“Look to the leadership who accepts responsibility for the current standstill and addresses the reality of the situation.” – Today’s Reading

Look to the leadership who accepts responsibility for the current standstill and addresses the reality of the situation.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 15 – The ancient Masters were profound and subtle

Today: “A Teacher is not a public relations package” – Yogi Bhajan

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Today: I Ching – Previous previous reading – “In our relations we mingle with people who have renounced the collective connections that bind us together. Associate instead with those who promote unity rather than division along petty tribal differences. Those alliances will begin to heal fractures in the social structure.”

Today: I Ching – Previous Reading – “Avoid interfering with the course of natural development. Refrain from rash actions that arise from fear, impatience, ambition or dissatisfaction. When everything is upside down, focus on remaining safe.”

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Read the texts translated from the I Ching for today's reading

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.

Six in the second place means:

He knows better than the sycophants how to manipulate the petty rulers; but instead he keeps his integrity and remains among the oppressed.

They bear and endure;
This means good fortune for inferior people.
The standstill serves to help the great man to attain success.

Sycophants

‘Art Gallery Sycophants’, 1979 – Lance Olsen

Inferior people are ready to flatter their superiors in a servile way. They would also endure the superior man if he would put an end to their confusion. This is fortunate for them. But the great man calmly bears the consequences of the standstill. He does not mingle with the crowd of the inferior; that is not his place. By his willingness to suffer personally he insures the success of his fundamental principles.

6 – Six   Sung / Conflict

The high Heavens over a yawning Deep chasm:
An expansive void where nothing can dwell.
Even though he sincerely knows he is right, the Superior Person anticipates opposition and carefully prepares for any incident.

Good fortune if your conflict results in compromise.
Misfortune if your conflict escalates to confrontation.
Seek advice.
Postpone your crossing to the far shore.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Conflict is a necessary part of life.
Tension upon the strings of a violin can make majestic music.
The critical mass of two hydrogen atoms trying to occupy the same space fuel the sun that nourishes our solar system.
Most conflicts you face in life are the result of your Path converging with another’s.
Your Path is not his, and one Path is not necessarily more right than the other.
Can you work together to remove the blockage?

Today: “A Teacher is not a public relations package” – Yogi Bhajan

“A Teacher is not a public relations package—very charming, very beautiful, very marvelous, very gracious, very kind, very sweet. That’s an angel, not a Teacher. Very passionate, very loving, very darling, very attractive, very knowing—that may be a professor, not a Teacher. Very knowledgeable, very sharing, very high-grade knowing, absolutely, amazingly all the best there is. That may be a sage, a wise sage, a saint—not a Teacher.” Yogi Bhajan

Meditation: 760422 – Balancing Projection with Intention

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The ancient Masters were profound and subtle.
Their wisdom was unfathomable.
There is no way to describe it;
all we can describe is their appearance.
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