“You know the truth in your heart.  It’s better to align your intentions with the truth and act on that rather than being often distracted by the lure of your compulsions.  Work on that.” – Today’s Reading

You know the truth in your heart.  It’s better to align your intentions with the truth and act on that rather than being often distracted by the lure of your compulsions.  Work on that.

Tao Te Ching – Verse 22 – If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked.

Today: “Some people waste their entire life showing off that they are somebody.” – Yogi Bhajan

Try these meditations:

Meditation: LA101 790419-Faith In Our Self And Our Own Discipline

Meditation: Release obstacles in your path

Meditation: 760422 – Balancing Projection with Intention

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Previous Readings:

Today: I Ching – Previous previous reading – “You must not allow the imposter to gain sufficient influence to impose his misguided and selfish agenda on those he purports to lead. Gather sufficient resources and allies to stop him. Allow the disaster to be his alone.”

Today: I Ching – Previous Reading – “Once your projection increases in the estimation of your peers it is easy to become smug and presumptuous. Curb the arrogance and find your original humility in order to remain in the flow.”

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

24 – Twenty-Four.  Fu / Return

Thunder regenerates deep within Earth’s womb:
Sage rulers recognized that the end of Earth’s seasonal cycle was also the starting point of a new year and a time for dormancy.
They closed the passes at the Solstice to enforce a rest from commerce and activity.
The ruler himself did not travel.

You have passed this way before but you are not regressing.
This is progress, for the cycle now repeats itself, and this time you are aware that it truly is a cycle.
The return of old familiars is welcome.
You can be as sure of this cycle as you are that seven days bring the start of a new week.
Use this dormancy phase to plan which direction you will grow.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

You are about to experience a rebirth — about to be given another chance, a new lease on life.
You have persevered, gone the distance through an entire cycle — through the Spring of hope or new passion, through a Summer of growth and building, only to be sacrificed like the archetypal Harvest King at the Autumn reaping.
You lie dormant like seed beneath Winter snows now, healing and absorbing new energies in preparation for the new young Spring coming shortly to your life.

Six in the third place means:

Return after return after return.
Risky, but never a mistake.

Repeated return. Danger. No blame.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

“Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”, 1907 – Pablo Picasso

There are people of a certain inner instability who feel a constant urge to reverse themselves. There is danger in continually deserting the good because of uncontrolled desires, then turning back to it again because of a better resolution. However, since this does not lead to habituation in evil, a general inclination to overcome the defect is not wholly excluded.

36 – Thirty-Six   Ming I / Eclipsing the Light

Warmth and Light are swallowed by Deep Darkness:
The Superior Person shows his brilliance by keeping it veiled among the masses.

Stay true to your course, despite the visible obstacles ahead.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

This time calls for a saintly effort to turn the other cheek.
You have been deliberately injured.
Going blow-for-blow will only escalate this war.
Abstain from vengeance.
Show all watching that you are above it.
Sidestep your aggressor’s headlong charge, giving him the opportunity to fall on his face.

Author: harinam

Yogi, teacher, healer

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