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.

		above: K’an / The Abysmal, Water
		below: Sun / The Gentle, Wind, Wood

Wood is below, water above. The wood goes down into the earth to bring up water. The image derives from the pole-and-bucket well of ancient China. The wood represents not the buckets, which in ancient times were made of clay, but rather the wooden poles by which the water is hauled up from the well. The image also refers to the world of plants, which lift water out of the earth by means of their fibres. The well from which water is drawn conveys the further idea of an inexhaustible dispensing of nourishment. Raga Kumbha meets a young woman at a well, and asks for water.1

11 – Eleven.  T’ai / Peace

Heaven and Earth embrace, giving birth to Peace.
The Superior Person serves as midwife, presenting the newborn gift to the people.

The small depart; the great approach.
Success.
Good fortune.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

It doesn’t get any better than this.
Everything is in harmony, all obstacles are cleared from your Path, anything you could ask for is right at hand.
This is the Elysian Fields, the Garden of Eden.
The only thing wrong with Peace is that it, too, must change.
Whether you are in this state of harmony now or it is predicted for your future, recognize it as your greatest opportunity to build your resources against less harmonious times.

Nine in the second place means:

Despite his success, he is gentle to those who impose, he fords the icy stream between him and another, he does not forget his duties to those distant, he does not abandon his companions; he truly walks the Golden Mean.

Bearing with the uncultured in gentleness,
Fording the river with resolution,
Not neglecting what is distant,
Not regarding one’s companions:
Thus one may manage to walk in the middle.

Fording the Pecos River, showing a horse drawn wagon and a cannon crossing the river.

In times of prosperity it is important above all to possess enough greatness of soul to bear with imperfect people. For in the hands of a great master no material is unproductive; he can find use for everything. But this generosity is by no means laxity or weakness. It is during times of prosperity especially that we must always be ready to risk even dangerous undertakings, such as the crossing of a river, if they are necessary.
So too we must not neglect what is distant but must attend scrupulously to everything. Factionalism and the dominance of cliques are especially to be avoided. Even if people of like mind come forward together, they ought not to form a faction by holding together for mutual advantage; instead, each man should do his duty. These are four ways in which one can overcome the hidden danger of a gradual slackening that always lurks in any time of peace. And that is how one finds the middle way for action.

36 – Thirty-Six.  Ming I / Eclipsing the Light

Warmth and Light are swallowed by Deep Darkness:
The Superior Person shows his brilliance by keeping it veiled among the masses.

Stay true to your course, despite the visible obstacles ahead.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

This time calls for a saintly effort to turn the other cheek.
You have been deliberately injured.
Going blow-for-blow will only escalate this war.
Abstain from vengeance.
Show all watching that you are above it.
Sidestep your aggressor’s headlong charge, giving him the opportunity to fall on his face.

34 – Thirty-Four.  Ta Chuang / Awesome Power

Thunder fills the Heavens with its awful roar, not out of pride, but with integrity; if it did less, it would not be Thunder:
Because of his Great Power, the Superior Person takes pains not to overstep his position, so that he will not seem intimidating or threatening to the Established Order.

Opportunity will arise along this course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

The Awesome Power available in this hexagram stems from what the Taoists call your Te, a term not perfectly translated into English.
Roughly, it is your Integrity — not in the Western sense of honor — but more in the psychological definition of a full integration of Who You Are.
This Awesome Power is achieved only by fully embracing both the good and the bad, the strong and the weak, the masculine and the feminine — all polarities within you.
Such self-knowledge spawns a Mastery tempered with the humility necessary to rein in and harness this Awesome Power.

32 – Thirty-Two.  Hêng / Durability

Arousing Thunder and penetrating Wind.
Close companions in any storm:
The Superior Person possesses a resiliency and durability that lets him remain firmly and faithfully on course.

Such constancy deserves success.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Endurance is the key to success in this situation.
However, durability is not synonymous with stone-like rigidity.
True resilience requires a flexibility that allows adaptation to any adverse condition, while still remaining true to the core.
Can you maintain your integrity under any circumstance?
Can you influence the situation without giving opposing forces anything to resist?
Then you will endure to reach your goal.

Lecture: Reflecting Identities

54 – Fifty-Four.  Kuei Mei / A Loveless Marriage

The Thunderstorm inseminates the swelling Lake, then moves on where the Lake cannot follow:
The Superior Person views passing trials in the light of Eternal Truths.
Any action will prove unfortunate.
Nothing furthers.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

This is at best a Marriage of Convenience.
You have found yourself in desperate straits, a position of weakness, and you are tempted to pay dearly for a remedy.
A drowning man isn’t picky about who throws him a rope.
The rescue offered to you now is undesirable.
It may pull you out of this sticky situation, but it will cause even greater predicaments down the road.
Don’t obligate yourself in this way.

Six at the top means:

he groom draws no blood from the sacrifice.
The bride’s basket remains empty.
A barren marriage.

The woman holds the basket, but there are no fruits in it.
The man stabs the sheep, but no blood flows.
Nothing that acts to further.

At the sacrifice to the ancestors, the woman had to present harvest offerings in a basket, while the man slaughtered the sacrificial animal with his own hand. Here the ritual is only superficially fulfilled; the woman takes an empty basket and the man stabs a sheep slaughtered beforehand – solely to preserve the forms. This impious, irreverent attitude bodes no good for a marriage.

38 – Thirty-Eight.  K’uei / Estrangement

Fire distances itself from its nemesis, the Lake:
No matter how large or diverse the group, the Superior Person remains uniquely himself.

Small accomplishments are possible.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are working at cross-purposes with another.
The distance between you is very wide.
The gap can be closed, however, with no compromise of your integrity.
You are not adversaries in this case — just two persons addressing individual needs.
Ask yourself: are these needs mutually exclusive?
Is there common ground here?
Must there be one winner and one loser?
Could you become partners in seeking a solution that would allow for two winners?

Yogi Bhajan on this mantra:
One day Yogi Bhajan told his students, “Now suppose something happens (in) your life which you want to move and it’s not moving. There is a block, which you want to move, and it’s not moveable.”then chant ‘Aad Sach, Jugaad Sach, Hai Bhae Sach, Naanak Hosee Bhae Sach.’ It’s a lever. It is the biggest lever available to you among mantras.” (8/14/91)Baba Siri Chand was the eldest son of Guru Nanak (the first Guru of the Sikhs). He was a very detached yogi and lived for 150 years. He did nothing but good; his strength is not only miracles, but spontaneous. We have this mantra of his, and if you do that, anything which is stopped in your life it shall flow. There is no power like it on earth. In some circumstances I have seen it make the impossible to become possible very fast. (7/28/94)Guru Arjun Dev (the fifth Guru of the Sikhs) went to Baba Siri Chand and said, ‘Sahibo, I am writing Sukhmani. I am writing the great situation and combination of words that will give people comfort. I want to produce on this earth everlasting comfort. I have finished the 16th pauri of Sukhmani and now it doesn’t proceed further. I am stuck. Seventeenth (pauri) I am to write, please say something.’ And then Baba Siri Chand said, ‘Well, wait a minute. Guru Nanak gave the Guruship to you folks, and it is your problem to write Gurbani, not mine. I just came to bless you. It doesn’t mean I have to say Gurbani for you. Guru Arjun Dev replied, ‘No, sir, this writing isn’t working for me.’ And there Baba Siri Chand wrote: Aad Sach, Jugaad Sach, Hai Bhae Sach, Naanak Hosee Bhae Sach.” This mantra became the slok of the 17th pauri of Sukhmani Sahib.

53 – Fifty-Three.  Chien / Gradual Progress

The gnarled Pine grows tenaciously off the Cliff face:
The Superior Person clings faithfully to dignity and integrity, thus elevating the Collective Spirit of Man in his own small way.
Development.
The maiden is given in marriage.
Good fortune if you stay on course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Adaptability mixed with integrity will bring a calm, steady progress.
Move from your center, always faithful to your principles, yet with the flexibility to weather any tempest.
Yours is not a meteoric rise to the top, but the solid, confident footing of one who has a clear vision of what can be, and who is willing to climb the distance to reach it.
The oracle foresees companionship along the way — a Divine comfort on any journey.

Nine in the fifth place means:

The wild goose gradually draws near the summit.
For three years the woman has no child.
In the end nothing can hinder her.
Good fortune.

The summit is a high place. In a high position one easily becomes isolated. One is misjudged by the very person on whom one is dependent – the woman by her husband, the official by his superior. This is the work of deceitful persons who have wormed their way in. The result is that relationships remain sterile, and nothing is accomplished. But in the course of further development, such misunderstandings are cleared away, and reconciliation is achieved after all.

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?

There is no God outside you. Neither was, nor is, nor shall be. It is all in you. The very breath of life is Divine. – YB

LECTURE:
At that moment that person through the crises became Christ because he could forgive unforgivable done to  him  and  that’s  the  reality.    When  you  can  do  which  is  impossible  to  do  you  have made the impossible possible  that is called divine rest is all nonsense. When you can take a cup of poison drink it and make it turn into a nectar what is the medicine, all poisons given to body to kill the disease and bring the health and when you take a social poison and turn into a divine excellence, that is what spirituality is about. Your concept of spirituality may be different than mine and I am not here to impose mine on you, neither I am going to accept yours for me. I am not asking you to follow me, I am not asking you to walk with me, I am
not asking you to respect me, I am not asking you have any reverence you can live in your nuisance rest of your life it will never make a sense. The sense is only in one virtue where impossible hits you with possible
you can deal with it. Am I clear? Then impossible hit you and you turn out with possible of you possible of you  and  deal  with  it  and  don’t  become  a  monkey  all  crack  down  or  fall  apart  then  you  show  the  strength  of
God, the infinity. When the finite gets to you and you show the infinity that is what divinity is. The difference between duality and divinity is very simple in duality when time hits you, you fall apart you split and if you have any divinity I am not talking A divinity B divinity C divinity I am not branding it any divinity then when impossible hits you, time hits you, space hits you, you are just divine, you are not divided.
Duality and divinity are the two sides of the same coin called God and you want to achieve that, take the sun finger take the Surya Mudra and just like this as I am sitting straight and simple calm and quite straight up.
Hey  Rakhe  Rakhan  Har…
Calm down yourself put your eyes close them down and go through your oneness consider you are a figure one.
(The Rakhe Rakhan Har tape is played).
YB (Over the tape): Beauty is to keep those three fingers straight and let the sun energy circulate which will make it little difficult, but if you just consolidate your energy it will work out perfect.
Enough now this exercise which you have done this mudra can make the dead to rise and walk, if you perfect this mudra it is call surya mudra and that is the surya shabad. When that word and the body put it together   that’s   what   power   it   will   give   you   put   your   hand   and   say   rise   the   dead   man   will   rise,   it’s   not impossible,  it’s  conquering  the  life  breath  of  life  the  sun  energy.    And  last  of  all  which  I  like  to  deal  right
now some people have communication problem and many of you do have and we need to deal with it. You see   this   mudra   you   won’t   find   it   in   any   book   that’s   why   I   am   trying   to   relate   to   you.     The   sun   finger   is together  mercury  here  but  they  don’t  meet  normally  they  get  to  like  that  but  this  is  the  right  way  to  do  it, bent them keep them separate two fingers and  the  hand  meet  straight  just  like  that  is  the  mudra  and  that’s how the heart is. Correct?
And put that that peace lagoon of some Kaur.
Student: (—)
YB: No that peace first song of her, first song from Peace lagoon. You have that version?
Student: (—)
Okay  that’s  all  right  they  can  do  that.
Kindly concentrate get into posture calm down yourself let yourself go, neither the sun fingers meet not the index and the Saturn finger meet they are separate only the pinky that meet. is the first tape, first tape is
peace lagoon.
(The tape is played).
YB: It is all right this is to involve in us the mercury power the communication which, which if penetratingly is used and exercised give you lot of headway and that wake up Har Har Mukunde you have that? . Okay now when you are not in a position to work it out and you do not know what to do it is called zero point of self-confidence   to   get   it   back   to   normal   first   don’t   do   this   do   it   as   wide   as   you   can,   it’s   very
comfortable put your head on your hands and just go like this, correct. Close down your eyes concentrate on your navel and go for it.
(The tape is played).
(Over the tape)
YB:    (Over  the  tape)  Pump  the  navel  at  the  sound  of  Har,  when  you  hear  it.    That’s  enough.
(End of the tape)
So we are trying to give you different mudras to let the energy be regenerated in a different state of stress
and strife  in  life,  trial  triumph  to  avoid  the  tragedies,  that’s  the  purpose  of  the  Kundalini  yoga  not  to  live very long, not to live very healthy, not to be very excellent, not to be very down up, just be ready whatever it  takes.    It’s  a  very  great  concept  very  misunderstood  by  students  and  the  practitioners  of  yoga  they  don’t know what a Kundalini is. Kundalini is very simple when the time wants it the energy spins up and make you to face it and you face it good. So that excellence human excellence in performance, in achievement is called Kundalini awareness, consciousness, divinity, Godliness, whatever you want to call it, but that is the basic reality, it cannot be  changed.    And  that’s  what  all  this  about  is,  this is the science  in  which  shortest possible  time  you  can  balance  yourself  to  get  going,  get  going,  keeping  up.    Keeping  up  doesn’t  mean  to  pull yourself up. No, keeping up is absolutely balance in confrontation,  that’s called  keeping  up.    Keeping  up  not, when  you  don’t  give  in.    Now  if  something  is  wrong  and  you  have  to  give  in  you  give  in  but  you  don’t  give  in to   any   stupid   pressure.     You   don’t   give   in   to   wrong,   you don’t give in to betrayal, you   don’t   give in to tragedy.    If  you  don’t  give  in  to  exploitation  don’t  give  into  anything  you  are  you.    You  want  give  you  want to  give.    You  gave  you  gave.    It’s  a  conscious  living.    So  what  I  have  to  tried  to  cover  with  you  these,  these tapes are about thirty-one minutes, twenty-seven to thirty-one minutes something like that and with that music going with that mudra with that stimulation with that balance try it sometime by your own self. If it work for you share with others, it work for others tell them to share for everybody there is no secret there is no possibility of any reaction and then no possibility of any danger or damage, all good will come out of it.
I hope within the shortest possible time I have covered the maximum this are the things which you need in life if God willing and time permitting space granting the humanity to live we will see you again.

The  class  sings:    May  the  long  tine  sunshine  upon  you….

52 – Fifty-Two.  Kên / The Mountain

Above this Mountain’s summit another more majestic rises:
The Superior Person is mindful to keep his thoughts in the here and now.

Stilling the sensations of the Ego, he roams his courtyard without moving a muscle, unencumbered by the fears and desires of his fellows.
This is no mistake.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

There is a higher vantage point available to you, but it is obscured by the visible peak of personal ambition.
To climb to this higher plane, you must shake off the desires and fears of the conscious, visible world around you.
To make this journey you must quiet the Ego, empty your mind of past and future, and dwell totally in the moment at hand.
Thorough mindfulness of what is before you is the only tranquility.
Be. Here. Now.

		above: Kên / Keeping Still, Mountain
		below: Kên / Keeping Still, Mountain

 

The image of this hexagram is the mountain, the youngest son of heaven and earth. The male principle is at the top, because it strives upward by nature; the female principle is below, since the direction of its movement is downward. Thus there is rest because the movement has come to its normal end. In its application to man, the hexagram turns upon the problem of achieving a quiet heart. It is very difficult to bring quiet to the heart. While Buddhism strives for rest through an ebbing away of all movement in nirvana, the Yi Jing holds that rest is merely a state of polarity that always posits movement as its complement. Possibly the words of the text embody directions for the practice of yoga. THE JUDGEMENT KEEPING STILL. Keeping his back still So that he no longer feels his body. He goes into his courtyard And does not see his people. No blame. True quiet means keeping still when the time has come to keep still, and going forward when the time has come to go forward. In this way rest and movement are in agreement with the demands of the time, and thus there is light in life. The hexagram signifies the end and the beginning of all movement. The back is named because in the back are located all the nerve fibres that mediate movement. If the movement of these spinal nerves is brought to a standstill, the ego, with its restlessness, disappears as it were. When a man has thus become calm, he may turn to the outside world. He no longer sees in it the struggle and tumult of individual beings, and therefore he has that true peace of mind which is needed for understanding the great laws of the universe and for acting in harmony with them. Whoever acts from these deep levels makes no mistakes.

Still Life with Chinese Lantern flowers. Colored lithograph, H.A. Dievenbach 1

THE IMAGE Mountains standing close together: The image of KEEPING STILL. Thus the superior man Does not permit his thoughts To go beyond his situation. Huang Shan The heart thinks constantly. This cannot be changed, but the movements of the heart – that is, a man’s thoughts – should restrict themselves to the immediate situation. All thinking that goes beyond this only makes the heart sore. 1. Hendrikus Anthonius Dievenbach (1872 – 1946), was a Dutch artist. In 1910 he settled in the village of Laren, North-Holland. Henri Dievenbach was a traditional painter who was particularly inspired by his direct environment. Apart from farmer’s interiors he made portaits of fellow-villagers. In his later life he painted especially beautiful still lifes and flower pieces, like this colored lithograph with Chinese Lanterns.