Act with measured response to your situation.  Don’t rush it.  Be patient.  Keep up.” – from the I Ching

Act with measured response to your situation.  Don’t rush it.  Be patient.  Keep up.

Meditation:  Meditation: LA101 790419-Faith In Our Self And Our Own Discipline

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Tao Te Ching – Verse 23 – Express yourself completely, then keep quiet

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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 third place means:

He without self-restraint today forges the shackles that hobble him tomorrow.

He who knows no limitation
Will have cause to lament.
No blame.

Gautama

If an individual is bent only on pleasures and enjoyment, it is easy for him to lose his sense of the limits that are necessary. If he gives himself over to extravagance, he will have to suffer the consequences, with accompanying regret. He must not seek to lay the blame on others. Only when we realize that our mistakes are of our own making will such disagreeable experiences free us of errors.
5 – Five  Hsü / Calculated Waiting

Deep Waters in the Heavens:
Thunderclouds approaching from the West, but no rain yet.
The Superior Person nourishes himself and remains of good cheer to condition himself for the moment of truth.

Great Success if you sincerely keep to your course.
You may cross to the far shore.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You must now endure this Dangling — either a carrot before your nose, or a sword above your head.
This strange mix of apprehension and anticipation is a Purgatory.
There is nothing more you can do to affect the outcome.
You must now submit to the Fates.

 

Today: “Love means giving” – Yogi Bhajan

SSSYWa“Love means giving. Self-sacrifice means that you accomplish for someone at the expense of yourself.” Yogi Bhajan

 

 

Lecture: The meaning of love