Adopt a posture of modesty. Do not fly too high. Allow things to take their course. Expect small successes. Be still.
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.
Day: December 20, 2017
Today: “It is fun to be selfish, but for higher values” Yogi Bhajan
“It is fun to be selfish, but for higher values. I want to be greedy so that I may be a really pious man. My greed is that I should be a very good man. I am greedy to serve everybody, I’m not greedy to be a disservice to people.” Yogi Bhajan
(via Ram Anand)
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Today: It is a difficult time though forward progress has not been stopped – I Ching
It is a difficult time (see yesterday’s reading), though all positive forward progress has not been stopped. As long as we focus on accomplishing something worthwhile rather than merely escaping from our current situation we will find success. Struggling against powerful interests only leads to conflict. Being right doesn’t support our cause. People who rise from poverty without improving the whole merely replace their oppressors by becoming the new oppressors.
What we do in simple terms, step by step, coming from inner strength and just principles will make the difference, producing meaningful change and ultimate success.