Tao Te Ching – Verse 21 – The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 21

The Master keeps her mind
always at one with the Tao;
that is what gives her her radiance.

The Tao is ungraspable.
How can her mind be at one with it?
Because she doesn’t cling to ideas. Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 21 – The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance.”

Tao Te Ching – Verse 20 – Stop thinking, and end your problems.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 20

Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference between success and failure?
Must you value what others value,
avoid what others avoid?
How ridiculous!
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Tao Te Ching – Verse 19 – Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 19

Throw away holiness and wisdom,
and people will be a hundred times happier.
Throw away morality and justice,
and people will do the right thing.
Throw away industry and profit,
and there won’t be any thieves.

If these three aren’t enough,
just stay at the center of the circle
and let all things take their course. Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 19 – Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier.”

Tao Te Ching – Verse 18 – When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 18

When the great Tao is forgotten,
goodness and piety appear.
When the body’s intelligence declines,
cleverness and knowledge step forth.
When there is no peace in the family,
filial piety begins.
When the country falls into chaos,
patriotism is born.

(translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1995)
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The great Tao fades away
There is benevolence and justice
Intelligence comes forth
There is great deception

The six relations are not harmonious
There is filial piety and kind affection
The country is in confused chaos
There are loyal ministers

(translation by Derek Lin, 2006)
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There is no Code of Ethics,
And there never was.
There is no kindness; no morality.
There is no genius.
Loyal sons and dutiful workers
Are unreal.
Stop.

(translation by Jeremy M. Miller, 2013)
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Meditation: NM038 – “To Have a Happy Body Increase Vitality, Release Pressure in Body, Balance Endocrines”

October 17, 1991

A. 8 minutes.  Right arm parallel to floor, 60° to side, elbow straight and palm up, flat.

Left hand pushes on heart.  Eyes focus on the tips of the mountains of your right hand and the tip of your nose; from nose to hand.  Balance position of both sides of your body.  Breathe long and deep.  Keep your silence.

B.  Switch arms. 3 minutes

C.  Now open both arms. 3 minutes

Put your tongue out and pant.

End  Inhale and exhale. Inhale, put your hands on your knees, fingers forward and push the spine up, up, and exhale.

D. With mouth open, loudly click your tongue, Tha, Tha, Tha… 7 minutes

  1. Inhale and grab your neck, fingers at back. Lock your neck and squeeze it (to count of 21) and push your tongue against your palate and squish it. Don’t move.  Don’t move and squish, squish and exhale.
  2. Inhale, hands on floor in front, push and hold it (to count of 16) … and exhale.

  3. Put hands in back of you and look at the sky, bringing chin up, up. Inhale

back, behaving like a coyote, balance yourself (to count of 15) … and exhale.

E. “Kill the Fly” 3 minutes

Arms wide, hands in line with face, palms open.  Bring palms forcefully toward each other at center but miss, so palms go past each other.  (The effect is that you missed smashing the fly).  Do it with passion, move your body.

End –  Inhale and exhale and relax.

Read the text from Yogi Bhajan's lecture

From Yogi Bhajan’s lecture:

So tonight we are working on pineal, the control center of the Pranic energy and the master of the nervous system. The seventh chakra. Let’s get ready according to the watch. It is just good time to do it and I don’t need you for any further clarification I need your cooperation and I don’t need your cooperation to be honest I need your honesty of indulgence. I am not a very miracle man that I promised you anything but all I know is step by step you will fix ourself into it. We’ll get the result and if you don’t you won’t. That’s what I said in the beginning it’s you, in the middle it’s you and in the end it’s you. It’s not going to be anybody else.

So sit straight and if you are sitting on chairs put your weight on both legs equal and make your spine straight which is abnormal requirement but we should do it and take your this left hand put it on your heart center and take your right hand like this and try to see it is flat and look at where your base of the finger is it’s called mounts of the hand. Concentrate on the mounts of the hand. There are mounts try to see if your elbow is straight if it is crooked it is crooked. I didn’t make it so and you let it go crooked and you let it go crooked. So now you are finding it crooked elbow it’s okay. You are not crooked your elbow is crooked. So even with that crooked elbow you don’t feel shy but try to stretch it if you can. If you can stretch your both elbows you will never get a heart attack.

I am quoting yoga Shastra. Your heart attacks is on the way when your elbow refuses to be straight. It’s a simple yogic test. It’s not medical and it is not valid either. Don’t believe anything what I say. No, no, my insurance is not going to cover it and I am not going to tell you. Everything which I say is a pure, pure lie and I don’t care a heck about it. I am very good and I love to lie and no legal situation no that I told somebody eat beets and I suffered in the court of Santa Fe for three years for suggesting somebody eat beets and sugar went to the head therefore she did whatever she did. So I am not into that game so whatever I say the statement is absolutely not truth or cannot be. Therefore please don’t trust it but somehow somewhere I have read that your, I have been advised by my insurance company to disclaim everything what I say, you know there is always a fight between the haves and have not and unfortunately I am the one who have so have-not’s are many so there is a problem.

So somewhere I have read that if your both elbows can be stretched you may get anything but an heart attack and if the elbows are like that you should consult your medical MD cardiovascular situation. When I had my heart trouble I read through my own notes and I said, “Wow.” First thing before my arteries got clogged up my both sides here start hurting and I was so busy doing things I didn’t care. You are looking at me have you not ever seen me. Look at the mounts of your hand.

You know I will do everything to distract you and it is a lie to. I will try to distract you, you should not distract yourself. That is spirituality that nothing can distract you. You don’t understand the meaning of spirituality. Spirituality is the soul the spirit. The sole purpose of life is that you are you and nobody can distract you. That’s it, period. Rest is just printing the books and making the money. Your right elbow and hand should be straight number one and painful as it is and it is painful. Big macho person and woman cannot handle it after a while and you are going to enter in a minute and a half into that painful era because your capillaries are clogged up and they are going to start hurting. That’s a simple rule.

It’s not that it’s causing because of the super phenomena therefore and you should look straight on the mounts and if you don’t have the mounts even then look. Simply you don’t have them. Somebody left me a note tonight I am supposed to teach, experience the inner vitality in you. They are experiencing honey thanks for the note. You are experiencing your inner vitality. Now stick to it. Now what is happening now?

Nothing is happening outside. You are hurting, you are miserable now I tell you what is happening and your breath is going to change but inside the brain neurons are asking red and white corpuscles to move in the area where the pain is. You are causing pain and you are telling your brain to create enough morphine to space you out and it’s not going to do it because you use that morphine so much through your hassling nature that it’s not enough. So you are Mister and Misses Ms miserable. That’s what it is. But God if you go through this hell you will see the door of the heaven in about two more minutes yeah that’s it. That’s right I mean you are on time what should I say? I have to do what this class is meant to be. Now start pressing your hand against your heart center as much hard you can. Get tighter little bit. Na, na, na pain is a pain let us create it too much of it. See where it goes in other words conquer your posture and conquer your pain.

Concentrate only on one time and one place that’s the mounts of your hand. Don’t look left, don’t look right, don’t look anywhere. Straight look on your mounts it will give you forty degree declined optical nerve vision. Those great yogis are not stupid man they knew all about God and the science of it. You have exact thirty seconds to go between when I said now twenty-five left, twenty second, fifteen, ten, five get ready change your hands now. No don’t, do it right with all the power at your command do it now that is the gain don’t lose it. You will lose the edge absolutely no nonsense. Just stick with it now and straight it over spine serum will start changing, gray matter is moving. Hurry up. Spine should not have any other than your total control and total strength to straighten it. Now straighten your hand doesn’t matter what? Pull it. Stick with it. Steady, steady and steady. We are doing a workshop, we mean business. If the hands have become shaky it doesn’t matter in a while they are going to stop shaking. Isn’t it surprising, it happens. Let the body work its way to you to protect you.

You are only in this pain gaining one thing inducing and asking your defense mechanism to come through. It’s a medical lie don’t you know that your body has the capacity of the automatic self-defense. Stick with you. Now isn’t something funny. Your arc line tells me that about twenty percent of you breathe shallow. Come on now, now is the vital point has come in. You have half a minute more to go. No, no, no twenty-five seconds it’s moving, moving, moving. Moving, moving, moving, moving, man just pray to God that this fifteen second you be real. Ten, five get ready now folks be dare eagle is landing both hands out open your mouth breathe in and out with a force of a cannon fire breathe in and breathe out. Get rid of the disease don’t look at me it is not my trouble I healed myself because of that. Come on you guys breathe out all the junk. We have a minute and a half only to do it. Breathe out, breathe out. Breathe out powerfully your thyroid and parathyroid will accumulate itself. You have exactly fifteen seconds left. Try if you have never tried come on. Ten seconds get ready, inhale deep.

Inhale, inhale, inhale hold synchronize your body, synchronize, tighten everything. Wherever you are keep the posture tighten every muscle relax. That’s how it works. Don’t look at my face it is not very holy it is for the self now talk che, che, che, che. You have about five minutes to talk. You have to talk hey spaced out folks. Come on start talking ta ta, ta ta, hurry up, mouth must, jaw must move. Move your jaw.

(Students talk with each other)

I will not like you not to move your mouth if you have nobody to talk to just move your jaws, that’s all like that. If you don’t want to talk to anybody don’t just move your jaws. Hey she did it. She was pretty good. Isn’t it fun? So you can do everything you want to. Don’t you think so? You have last minute but don’t stop your jaws. Move them, move them, move them. Okay hello all right this is an exercise which according to Kundalini yoga takes care of something which you have never learnt to take care of and that is called your senses and your sexual vitality. Now from the pineal we are coming to pituitary. It’s a very simple exercise but you will not like to do it that I know.

Well you know you do not know how to create semen you only know how to ejaculate it so you are half trained. I mean that’s the fact of life and I have not seen in school and college book here in United State all pornographic record and playboy channel that they tell you how to create semen they all tell you how to ejaculate it and you all know that if the tub is leaking downstairs it’s not going to overflow from the top and the gray matter doesn’t get the spine serum good enough of the quality you are going to go berserk. Simple rule is not something it’s a simple physics not even any chemistry about it. I mean that’s how poorly we are educated in our life.

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Tao Te Ching – Verse 17 – When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists. Next best is a leader who is loved. Next, one who is feared. The worst is one who is despised.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 17

When the Master governs, the people
are hardly aware that he exists.
Next best is a leader who is loved.
Next, one who is feared.
The worst is one who is despised.

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Tao Te Ching – Verse 16 – Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 16

Empty your mind of all thoughts.
Let your heart be at peace.
Watch the turmoil of beings,
but contemplate their return.

Each separate being in the universe
returns to the common source.
Returning to the source is serenity.
Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 16 – Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.”

Tao Te Ching – Verse 15 – The ancient Masters were profound and subtle

Tao Te Ching – Verse 15

The ancient Masters were profound and subtle.
Their wisdom was unfathomable.
There is no way to describe it;
all we can describe is their appearance.
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Today: “A man has to understand his existence in relationship to the universe” – Yogi Bhajan

SSSYWa“A man has to understand his existence in relationship to the universe. Whosoever knows this knows the truth. The whole world around you will be beautiful if you understand that you are you.” Yogi Bhajan

 

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

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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Tao Te Ching – Verse 13 – Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 13

Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.

What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it,
your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground,
you will always keep your balance. Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 13 – Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.”

Tao Te Ching – Verse 12 – He allows things to come and go. His heart is open as the sky.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 12

Colors blind the eye.
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart.

The Master observes the world
but trusts his inner vision.
He allows things to come and go.
His heart is open as the sky.

(translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1995)
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The five colors make one blind in the eyes
The five sounds make one deaf in the ears
The five flavors make one tasteless in the mouth

Racing and hunting make one wild in the heart
Goods that are difficult to acquire make one cause damage

Therefore the sages care for the stomach and not the eyes
That is why they discard the other and take this

(translation by Derek Lin, 2006)
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Colors blur sight.
Sounds blur hearing.
Tastes blur the Nectar.
Chasing drives Bliss away.
Lust blurs calm.
In the Nothingness of Zero is Unimaginable Peace.

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Tao Te Ching – Verse 11 – We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 11

We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.

(translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1995)
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Thirty spokes join in one hub
In its emptiness, there is the function of a vehicle
Mix clay to create a container
In its emptiness, there is the function of a container
Cut open doors and windows to create a room
In its emptiness, there is the function of a room

Therefore, that which exists is used to create benefit
That which is empty is used to create functionality

(translation by Derek Lin, 2006)
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It is the gaps that define.
That definition is perfect.
Ornate vessels hold water —
So it is Nothingness which has been defined, not the vessel.
The unwise have been tricked.

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Tao Te Ching – Verse 10 – Can you coax your mind from its wandering and keep to the original oneness?

Tao Te Ching – Verse 10

Can you coax your mind from its wandering
and keep to the original oneness?
Can you let your body become
supple as a newborn child’s?
Can you cleanse your inner vision
until you see nothing but the light?
Can you love people and lead them
without imposing your will?
Can you deal with the most vital matters
by letting events take their course?
Can you step back from you own mind
and thus understand all things?

Giving birth and nourishing,
having without possessing,
acting with no expectations,
leading and not trying to control:
this is the supreme virtue.

(translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1995)
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In holding the soul and embracing oneness
Can one be steadfast, without straying?
In concentrating the energy and reaching relaxation
Can one be like an infant?
In cleaning away the worldly view
Can one be without imperfections?
In loving the people and ruling the nation
Can one be without manipulation?
In the heavenly gate’s opening and closing
Can one hold to the feminine principle?
In understanding clearly all directions
Can one be without intellectuality?

Bearing it, rearing it
Bearing without possession
Achieving without arrogance
Raising without domination
This is called the Mystic Virtue

(translation by Derek Lin, 2006)
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Be empty and know effulgent Zero.
Breathe softly and know Blissful Nothingness.
Stop looking, then see what was hidden.
Love in secret.
Watch without touching.
Rule All while resting in Zero.

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Tao Te Ching – Verse 9 – Better to stop in time than to fill to the brim

Tao Te Ching – Verse 9

Better to stop in time than to fill to the brim.
Hone a blade to the sharpest point, and it will soon be blunt.
Fill your house with gold and jade, and no one can protect it.
Be prideful about wealth and position, and you bring disasters upon yourself. Retire when the work is done.
This is the way of heaven.

from the Tao Te Ching

Translation by Tolbert McCarroll Comments and layout by Thomas Knierim

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Tao Te Ching – Verse 8 – The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 8

The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to.
It is content with the low places that people disdain.
Thus it is like the Tao.

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