Free Yogi Bhajan: Today: “If you can listen and hear the power of your own spoken word” – Yogi Bhajan
From the Tao Te Ching: Tao Te Ching – Verse 34 – The great Tao flows everywhere
The previous reading: “Keep up your cause in the service of others. It is much larger than yourself. Use whatever source within you that inspires you to keep going. ” from the I Ching
The previous previous reading: “Realize that Bad times do not last. Rather than fret about your situation, be grateful for the good things in your life. Be supportive. Encourage your fellow travelers.” from the I Ching
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The following kriyas were selected to help facilitate your relationing with the readings shown here. If you choose to practice one, try 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: TCH20 02 960722 – Increase the Power of the Infinite Within
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Meditation: NM142 19940615 – Bless the Planet Earth and Let the Heavens Descend in You
Meditation: LA101 790419-Faith In Our Self And Our Own Discipline
3 - Three. Chun / Difficulty at the Beginning
Thunder from the Deep:
The Superior Person carefully weaves order out of confusion.
Supreme Success if you keep to your course.
Carefully consider the first move.
Seek help.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
New ventures always pack along their inherent chaos.
Though this is an annoyance at best, and can even imperil or downright doom an endeavor, it is also the friction needed to polish your project to jewel brilliance.
Learn from these early obstacles.
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THE NAME of the hexagram, Chun, really connotes a blade of grass pushing against an obstacle as it sprouts out of the earth - hence the meaning, "difficulty at the beginning." The hexagram indicates the way in which heaven and earth bring forth individual beings. It is their first meeting, which is beset with difficulties. The lower trigram Chên is the Arousing (51); its motion is upward and its image is thunder. The upper trigram K'an stands for the Abysmal (29), the dangerous. Its motion is downward and its image is rain. The situation points to teeming, chaotic profusion; thunder and rain fill the air. But the chaos clears up. While the Abysmal sinks, the upward movement eventually passes beyond the danger. A thunderstorm brings release from tension, and all things breathe freely again. THE JUDGEMENT Difficulty at the beginning works supreme success, TIMES OF GROWTH are beset with difficulties. They resemble a first birth. But these difficulties arise from the very profusion of all that is struggling to attain form. Everything is in motion: therefore if one perseveres there is a prospect of great success, in spite of the existing danger. When it is a man's fate to undertake such new beginnings, everything is still unformed, dark. Hence he must hold back, because any premature move might bring disaster. Likewise, it is very important not to remain alone; in order to overcome the chaos he needs helpers. This is not to say, however, that he himself should look on passively at what is happening. He must lend his hand and participate with inspiration and guidance. |
