Flowing with the Earth /
Develop your character /
your strength will prevail
Steady growth and development. Don’t push, don’t rush. Gather your strength, develop your character.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 56 – Those who know don’t talk. Those who talk don’t know.
Today: “Living on this earth does not matter if we have lived with grace, and fundamentally we know that living on this earth with grace is all that matters.” Yogi Bhajan
Previous previous reading: “Even peace returns to chaos and catastrophe. Then, a return toward peace. Act and do everything you can to remember this. The next cycle toward peace and prosperity will be more enduring.”
Meditation: TCH20 02 960722 – Increase the Power of the Infinite Within
Meditation: NM0336 – For Inner Strength
Meditation: Breath to Conquer Time Space and Destiny
Meditation: NM091 – 19921110 – Self Emboldenment, Engagement, Vision
Meditation: Magic Mantra-19760426
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46 – Forty-Six. Shêng / Upward Mobility
Beneath the Soil, the Seedling pushes upward toward the light:
To preserve his integrity, the Superior Person contents himself with small gains that eventually lead to great accomplishment.
Supreme Success.
Have no doubts.
Seek guidance from someone you respect.
A constant move toward greater clarity will bring reward.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
You are progressing, rising inch-by-inch toward certain success.
What makes this assured is your refusal to tilt headlong toward your goal, slamming into obstacles and going mad with frustration.
You have a clear map before you of the steps necessary to reach your objective.
With faithful patience and a careful conservation of personal energy and resources, you will run this long, slow distance.
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| The lower trigram, Sun, represents wood, and the upper, K’un, means the earth. Linked with this is the idea that wood in the earth grows upward. In contrast to the meaning of Chin, PROGRESS (35), this pushing upward is associated with effort, just as a plant needs energy for pushing upward through the earth. That is why this hexagram, although it is connected with success, is associated with effort of the will. In PROGRESS the emphasis is on expansion; PUSHING UPWARD indicates rather a vertical ascent-direct rise from obscurity and lowliness to power and influence.
THE JUDGEMENT PUSHING UPWARD has supreme success. The pushing upward of the good elements encounters no obstruction and is therefore accompanied by great success. The pushing upward is made possible not by violence but by modesty and adaptability. Since the individual is borne along by the propitiousness of the time, he advances. He must go to see authoritative people. He need not be afraid to do this, because success is assured. But he must set to work, for activity (this is the meaning of “the south”) brings good fortune. THE IMAGE Within the earth, wood grows: |
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| Adapting itself to obstacles and bending around them, wood in the earth grows upward without haste and without rest. Thus too the superior man is devoted in character and never pauses in his progress. |
