Tao and I-Ching
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i-Ching as Oracle
As a derivative of the Tao, the I-Ching has been used for eons as a means of describing current life situations through a lens of supreme wisdom and understanding that can provide guidance to people in their lives.
That it is a tool of divination is not accurate as it does not foretell the future. To the extent that people do not look inward and look out to the world through a lens of desires, demand and attachments, any information delivered by the I-Ching and translated by a knowing sage will be perceived as prophecy.
The element of the throwing of yarrow sticks by the inquirer to arrive at a response to their question continues to misconstrue the I-Ching as an oracle. All true answers come within and are channeled from Divine Energy and Wisdom.
The tools and techniques used to get at your answers be it Applied Kinesiology, tarot card/tea leaves/palm reading/planet movements, or a construct of hexagrams are simply means to the end. You can find those answers within the calm still focus of your heart by looking and penetrating without any external aids.
However, as a text of great wisdom akin to the Bible, Koran, and Vedic texts the I-Ching imparts deep insights, knowledge and perspective on the workings of the world, correct interactions among peoples, and the cycles of change and life. To read it simply from that view provides an immeasurable wealth of philosophical information, psychological guidance and esoteric wisdom to anyone.
That it is a tool of divination is not accurate as it does not foretell the future. To the extent that people do not look inward and look out to the world through a lens of desires, demand and attachments, any information delivered by the I-Ching and translated by a knowing sage will be perceived as prophecy.
The element of the throwing of yarrow sticks by the inquirer to arrive at a response to their question continues to misconstrue the I-Ching as an oracle. All true answers come within and are channeled from Divine Energy and Wisdom.
The tools and techniques used to get at your answers be it Applied Kinesiology, tarot card/tea leaves/palm reading/planet movements, or a construct of hexagrams are simply means to the end. You can find those answers within the calm still focus of your heart by looking and penetrating without any external aids.
However, as a text of great wisdom akin to the Bible, Koran, and Vedic texts the I-Ching imparts deep insights, knowledge and perspective on the workings of the world, correct interactions among peoples, and the cycles of change and life. To read it simply from that view provides an immeasurable wealth of philosophical information, psychological guidance and esoteric wisdom to anyone.
Success Fear and Failure
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,
you will always keep your balance.
What does it mean that hope is as hallow as fear?
hope and fear are both phantoms
that arise from the thinking of the self,
When we don't see the self as self,
what do we have to fear?
See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
the you can care for all things.
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,
you will always keep your balance.
What does it mean that hope is as hallow as fear?
hope and fear are both phantoms
that arise from the thinking of the self,
When we don't see the self as self,
what do we have to fear?
See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
the you can care for all things.
Sojourning
Every city/town is a principality with its own energetic drivers and that this also depends on altitude. Altitude for the planet corresponds with chakras. At inner earth level it is the root chakra, the base foundation that sustains all life.. Sea level is 2nd chakra of emotions, and so on. Above or at 8,000 feet is the brow or violet chakra which is where I call home right now. Violet ray energy is a good place to meditate, reflect and leave emotions behind while communing with the heavens.
Sojourning corresponds to the Wanderer LU, hexagram 56 in the iChing which fits where I am right now in my life.:
A wanderer has no fixed abode; his home is the road. Therefore he must take care to remain upright and steadfast, so that he sojourns only in the proper places, associating only with good people. Then he has good fortune and can go his way unmolested.
Sojourning corresponds to the Wanderer LU, hexagram 56 in the iChing which fits where I am right now in my life.:
A wanderer has no fixed abode; his home is the road. Therefore he must take care to remain upright and steadfast, so that he sojourns only in the proper places, associating only with good people. Then he has good fortune and can go his way unmolested.
Wu Want Thunder
Plow your field for a field well-plowed, not for possible harvests.
Clear the wasteland for land well-cleared, not for potential rich fields
Clear the wasteland for land well-cleared, not for potential rich fields
Gathering Together
萃
This hexagram is so beautiful. It is called Ts'ui or Gathering Together. The hexagram is in two parts: the upper is Joyous Lake and the lower is Receptive, both my two favorite iChing hexagrams.
The message is about creating community by collecting around a center. It implies having a common cause such as spirituality, love, brotherhood, or belief systems. Or it can mean a collective in terms of relationships like family, friends, neighborhoods, town, or even countries.
That the hexagram shows the Joyous Lake over the Receptive Earth implies a warning about dangers inherent in any gathering of numbers of people that strife may occur as in the leakage of lake water into earth.
The core message is to find a common center to gather around to create community and then you need look no further as you will belong.
This hexagram is so beautiful. It is called Ts'ui or Gathering Together. The hexagram is in two parts: the upper is Joyous Lake and the lower is Receptive, both my two favorite iChing hexagrams.
The message is about creating community by collecting around a center. It implies having a common cause such as spirituality, love, brotherhood, or belief systems. Or it can mean a collective in terms of relationships like family, friends, neighborhoods, town, or even countries.
That the hexagram shows the Joyous Lake over the Receptive Earth implies a warning about dangers inherent in any gathering of numbers of people that strife may occur as in the leakage of lake water into earth.
The core message is to find a common center to gather around to create community and then you need look no further as you will belong.
Chung Fu Inner Truth
To intensify the power of inner truth, a man must always turn to his superior, from whom he can receive enlightenment as the moon receives light form the sun. However, this requires a certain humility, like that of the moon when it is not yet quite full. At the moment when the moon becomes full and stands directly opposite the sun, it begins to wane. Just as on the one hand we must be humble and reverent when face to face with the source of enlightenment, so likewise must we on the other renounce factionalism among men. Only by pursuing one's course like a horse that goes straight ahead without looking sidewise at its mate, can one retain the inner freedom that helps one onward.
Alignment with the Tao
Accept when you do not feel good that it depends on your own alignment and a personal connection with the Tao/Source/Divine/God. There is no substitute for your connection and relationship with the Tao/Source/the Divine.
Blame
Failure is an opportunity
If you blame someone else
there is no end to blame
Therefore the Master
fulfills his/her own obligations
and corrects his/her own mistakes
She does what she needs to do
and demands nothing of others
If you blame someone else
there is no end to blame
Therefore the Master
fulfills his/her own obligations
and corrects his/her own mistakes
She does what she needs to do
and demands nothing of others
