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.
Free Yogi Bhajan: Today: “A relaxed mind is a creative mind and a creative mind is a relaxed mind” – Yogi Bhajan
From the Tao Te Ching: Tao Te Ching – Verse 32 – The Tao can’t be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies.
The 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
The previous previous reading: “Examine your sentiments about people you perceive as undesirable or enemies. Either framed by what you have been told or some casual misperception, you can fix the relation with contemplation..” 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.
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Meditation: LA101 790419-Faith In Our Self And Our Own Discipline
39 – Thirty-Nine. Chien / Obstacle
Ominous roiling in the Crater Lake atop the Volcano:
When meeting an impasse, the Superior Person turns his gaze within, and views the obstacle from a new perspective.
Offer your opponent nothing to resist.
Let a sage guide you in this.
Good fortune lies along this course.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
The Obstacle lies in obstinance.
An insistence on only one way of proceeding has brought things to an impasse.
You may either continue banging your head with irresistible force against this immovable object, or you might step back and survey this situation from a fresh perspective.
Which is immobile here — the obstruction or your attitude?
Six in the second place means:He stoically faces trial after trial, knowing his loyal labors will benefit another. The King’s servant is beset by obstruction upon obstruction,
‘The parable of The Unmerciful Servant’ (Matthew 18:28) – Harold Copping |
| Ordinarily it is best to go around an obstacle and try to overcome it along the line of least resistance. But there is one instance in which a man must go out to meet the trouble, even though difficulty piles upon difficulty: this is when the path of duty leads directly to it – in other words, when he cannot act of his own volition but is duty bound to go and seek out danger in the service of a higher cause. Then he may do it without compunction, because it is not through any fault of his that he is putting himself in this difficult situation. |
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.