Today: “Look at yourself.  Recognize your own faults.  This invites people to come together for mutual benefit.” – from the I Ching

Look at yourself.  Recognize your own faults.  This invites people to come together for mutual benefit.

A quote from Yogi Bhajan

Tao Te Ching – Verse 62 – The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man’s treasure, the bad man’s refuge.

Meditation: NM0394 – Live Above Denial

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41 – Forty-one. Sun / Decrease

The stoic Mountain drains its excess waters to the Lake below:
The Superior Person curbs his anger and sheds his desires.

To be frugal and content is to possess immeasurable wealth within.
Nothing of value could be refused such a person.
Make a portion of each meal a share of your offering.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

This is an occasion for downsizing to fighting trim.
Simplicity and economy are strong defenses against the slings and arrows of Outrageous Fortune.
Whether this is a time of want or a time of plenty, it is an auspicious time to shed a dependency.

Six in the fourth place means:

Once he recognizes and admits his wound, walls tumble down and others can get through to offer the balm he needs for healing.

If a man decreases his faults,
It makes the other hasten to come and rejoice.
No blame.

Rejoice

‘Rejoice’ – Daphne Stammer

A man’s faults often prevent even well-disposed people from coming closer to him. His faults are sometimes reinforced by the environment in which he lives. But if in humility he can bring himself to the point of giving them up, he frees his well-disposed friends from an inner pressure and causes them to approach the more quickly, and there is mutual joy.

38 – Thirty-Eight. K’uei / Estrangement

Fire distances itself from its nemesis, the Lake:
No matter how large or diverse the group, the Superior Person remains uniquely himself.

Small accomplishments are possible.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are working at cross-purposes with another.
The distance between you is very wide.
The gap can be closed, however, with no compromise of your integrity.
You are not adversaries in this case — just two persons addressing individual needs.
Ask yourself: are these needs mutually exclusive?
Is there common ground here?
Must there be one winner and one loser?
Could you become partners in seeking a solution that would allow for two winners?

Today: “You go to college, you study, you graduate, and then you walk out into your life. But when you go to a spiritual teacher you become a leech, you stick to him.” Yogi Bhajan

“You go to college, you study, you graduate, and then you walk out into your life. But when you go to a spiritual teacher you become a leech, you stick to him. This is not the way; learn from the spiritual teacher. Practice and develop your life. The only way one should reach spirituality is to become fearless. If you are fearful, then you are not learning. If God is infinity and you realize God-consciousness and then you realize infinity, then you do not fear.” Yogi Bhajan

Meditation: LA742 921201 Fear 1, original fear

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