Today: Take a step back from the chaos of your situation.  Seek guidance from wise people who know how to resolve emotional entanglement.  Cultivate a meditative mind.”- from the I Ching

Take a step back from the chaos of your situation.  Seek guidance from wise people who know how to resolve emotional entanglement.  Cultivate a meditative mind.

Yogi Bhajan has something to say about this.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 81 – True words aren’t eloquent; eloquent words aren’t true.

Meditation: NM132-940504-Pratyahar

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39 – Thirty-Nine. Chien / Obstacle

Ominous roiling in the Crater Lake atop the Volcano:
When meeting an impasse, the Superior Person turns his gaze within, and views the obstacle from a new perspective.

Offer your opponent nothing to resist.
Let a sage guide you in this.
Good fortune lies along this course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

The Obstacle lies in obstinance.
An insistence on only one way of proceeding has brought things to an impasse.
You may either continue banging your head with irresistible force against this immovable object, or you might step back and survey this situation from a fresh perspective.
Which is immobile here — the obstruction or your attitude?

Six at the top means:

Advance will meet with disastrous difficulties.
What you seek is right at hand.
Ask guidance from someone you respect.

Going leads to obstructions,
Coming leads to great good fortune.
It furthers one to see the great man.

Doubting of Thomas

‘The Doubting of Thomas’ – Caravaggio

This refers to a man who has already left the world and its tumult behind him. When the time of obstructions arrives, it might seem that the simplest thing for him to do would be to turn his back upon the world and take refuge in the beyond. But this road is barred to him. He must not seek his own salvation and abandon the world to its adversity. Duty calls him back once more into the turmoil of life. Precisely because of his experience and inner freedom, he is able to create something both great and complete that brings good fortune. And it is favorable to see the great man in alliance with whom one can achieve the work of rescue.
53 – Fifty-Three. Chien / Gradual Progress

The gnarled Pine grows tenaciously off the Cliff face:
The Superior Person clings faithfully to dignity and integrity, thus elevating the Collective Spirit of Man in his own small way.
Development.
The maiden is given in marriage.
Good fortune if you stay on course.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Adaptability mixed with integrity will bring a calm, steady progress.
Move from your center, always faithful to your principles, yet with the flexibility to weather any tempest.
Yours is not a meteoric rise to the top, but the solid, confident footing of one who has a clear vision of what can be, and who is willing to climb the distance to reach it.
The oracle foresees companionship along the way — a Divine comfort on any journey.

 

Today: “Take a conscious breath. Conscious is: take it in as long and deep as you can and take it out as much as you can. That is called conscious breath.” Yogi Bhajan

“Take a conscious breath. Conscious is: take it in as long and deep as you can and take it out as much as you can. That is called conscious breath.” (Conscious breathing is also called “mechanical” breathing.) Yogi Bhajan

Meditation: NM132-940504-Pratyahar

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