Today: “We have at our collective disposal the resources to provide the necessary nourishment and assistance for the well being of those who depend on our wise and proper use of them.  We can choose to lift each other toward prosperity, or guild our own lives at the expense of others.” From the I Ching

We have at our collective disposal the resources to provide the necessary nourishment and assistance for the well being of those who depend on our wise and proper use of them.  We can choose to lift each other toward prosperity, or guild our own lives at the expense of others.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 60 – Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

 Today: “Someone asked me once in a class, “What should one not lose?” I said, “One’s innocence.”” Yogi Bhajan

Previous reading: “Navigate the danger with clarity and presence of mind. Do not follow the crowd to their ruin. Justice will provide each his due.”

Previous previous reading: “We must persevere and prevail in this dark time; set aside doubts and despair. Tribulations will discipline oppressors, usurpers of power, until they change or disappear. Meantime we must give aid to the less fortunate.”

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48 – Forty-Eight.  Ching / The Well

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.

Nine in the fifth place means:

The water in this well comes from a cool, deep, inexhaustible spring.

In the well there is a clear, cold spring
From which one can drink.

Well cold spring


A well that is fed by a spring of living water is a good well. A man who has virtues like a well of this sort is born to be a leader and saviour of men, for he has the water of life. Nevertheless, the character for “good fortune” is left out here. The all-important thing about a well is that its water be drawn. The best water is only a potentiality for refreshment as long as it is not brought up. So too with leaders of mankind: it is all-important that one should drink from the spring of their words and translate them into life.

26 – Twenty-Six.  Ta Ch’u / Recharging Power

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.

Today: “Someone asked me once in a class, “What should one not lose?” I said, “One’s innocence.”” Yogi Bhajan

“Someone asked me once in a class, “What should one not lose?” I said, “One’s innocence. The highest prized quality is one’s own innocence. No matter how clever and diplomatic and shrewd and intellectually creative you are, you are basically nothing because the beauty of the man lies in his innocence.” Yogi Bhajan

Meditation: LA010 – 19780210 – Gobinda – Project to the Infinite

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Tao Te Ching – Verse 60 – Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 60

Governing a large country
is like frying a small fish.
You spoil it with too much poking.
Center your country in the Tao
and evil will have no power.
Not that it isn’t there,
but you’ll be able to step out of its way.

Give evil nothing to oppose
and it will disappear by itself.

(translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1995)
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Ruling a large country is like cooking a small fish
Using the Tao to manage the world
Its demons have no power
Not only do its demons have no power
Its gods do not harm people

Not only do its gods not harm people
The sages also do not harm people
They both do no harm to one another
So virtue merges and returns

(translation by Derek Lin, 2006)
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Zero, once realized,
Has no room for the opposites,
And thus is immortal.

(translation by Jeremy M. Miller, 2013)
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from I Ching Online