Author: harinam

You may engage anything that supports your aspirations and creativity.  You have many good choices.

Do not engage people who are selling false and self-serving promises. They remain harmless as long as you do not come to meet them and give them power. The danger is in their false appearances.  The inferior thing seems so harmless and inviting that there is a tendency to delight in it; it looks so small and weak that it is easy to imagine that you may dally with it and come to no harm.  Recognizing deceptive behavior at the outset is the key to not falling under its influence and to avoiding real danger.

Meditation

I Ching: Today

When human folly has grown beyond all proportion, don’t jump in, don’t feed it, don’t ignore it, don’t react.  All we can do is breathe in, contain the experience of it, let it be dispersed in our silence, and breathe out, expanding the transmutation into and beyond our environment. Our endurance, resilience and flexibility will have a strong impact on our immediate relations who can then carry them forward.  The insanity will pass.

I Ching: Today

Stay in stillness. Conditions are favorable for hostile forces to challenge you.  Avoid the petty and superficial by keeping shallow people at a distance, not in anger but with dignity.  Retreat to security, so that the surrounding darkness cannot encroach upon your peaceful existence.  Stay in silence. Watch. Listen.

I Ching: Today

Heaven’s motherlode waits within the Mountain:
Mine deep into history’s wealth of wisdom and deeds, charging your character with timeless strength.  Follow the teachings given you through the Guru. Be strong in your sadhana with constant discipline.

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It is time to disperse and dissolve the divisive egotism that keeps us separate from each other. Much as water collects in individual lakes as a product of rain, we should recognize the individual blessings that have come to us and others through grace.

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