When human folly has grown beyond all proportion, don’t jump in, don’t feed it, don’t ignore it, don’t react. All we can do is breathe in, contain the experience of it, let it be dispersed in our silence, and breathe out, expanding the transmutation into and beyond our environment. Our endurance, resilience and flexibility will have a strong impact on our immediate relations who can then carry them forward. The insanity will pass.
Tag: I Ching
Today: In your stillness, observe
Stay in stillness. Conditions are favorable for hostile forces to challenge you. Avoid the petty and superficial by keeping shallow people at a distance, not in anger but with dignity. Retreat to security, so that the surrounding darkness cannot encroach upon your peaceful existence. Stay in silence. Watch. Listen.
Today: Be strong in your stillness
Heaven’s motherlode waits within the Mountain:
Mine deep into history’s wealth of wisdom and deeds, charging your character with timeless strength. Follow the teachings given you through the Guru. Be strong in your sadhana with constant discipline.
Today: Reform division into unity – From the I Ching
It is time to disperse and dissolve the divisive egotism that keeps us separate from each other. Much as water collects in individual lakes as a product of rain, we should recognize the individual blessings that have come to us and others through grace.
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Today: Advance cautiously
We must hold to our intentions through our deepest commitments and convictions. Those coming from our inner truth are worth the risk and must be carried out even if challenged by external powers.
Today: Transcend your limitations
Everyone has limitations in relating in the world. Optimally, we grow out of them by applying the technologies given to us by our teachers through the Guru. That is not the same as chasing prescriptions and formulas in the belief that something good will happen.
Today: Be aware of your own nourishment
Nourish others with kind support. Be aware of the impact of your words. Only support others who offer support in a positive way.
As you nourish others, also nourish yourself. Consume only that which sustains. Renounce your compulsions.
Today: Let your inner fire ignite…
Let your inner Fire ignite passion in every heart it touches.
A Promethean flame is delivering light and heat to the situation at hand.
This radiance will cause such an alchemical transformation of circumstances that the changes will seem magical, miraculous.
Yet they are only shifts of perspective and attitude that bring clarity. Do not make your passion personal. Rather share it generously without ego.
Today: What does not work… – from the I Ching
What does not work cannot be made to work just by trying harder or by force. The only recourse is to fall back and rely on your inner worth, which will shine with accomplishments in another time or under other circumstances, if you focus on the inner development required to allow you to grow in ways that make that possible.
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Today: Drop endeavors that do not serve you
It is wise to separate yourself from forces that do not serve you and would rob you of your peace. There is no failure in retreat that allows you to regroup and move toward your own center and a much stronger position. Ultimately you will have a stronger grasp of your situation.
It may seem as if you are wandering in unknown territory until you can begin to move and relate with your environment from within yourself. Watch, listen, study, contemplate, then step lightly but decisively on.
Today: Thunder fills the heavens with awesome power
Use your vast personal power to go through the wall that has blocked you. Use it very carefully to bring peace to everything and everyone around you.
Today: Completion
The current order is complete. Everything is in a delicate equilibrium. If something new needs to happen, let it start from a small seed in order to begin establishing a new order. Don’t upset the equilibrium.
Today: Let the small depart
Whatever is holding you back and thwarting your aspirations to elevation and enrichment, whether a person or or situation, don’t struggle with it. If you don’t feed its influence over you, it will leave of its own accord and you will regain awesome personal power.
Today: Speak softly and act with firmness, calmness and confidence
Exert your influence in small ways with gentle persuasion. Be sparing of words and act with confidence and conviction so that others who are held hostage by their prejudices and mistaken beliefs can begin to find liberation by your example.
Today: Be patient and confident
If what you seek is just out of reach or a long time coming, practice self restraint and become even more graceful. Control your fear and hold your confidence. You will be rewarded with opportunities that are commensurate with your creativity. You can then write your own ticket.
Today: Be graceful
Attend to today’s affairs as they come. Engage gracefully in small matters. Your grace can stimulate movement that nourishes those around you who are in need. It’s a good time to begin something new.