“When you become light and you radiate, there is no darkness. A candle has one future, to spread the light. How does the candle spread the light? By burning itself, the candle spreads the light and consequently knows the future. If you burn yourself, you will radiate and will spread the light. The job of the human being is to radiate through the finite self the infinite light.” Yogi Bhajan
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Tao Te Ching – Verse 15 – The ancient Masters were profound and subtle
Tao Te Ching – Verse 15
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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Today: “Act innocently without expectations. Be true. You will succeed with everything you so.” – from the I Ching
Act innocently without expectations. Be true. You will succeed with everything you so.
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Meditation: 760422 – Balancing Projection with Intention
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Today: “A man has to understand his existence in relationship to the universe” – Yogi Bhajan
“A man has to understand his existence in relationship to the universe. Whosoever knows this knows the truth. The whole world around you will be beautiful if you understand that you are you.” Yogi Bhajan
Meditation: LA010 – 19780210 – Gobinda – Project to the Infinite
Tao Te Ching – Verse 14 – Look, and it can’t be seen. Listen, and it can’t be heard. Reach, and it can’t be grasped.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 14
Look, and it can’t be seen.
Listen, and it can’t be heard.
Reach, and it can’t be grasped.
Above, it isn’t bright.
Below, it isn’t dark.
Seamless, unnamable,
it returns to the realm of nothing.
Form that includes all forms,
image without an image,
subtle, beyond all conception.
Approach it and there is no beginning;
follow it and there is no end.
You can’t know it, but you can be it,
at ease in your own life.
Just realize where you come from:
this is the essence of wisdom.
(translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1995)
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Look at it, it cannot be seen
It is called colorless
Listen to it, it cannot be heard
It is called noiseless
Reach for it, it cannot be held
It is called formless
These three cannot be completely unraveled
So they are combined into one
Above it, not bright
Below it, not dark
Continuing endlessly, cannot be named
It returns back into nothingness
Thus it is called the form of the formless
The image of the imageless
This is called enigmatic
Confront it, its front cannot be seen
Follow it, its back cannot be seen
Wield the Tao of the ancients
To manage the existence of today
One can know the ancient beginning
It is called the Tao Axiom
(translation by Derek Lin, 2006)
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Sight and blindness are indistinguishable.
Thunder and silence are one.
Touch and ether are the same.
There is always light and dark.
Shape is illusion; form is Formless.
The future is the past.
The Beginning is the present.
Nothingness is the Zero called changeless.
(translation by Jeremy M. Miller, 2013)
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Today: “Knowing the self is paramount. You must also know your relations with everything intimately. Then your intentions will flow.” – from the I Ching
Knowing the self is paramount. You must also know your relations with everything intimately. Then your intentions will flow.
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Tao Te Ching – Verse 13 – Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
Meditation: NM0406 – Know the Best of You – Share the Best with Others
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Today: “If you want to be great, then you will have to feel great and act great” – Yogi Bhajan
If you are not aware for you and aware of you, then your existence will be damaged. If you want to be great, then you will have to feel great and act great. Many people think they have to seek approval. All you have to do is approve of yourself.” Yogi Bhajan
Meditation: NM0413 – Intuition and the Strength of Excellence
Tao Te Ching – Verse 13 – Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 13
Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.
What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it,
your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground,
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Today: “In your service to the world be on the lookout for people who can help with the necessary fervor for the cause.” – from the I Ching
In your service to the world be on the lookout for people who can help with the necessary fervor for the cause.
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Tao Te Ching – Verse 12 – He allows things to come and go. His heart is open as the sky.
Meditation: NM374 – 20001128 – Patience and Intuition
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Today: “What is meditation?” – Yogi Bhajan
“What is meditation? What is God-consciousness? What is truth? What are you seeking? If you think very deeply, very consciously, the answer will come to you. You are a living existence of light; you need not seek anything.” Yogi Bhajan
Tao Te Ching – Verse 12 – He allows things to come and go. His heart is open as the sky.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 12
Colors blind the eye.
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart.
The Master observes the world
but trusts his inner vision.
He allows things to come and go.
His heart is open as the sky.
(translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1995)
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The five colors make one blind in the eyes
The five sounds make one deaf in the ears
The five flavors make one tasteless in the mouth
Racing and hunting make one wild in the heart
Goods that are difficult to acquire make one cause damage
Therefore the sages care for the stomach and not the eyes
That is why they discard the other and take this
(translation by Derek Lin, 2006)
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Colors blur sight.
Sounds blur hearing.
Tastes blur the Nectar.
Chasing drives Bliss away.
Lust blurs calm.
In the Nothingness of Zero is Unimaginable Peace.
(translation by Jeremy M. Miller, 2013)
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Today: “Danger and current threats won’t harm you. Rather, they are a wakeup call. Heed them for your greater prosperity.” – from the I Ching
Danger and current threats won’t harm you. Rather, they are a wakeup call. Heed them for your greater prosperity.
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Tao Te Ching – Verse 11 – We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
Meditation: TCH20 02 960722 – Increase the Power of the Infinite Within
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Today: “You are true now, you were true then, and you shall ever be true” – Yogi Bhajan
“You are true now, you were true then, and you shall ever be true – that is all you have to know, and you will be free.” Yogi Bhajan
Tao Te Ching – Verse 11 – We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
Tao Te Ching – Verse 11
We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.
(translation by Stephen Mitchell, 1995)
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Thirty spokes join in one hub
In its emptiness, there is the function of a vehicle
Mix clay to create a container
In its emptiness, there is the function of a container
Cut open doors and windows to create a room
In its emptiness, there is the function of a room
Therefore, that which exists is used to create benefit
That which is empty is used to create functionality
(translation by Derek Lin, 2006)
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It is the gaps that define.
That definition is perfect.
Ornate vessels hold water —
So it is Nothingness which has been defined, not the vessel.
The unwise have been tricked.
(translation by Jeremy M. Miller, 2013)
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Today: “Gather together. Bond with each other. Great success.” – from the I Ching
Gather together. Bond with each other. Great success.
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Meditation: LA847-19950816-Unity-Your Magnetic Field of the Total Self Will Become One
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Today: “You belong to only one thing, and that is Truth” – Yogi Bhajan
“You belong to only one thing, and that is Truth; and you have got to be delivered to only one thing, and that is Truth.” Yogi Bhajan