Today: “The shackles of corrupt governance are breaking.  The fools who are in charge are not just not up to the task of leadership, they are throwing it away on frivolous and disastrous pursuits which have destroyed their credibility and the sources of their power.  Soon, a turning point will require the rebuilding and restoration of what has been lost.” from the I Ching

The shackles of corrupt governance are breaking.  The fools who are in charge are not just not up to the task of leadership, they are throwing it away on frivolous and disastrous pursuits which have destroyed their credibility and the sources of their power.  Soon, a turning point will require the rebuilding and restoration of what has been lost.

The past several years of our history are no accident.  The era is comprised of the consequences of our allowing a culture of profound corruption to mature and organize sufficiently in order to overthrow the most powerful democratic governing body in the history of the world and seize is levers of power for the purpose of dismantling its structure to its foundations.

That seems to have been accomplished.  Fortunately, the manifestation of a planned sequel to this story seems to be in question.

The leadership of this gang of marauders are only versed in egotistic and narcissistic thought, based on the acquisition and maintenance of raw power, with little attention given either to inspiring any help or support for maintaining

 

See   Tao Te Ching – Verse 14 – Look, and it can’t be seen. Listen, and it can’t be heard. Reach, and it can’t be grasped.

See Today: “If a man knows his value, the whole world will value him. If a man knows his value, he speaks the truth and his words become the truth.” Yogi Bhajan

See the previous reading:  Today: “The greatest power you possess is to recognize your neighbor and see how you can help your mutual situation.” from the I Ching

See the previous  previous reading: Today: “Great blessings are flowing your way, arising from your commitment, devotion and generosity.” from the I Ching

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See Richard Wilhelm's translation for this reading
50 – Fifty.  Ting / The Caldron

Fire rises hot and bright from the Wood beneath the sacrificial caldron:
The Superior Person positions himself correctly within the flow of Cosmic forces.

Supreme Accomplishment.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Your needs are coming into harmony with the requirements of the Cosmos.
Blending brilliantly with the Dance of Life, you are becoming an actual element of Cosmic Law.
Your goals will now be realized because you no longer cut against the Cosmic grain; you are no longer swimming against the flow of the Tao.
You are acquiring an intuitive sense of what can and cannot be, and aligning your efforts accordingly.

Nine in the fourth place means:
The legs of the ting are broken.
The prince’s meal is spilled
And his person is soiled.
Misfortune.

 

The Prince of Hell - Hieronymus Bosch

‘The Prince of Hell with a Cauldron on his Head’
from The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1480) – Hieronymus Bosch

A man has a difficult and responsible task to which he is not adequate. Moreover, he does not devote himself to it with all his strength but goes about with inferior people; therefore the execution of the work fails. In this way he also incurs personal opprobrium.
Kongfu (Confucius) says about this line:

“Weak character coupled with honored place, meagre knowledge with large plans, limited powers with heavy responsibility, will seldom escape disaster.”

The Prince of Hell

18 – Eighteen.  Ku / Repairing the Damage

Winds sweep through the Mountain valley:
The Superior Person sweeps away corruption and stagnation by stirring up the people and strengthening their spirit.

Supreme success.
Before crossing to the far shore, consider the move for three days.
After crossing, devote three days of hard labor to damage control.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are blessed with an opportunity to resuscitate that which others have abandoned as beyond repair.
This ruin wasn’t caused by evil intention, but by indifference to decay.
Just by addressing yourself to the problem, you exhibit a new awareness, a fresh perspective.
This is a time of recovery, renewal, regeneration.

 

Today: “If a man knows his value, the whole world will value him. If a man knows his value, he speaks the truth and his words become the truth.” Yogi Bhajan

“If a man knows his value, the whole world will value him. If a man knows his value, he speaks the truth and his words become the truth. A teacher is one who knows you and reminds you of your value.” Yogi Bhajan

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Tao Te Ching – Verse 14 – Look, and it can’t be seen. Listen, and it can’t be heard. Reach, and it can’t be grasped.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 14

Look, and it can’t be seen.
Listen, and it can’t be heard.
Reach, and it can’t be grasped.

Above, it isn’t bright.
Below, it isn’t dark.
Seamless, unnamable,
it returns to the realm of nothing.
Form that includes all forms,
image without an image,
subtle, beyond all conception.

Approach it and there is no beginning;
follow it and there is no end.
You can’t know it, but you can be it,
at ease in your own life.
Just realize where you come from:
this is the essence of wisdom.

(translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1995)
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Look at it, it cannot be seen
It is called colorless
Listen to it, it cannot be heard
It is called noiseless
Reach for it, it cannot be held
It is called formless
These three cannot be completely unraveled
So they are combined into one

Above it, not bright
Below it, not dark
Continuing endlessly, cannot be named
It returns back into nothingness
Thus it is called the form of the formless
The image of the imageless
This is called enigmatic
Confront it, its front cannot be seen
Follow it, its back cannot be seen

Wield the Tao of the ancients
To manage the existence of today
One can know the ancient beginning
It is called the Tao Axiom

(translation by Derek Lin, 2006)
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Sight and blindness are indistinguishable.
Thunder and silence are one.
Touch and ether are the same.
There is always light and dark.
Shape is illusion; form is Formless.
The future is the past.
The Beginning is the present.
Nothingness is the Zero called changeless.

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