“The fundamental truth is to realize, to feel, and to experience life within you. We normally feel and experience life within us in relationship to environments; so we feel environments, not life. One who experiences life experiences the source of life. One who experiences the source of life knows infinity, and that person knows the past, present, and future.” Yogi Bhajan
Tao Te Ching – Verse 67 – Some say that my teaching is nonsense.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 67
Some say that my teaching is nonsense.
Others call it lofty but impractical.
But to those who have looked inside themselves,
this nonsense makes perfect sense.
And to those who put it into practice,
this loftiness has roots that go deep.
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures. Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 67 – Some say that my teaching is nonsense.”
“Ask for help if you need it. A little assistance can give you a new perspective and save you from misery and disaster.” from the I Ching
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Ask for help if you need it. A little assistance can give you a new perspective and save you from misery and disaster.
From the Tao Te Ching: Tao Te Ching – Verse 66 – If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them.
The previous reading: “Practicing not knowing in order to gain a broader perspective that includes new and original views offers a creative approach to solving problems and building new structure.” from the I Ching
The previous previous reading: “Loosen your grip on clinging to your fantasies and preferences. Realize that you cannot control anything. You may only suggest and then see what happens.” from the I Ching
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The following kriyas were selected to help facilitate your relating 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: NM0406 – Know the Best of You – Share the Best with Others
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The following kriya stimulates and enhances your subtle and radiant bodies.
Meditation: NM0410 – 20010615 – The Northern Lights – Ek Ong Kar
Still relevant:
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.
Six at the top means:
The horses break free.
If the need for aid goes unrecognized, tears and blood will flow.
Horse and wagon part.
Bloody tears flow.
The difficulties at the beginning are too great for some persons. They get stuck and never find their way out; they fold their hands and give up the struggle. Such resignation is the saddest of all things. Therefore Kongfu (Kongzi, Confucius) says of this line:
“Bloody tears flow: one should not persist in this.”
61 – Sixty-One. Chung Fu / Inner Truth
The gentle Wind ripples the Lake’s surface:
The Superior Person finds common ground between points of contention, wearing away rigid perspectives that would lead to fatal error.
Pigs and fishes.
You may cross to the far shore.
Great fortune if you stay on course.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
The subject of this hexagram discovers a key to Tranquility by first gaining insight into his own nature, then turning that vision outward.
By resolving inner conflicts and being at peace with himself, he learns to gain insight into others.
In effect, he enters another, sees with the other’s eyes, listens with the other’s ears, feels with the other’s heart.
He then returns to his own center, with new perspective and understanding.
Today: “You are always known by your projected personality” – Yogi Bhajan
“You are always known by your projected personality. Everyone wants his real personality to be hidden. But your aura always represents your real personality.” Yogi Bhajan
Meditation: Drib Dhristi Lochina Karma
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Tao Te Ching – Verse 66 – If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 66
All streams flow to the sea
because it is lower than they are.
Humility gives it its power.
If you want to govern the people,
you must place yourself below them.
If you want to lead the people,
you must learn how to follow them.
“Practicing not knowing in order to gain a broader perspective that includes new and original views offers a creative approach to solving problems and building new structure.” from the I Ching
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Practicing not knowing in order to gain a broader perspective that includes new and original views offers a creative approach to solving problems and building new structure.
From Yogi Bhajan: Today: “It is no good to be too sweet, And it is no good to be too bitter. ” – Yogi Bhajan
From the Tao Te Ching: Tao Te Ching – Verse 65 – The ancient Masters didn’t try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know.
The previous reading: “Loosen your grip on clinging to your fantasies and preferences. Realize that you cannot control anything. You may only suggest and then see what happens.” from the I Ching
The previous previous reading: “Follow your path with devotion and perseverance. You will keep what you have earned and increase your wealth” from the I Ching
See Related posts
The following kriyas were selected to help facilitate your relating 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:
Recent:
Meditation: NM0420-20011015 – The Power of Memories – Remember the Saint Within
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The following kriya stimulates and enhances your subtle and radiant bodies.
Meditation: NM0410 – 20010615 – The Northern Lights – Ek Ong Kar
Still relevant:
20 – Twenty. Kuan / Contemplation
The gentle Wind roams the Earth:
The Superior Person expands his sphere of influence as he expands his awareness.
Deeply devoted to his pursuit of clarity and wisdom, he is unconscious of the inspiring, positive example he is setting for others to emulate.
You have cleansed yourself; now stand ready to make your humble, devout offering.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
The situation marks a rising to new heights.
As you climb for a better view of the panorama, you make yourself more conspicuous to those below.
This hexagram is also known as the Watchtower, because the shape formed by its lines resembles the ancient guardposts manned by Chinese soldiers.
These towers were placed on mountainsides to give a better vantage point.
To those below, the watchtowers served as landmarks to help them find their way.
The quality of your search for clarity in this situation serves as such a guidepost for others along the Way.
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Today: “It is no good to be too sweet, And it is no good to be too bitter. ” – Yogi Bhajan
“It is no good to be too sweet, And it is no good to be too bitter. No good to talk big, No good to talk little. Life is mutual. Keep it that way. Balance in life in the long run pays.” Yogi Bhajan
Meditation: LA741 – 921125 – Dance of Shiva
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Tao Te Ching – Verse 65 – The ancient Masters didn’t try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 65
The ancient Masters
didn’t try to educate the people,
but kindly taught them to not-know.
When they think that they know the answers,
people are difficult to guide.
When they know that they don’t know,
people can find their own way.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 64 – Prevent trouble before it arises. Put things in order before they exist.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 64
What is rooted is easy to nourish.
What is recent is easy to correct.
What is brittle is easy to break.
What is small is easy to scatter.
Prevent trouble before it arises.
Put things in order before they exist.
The giant pine tree
grows from a tiny sprout.
The journey of a thousand miles
starts from beneath your feet.
“Loosen your grip on clinging to your fantasies and preferences. Realize that you cannot control anything. You may only suggest and then see what happens.” from the I Ching
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Loosen your grip on clinging to your fantasies and preferences. Realize that you cannot control anything. You may only suggest and then see what happens.
From Yogi Bhajan: Tao Te Ching – Verse 63 – Act without doing; work without effort
From the Tao Te Ching: Tao Te Ching – Verse 63 – Act without doing; work without effort
The previous reading: “Follow your path with devotion and perseverance. You will keep what you have earned and increase your wealth” from the I Ching
The previous previous reading: “Once you discover the truth within you, nothing can stop you from achieving your destiny.” from the I Ching
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The following kriyas were selected to help facilitate your relating 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:
Recent:
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The following kriya stimulates and enhances your subtle and radiant bodies.
Meditation: NM0410 – 20010615 – The Northern Lights – Ek Ong Kar
Still relevant:
59 – Fifty-Nine. Huan / Dissolution
Wind carries the Mists aloft:
Sage rulers dedicated their lives to serving a Higher Power and built temples that still endure.
The King approaches his temple.
Success if you stay on course.
You may cross to the far shore.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
Walls meant to protect have instead separated and isolated.
Your defenses have kept you apart from those whom you most need to touch.
Whatever the reason for discord between you, it is time to lay down your arms.
Dispel the inflexible demands and fears of the Mind so that you may reunite in the Heart.
If you have begrudged, forgive.
If you have torn down, repair.
If you have injured, heal.
If you have judged, pardon.
If you have grasped, let go.
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Wind blowing over water disperses it, dissolving it into foam and mist. This suggests that when a man’s vital energy is dammed up within him (indicated as a danger by the attribute of the lower trigram), gentleness serves to break up and dissolve the blockage.
THE JUDGEMENT DISPERSION. Success. The text of this hexagram resembles that of Ts’ui, GATHERING TOGETHER (45). In the latter, the subject is the bringing together of elements that have been separated, as water collects in lakes upon the earth. Here the subject is the dispersing and dissolving of divisive egotism. DISPERSION shows the way, so to speak, that leads to gathering together. This explains the similarity of the two texts. |
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‘Dispersion’ – Ryan Bliss, 2007 |
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THE IMAGE The wind drives over the water: In the autumn and winter, water begins to freeze into ice. When the warm breezes of spring come, the rigidity is dissolved, and the elements that have been dispersed in ice floes are reunited. It is the same with the minds of the people. Through hardness and selfishness the heart grows rigid, and this rigidity leads to separation from all others. Egotism and cupidity isolate men. Therefore the hearts of men must be seized by a devout emotion. They must be shaken by a religious awe in face of eternity – stirred with an intuition of the One Creator of all living beings, and united through the strong feeling of fellowship experienced in the ritual of divine worship. |
Today: “This planet Earth is a visiting ground. We are here temporarily on a visa. When the visa is up you have got to go.” Yogi Bhajan ” Yogi Bhajan
“This planet Earth is a visiting ground. We are here temporarily on a visa. When the visa is up you have got to go. The law is: As light you came and as light you can go. That is the condition of the visa. But the load you carry here will become your own fetters and keep you earthbound. But the mind which is a part of the Universal Mind with its thought pattern totally trained and unattached to those things which are material and earthly—that mind lives in the attitude of gratitude and will let the soul go.” Yogi Bhajan
Tao Te Ching – Verse 63 – Act without doing; work without effort
Tao Te Ching – Verse 63
Act without doing;
work without effort.
Think of the small as large
and the few as many.
Confront the difficult
while it is still easy;
accomplish the great task
by a series of small acts.
Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 63 – Act without doing; work without effort”
“Follow your path with devotion and perseverance. You will keep what you have earned and increase your wealth” from the I Ching
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Follow your path with devotion and perseverance. You will keep what you have earned and increase your wealth.
From Yogi Bhajan: Today: “The Eighth Chakra is located in the aura” – Yogi Bhajan
From the Tao Te Ching: Tao Te Ching – Verse 62 – The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man’s treasure, the bad man’s refuge.
The previous reading: “Once you discover the truth within you, nothing can stop you from achieving your destiny.” from the I Ching
The previous previous reading: “If you apply your knowledge, commitment, patience and perseverance to every task, then you know your own strength and how to use it.” from the I Ching
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The following kriyas were selected to help facilitate your relating 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: NM0420-20011015 – The Power of Memories – Remember the Saint Within
Recent:
Meditation: NM0163 – Feel God Within You, The Kindness in You
The following kriya stimulates and enhances your subtle and radiant bodies.
Meditation: NM0410 – 20010615 – The Northern Lights – Ek Ong Kar
Still relevant:
25 – Twenty-Five. Wu Wang / Remaining Blameless
Thunder rolls beneath Heaven, as is its nature and place:
Sage rulers aligned themselves with the changing seasons, nurturing and guiding their subjects to do the same.
Exceptional Progress if you are mindful to keep out of the way of the natural Flow.
It would be a fatal error to try to alter its course.
This is a time of Being, not Doing.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
This is thoroughly a matter of the heart.
If everything you attempt, no matter how carefully planned, ends in disarray, then examine your motives.
They are the cause of your predicament.
It isn’t that your motives aren’t pure — even the best intentions will fail under these circumstances.
What stymies you in this situation is that you have a motive at all.
Free yourself of all expectations, release any tenuous grip you may have, and roll with it.
This is totally out of your control.
There are higher powers and more elements affecting the outcome of this situation than you can imagine.
Get out of their way.
Nine in the fourth place means:
No mistakes if your aim remains true.
He who can be persevering
Remains without blame.
‘Venus Persuades Helen to Fall in Love with Paris’ – Angelica Kauffman, 1790
We cannot lose what really belongs to us, even if we throw it away. Therefore we need have no anxiety. All that need concern us is that we should remain true to our own natures and not listen to others.
42 – Forty-Two. I / Expansion
Whirlwinds and Thunder:
When the Superior Person encounters saintly behavior, he adopts it; when he encounters a fault within, he transforms it.
Progress in every endeavor.
You may cross to the far shore.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
Get ready to ride a tide of accelerated growth toward self-actualization.
A joyful awareness of the best within you, coupled with an acceptance of your Shadow, will provide a greater repertoire, a much bolder vision, and new depth and clarity that will compel you to expand your horizons.
Today: “The Eighth Chakra is located in the aura” – Yogi Bhajan
“The Eighth Chakra is located in the aura, the magnetic field generated by a human being that surrounds him or her up to nine feet in every direction. The quality of the aura reveals the personality in the projection of power or the depression of defeat.” Yogi Bhajan
Meditation: KWTC-930407 Childhood Patterns – Aura
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Tao Te Ching – Verse 62 – The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man’s treasure, the bad man’s refuge.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 62
The Tao is the center of the universe,
the good man’s treasure,
the bad man’s refuge.
Honors can be bought with fine words,
respect can be won with good deeds;
but the Tao is beyond all value,
and no one can achieve it.
Continue reading “Tao Te Ching – Verse 62 – The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man’s treasure, the bad man’s refuge.”
“Once you discover the truth within you, nothing can stop you from achieving your destiny.” from the I Ching
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Once you discover the truth within you, nothing can stop you from achieving your destiny.
From Yogi Bhajan: Today: “…concentrating on yourself as a part of the Universe and meditating on the Holy Nam” – Yogi Bhajan
From the Tao Te Ching: Tao Te Ching – Verse 61 – When a country obtains great power, it becomes like the sea: all streams run downward into it.
The previous reading: “To form a union, you need a head. WIthout it, you are lost.” from the I Ching
The previous previous reading: “If you apply your knowledge, commitment, patience and perseverance to every task, then you know your own strength and how to use it.” from the I Ching
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The following kriyas were selected to help facilitate your relating 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:
Recent:
Meditation: LA101 790419-Faith In Our Self And Our Own Discipline
Meditation: NM0406 – Know the Best of You – Share the Best with Others
Meditation: NM0163 – Feel God Within You, The Kindness in You
The following kriya stimulates and enhances your subtle and radiant bodies.
Meditation: NM0410 – 20010615 – The Northern Lights – Ek Ong Kar
Still relevant:
61 – Sixty-One. Chung Fu / Inner Truth
The gentle Wind ripples the Lake’s surface:
The Superior Person finds common ground between points of contention, wearing away rigid perspectives that would lead to fatal error.
Pigs and fishes.
You may cross to the far shore.
Great fortune if you stay on course.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
The subject of this hexagram discovers a key to Tranquility by first gaining insight into his own nature, then turning that vision outward.
By resolving inner conflicts and being at peace with himself, he learns to gain insight into others.
In effect, he enters another, sees with the other’s eyes, listens with the other’s ears, feels with the other’s heart.
He then returns to his own center, with new perspective and understanding.
Six in the fourth place means:Just before the moon waxes full, One horse breaks from the harness, and its mate remains. The moon nearly at the full.
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| To intensify the power of inner truth, a man must always turn to his superior, from whom he can receive enlightenment as the moon receives light from the sun. However, this requires a certain humility, like that of the moon when it is not yet quite full. At the moment when the moon becomes full and stands directly opposite the sun, it begins to wane. Just as on the one hand we must be humble and reverent when face to face with the source of enlightenment, so likewise must we on the other renounce factionalism among men. Only by pursuing one’s course like a horse that goes straight ahead without looking sidewise at its mate, can one retain the inner freedom that helps one onward. |
1 – One. Ch’ien / Creative Activity
Heaven above and Heaven below:
Heaven in constant motion.
With the strength of the dragon, the Superior Person steels himself for ceaseless activity.
Productive Activity.
Potent Influence.
Sublime Success if you keep to your course.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
The time for action has come.
You now have the focus and the stamina necessary for accomplishing great tasks.
The path before you is being cleared and reward lies ahead.