Today: “Remember to be tolerant with tedious and insufferable people.  Without acceding to every demand and while insisting on fair exchange, develop an inner effectiveness to order to find equitable solutions to disagreement.” From the I Ching

Remember to be tolerant with tedious and insufferable people.  Without acceding to every demand and while insisting on fair exchange, develop an inner effectiveness to order to find equitable solutions to disagreement.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 12 – He allows things to come and go. His heart is open as the sky.

Today: “The hammer and chisel have to carve the stone. If the stone can carve the chisel, there’s no need of a chisel.” Yogi Bhajan

Previous reading: “Remember that there are always forces and tendencies beyond your view. Allow for unforeseen circumstances in any situation. Proceed with caution after mindful contemplation.”

Previous previous reading: “Living with the danger of chaotic uncertainty, you need only rely on your integrity, experience, flexibility and fortitude. Take a lesson from water and be like that.”

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Read the text from Richard Wilhelm's, Thomas Cleary's, Brian Arnold's and other translations of the I Ching
44 – Forty-Four.  Kou / Compulsion

A playful Zephyr dances and delights beneath indulgent Heaven:
A Prince who shouts orders but will not walk among his people may as well try to command the four winds.

A strong, addictive temptation, much more dangerous than it seems.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are ignoring a clear and present danger to your well-being.
If this threat emanated from a heavy-handed oppressor, you would see it coming.
But this danger comes to you in the form of a seduction, an amusement, a diversion, an indulgence that is eating away at the fiber of your secure little world.
You are too cocksure.
You underestimate the tribute this dalliance will demand.

Nine in the fourth place means:

No fish for guests; none even for yourself.
Misfortune.

No fish in the tank.
This leads to misfortune.

Fish bowl

Insignificant people must be tolerated in order to keep them well disposed. Then we can make use of them if we should need them. If we become alienated from them and do not meet them halfway, they turn their backs on us and are not at our disposal when we need them. But this is our own fault.
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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