies, the difficulties, the responsibilities, with only one thing, self-reliance. Fear not, my dear ones; the antidote for fear is self-reliance.” Yogi Bhajan
