Today: “Avoid doing the same thing repeatedly with no positive result. Discern which actions are useful,  which are habitual, and which are wishful thinking.  Keep it real.” – From the I Ching

Over and over /
repeating the same mistake /
come to your senses

Avoid doing the same thing repeatedly with no positive result. Discern which actions are useful,  which are habitual, and which are wishful thinking.  Keep it real.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 51 – Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao

Today: “There are eight staircases leading to the peaks of the mountains.” Yogi Bhajan

Today: “If you have harmony with nature, you will be exalted; if you fight it, you will be consumed.” Yogi Bhajan

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See Richard Wilhelm's translation for this reading from the original text
60 – Sixty.  Chieh / Limitations

Waters difficult to keep within the Lake’s banks:
The Superior Person examines the nature of virtue and makes himself a standard that can be followed.

Self-discipline brings success; but restraints too binding bring self-defeat.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Cultivating the proper disciplines and the proper degree of discipline are the concerns of this hexagram.
By limiting options, you may give more attention to priorities.
One who is all over the map is no less lost than one without a map.
Avoid asceticism, however.
Deprivation is not wise discipline.
The key here is regulation, not restriction.

Six in the fourth place means:

He is most content in frugality and simplicity: the highest success

Contented limitation. Success.

Waterfall

‘Waterfall’ – Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)

Every limitation has its value, but a limitation that requires persistent effort entails a cost of too much energy. When, however, the limitation is a natural one (as for example, the limitation by which water flows only downhill), it necessarily leads to success, for then it means a saving of energy. The energy that otherwise would be consumed in a vain struggle with the object, is applied wholly to the benefit of the matter in hand, and success is assured.

58 – Fifty-Eight.  Tui / Empowering

The joyous Lake spans on and on to the horizon:
The Superior Person renews and expands his Spirit through heart-to-heart exchanges with others.

Success if you stay on course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

This is the sign of true companionship.
The principals in this situation exchange energy, ideas and feelings, constantly invigorating and encouraging each other to new heights of Spiritual achievement and Self-discovery.
This exchange is not for the glory of the Team, but for furthering the process of each individual’s ‘Te’, or pure potentiality.

 

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