Today: “Follow what is true.  You will find that it becomes irresistible.  Once you awaken to truth you cannot unknow it.” from the I Ching

Follow what is true.  You will find that it becomes irresistible.  Once you awaken to truth you cannot unknow it.

See:   Today: “I see you all in only one way. I see divine everywhere. ” – Yogi Bhajan

and then this: 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 the previous reading: Today: “Punishment and other forms of aggression are only justified to rectify a transgression and resotre order.  It is an atrocity when used to  control behavior.” from the I Ching

See the previous previous reading:  Today: “Apply yourself to your chosen path, or engage idle distractions.  It’s your choice.  You know what the wisdom of the ages tells you.” from the I Ching

See Related posts

Give this a try:  Try any kriya that you see here.  The first one below reflects my recommendation for a practice that will facilitate the advice given by the I Ching today.

The following entries were selected as recommendations from past readings.  If you choose to practice one,  do it for 30 days.  That is the expected time it takes to modify any particular habits or tendencies that the kriya addresses.

If you practice one for 90 days, it will penetrate your subconscious and help you form new habits.

If you practice it for 120 days it will penetrate your unconscious.

If you practice it for 1000 days, you will master it.  It will become a part of your psyche.

For today:

Meditation: NM327-990930 Know Your Heart

From recent readings:

Meditation: NM0163 – Feel God Within You, The Kindness in You

Meditation: LA046 – 780614 – Hari Shabad Meditation – Use the Wind to Produce Trance and Dissolve Negativity

 

Meditation: LA101 790419-Faith In Our Self And Our Own Discipline

Meditation: LA544 – 870610 – Know and Experience the Unknown

 

Meditation: NM374 – 20001128 – Patience and Intuition

Meditation: Breath to Conquer Time Space and Destiny

Meditation: LA088 790222 Egyptian Meditation

Meditation: Meditations for the Radiant Body

Meditation: LA907 – Kriya for Non-Reaction

Meditation: Listening to Angelic Whispers – from the Mind

 

Meditation: LA046 – 780614 – Hari Shabad Meditation – Use the Wind to Produce Trance and Dissolve Negativity

 

Meditation: NM0413 – Intuition and the Strength of Excellence

 

Meditation: LA101 790419-Faith In Our Self And Our Own Discipline

Meditation: LA860-960131-Increase the Flow of Earth Within You

Meditation: LA721-920325: for the Intuitive Intellect

All of the following contribute to the flow of what’s happening in recent readings:

Still relevant:

 

 

 

See Richard Wilhelm's translation for this reading
17 – Seventeen.  Sui / Following

Thunder beneath the Lake’s surface.
The Superior Person allows himself plenty of sheltered rest and recuperation while awaiting a clear sign to follow.

Supreme success.
No mistakes if you keep to your course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Thunder from the Lake — the lulling, rhythmic roar of the faithful tide, eternally wearing away the stone of the shoreline, forever obedient to the phases of the moon.
The pull of the moon on the tide is the Following called for now.
As mighty as the tide is in its own right, it is ever the puppet of the invisible, irresistible gravity of the moon.
What cyclical forces pull you along?
Are you futilely attempting to resist a natural attraction?

yin
yang above: Tui / The Joyous, Lake
yang
yin
yin below: Chên / The Arousing, Thunder
yang
The trigram Tui, the Joyous, whose attribute is gladness, is above; Chên, the Arousing, which has the attribute of movement, is below. Joy in movement induces following. The Joyous is the youngest daughter, while the Arousing is the eldest son. An older man defers to a young girl and shows her consideration. By this he moves her to follow him.

THE JUDGEMENT

FOLLOWING has supreme success.
Perseverance furthers. No blame.

In order to obtain a following one must first know how to adapt oneself. If a man would rule he must first learn to serve, for only in this way does he secure from those below him the joyous assent that is necessary if they are to follow him. If he has to obtain a following by force or cunning, by conspiracy or by creating factions, he invariably arouses resistance, which obstructs willing adherence. But even joyous movement can lead to evil consequences, hence the added stipulation, “Perseverance furthers” – that is, consistency in doing right – together with “No blame.” Just as we should not ask others to follow us unless this condition is fulfilled, so it is only under this condition that we can in turn follow others without coming to harm.
The thought of obtaining a following through adaptation to the demands of the time is a great and significant idea; this is why the appended judgement is so favorable.

Thunder in the lake

THE IMAGE

Thunder in the middle of the lake:
The image of FOLLOWING.
Thus the superior man at nightfall
Goes indoors for rest and recuperation.

In the autumn electricity withdraws into the earth again and rests. Here it is the thunder in the middle of the lake that serves as the image – thunder in its winter rest, not thunder in motion. The idea of following in the sense of adaptation to the demands of the time grows out of this image. Thunder in the middle of the lake indicates times of darkness and rest. Similarly, a superior man, after being tirelessly active all day, allows himself rest and recuperation at night. No situation can become favorable till one is able to adapt to it and does not wear himself out with mistaken resistance.

 

 

 

 

Today: “I see you all in only one way. I see divine everywhere. ” – Yogi Bhajan

“I see you all in only one way. I see divine everywhere. Now I have seen it, I cannot see anything else. If I am blind to the man-made rules and regulations, that is not my fault. I have lived under those rules and it was the grace and the glory of the Master who gave me sight; now I have that sight and I don’t want to lose it at any cost; I am more willing to lose this body, this vehicle, and leave it here, then to lose that sight which has taken me beyond time, beyond karmas.’” Yogi Bhajan

Meditation: See Without the Eyes

See related posts

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)
-+-+-+-

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)
-+-+-+-

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)
-+-+-+-

from I Ching Online