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I Ching For The Week of March 28, 2016

March 28, 2016 Hālau ʻĀha Hūi LanakilaLeave a comment

#1 Qian Energy/Inspiration/Dragon

Above Qian Heaven
Below Qian Heaven

QUIAN

The Wisdom:

The strength and force of the Dragon
Inspiration in its primal presence
This is the source of Great Success

Qian represents yang energy at its highest vibratory force. You can now be positioned to have what you want, and through diligent, unceasing effort, it can be yours. If you adhere to the truth and the universal laws that illuminate truth, your gains through effort will not slip away.

Persistence is necessary as you move into this portal of manifestation and transformation.

There is an energetic force that through clean and clear efforts can be your companion as you move into the space of achievement through commitment and intent that is available to you. It has always been near you, and now you can feel it and that feeling is exciting as well as a bit daunting in the power it contains. But make no mistake, this is for you. This is a primal force that is emerging from your depths and will transform and obliterate what have previously been obstacles. With proper consideration and respect of what got you here you can shift energetically into the divine process of being in harmony with the rhythm of the earth force. It is the primal heartbeat of your community and tribe that until now has been very distant. You now have the opportunity to gain clarity as to what is to be joined together and what shall be torn asunder. Obstacles old and new will now appear and these challenges come now because you are in the light of shining opportunities that are well deserved.

Having motives of self-interest, power over others or greed at this could bury you in the depths of despair and depression and you will be cast out through the very gates you have worked so hard to pass through. Do not let fear or doubt throw you back into the negative and deleterious part of the cycle that is now ending, causing you to repeat those lessons again and again, until you learn to be in harmony with the life’s elixirs of compassion, kindness, integrity, working for the greater good of all humanity with grace and dignity. The benefit now is to give up the front you have been showing to your tribe, relations and associates. This act serves you no more. You have been fronting.

Examine your motives for the success you seek. Be certain that it is for your highest good, as well as for the good of all. Recognize your own habitual thoughts and reactive behaviors that do not serve the highest good, and make a concerted effort to discard these outworn patterns. Replace them with positive thoughts and actions. The words you think are more powerful, and have greater effect than the words you say. Be conscious and have unceasing diligence as you travel this road less travelled. It can be frightening as you face the dragons of your past that have been fed by the darkness you have been challenged with and the darkness of which you have been an agent.

If you have, in the last cycle, given much effort to correcting your own negative thoughts and the actions that arise out of them, be diligent and do not let the energy, power, and enthusiasm of this inspirational force sway you from your pure and righteous path. In so many ways you have been asleep. This journey now is of wakefulness and entering into the frequency of spirit force that is imbued with and supported by your intent. If you accept the challenge you will embody the frequency of divine transformation and become a beacon of light for all who cross your path and those you seek as your fellows. It is now simply your choice, do you go to the dark side or enter into the light.

You have been hoping and planning
For the clarity that is being revealed;
With a considered strategy
Now is the time to
Consider your plans and put them into action.

In many ways you have felt like your success has been hidden somewhere and you were at wits end and lacked the key to finding it. The truth is you never needed a key, you just had to be persistent and use your creativity to open the door within that has been hidden from your view by fear of being in the light and the fear of unadulterated success. Within these actions, the axiom of follow your bliss is of prime importance. This is your opportunity for redemption.

From deep within is the mystical force that moves you between the worlds of your reality, the world of the unseen; you are calling on this force with the wisdom of the ancestors and the spirit of inspiration. Keep in mind that to release this primal force be a great danger if you are not in harmony with the frequency of your inner truth and in balance with the correctness of the times. These are unique times, the earth matrix has never been in this configuration before so there is no history to examine and consider. You are on your own. Again it is stated without full consideration and the honoring of the greater good you will, with certainty, bring danger to you and your tribe.

Here, now, at this very point, you must not give up on the projects and relationships that you have found to be difficult and hard to achieve. Stay in your truth no matter what challenges are placed before you. The right projects and relationships will stay and where there is doubt or avarice, they will quickly fade.

Be fully awake as you make these
Moves toward completing your plans;
Be steady and seek your inner wisdom;
Replace doubt and fear
With compassion and kindness.

In all worldly matters, invoke the power of your intuition. Have surety that your ideas are correct and in line with the Universal laws of compassion and kindness…. be firm and steady, and plan your strategy well. In this way, what you have worked for will come to you and remain, as long as you do not become egotistical or arrogant in the light of your achievements. Stay in humility.

These forces of change bring your sexual energy to the forefront, and as it does, step away from the ego and make it useful and pleasurable for all the while staying with your inner stillness. Note well the lessons learned up to this point, the ones that illuminate your heart, mind, and spirit. Have compassion for those you love and who love you, and practice loving kindness toward all. This is vital.

Along with this great energy coming to you there is responsibility to act in favor of the greater good. If your base ego wants to use the energy of inspiration and creativity to activate negative words or deeds, immediately correct your course. If you do not, your coming upward spiral of happiness and good fortune will spin downward, and you will soon find yourself stuck in the mire of fear, guilt, doubt, anger, and depression that you are using your finest efforts to overcome.

The negative aspects of the ego will try to run all the programs of doubt, shame, guilt, and fear by which you were indoctrinated in the past, and try to pass these off as “reality.” An inflated ego will try to convince you of the lie that this is what you must do to complete this cycle in order to achieve happiness and abundance. Don’t fall for it.
This is the Coyote aspect of the ego, the trickster and destroyer.

You have done your work to be at the gates of this new and abundant cycle in which the correct strategy is being made clear. In this cycle you will find the proper way to think and act to achieve the love and happiness you desire only if your intent is clear, sober and in the commitment to the greater good of humankind and the greater good..

In business, as in personal matters, let go of any thoughts, prejudices and words that disparage or limit others. Refrain from using negative generalities about the opposite sex, and use only the thoughts and words of honoring and compassion. Take the high road and be a light bearer as now so many of your brothers and sisters are being consumed by the presence of darkness in the form of greed, abuse and fear. Quell the negative voice; pay no heed to the voice of the judgmental and critical ego within. In this way you will not chase away the grace and abundance which you have long desired.

There is a very real possibility that during this cycle of inspiration you will become stressed and tired as you move forward. There will be much to do, so take time as needed to relax, rejuvenate, and have fun with your friends and family. You are the shining light now. Share your light and positive energy with those around you, be they friends or strangers. Raise the vibration around you. Good vibrations are vital now, for you and for all, give honor to Gaia our Mother, our earth. Shine like the sun at midday and take in the beauty and joy that you illuminate.

There is a saying that originated in the lessons of the monks in Tibet. It is the essence of the teaching of this hexagram: Keep your feet on the ground and your head in the clouds.

Teach peace — Be love the best way you know how..
In LaK’esh..

BobbyK

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Hinaara Re – March 3 – Doll Festival Day (Japan)

March 2, 2016 Hālau ʻĀha Hūi LanakilaLeave a comment

DOLL-FESTIVAL

MARCH 3 – Hinaara Re – DOLL FESTIVAL DAY IN JAPAN

① Doll Festival-related (boss, peach festival, chick festival, the day of peace, goldfish of the day)
② “ears of the Day” related (ear of the day, the ear of the day, the day of the commercial radio)
③ other occasions (betrothal of the day, salsa of the day, jigsaw puzzle of the day, etc.)

Because there are a lot of anniversary today, ① “Doll Festival” related, ② “ear of the Day” related, ③ other, are classified into three and the introduction of.

First of all, “Doll Festival” association from anniversary.

◆ boss (boss), peach festival “Boys’ boss” is was originally the date of early March found in one of the five festivals, now to be done on March 3 after. It also referred to as the “peach festival” because the lunar calendar March 3 is the season of peach flowers bloom.
Ancient times in China there is a custom to pay unclean cleanse the body in the river on the day of the boss, this is incorporated into Japan during the Heian period, now pay unclean flowing into the river and the sea to make the shape of a small person in the paper after the , this custom was established as a “sink chick”.

◆ In the traditional event to pray for the healthy growth of chicks festival girl, decorate the dolls in families with girls, it has been with that equipped with a white sake, Hishi Mochi-Hail, peach flowers, and the like.
Look like the above-mentioned “sink chick” is you decorate without passing become a thing increasingly elaborate, was developed as a chick festival (Doll Festival).
Although initially had been carried out between the imperial court and aristocracy, eventually look like is also carried out in samurai society, it became the common people of the events in the Edo era.

◆ day of peace
At the International PEN Club Tokyo Conference of 1984 was enacted by the initiative of the Japan PEN Club, carried out all over the world from next year.
“Chick festival to celebrate the healthy growth of girls is a symbol of peace” was established from the idea of the.

◆ enacted day Japan ornamental fish for the Promotion of Science of goldfish.
Edo period, from the fact that decorated the goldfish together at the time of the chick festival.

Then “ears of the day” association from anniversary.

◆ enacted ear of Japan Japan Society of Otolaryngology.
As well as a pun of “only (3) only (3)”, there is also the day to Helen Keller of triple trouble is Sullivan Ms began guidance, since it is also a further Graham Bell’s birthday is the inventor of the telephone .

◆ ear instrument manufacturer Leben sale the day of the ear is enacted.

◆ enactment day National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan Radio committee of commercial radio.

Finally, from the other occasions.

◆ enacted day nationwide betrothal goods Federation of betrothal.
From “exchange of nuptial cups” of the wedding.

◆ enacted limited company salsa hot line Japan that are engaged in activities related to one of “salsa” of the day of the dance salsa.
303 → San Marsan → salsa of pun.

◆ enacted day jigsaw puzzle manufacturer Board of jigsaw puzzle.
The combination of the number 3 from the fact that appear to jigsaw puzzle piece.

◆ third day Japan’s three large Association enacted.
Japan’s three large Association seems to organizations that are studied that it is a stable and enclosed in three since ancient times in Japan, such as “three sacred treasures”, “three most scenic spots in Japan.”

◆ established in inauguration meeting of thirty-three make in thirty-three Kannon hallowed ground of Kannon of the day all over the country “thirty-three Kannon network conference” is 2010.

[Attention here] boss (boss) – it is carried out in Tottori Mochigase “sink chick”
Although introduced the stunning dolls of the past two times March 3 “Doll Festival” in seven Dankazari and five Dankazari, this time of purification Me in Boys’ boss was introdu① Doll Festival-related (boss, peach festival, chick festival, the day of peace, goldfish of the day)
② “ears of the Day” related (ear of the day, the ear of the day, the day of the commercial radio)
③ other occasions (betrothal of the day, salsa of the day, jigsaw puzzle of the day, etc.)

Because there are a lot of anniversary today, ① “Doll Festival” related, ② “ear of the Day” related, ③ other, are classified into three and the introduction of.

First of all, “Doll Festival” association from anniversary.

◆ enacted day Japan ornamental fish for the Promotion of Science of goldfish.
Edo period, from the fact that decorated the goldfish together at the time of the chick festival.

Then “ears of the day” association from anniversary.

◆ ear instrument manufacturer Leben sale the day of the ear is enacted.

◆ enactment day National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan Radio committee of commercial radio.

Finally, from the other occasions.

◆ enacted day nationwide betrothal goods Federation of betrothal.
From “exchange of nuptial cups” of the wedding.

◆ enacted limited company salsa hot line Japan that are engaged in activities related to one of “salsa” of the day of the dance salsa.
303 → San Marsan → salsa of pun.

◆ enacted day jigsaw puzzle manufacturer Board of jigsaw puzzle.
The combination of the number 3 from the fact that appear to jigsaw puzzle piece.

◆ established in inauguration meeting of thirty-three make in thirty-three Kannon hallowed ground of Kannon of the day all over the country “thirty-three Kannon network conference” is 2010.

Tottori Mochigase is one of the famous place in this “sink chick”, in addition to “sink chick” is performed every year in early April hit on March 3 lunar calendar, tourism exhibition facility called “House of sink dolls” we’re looking to introduce these events.
⇒ mansion sink dolls … http://nagashibinanoyakata.jp/

■ Image Source:
TOKYO travel care “Tottori Mochigase (Mochigase) interesting sink chick events”
http://osodon.at.webry.info/200612/article_6.html

How the flow kimono was cute girl is cute to “sink chick” in the river is truly pleasing you, but also pleasing appearance of the mother and child that the girl so as not to fall into the river, also supports grab so that it does not wet the sleeves of kimono Is not it.
So day today, let’s do our best to cheerful ♪

#今日は楽しいひなまつり #鳥取市用瀬町の流し雛ced from ancient China returned to the origin event “sink chick” we will introduce the photos.
Tottori Mochigase is one of the famous place in this “sink chick”, in addition to “sink chick” is performed every year in early April hit on March 3 lunar calendar, tourism exhibition facility called “House of sink dolls” we’re looking to introduce these events.
⇒ mansion sink dolls http://nagashibinanoyakata.jp/

■ Image Source:
TOKYO travel care “Tottori Mochigase (Mochigase) interesting sink chick events”
http://osodon.at.webry.info/200612/article_6.html

#今日は楽しいひなまつり #鳥取市用瀬町の流し雛

Meditative Practice – Kundalini Yoga – 40-Day Sadhana with Snatum Kaur

January 6, 2016January 6, 2016 Hālau ʻĀha Hūi LanakilaLeave a comment

Snatam Kaur discusses how to practice Jap Ji for the upcoming Spirit Voyage 40 Day Global Sadhana: Meditation of the Soul – An Experience of Jap Ji. We begin on January 1, 2016. To register in English, click here:

http://www.spiritvoyage.com/globalsadhana/experiencejapji_english

Meditation Tips

January 3, 2016January 3, 2016 Hālau ʻĀha Hūi LanakilaLeave a comment

i-meditate

Do you think that you could never achieve a deep, relaxing state of mind?

Believe it or not, meditating really is not that difficult. Just look at it from a simpler point of view for a moment.

There are a lot of people who are interested in meditating because they have heard of the benefits that it can bring into their lives. However, many of the same people refrain from actually meditating, or give up very shortly after trying it, because they feel as if it is too hard or it is something they are not capable of doing.

Believe it or not, meditating really is not that difficult. I would like you to look at things from a simpler point of view for a moment.

Among various possible tips for self-improvement I believe that meditation is a very important one. Often when people hear the word meditation they tend to be a little bit scared. They imagine something somewhat mysterious or religious. They believe it is a very complicated technique that will required them a consequent investment in time and money before they can start getting some hypothetical benefits. Or maybe, if you are like me, you have problems with your knees that prevent you from sitting cross-legged. In this short article I would like to give you simple meditation instructions to get you started.

Meditation Made Simple
Let’s look at what is actually meditation. In a nutshell, meditation is a practice where you focus on your breath while trying not to think about anything. That’s it!

Meditation:

• is not a religious act in itself
• doesn’t required any materials to get started
• doesn’t require you to be a contortionist
• doesn’t have to take a lot of your time

I have only been practicing meditation on a daily basis for several months but I really feel that it helped me become more calm, more at peace and more focused. Meditation is also a great way to enhance well-being in general.

I’m not an expert and it is exactly what I want to tell you: you don’t need to be an expert! If you believe that you need to take meditation classes or read books to get started, only those of you who are really motivated will give it a shot. Since meditation practiced on a daily basis is beneficial for everyone, as a self-improvement advice I would encourage everyone to adopt that new habit.

When you will start meditating, you will realize how hard it is to stop thinking. Your mind won’t stop. Sometimes, people told me: “I can’t even do meditation for 3 minutes, my thoughts are all over the place”. It is totally normal. As long as you are trying to control your thoughts the best you can at your current level, you are doing meditation. And I’m convinced you will get benefits from your daily practice. Meditation will help you become more aware of your thoughts and to better deal with your negative thoughts.

Let’s make it very simple to start with, and progressively work on improving the quality of our meditation practice.

Meditation Exercise
I don’t want to give you any excuses not to try meditation. Here is how you can easily get started:

Close your eyes, breath slowly through your nose, focus on your breath while trying to get rid of any thoughts that come to your mind. Do it just for 3 minutes. That’s it! You can sit on a chair or sit on the floor with your legs crossed. Practice every single day for two weeks, then go for 4 minutes, 5 minutes and so on. If possible aim to reach 20 to 30 minutes per day but it is entirely up to you. Some people do more. If you are busy you can do less. Personally, I’m currently meditating 20 minutes every day but plan to meditate more in the near future. Last but not least, be patient! It takes some time before you feel the benefits of meditation.

Theosophy – Esoteric Psychology

January 2, 2016January 2, 2016 Hālau ʻĀha Hūi LanakilaLeave a comment

matter

Esoteric Psychology.

“Know ye, ye are threefold in nature,
physical, astral and mental in one…

On Earth, man is in bondage,
bound by space and time to the earth plane.
Encircling each planet, a wave of vibration,
binds him to his plane of unfoldment.
Yet within man is the Key to releasement,
within man may freedom be found.”

— Emerald Tablet XV

Image quote: Helena Blavatsky; The Secret Doctrine.

Theosophy ~ “Choosing The Tao” – Part 2

December 8, 2015 Hālau ʻĀha Hūi LanakilaLeave a comment

CHOOSING THE TAO – II

The wisest disciples, teachers and sages learn from the Tao all the time. The Tao is not a book. The Tao is not a scripture. The Tao was not given by any one person for the first time to other people. It is everywhere and nowhere. It is what some call God, what others designate as the One Reality, and what still others salute merely by saying “I do not know.” To the extent to which men do not understand the Tao, instead of their choosing the Tao, the Tao seems to use them. A great deal of what is often called choosing is an illusion. No one chooses except by the power of the Tao. No one chooses thoughts except by a self-conscious comprehension of what is behind the energy of the Tao. No one can be a knower of the Tao, a true Taoist, without becoming a skilled craftsman of Akasa, a silent magician of the Alkahest, a self-conscious channel for the universal divine flame which, in its boundless, colourless, intangible, soundless and inexhaustible energy, may be used only for the sake of all. Only these universal, deathless, eternal verities may become living germs in the emerging matrix of the awakening mind of the age of Aquarius, a current of consciousness that flows into the future.

Following the ever-young example of the Ancient of Days, each and every person today may focus his mind upon the eternal relevance of the ever-flexible and never-caring Tao:

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness.
All can know good as good only because there is evil.

Tao Teh Ching, 2

How can one be flexible if one is fiercely attached to any external forms of good and of evil? There is the same mutual relation between existence and non-existence in respect to creation as there is between striving and spontaneity, effort and ease, in respect to accomplishment. What is easy for one person is hard for another; what is easy for the same person at any time was hard once; and what is difficult now might become easy in the future. Fumbling with the strings of a musical instrument may be rather painful in the long period of apprenticeship, yet all can find supreme enjoyment in listening at any time to a great master of music who plays his enchanted instrument with lightness and versatile adeptship. The seeker who is patient and persistent, like the good gardener who plants the seed but does not examine it daily to gauge its growth, does no more than is needed, giving Nature time to do its own alchemical work.

How, then, can one contrive a hard-and-fast distinction between effort and ease in the many modes of human striving? Furthermore, is there any reason for preference between one person and another in human excellence? Not from the serene standpoint of the Sage. Those who enjoy good music do not feel threatened every time they listen to a great musician, but merge their selves into the motion of the music. There is that which every human being knows and yet forgets, though if one chooses one may remind oneself. A person always knows that what helped one to walk as a child may also help one to maintain oneself in a world of turmoil. Through the archetypal logic of non-action in activity, he can move away from the turba and the tumult of the crowd, and discover an inner peace through deliberate but casual control in the midst of spontaneous activity. The same mutual relation exists between long and short in respect to form, as between high and low in respect to pitch. What seem to be precipitous mountains in one country might be seen as hilly ranges in a distant land. The Alps are unquestionably beautiful, but, as Byron suggested, there are beauties in Derbyshire which are no less enjoyable than the Alps. The Sierras may be more inviting than the forbidding Himalayas. Each can make the most of what he finds where he can find it, between treble and bass on the scale of musical pitch, between before and after in the contest of priorities. There are no seniors and juniors among human souls – all alike are pilgrims on multitudinous pathways to enlightenment. All souls have participated variously in the immense pilgrimage extending through and beyond successive millennia. The Voice of the Silence teaches: “Such are the falls and rises of the Karmic Law in nature.” He who was a prince is a beggar now, the Buddha taught, and he who is exalted today may tomorrow “wander earth in rags”.

In the eyes of the Sage, all temporal distinctions are absurd not only because they are foreshortened in time but also because they pretend to an ultimacy which cannot be upheld except by coercion. No one who has not conquered the will to coerce could freely practise the art of Wu-Wei even in everyday encounters. The Tao is the ontological basis of the archetypal teaching of non-violence, non-retaliation and true benevolence. Nature is not partial, partisan or sentimentally benevolent. This is known to the Sage, who fuses wisdom in action with compassion.

Heaven and earth are ruthless;
They see the ten thousand things as dummies.
The wise are ruthless;
They see the people as dummies.

Tao Teh Ching, 5

From a superficial standpoint, it looks as if God is the chief conspirator, but there is no arbitrary theism in the vision of Tao. The inscrutable mathematics of cosmic balance needs nothing like what Hegel called the cunning of history to upset the best-laid plans of mice and men. From a broader perspective, it seems as if what appears bad in the beginning turns out in time for the better, even for the best. The Good Law ever moves inexorably towards righteousness. The Sage is not benevolent to personal claims. He treats all with a light inexorability. From an external locus in the realm of changing appearances, nothing that is true could ever be said or could even be found. It is only by the inner light that a person becomes a disciple of the Tao, and in the progress of time may even become a friend of the Tao with the help of those who are the Masters of the Tao.

In China reverence for the primordial Divine Instructors of mankind eventually degenerated into empty rituals of ancestor worship. As with ancient Chinese civilization, so also with classical Indian culture there was a progressive diffusion and inward loss of meaning. In ancient India there was a solemn kindling of the sacrificial fire, and every sacred word and ritual act were offered at the altar of the Prajapatis, the Kumaras, the Rishis, the Agnishwatha Pitris or Solar Fathers. In time such practices were reduced to ritual propitiation of the dead for fear of consequences. The weaker souls who participated in that ritualization in China and India are no different from those who incarnated in European and American bodies. Immigrants came in succeeding waves from different parts of the world to the American continent not only for the sake of their own future, but also, under Karma, as pathfinders of the future of mankind. That which caused violence and deception in the past must return, but cyclical justice will also bring back gentleness and truth and beauty in the nobler ancestors. No human being is without ancestors of whom one could be proud. Over a thousand years every man and woman has had a million ancestors. Nothing that was accomplished by a million people over a thousand years is irrelevant to any person. Everyone has a lineage that ultimately traces one back to the Divine Instructors of the human family. Everyone has kinship to those who are the Friends of all beings and who forever abide as Silent Watchers in the night, guarding orphan humanity.

Hermes, November 1978
Raghavan Iyer