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27 – Twenty-Seven I / Providing Nourishment
Beneath the immobile Mountain the arousing Thunder stirs: The Superior Person preserves his freedom under oppressive conditions by watching what comes out of his mouth, as well as what goes in.
Endure and good fortune will come. Nurture others in need, as if you were feeding yourself. Take care not to provide sustenance for those who feed off others. Stay as high as possible on the food chain.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
You are a conduit in this instance, able to provide the sustenance needed by others. Position yourself to nourish the truly needy and worthy. Avoid situations where you might be coerced into supporting the parasites and vermin who deprive your true charges. Your own nourishment is an issue here, too. Remember Lao Tzu’s three Great Treasures: Only the person possessed of Compassion, Modesty and Frugality can remain fit enough to stay free of desperation and keep control of the situation.
Six in the fifth place means:
Turning away from the path. To remain persevering brings good fortune. One should not cross the great water.
A man may be conscious of a deficiency in himself. He should be undertaking the nourishment of the people, but he has not the strength to do it. Thus he must turn from his accustomed path and beg counsel and help from a man who is spiritually his superior but undistinguished outwardly. If he maintains this attitude of mind perseveringly, success and good fortune are his. But he must remain aware of his dependence. He must not put his own person forward nor attempt great labors, such as crossing the great water.
42 – Forty-Two I / Expansion
Whirlwinds and Thunder: When the Superior Person encounters saintly behavior, he adopts it; when he encounters a fault within, he transforms it.
Progress in every endeavor. You may cross to the far shore.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
Get ready to ride a tide of accelerated growth toward self-actualization. A joyful awareness of the best within you, coupled with an acceptance of your Shadow, will provide a greater repertoire, a much bolder vision, and new depth and clarity that will compel you to expand your horizons.
“You are not what you think you are. You are what your glands secrete and at what ratio and proportion they secrete. That is very important. Breath of Fire does it all. Thirty-one minutes of Breath of Fire every day will regulate the pituitary. Pituitary will regulate the entire glandular system. Glandular system will change the nervous system. Nervous system will tell the organic system of the blood to just recapture itself. Breath of Fire is a breath which burns away all diseases and karma. It is a conscious voluntary breath. Yogi Bhajan
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7 – Seven Shih / Recruiting Allies
Deep Water beneath the Earth’s surface: Untapped resources are available. The Superior Person nourishes and instructs the people, building a loyal, disciplined following. Good fortune. No mistakes if you follow a course led by experience.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
You must gain support from others. Find a way to make others want to see your objectives met as badly as you want it. How can they profit from the attainment of this goal? Can you command confidence that you are just the person that can bring this plan to fruition?
THIS HEXAGRAM is made up of the trigrams K’an, water, and K’un, earth, and thus it symbolises the ground water stored up in the earth. In the same way military strength is stored up in the mass of the people – invisible in times of peace but always ready for use as a source of power. The attributes of the two trigrams are danger inside and obedience outside. This points to the nature of an army, which at the core is dangerous, while discipline and obedience must prevail outside. Of the individual lines, the one that controls the hexagram is the strong nine in the second place, to which the other lines, all yielding, are subordinate. This line indicates a commander, because it stands in the middle of one of the two trigrams. But since it is in the lower rather than the upper trigram, it represents not the ruler but the efficient general, who maintains obedience in the army by his authority.
THE JUDGEMENT
The army. The army needs perseverance And a strong man. Good fortune without blame.
AN ARMY is a mass that needs organization in order to become a fighting force. Without strict discipline nothing can be accomplished, but this discipline must not be achieved by force. It requires a strong man who captures the hearts of the people and awakens their enthusiasm. In order that he may develop his abilities he needs the complete confidence of his ruler, who must entrust him with full responsibility as long as the war lasts. But war is always a dangerous thing and brings with it destruction and devastation. Therefore it should not be resorted to rashly but, like a poisonous drug, should be used as a last recourse. The justifying cause of a war, and clear and intelligible war aims, ought to be explained to the people by an experienced leader. Unless there is a quite definite war aim to which the people can consciously pledge themselves, the unity and strength of conviction that lead to victory will not be forthcoming. But the leader must also look to it that the passion of war and the delirium of victory do not give rise to unjust acts that will not meet with general approval. If justice and perseverance are the basis of action, all goes well.
“You were alive (in the womb) by the navel point. So now you combine the navel with the breath. If you can combine that, you can conquer death. It is a very simple yogic rule. Five, ten minutes of Breath of Fire is all you need. If you do Breath of Fire, it will cleanse your lungs and make them strong. You will have deep breathing all day, you will have good oxygen in your bloodstream, and you will be young and healthy for a long time. If you do it five to fifteen minutes every day, it is the best way to keep the blood purified, it doesn’t matter what. It’s a direct blood purification system.” Yogi Bhajan
The victory has been won. The power of steadfastness has not been routed. Everything has gone well. All misgivings have been overcome. Success has justified the deed. The light of a superior personality shines forth anew and makes its influence felt among men who have faith in it and rally around it. The new time has arrived, and with it good fortune. And just as the sun shines forth in redoubled beauty after rain, or as a forest grows more freshly green from charred ruins after a fire, so the new era appears all the more glorious by contrast with the misery of the old.
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64 – Sixty-Four Wei Chi / The End In Sight
Fire ascends above the Water: The Superior Person examines the nature of things and keeps each in its proper place.
Too anxious the young fox gets his tail wet, just as he completes his crossing. To attain success, be like the man and not like the fox.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
Resist the rush to completion. Anticipation of fulfillment may cause you to be careless before you have fully absorbed the lessons of the journey. The endpoint of this Quest will only prove to be the threshold for another. You are short steps from Mastery on this plane, yet you stride toward Ignorance of the challenges lying beyond. Savor this accomplishment. Fully Become. Take full possession of your world before embarking to discover the next one. That voyage begins soon enough, and you will reminisce about this one. These are the Good Old Days.
Six in the fifth place means:
Perseverance brings good fortune. No remorse. The light of the superior man is true. Good fortune.
The victory has been won. The power of steadfastness has not been routed. Everything has gone well. All misgivings have been overcome. Success has justified the deed. The light of a superior personality shines forth anew and makes its influence felt among men who have faith in it and rally around it. The new time has arrived, and with it good fortune. And just as the sun shines forth in redoubled beauty after rain, or as a forest grows more freshly green from charred ruins after a fire, so the new era appears all the more glorious by contrast with the misery of the old.
45 – Forty-Five Ts’ui / Gathering
The Lake rises by welcoming and receiving Earth’s waters: The King approaches his temple. It is wise to seek audience with him there.
Success follows this course. Making an offering will seal your good fortune. A goal will be realized now.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
This is an important Convergence, and you must be part of it. Look for the Center of this convergence. Like waters running to the sea, like an astronomical convergence of planets revolving around the sun, you should let the gravity of this Center draw you near. Others are also drawn to this Center, and among them you will find shared bonds and kindred spirits. This tribal convergence will give you a clarity of purpose. You will no longer be alone.
“The navel point is sometimes misunderstood, but it is the most active point in the entire body. This is what the scriptures say. Human grows to life (in the womb) without the breath of life (because the praana comes from the mother) through the navel point. The only energy you had was at the navel point. That is why we stimulate the navel. In Kundalini Yoga there are two points that we stir up: one is the pituitary and the other is the navel point.” Yogi Bhajan
Your participation in the convergence that is happening will spark further interest and enthusiasm. It is time to put aside the cult of celebrity and be true to one’s duty. Great success.
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45 – Forty-Five Ts’ui / Gathering
The Lake rises by welcoming and receiving Earth’s waters: The King approaches his temple. It is wise to seek audience with him there.
Success follows this course. Making an offering will seal your good fortune. A goal will be realized now.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
This is an important Convergence, and you must be part of it. Look for the Center of this convergence. Like waters running to the sea, like an astronomical convergence of planets revolving around the sun, you should let the gravity of this Center draw you near. Others are also drawn to this Center, and among them you will find shared bonds and kindred spirits. This tribal convergence will give you a clarity of purpose. You will no longer be alone.
Nine in the fifth place means:
If in gathering together one has position, This brings no blame. If there are some who are not yet sincerely in the work, Sublime and enduring perseverance is needed. Then remorse disappears.
When people spontaneously gather around a man, it is only a good. It gives him a certain influence that can be altogether useful. But of course there is also the possibility that many may gather around him not because of a feeling of confidence but merely because of his influential position. This is certainly to be regretted. The only means of dealing with such people is to gain their confidence through steadfastness and intensified, unswerving devotion to duty. In this way secret mistrust will gradually be overcome, and there will be no occasion for regret.
16 – Sixteen Yü / Enthusiasm
Thunder comes resounding out of the Earth: Similar thunder roars up from the masses when the Superior Person strikes a chord in their hearts.
Whip up enthusiasm, rally your forces, and move boldly forward.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
There is a rhythmic force, a world music, that lives deep in the Unconscious of each of us. It’s a primitive drumbeat, a shaking rattle, a tribal chant that invokes the primal self to rise up and join the dance. This is the enthusiasm that is generated now. Not rhetorical persuasion, not a play on the emotions, but a charismatic, irresistible Call of the Wild. Confucius said that the person who could comprehend this could ‘rule the world as though it were spinning in his hand.’ This is a time for instinct, not intellect — the Thunder from the Beneath.
“Now we have to understand, clearly and consciously, how we can tune our mind to Infinity. You should have started learning this when you were one day old. Now one day plus all the days you have lived, that is your handicap. It is that handicap which we have to overcome. And there is a mantra which gives us a secret power. Today I’ll tell you the secret of chanting the Ong mantra. There is a pre-condition to the mantra, because sometime you may just get into your ego and chant Ong and not come back. Whenever you chant it, you must meditate first on the primal sound “Saa-Taa-Naa-Maa” and then do it. So let me record that warning and then we are free, we can do it.” Yogi Bhajan
Using all of your potential, your resources, talent and skills to align with the flow of existence, there is no struggle, no wasted energy, no regrets. Then your power becomes overwhelming, uncontested, unstoppable.
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34 – Thirty-Four Ta Chuang / Awesome Power
Thunder fills the Heavens with its awful roar, not out of pride, but with integrity; if it did less, it would not be Thunder: Because of his Great Power, the Superior Person takes pains not to overstep his position, so that he will not seem intimidating or threatening to the Established Order.
Opportunity will arise along this course.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
The Awesome Power available in this hexagram stems from what the Taoists call your Te, a term not perfectly translated into English. Roughly, it is your Integrity — not in the Western sense of honor — but more in the psychological definition of a full integration of Who You Are. This Awesome Power is achieved only by fully embracing both the good and the bad, the strong and the weak, the masculine and the feminine — all polarities within you. Such self-knowledge spawns a Mastery tempered with the humility necessary to rein in and harness this Awesome Power.
Nine in the third place means:
The inferior man works through power. The superior man does not act thus. To continue is dangerous. A goat butts against a hedge And gets its horns entangled.
Making a boast of power leads to entanglements, just as a goat entangles its horns when it butts against a hedge. Whereas an inferior man revels in power when he comes into possession of it, the superior man never makes this mistake. He is conscious at all times of the danger of pushing ahead regardless of circumstances, and therefore renounces in good time the empty display of force.
51 – Fifty-One
Chên / Thunder
Thunder echoes upon Thunder, commanding reverence for its father Heaven: In awe of Heaven’s majestic power, the Superior Person looks within and sets his life in order. Thunder mingles with startled screams of terror for a hundred miles around. As the people nervously laugh at their own fright, the devout presents the sacrificial chalice with nary a drop of wine spilt. Deliverance
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
A thunderbolt of Cosmic judgement crashes to earth. For the common person, it’s just a momentary fright soon forgotten, its warning unfathomed and unheeded. But to one who understands its significance, this thunder is a signal to repent. Centering the Self, seeking balance, the enlightened person will respect and align himself with this Higher Power, while his fellows remain subject to the whims of every passing storm.
“You have come here to be teachers. You should understand something about life. Life is not what you think. Life is not what you want. Life is not in surrender. Life is not in revolt. Life is not in disobedience. Life is not in obedience. Life is in life, which must be accepted, must be lived, must be recognized, must be organized. It must be mutual in essence. There are three stages. If there is a truth, it will be universal and mutual to all. If it is an ego, it will be mutual only to a few. If it is a neurosis, then it will be mutual only to you.” Yogi Bhajan
“Everything which happens in nature teaches you something! Every person you meet, you can learn something if you are sensitive and conscious…. The consciousness is a real balancing act, where you, the environment and your object, all three you can balance intuitively.” —Yogi Bhajan
Raise the elbows up and out to the sides, forearms parallel to the ground with the hands flat in front of the Heart Center, palms face down, fingers point towards opposite hand. Saturn Fingers (middle fingers) do not touch, stay ½ inch (1 cm) apart.
Focus the eyes at the Tip of the Nose. Experience seeing the Blue Pearl.
Breath is unspecified. Concentrate.
Immediately begin the next posture. 7 min
Maintain the posture and eye focus.
Listen to Meditation by Wahe Guru Kaur.
7 min
To End:
Inhale deep, hold the breath for 20 seconds. Stretch the spine consciously vertebrae by vertebrae from the lower tailbone up to the neck. Exhale. Repeat three more times. Relax and shake the hands and body wildly. Spread the energy to all the facets of the body. Continue for 1 minute. Relax. Then, move just the toes and the fingers fast, balance what has been achieved. Continue for 1.5 minutes.
Comments: “The forehead will start becoming heavy like a lead in exactly three minutes. That means your posture is correct…. Let the fingers not meet and let your eyes not change, let your spine be straight so that the spinal fluid can start flowing. Concentrate and whatever pain is happening, welcome it. Whichever nerve is bothering, welcome it. It is not bothering you, it is straightening itself, it is straightening its meridian, it’s straightening the flow of energy.” —Yogi Bhajan
It is not my projection that you are a human being.But you are.And as a human, you are what you are.Good, bad, right, wrong, happy, unhappy, sick, healthy, there are many facets.And if we look to all facets you have, in spite of all facet, there is a one fact.Are you you?And that’s not true.You know when you deal with your life as you want to deal with your life, you have the right to deal with your life, the way you want to look, the way you want to eat, the way you want to be, the way you want to suffer, the way you want to be …Whatever you do and whether you are born to belong to God or God belongs to you, something like that, but are you you?Are you a bunch of solidified, (?) ideas, which cannot change.Think about it.
All what you have become is, somebody which you are not.The circumstances, the experience, the sicknesses, the betrayals, the treacheries, the happiness, friendship, brainwash, whatever you are going to call it, I am not going to blame anybody.But, I am sixty four year old and I have constantly fight.I had a big fight with this thing that “I am me, I am not an opinion, I am not an action, I am not a status, I am not a institution, I am not real, I am not not real,..”Beyond all what is imaginable, in existence, in feelings, in reality, in non-reality, still I hold myself as me.Can you even think of it.But what is the idea?I mean to say what do you think you are?There is a one place for you within you where you can hang in and not be touched.You do not know the joy of it, you do not understand.This is how it starts.
“I have a wife, I have children, I have a boyfriend, I have a sexual friend, I have a married man…”
What, what have you, you think.Whatever you have is a gift.It’s not yours.Gift is never personal.Enjoy it, have it, do whatever you want to do with it, I am not interfering.I am not quoting ethics to you, but gift is a gift.If you ever take gift as yours, you will drift into a pit from you will never come out.If wife thinks husband is a gift, if husband thinks wife is a gift, they will never fight.Gifts don’t fight.Do they fight?Have you ever looked in the mirror how much you spend money on being beautiful?Have you seen on your behavior how much energy you spend being idiot?Have you, have you ever understood?One day I was laughing, there was a doctor and she was a doctor.Husband and wife were doctors.And they came as my guests and they started fighting with each other.I didn’t say anything, I enjoyed it.It was a free movie.Soap opera.And she said,
“You are stupid, you have come in the presence of a holy man, you shut up.”
He say, “You shut up, I want to have ask question.”
And neither he asked question nor he shut up, nor she could shut him up and they had a half-an-hour at the most beautiful show, free of cost.And I said,
“Who gave them the degree?I mean who made them PhDs?”
The lady was MD and man was PhD.(?) very successful people.He works for a very high classy white post and she is a medical doctor.And they both had a quarrel with each other.And today I ask one of my girl, I said, may I ask, because I saw somebody having the bangs over the glasses, I mean to say, (?) it was just like the dog which can’t see.So naturally it created a curiosity in me (?) and I said,
“Could you tell me why people put these bangs?”
Because that creates fear in your personality.It’s a very psychological defective thing to cover your forehead.This area should never be covered, doesn’t matter what you do, and she said,
“To not show these wrinkles.”
Ha, don’t show wrinkles, but you will be always be phobic.Look at the exchange of price.Because this triangle is the porous bone, which is meant for light during the day and hairs are bad conductor of heat and electricity and both won’t go.It is amazing.The only first time in the world this psychology was used by (?) to slave the Chinese population and he used this psychology that any, every Chinese woman will have like that, (?) you saw the doll bangs?And every man will be shaved up to half head and if not, they can be slaughtered on the spot.It was used as a psychology, it’s a what you call this, fear therapy.For generations.Now I didn’t know it was a fashion.I didn’t have to do anything with it, because I don’t have bangs, so what do I know.
But, you know, we want to hide things, what is wrong having wrinkles, tell me?What’s so bad about it?I mean you are forty five year old and you have wrinkles.Think of those who died at twenty-two, without wrinkles.Ha?They are dead and gone.Twenty-two.They never had wrinkles.And how much you can avoid wrinkles?And what is so bad dying?What is so bad getting old?(?) that’s bad being you as you.You will never accept you.You know, I mostly I don’t speak very frankly, because you will be hurt.Then I am supposed to say things in between, you know, read between the lines.
How more stupid a person can be in intelligence and in consciousness when you don’t accept yourself?I will never dress myself for anybody.Never.Never.I like to look beautiful to myself.I want to look beautiful to me, to my Guru, to my God, to my consciousness.I want to be excellent and elegant for myself.Not for anybody, who the hell is anybody can do me anything?If I don’t have me, everything else of mine for anybody is as wrong as a lie can be.And when you start, first step on untruth, how much you can make it?
Think sometime, just understand how stupid we are and how much false we live and then we expect everybody to be truthful.Then we expect everybody to love me and love us and so we can live happily thereafter.I mean, you have stories to believe, but for God’s sake, understand were is the challenge.Challenge is just to be you.In the all hotchpotch of this planet and all teachings and feelings and, you know somebody was telling me today we are the pioneers in this and we are pioneers in this, and we are not selling ourself right and I said, “Thank God, we are not selling ourself right, wrong, even.”We are not.We are not selling ourself, but where they are going to go?
Where this humanity is going to go?They don’t even answer.We have their answer.Why not do we wait?Have patience.One day everybody has to drink yogi tea whether you like it or not.There is no way, there is no way ultimately to get rid of the stress and move your liver other than this formula which is thousand and thousands of years old.
There was once a time, the Sikhs’ home you go, you smell yogi tea pot from two blocks.Now not.Not at all.Now they drink coffee, I know.It’s not that, now they are rich.Now even yogi tea is a instant yogi tea, they never drink.Other people drink.But our people don’t drink.A one thing for centuries a man found out a formula, not I found it, I just thought it will be better for liver.Just for liver.It’s a good, it’s tasty, it is nice, no, nobody drinks it.But in those days, when we were young in ‘60s we were totally over rotten by drugs and drugged by those stuff, we wanted to recuperate, then we understood.We took it as a savior.But now we don’t.Now it shall always save you.Something is not to sell, not to sell, not to push, not to…It is something to have.Carrot juice have to have.You don’t like carrot juice, don’t like carrots, (?) fine.Nobody is going to ask you to like carrots.Zucchini, you have to have.
There are certain thing in this nature you have to have.You know I go to restaurants, it’s very funny.You ask any plate, doesn’t matter what, they put little parsley over it.Have you seen that little thing?And the first thing the idiot does, take that parsley, put it on the side.Can you believe this?Can you understand that?The idea is to pick the parsley and eat it, chew it first and then eat the dish.The parsley on the tip of the dish is the pre-demand of the dish.The maker knows it, the eater doesn’t.I was that day eating with a person and dish came with a parsley on the top and he picked it up and I picked it up.He say,
“You want it sir?”
I say, “Yes.”And I say, “Give this old dish to me.”
“Why?”
I say, “You can’t eat it.Because this parsley should be eaten first and then you eat the stuff.Because the parsley, little parsley will go, it will stimulate the kidneys and this dish you are eating is heavy, it will clog the kidneys.Maker is not a idiot, you are an idiot.Parsley is for the health of the kidney.That’s what they put there.This, this is not a decoration piece.”
This little thing…Weren’t we all right without Siri Ved?We didn’t have any problem.Now it is okay?Now.I think he doesn’t eat parsley at all.Okay?Now.I didn’t touch it, don’t worry.Now wait a minute now, this, you mean this is bad and that’s good.Is this guy American?Can you check his…?Can you check from which planet he has come?I mean, I can’t believe he is with me for twenty two years never one day he doesn’t do this.It’s amazing.Now you don’t hear it at all.First, there was something, no, no, no, no, it is all his, he seeks attention in all this (?).It’s a psychological sickness, it’s (?) nothing, nothing so wrong, it’s okay.Yeah, now what?Now something is wrong with your head, that’s the problem.There is nothing wrong with the system.System can always be put to order.Now what?Okay?No?Yeah?Little bit.See this is what he is going to do.Somebody went to pick up a girlfriend.He started, she started brushing the hair.This is what Siri Ved does.When the class time happens, this is what he does.Some wire is loose, something is not connected, so everybody knows who Siri Ved is.He is a funny guy.Are you married or divorced?Maybe some woman can change your head, God knows.Okay now?Is it okay?So now Siri Ved is recognized?Now give him a hand.
You have to have carrot juice and you have to eat carrot, if you need your teeth.There is no, no substitute for it.There is no substitute for zucchini.There is no substitute for yogi tea, there is no substitute for yogurt, there is no substitute on this planet for turmeric, the most sexiest, healthiest healing herb on this planet.There is no substitute for (?), no, no.There is no substitute for (?), doesn’t matter you jump up, down, hate it or like it.It doesn’t matter.It has the aspirin and it has the (?) quinine, and which controls the nervous system and which controls the blood thickness and thinness, according to the weather.It’s very precise formulas.There is nothing you can do.
There are certain things in life you have to have.You have to be your own doctor for a while.And then when something fails go to a doctor.You can’t be waiting “All right, I blow up everything and then I go to a doctor.”It won’t happen.It will never work out, you have to have a cold shower whether you like it or you hate it, doesn’t matter.There is no medical human system that you can open up your capillaries other than cold shower.And cold shower means cold shower.Cold shower doesn’t mean (?).This not a cold shower.I saw somebody taking a cold shower (?) I say, “What?What happened?”
‘I have taken cold shower.”
I say, “This is no damn cold shower.Get in.And now, massage your whole body.”
“It’s very cold.”
“That I know.I follow the rule.Come on.And you massage your body under this damn cold water till your body tells you it is no more cold.That’s the cold shower.”
It means all the capillaries are open and ‘Come on, I was waiting, where were you?Today is your birthday, you have to sit here and meditate by my side.’Then look great.Right?And straight?Right?And look, and just like, like a yogi, right?Good.And let everybody do anything but you have to keep doing.”
That’s a cold shower.It means all the organs in the body the capillaries are open and blood supply has been resumed and the blood has come to the outer skin, to fight out the cold, it means no wrinkle, no that (?) what they call it, A-something?(?)
Student:(———-).
YB: (?) something, all the money can be saved.There is no need to be stupid and spend those hours and hours and dollars and dollars.On one Saturday when you are off, you have to take couple pounds of yogurt and lemon and turmeric and make a powder, like a paste.And put it on your body, let it dry.Let it dry.And ladies, inside out.You (?) understand what I am saying?And then, you use water and couple hours to take it off.And you will have a skin of a baby.
So there are certain rules.There are certain ways to life.Yeah, take (?) oil, massage your body.Right?Go under cold shower, you will be on fire.And avoid (?) otherwise you will go to emergency hospital.No way.But if you can avoid that, and massage yourself with a (?) oil and go under cold shower, your body will be on fire, for couple minutes.But you will not hurt.You will not have millions of problems which you can otherwise get.Because it will penetrate into the whole system and take care of you.Be yourself, something for yourself.Mentally, physically, spiritually, these are the three things you have.If your spirit goes off, you will be depressed.If your mind does not provide the caliber, you, you will be tired.If your physical body doesn’t come through, you will look stupid.Doesn’t matter how dressed up you are (?), moment you go to a certain place or certain talk or party, (?), and you will start falling apart.What is the use of that?I mean, what is this God, God you are all the time crying when you (?) cannot handle your own things into one gear?
Without taking care of the body and it’s nervous system and it’s circulatory system and it’s glandular system, you will never have a body.Without opening up the Chakras, without meditating, clear the subconscious becoming conscious of your whole system and being, you will have no caliber of mind.And without invoking in you the experience of ecstasy, you will never command the spirit when you need it.And you will fail.You will become a victim of your own scandal.You don’t need enemies.I don’t believe any enemy you need.I think you are your own enemy.
I am not interested in anything, I am very interested in the aura of a student when I see the frequency and the arcline are man matching I take a very personal interest, “Hey don’t do this.Hey, don’t go this way, hey, stop, be yourself, hey,”You know.Sometime they listen, sometime they don’t.When they don’t, so be it.It’s not my responsibility.I don’t want to control anybody, because I don’t want to control myself.I want to be a free person, independent person.I want to elevate myself, I want to enjoy myself, what myself is.I want everybody to do it.
How come you start with a man and a husband and a wife and a beloved and a lover and whatever and after two, three, four, five, six years you draw knives at each other.Why?Because you lack communication.Because the development of you is you, him is him, her is her, it is never together.You do not know as human to develop yourself in unisonness.Develop.I want to do what I want to do, I want to think what I want to think.And you know we feel that if I ask you to listen to me, and you listen to me, it’s a slavery.Why you go to college then?Just to learn.It’s always better to listen to a learned person and experienced and become learned.Only listening is not enough.Experience it.If it’s wrong, go back and say,
“You told me this, I did this, look hell has created.” Face the person.
Learning is a experience process, learning is not a philosophy.It’s not a bookish knowledge.If it’s a (?) bookish knowledge, there are libraries, you don’t need anything.You don’t need a teacher.And teacher is not to be worshipped.That is where you are most stupid western in the world.Teacher is not to be worshipped.Teacher is to be challenged.Teacher is to ask questions, teacher is to ask him, “Tell me.”
You western, God knows what has gone wrong with you.(?) Swamiji, (?), what (?) will do for you, nothing.It’s such a word I can’t believe it.I went to this World Parliament, everybody started touching my feet I say,
“I am going to fall, I cannot perfectly healthy yet.Don’t do this.”
Just, oh it is, it’s a, it’s a, what they say,
“It is a tradition to fall at your feet.”
I say, “No, no, no, no, no.It’s a tradition to fall at my feet to learn something.Not to make me fall.”
You know, I am not that kind of a teacher.If you have met me, ask me question, I will give you the answer.We’ll be very lucky.I’ll teach you something to be a better person.That is my play.This, this, too much for me, I say, I have my staff, I have my people, take care of me, I’ll come with ten, fifteen people, I am all well taken care of, there is no problem.I am very well organized person.Okay?You want to learn something?Learn from me and then experience it, and then enjoy it, and if doesn’t work, call me.You need to respect your teacher so that you can become a learned.Not a slave.But here, either it’s a question, question, question, or it’s a hum-hum-hu (?), both don’t work.Ask question, experience, ask question, experience, ask question, experience, if it’s a wrong ask further questions.Tell your thesis of life and say,
“Well, you told me this, Mr.I followed you and look this is has happened.It’s not working.”
That is the way to learn in spirituality.It’s not a matter of trust, it’s a matter of knowledge.That’s why lot of you freak out when I say don’t trust me.I said very openly.Because moment you start trusting me, it is, (?) the snake is on my neck, then you are free. That we don’t want.I want you to enquire, work hard and experience yourself.Why you are trusting me?Because you don’t want to do the homework.You want the easy path, “Ha, Yogiji said this, Yogiji….”
Yogiji said this, why he said it?Check it out.Does it work for you, it doesn’t for you, challenge him.Tell me I am a stupid, I’ll prove it to youI am very wise, in two second, I’ll nail you so bad you can’t believe it.Yeah.The relationship between a father and a child is for inquiry.But there is a difference.One day the son will challenge the father.And it’s, it will happen.The son will grow and the sun will set.Father will diminish, deplete and the son will grow.But in a teacher and student relationship, student will shine and the teacher will shine with it.So it’s a very futuristic investigation and investment.A real teacher, doesn’t matter what the temptation is, shall never betray you.Never.If he betrays you for the sake of temptation, he is not your teacher.Take it granted.Because his investment is not in now, it is in his tomorrow.And mind you one thing, if you ever see your teacher, have some buffers around you.You are not going to have a good time.Very rarely you will expect a teacher to be nice.Because first thing is, he is going to see the defect and he (?) get on your neck.First thing.It’s a, as the stone and the chisel meet, comes spark.Moment the teacher will meet you as a teacher, first (?) ceremony, that’s different, once the teacher will meet you as a teacher, he say,
“Hey, what are you doing?”
“No I am fine.”
“No, no, you are not.What’s going on?”
And that’s how it starts.And then you will try to deny and he will try to coax you to death, finally you will say this is happening and then there comes the shower left and right, up and down.Because idea is either you will learn from time and the bitterness of it, or you can learn from a teacher and save the bitterness of it.
Life is a practical challenge.Life is not what you and I are relating like okay, we go to the class, we pay few bucks and is over with.That’s not life.Life is to get rid of the garbage and come out clean.Get it, it is your right.Be free, be frank.Because teacher is today, you are tomorrow.Remember this.Teacher has no tomorrow.If he has no tomorrow, or he has a tomorrow without you, then he is a preacher, he is not a teacher.Then you are falling around guy for wrong purposes.Teacher is a investment, of his total ability in you and there is no relationship between you and teacher.Teacher job is to chisel you and your job is to not try to get chiseled and his job is or her job is to chisel you to your death.And your job is to give him run around and make all kind of excuses.And make a “”No, no, no, I mean, na, na, na…” then it ultimately comes to such a first degree language that you won’t find a way out.
Remember one thing in your life.Everything around here is a teacher.Blossoming of the flower, fragrance thereof, opening of the bud, changing of the weather, everything which happens in the nature teaches you something.Every person you meet, you can learn something if you are sensitive and conscious.And let us see why we let that beautiful experience pass by?We have to be contemplate ourself into a kind of ecstasy, so that we can be intuitively sensitive to find out the truth.Just by the very touch.Understand?How we can develop that?
Tonight is a hard night.Anybody has to go early or has a baby-sitter waiting for you or something like that or you are going to stick round?What, up to what time you are available?
Student:(———-).
YB:Nine.Okay.We will try to do whatever we can, okay?Yeah.
Student:(———-).
YB:No, no, no, no, no, no.Garbage you, you always find, there is, God cannot create one thing.And you therefore cannot create one thing.Whereas your wise, there is unwise with you, where you are right, there is unright with you, where car is moving, there is a brakes there.So basically, how much you can control your emotions, commotions, your thoughts, because your thoughts are not under your control.Your intellect, intellect is not under your control.Your consciousness is under your control.So intellects leaves all the thoughts.Millions of thoughts, and those thoughts do become emotion, feeling, desires and your activity.You can’t kill yourself for that.
So you have to understand that you have three personalities.You have a real personality, you have a working personality, and one is your fantasy, fantasy.So you have to see are you in too much in fantasy, or you are too much into your working personality, or you are too much in your reality.Can you bring balance if you can’t take help?Otherwise you will be off.You will be scattered, you can’t make it.Because practically life demands reality, practical working reality in balance.So, if you are too much thinking that bring it down, if too much scared and practical you can’t match up to your working personality and every time your boss is saying you are not making it, then you try to see what you are doing is not right.You understand?
Student:(?) don’t understand (?) said your consciousness (?) under control.What do you mean by that?I don’t understand (?)
YB:The conscience is an aware balance act, where you, the environment and you object, subject, environment are three, you can balance intuitively.That’s consciousness.It’s a mathematical formula.I, this other person, is another person’s environment and my environment must bring it to balance.It can’t be, I force him, or he forces me.It can’t be done.You have to come to a mutual understanding.And mutual understanding not in two.Mutual understanding in three.And that’s where everybody goofs.You, the object, you are the subject, there is a object, two and the environments.Somebody called somebody on the telephone,
“Honey, you love me?”
She said, “I do.”
“You do?”
She said, “Yes, I do.”
“So?”
“I am missing you.”
She say, “I am missing you too.”
And he said, “You come now.If you won’t be in two hours, I’ll commit suicide.”
Telephone banged.She left.There was a storm.He knew it.But she just to prove it, started.Got stuck by avalanche, never made it.He never shot himself.That stupid lover should have known the environments are not cohesive.And she should have known the environments also have a vital part, if she has to go and meet him, environments must permit it to meet.So if two people are in mad love or real love or understanding or relationship, it is human to involve the environments into it.And those who do not involve environments are very unconscious people.Does it make it clear?
Student:(———-).
YB:That’s okay.Little is enough.
So let us sit down please, and balance our hands but our saturn finger, the second finger must not touch, but should have about, it’s called plug difference.Plug difference is less than half an hour per half an inch.You have to make your hands like this and very accurate, but must not meet, but it should not be too much away, it should be just they call plug difference.Plug difference is less than half an hour, half an inch.Seven time thinking of the hour, because see how much your psyche can affect.Because at that time there was half an hour of your going to meet your baby-sitter, right?Accurate?
Now.Bring your eyes and see how the body will give you what you don’t want to otherwise get.Now, bring your eyes to the tip of the nose.Down there, from there down there you will find a little blue space.It’s called ‘Blue Pearl’ or ‘Pearl of Life’ or ‘Pearl of ….’ there are so many things for this one little thing, it doesn’t mean anything, it’s just a matter of experience.
If your posture will be correct, your front lobe, the forehead, will start becoming heavy like a lead within exact three minutes.That means your posture is correct.Kindly look deep at your tip of the nose and below, keep your fingers and don’t let them meet, they will meet, mind you I am warning you .I’ve done it, so I know it.The fingers will meet.Let them not meet and let your eyes not change, let your spine be straight so that serum can start flowing, spinal fluid, they call it and things start happening.And kindly concentrate.
I am going to go tonight myself and get rid of this cold of mine just by a simple formula of having little parsley, blended and juiced, about an ounce with a lemon, drink it.
Look down the tip of the nose.Just think from the nose like water drops you are dripping something and you are seeing it falling into the blue cup down there.It’s very easy, if you cannot do it, try it.If whatever your body does, it shall have effect.Just be elegant, there is nothing more noble than your own physical control on your own body ….
SIDE–B
….misunderstand me that your body is under your perfect control, that’s not true.This is a misunderstanding we all have. Our body and our nervous system is called stamina.Sometime our stamina, physical stamina, mental caliber, and our spirit do not catch up to meet our demand.Try to understand.So this is just to develop and invoke in you that energy, you will start opening up your Chakras without your any hassle.And your frontal lobe will start (?) heavy like a lead, you will feel like an headache, but that’s not a real thing.It mean, it is happening.And just feel there is a halo of light God with you, like Ang Sang Wahe Guru, that’s what actually Ang Sang Wahe Guru means, the sound, it’s a sound, it is not, it is a halo sound.
Today is a very day of festivity.You will feel every Jewish family walking around with Yamka and well dressed up and going through the synagogue.It is a new year.So in every religion you find certain time where you can tune yourself to a point you can go for something you feel is real.You will find in every religion, but in yoga, it’s every time.You don’t have to wait.
Right now you are tuning yourself and exercise yourself control, physical, mental and spiritual.Sit like a yogi, be like a yogi, act like a yogi and there will be a pain and there will be a painful pleasure, both.Rise above it.Your nerves will start kicking in and itching and either your lower back will start hurting or your neck will start going berserk.Either of the two things will happen in this exercise because all the five tattvas, elements are now exchanging energy very heavily.I wish you should see the way I am seeing it.
Put that tape, “Meditate…..”meditation, yeah.It is now five minutes to nine and you are being timed now.And please do your best to concentrate and whatever pain is happening, welcome it.Whichever nerve is bothering, welcome it.It is not bothering you, it is straightening itself, it is straightening it’s meridian, it’s straightening the flow of energy.It means that meridian is blocked.Either go to acupuncture, get a needle in or just do it yourself.
(The tape, “Meditation… is played).
YB (talks over tape):Fix the eyes.Optical nerve must be controlling the brain…..There are two nerves which are very strong.The taste and the sight. Optical nerve and taste nerve.Faster.Third comes the skin, the touch.Now become yogi for five minutes.I am not expecting any miracle, I am expecting right you creating a miracle.For yourself.There is no philosophy in this.Left energy and right energy, ida and pingala will exchange itself at a very high velocity.If the optical nerve is totally controlled the action will be hummungus……Four more minutes.Become like a solid statue of Buddha.Be your best, nothing less…..Meditation is a answer to life, problems, hurdles, weaknesses, it makes you cross all pain, displeasure, weakness.It’s your pathway between man and God.Woman included……You have one and a quarter minute to go.Concentrate…..Inhale deep.
(The tape ends).
YB:Deep, deep, deep, hold it tight and stretch your spine vertebra by your physical actions from lower tail up to the neck.Consciously one, one, one, one…. All the way up to the twenty six of them and then let it go.Inhale again deep, hold tight and please squeeze all the muscular system of your body by the spine, just consciously, slowly, gradually all the weight to the up to the neck, chin in and then let it go.Once again inhale and do the same.One, two, three, four, …….nineteen, twenty, one, two, three, four, five six, let it go.Inhale deep again.One two, three four,….nineteen twenty, one, two, three, four, five six, let it go.Please relax.And shake your hand and body as wildly and fanatically and insanely you can.That’s the beauty of it, if you, if you will not do that, energy will not spread into all facets.Just go, go, go, go, just like craziest thing you can do is, and the wisest thing.Just you act crazy.
Move, move, move your body, just like wild as it should be.Whatever you can imagine, a wild action you can just by sitting do it, just do it.Hurry up, hurry up.You have legs also, they need energy too.They have to carry you, the body, neck, (?) go just into, it’s called causing a self-creative convulsion on the body.All right, now sit down nicely.Feel good?You are okay?
Run, run, run, nine o’clock, hurry up.It’s okay, it’s, it’s nice.Aa, this is what you can do with me, whenever you get a chance you can live.With me, you can only do one thing.With me you can learn to live.I am not interested in your imaginations and in your wealth, and in your poverty and in your richness and whatever you go through.But, I can take your wheel of the wagon out of the mud.That I can do.And that is what is called Kundalini yoga.It immediately takes a person from mental stalemate to mental activity.Increases the caliber.There is no beauty of this yoga, I would never have tried it if I don’t understand three things about it.One is, saves time, number two, it is spontaneous, number three, it deeply affects on all calibers of the human, all facets.That’s all.
And the wonderful thing in this is, we don’t initiate anybody, we don’t lay philosophy, nothing doing.Get a person in the mold, cook him, stretch him, wash him, clean him, kick him out, let him face his day.That’s how it works.It’s not a (?) you come and do for me and I’ll do for you.There is no such thing, there is no little (?), most of the people don’t like it.Then they want long emotional rap and satisfaction, that kind of relationship.In this, it can’t be.We don’t initiate anybody.Because if you are so stupid you can’t initiate yourself, why the hell we go to the trouble?
So it is not, it’s a, it’s a respect of your understanding of your learning of your grace, it’s not a respect by bound, by tying knots and tying those trips and going through all those ceremonies, no ceremony.There is only one ceremony that you (?) get better ten times than your teacher.That’s your ceremony.Prove it.That is the only ceremony which is acceptable in this whole science.Become, become, healthier, happier and holier.And as everybody has nine holes is a holy, simply you should know what goes in and goes out.And that is called conscious control.
And now, a very simple exercise.Move your toes and move your fingers fast together for few minutes, so whatever you have achieved is balanced.That’s all.It will be a minute and a half when we finish this we will be free.Come on, come on, quick, fast.And see the toes are moving both sides.Because toes and fingers are the extremities.So, the movement little bit in them, does complete thing.All right.Now, fold your hands and sing.
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61 – Sixty-One Chung Fu / Inner Truth
The gentle Wind ripples the Lake’s surface: The Superior Person finds common ground between points of contention, wearing away rigid perspectives that would lead to fatal error.
Pigs and fishes. You may cross to the far shore. Great fortune if you stay on course.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
The subject of this hexagram discovers a key to Tranquility by first gaining insight into his own nature, then turning that vision outward. By resolving inner conflicts and being at peace with himself, he learns to gain insight into others. In effect, he enters another, sees with the other’s eyes, listens with the other’s ears, feels with the other’s heart. He then returns to his own center, with new perspective and understanding.
The wind blows over the lake and stirs the surface of the water. Thus visible effects of the invisible manifest themselves. The hexagram consists of firm lines above and below, while it is open in the centre. This indicates a heart free of prejudices and therefore open to truth. On the other hand, each of the two trigrams has a firm line in the middle; this indicates the force of inner truth in the influences they present. The attributes of the two trigrams are: above, gentleness, forbearance toward inferiors; below, joyousness in obeying superiors. Such conditions create the basis of a mutual confidence that makes achievements possible. The character of fu (“truth”) is actually the picture of a bird’s foot over a fledgling. It suggests the idea of brooding. An egg is hollow. The light-giving power must work to quicken it from outside, but there must be a germ of life within, if life is to be awakened. Far- reaching speculations can be linked with these ideas.
THE JUDGEMENT
INNER TRUTH. Pigs and fishes. Good fortune. It furthers one to cross the great water. Perseverance furthers.
Pigs and fishes are the least intelligent of all animals and therefore the most difficult to influence. The force of inner truth must grow great indeed before its influence can extend to such creatures. In dealing with persons as intractable and as difficult to influence as a pig or a fish, the whole secret of success depends on finding the right way of approach. One must first rid oneself of all prejudice and, so to speak, let the psyche of the other person act on one without restraint. Then one will establish contact with him, understand and gain power over him. When a door has thus been opened, the force of one’s personality will influence him. If in this way one finds no obstacles insurmountable, one can undertake even the most dangerous things, such as crossing the great water, and succeed. But it is important to understand on what the force inner truth depends. This force is not identical with simple intimacy or a secret bond. Close ties may exist also among thieves; it is true that such a bond acts as a force but, since it is not invincible, it does not bring good fortune. All association on the basis of common interests holds only up to a certain point. Where the community of interest ceases, the holding together ceases also, and the closest friendship often changes into hate. Only when the bond is based on what is right, on steadfastness, will it remain so firm that it triumphs over everything.
Wind over lake: the image of INNER TRUTH. Thus the superior man discusses criminal cases In order to delay executions.
Wind stirs water by penetrating it. Thus the superior man, when obliged to judge the mistakes of men, tries to penetrate their minds with understanding, in order to gain a sympathetic appreciation of the circumstances. In ancient China, the entire administration of justice was guided by this principle. A deep understanding that knows how to pardon was considered the highest form of justice. This system was not without success, for its aim was to make so strong a moral impression that there was no reason to fear abuse of such mildness. For it sprang not from weakness but from a superior clarity.
“We are not fools when we tell you, “Get up in the morning and have a cold shower.” All we want is the blood to circulate through the capillaries, and there’s no way to open the capillaries but to take a cold shower. There’s no other way. In the West it is called “hydrotherapy.” In the East it’s called “ishnaan.” It’s a most beautiful thing. When you take a cold shower, the blood from inside hits the outside to cover the attack. In that fast movement, it opens the capillaries. When the capillaries are open, they feed your glands, and when a glandular system is well-fed, it secretes. The chemistry of your blood becomes perfect. That gives you a capacity to act, think, know; and it gives you grit, stamina. What is so bad about that?” Yogi Bhajan
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58 – Fifty-Eight Tui / Empowering
The joyous Lake spans on and on to the horizon: The Superior Person renews and expands his Spirit through heart-to-heart exchanges with others.
Success if you stay on course.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
This is the sign of true companionship. The principals in this situation exchange energy, ideas and feelings, constantly invigorating and encouraging each other to new heights of Spiritual achievement and Self-discovery. This exchange is not for the glory of the Team, but for furthering the process of each individual’s ‘Te’, or pure potentiality.
Six at the top means:
Seductive joyousness.
A vain nature invites diverting pleasures and must suffer accordingly (cf. the six in the third place). If a man is unstable within, the pleasures of the world that he does not shun have so powerful an influence that he is swept along by them. Here it is no longer a question of danger, of good fortune or misfortune. He has given up direction of his own life, and what becomes of him depends upon chance and external influences.
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?
“Once you surrender, the karma surrenders with it; and once the karma surrenders with it, you are free. Then you can adopt Dharma. The moment you are in Dharma, and Dharma is your priority, you will never be subject to karma—you are free, you are liberated, you are fine. You are yourself. And then you enjoy yourself. You say what you feel, you do what you feel, you are an elevated self. It’s very fine, it’s very neat.” Yogi Bhajan
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47 – Forty-Seven K’un / Exhaustion
A Dead Sea, its Waters spent eons ago, more deadly than the desert surrounding it: The Superior Person will stake his life and fortune on what he deeply believes.
Triumph belongs to those who endure. Trial and tribulation can hone exceptional character to a razor edge that slices deftly through every challenge. Action prevails where words will fail.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
This is the realm of the Shaman. You have exhausted every alternative, spent yourself completely, taxed body and mind beyond your former limits. Survival and salvation lie beyond your reach now. Only transcendence to a new existence — a higher plane of being — will see you through. The Old You is just a dry husk. You can’t return to it. Metamorphosis is the only grace offered. You can only return to your homeland as a New You.
Six at the beginning [yin at bottom] means:
One sits oppressed under a bare tree And strays into a gloomy valley. For three years one sees nothing.
‘Bare Tree in Moonlight’ – Dottie Briggs
When adversity befalls a man, it is important above all things for him to be strong and to overcome the trouble inwardly. If he is weak, the trouble overwhelms him. Instead of proceeding on his way, he remains sitting under a bare tree and falls ever more deeply into gloom and melancholy. This makes the situation only more and more hopeless. Such an attitude comes from an inner delusion that he must by all means overcome.
54 – Fifty-Four Kuei Mei / A Loveless Marriage
The Thunderstorm inseminates the swelling Lake, then moves on where the Lake cannot follow: The Superior Person views passing trials in the light of Eternal Truths. Any action will prove unfortunate. Nothing furthers.
SITUATION ANALYSIS:
This is at best a Marriage of Convenience. You have found yourself in desperate straits, a position of weakness, and you are tempted to pay dearly for a remedy. A drowning man isn’t picky about who throws him a rope. The rescue offered to you now is undesirable. It may pull you out of this sticky situation, but it will cause even greater predicaments down the road. Don’t obligate yourself in this way. You are selling your future for a quick fix today.