Today: “Steady and balanced.  Refine your path  and relations with others before making any bold moves.” – from the I Ching

Steady and balanced.  Refine your path  and relations with others before making any bold moves.

No entanglements.

A quote from Yogi Bhajan

Tao Te Ching – Verse 64 – Prevent trouble before it arises. Put things in order before they exist.

Meditation: NM374 – 20001128 – Patience and Intuition

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10 – Ten. Lü / Worrying the Tiger

Heaven shines down on the Marsh which reflects it back imperfectly:
Though the Superior Man carefully discriminates between high and low, and acts in accord with the flow of the Tao, there are still situations where a risk must be taken.

You tread upon the tail of the tiger.
Not perceiving you as a threat, the startled tiger does not bite.
Success.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You have reached a perilous point in your journey.
This is a real gamble — not a maneuver, not a calculated risk.
The outcome is uncertain.
If it goes as you hope, you will gain — but if it turns against you it will cause serious injury, at least to your plans.
The best tack is extreme caution and a healthy respect for the danger involved.

Nine in the second place means:

A man of modest independence treads a smooth and level path.
Good fortune if you stay on course.

Treading a smooth, level course.
The perseverance of a dark man
Brings good fortune.

Dark man

The situation of a lonely sage is indicated here. He remains withdrawn from the bustle of life, seeks nothing, asks nothing of anyone, and is not dazzled by enticing goals. He is true to himself and travels through life unassailed, on a level road. Since he is content and does not challenge fate, he remains free of entanglements.
12 – Twelve. P’i / Stagnation

Heaven and Earth move away from each other.
In the ensuing void, the small invade where the great have departed.
There is no common meeting ground, so the Superior Person must fall back on his inner worth and decline the rewards offered by the inferior invaders.

Difficult trials as you hold to your course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

It is natural to assume that, if Earth above Heaven forms the hexagram for Peace and Paradise, then the opposite configuration, with Heaven over Earth would represent the antithesis of Paradise, Hell.
Not so.
This hexagram is actually the Dark side of Peace, its unsavory byproduct, Stagnation.
In a time when most of our wants are provided, there is little need for the heroes, the artists, the great thinkers and innovators.
As they recede into the shadows, Idleness, Apathy, and Lassitude come to the forefront.
Peace has become boring, bland, unchallenging — Stagnant.
Now our attention turns to the quick fix, the instant celebrity, the fad, the one-nighter, the current buzz.
There is no room for depth.
If you are a passionate soul, you must wait for a better time to find kindred spirits.
In these times, they are only curious legends, bas-relief, dead poets.

Today: “It is a universal law that one follows the other; but what we want is one, and what we don’t want is the other.” Yogi Bhajan

“It is a universal law that one follows the other; but what we want is one, and what we don’t want is the other. As rain is followed by sunshine, tragedy is followed by blessings, and blessings are followed by tragedy. It is a cycle. If you don’t want blessings, don’t want tragedies. If you want tragedies, want blessings also, because each must follow the other.” Yogi Bhajan

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