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Yoga is a very relaxing and detoxifying process that you make you feel your best. When you detox the right way it can be the most rewarding experience ever, are you detoxing the right way?
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual practice that denotes a variety of schools, practices, and schools of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Yoga has dated back pre-Vedic Indian tradition, but it most likely developed around the 5th and 6th centuries. Yoga became popular as a system of physical exercise in the 1980’s.
Yoga physiology describes humans as 3 bodies (physical, subtle, and causal) and 5 sheets (food sheet, pranabreath, mind sheet, intellect and bliss) which covers the energy flowing through the energy channels and concentrated chakras.
This video lasts about one hour and consists of the vinyasa flow that focuses on twists that detoxifies the body and clears anything that is not useful to the body. The video starts with two rounds of kapalbhati which translates to the breath of fire. So, start this video and begin your detoxification process.
Little though one recites the sacred texts,
but puts the Teaching into practice,
forsaking lust, hatred, and delusion,
with true wisdom and emancipated mind,
clinging to nothing of this or any other world —
one indeed partakes of the blessings of a holy life.
Dhammapada 1.20
The Dhammapada: The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom,
translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita
Above: Sun — Root, Foundation, inspiration
Below: Dui — Open, Free, unhindered
The Wisdom:
Inner truth is your beacon. Like the wind it Guides you, through Inspiration, to tranquility And abundance.
Your connection to Spirit is made solid
The wind is unseen as it stirs the waters of your heart and soul. Invisible forces are at work to bring you abundance, health, and success. This is a very favorable time. Your situation has in some cases seemed untenable. You have tried to influence others with words and common sense, and it hasn’t worked. You have perceived your situation incorrectly. Examine your truth, your inner wisdom. Hear the calling birds song … hear it with you open heart. Love is a sweet song
Though it appears that associates, old stale influences of family, church and state or your relationships may be blocking your progress, they will soon be moved toward your favor. This is assured. In the teaching offered by this hexagram, this can be achieved gently and without words. It will be done by means of the invisible forces of gentleness, compassion, kindness and joyfulness. Look for and embrace your passion be it for the clover in the field or for the love that is yours to embrace.
Your heart knows the truth. Limit your words; They have no effect. Your actions and thoughts Are benefits of all and for the greater good.
To correctly have influence over others, you must walk a mile in their moccasins. This will allow you to know their position and their thoughts. With this knowing you can access your intuition, which will counsel you on correct thoughts and actions. This is the way: The way of compassion
At this time move forward with no prejudice or hidden agenda. This will create openness, which is the wordless, gentle joy of which this hexagram speaks.
Thoughts have great influence. Correct thoughts free of prejudice Bring a bountiful outcome. Negative thoughts will undo The good you have accomplished. Change your way of thinking. No Blame, no guilt, no shame Only change.
Exerting influence can be a tricky business. Thoughts and actions that attempt to manipulate or gain power over others leave nothing but hate and animosity in their tracks and will not achieve your goals. Look to your motives in exerting influence. When you are confident that you are coming from your highest good, for the good of all, you will find that your influence, though apparently invisible, is as powerful as the wind that stirs the waters.
You stand on the brink of success and release from bondage, and are now challenged as never before. It is not that you have done anything incorrectly; far from it: it is rather a law of the universe that we are challenged to rise to our greatest good.
The teaching in this hexagram says to go inward and begin the task of gentle self-correction. Where it may be easy to control the words you say, it is more difficult to shift your thoughts so that they are without prejudice, divisiveness, retaliation, or anger.
There are times when you must move stubborn or obstinate people, whether in your work or in your personal lives, toward the greater good. Such an approach must be well considered. Be gentle, with no judgment or preconceived notions. Try to understand where they are coming from and then adjust your thoughts, not your words, toward a more beneficial outcome for all involved. In this way influence is directed by compassion.
Having compassion for those who are slowing or blocking progress leads us to a deeper understanding of others and ultimately ourselves.
Outwardly, communicate directly and be honest and sincere. Inwardly, correct any negative or judgmental thoughts. This will release your untapped life force, or prana, which in turn will have a profound beneficial effect on your relationships, your health, and your business, these actions will deepen your spiritual journey—all toward the greater good.
It is well documented that we can heal many illnesses through right thought and meditation. You can apply this truth to your present situation. You are the healer. Look to the words that come to you; discard the negative ones and replace them with right action and compassionate thoughts, which will influence all aspects of the self to move toward a higher, more compassionate understanding. In this way you will change the situation; it will move toward the highest, most beneficial good for all.
You will not gain the trust of others until you trust yourself. This hexagram gives us a teaching on how to gain the kind of trust that comes from knowing your inner truth. Consciously look to your highest good. To be loved, you must love yourself. To be heard, you must hear yourself. To correct a situation, you must correct yourself and your inner thoughts.
Open your heart and let yourself be loved
The outcome of this process is rich, but the process itself is even richer. At this time, this process is not about choice: it is about necessity. Love, compassion, and knowing your inner truth are necessary to bring about the grand success that awaits you.
This week be the gentle wind and feel the strength of Gaia, the earth, as she beckons you home. Do not talk of love, be love. Do less, be more.
You are the sentient being at the center of your world, you embrace the frequency called God, yet have seen it as outside yourself. Know well it is in a part of you. Make the choice to know yourself with out judgment or fear. Choose to step silently into that frequency. As you do all is possible, all is in the correct place and you are in the right place at the right time. Not too early nor late. By understanding and excepting who you truly are this frequency of Universal love and light will be your wing man.
All men are your brothers; all women are your sisters. Be love and teach peace … you are magnificent. Without embarrassment or judgment say now out loud, “I am Magnificent.”
Bahumpi ce saṃhita bhāsamāno,
na takkaro hoti naro pamatto,
gopova gāvo gaṇayaṃ paresaṃ,
na bhāgavā sāmaññassa hoti.
Much though one recites the sacred texts,
but acts not accordingly,
that heedless one is like a cowherd
who only counts the cows of others —
one does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.
Dhammapada 1.19
The Dhammapada: The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom,
translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita
Pāṇaṃ na hane na ca ghātayeyya,
na cānujaññā hanataṃ paresaṃ,
sabbesu bhūtesu nidhāya daṇḍaṃ.
Ye thāvarā ye ca tasā santi loke.
One should not kill a living being,
nor cause it to be killed,
nor should one incite another to kill.
Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.
Sutta Nipāta 2.396
The Discourse Collection: Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipāta,
translated by John D. Ireland
Above: Dui — Responsive, free, penetration
Below: Qian/Gan — Enduring Spirit power
The Wisdom:
Breakthrough;
No compromise.
As you part from the past
You are in a time of creative transformation.
Your struggle against negativity is ending, and you and your projects are now favored. Resist the temptation to take the path of retribution to what or who has been getting in the way of completion or joy, all the while remembering that guides and teachers often come in strange disguises, shapes, and forms. Though it may feel satisfying in the short term to strike out with words or actions against who or what has been holding back your progress, know that what you do now and how you behave is setting the pattern for your personal and our collective future. If you were to respond with spite or negativity, this would reinforce an old pattern pattern that would once again take you to the very same of darkness that has been the obstacle that has been rooted in doubt and frustration.
The decision to part from the past must be resolute, with no doubts and no compromise. You must shift frequencies. If there are a few bad cells left behind after a cancer has been excised, the cancer will come back and secretly grow with the vengeance of a defeated enemy that has found strength in retreat and kill you, your spirit and obliterate your mission.
This is the time to speak from your heart to your tribe and loved ones, letting them know in no uncertain terms that you have decided that you will no longer allow any obstacles to block the way toward the greater good—for you, for the ones you care for and love, and for all of us. Take the role of service to this ideal as a Samurai warrior defending the enlightened master; in this case the master is you. State your intention and then calmly and dispassionately act on it. Write your intention on a piece of paper and keep it in your pocket, take it out read it often during your day. State it upon arising, state it as you prepare to sleep. By speaking out, you will be garnering strength from the universe and from Spirit. By speaking your truth, the laws of attraction say you will become the attractor. Spirit will be pleased at your resoluteness in this situation, and this signaling will bring immense, clarifying energy to you.
Speak and demonstrate in your relationships that you have decided to overcome all obstacles that do not allow love and harmony to flourish. With the intention to love with an open heart, you will find great strength; this will allow you to love and be loved without the restrictions of ego, judgment or jealousy. This will also eviscerate any notions that you are not good enough or deserving of the love you envision and deserve. With calmness and clear direction, make your plans and execute them. That is what is called for now by the arrival of this hexagram.
The planet is in a mode of great change; more energy for transmutation is available than ever before. If you were to act from ego and attempt to use this energy blast to assume control or bring injustice or harm to another, this harm would come back to you to a mathematical power that will be destructive. It will poison the well and wreak harm to yourself for sure, but you would also do harm to the delicate flowering of a new age that is opening before us. We are moving toward a golden age of the highest and brightest potential humans have ever known. Our individual thoughts and actions are now magnified and reverberate throughout the global cosmic matrix that is being activated at this time. Listen to and read the astrologers at this time and you will see the planetary alignments are telling us this, now.
You can dance in the dark no longer, nor can you form secret pacts with yourself or others to promote or be of service to greed or personal gain. If you do make a decision or choice in this direction, it will backfire on you, and all that you have manifested thus far will be tainted and toxic; you will be made powerless. At this time, negative actions will reverberate through a lifetime—this lifetime and future ones; that is how powerful these times and these energies are. So be cautious and stay awake!
With this breakthrough, you now have renewed strength and a window of opportunity to set things straight, whether in business, love, or on your personal path of spiritual evolution. The way you handle this arriving success and the abundance it brings will set the tone for the future. This is a time to express your resolve and manifest your greatest strength, which is your compassion, kindness, and generosity.
Stand firm now and act decisively; you have the strength to make battles short and focused. Keep your emotions out of it. Know that any retribution will weaken you and rob you of your ability to enjoy and sustain your success. Stay out of others’ business and don’t fall to the level of gossip or disrespect in your triumphs. Do not disparage your opponents in their defeat. Forgive them; they know not what they do. And fully and most importantly, forgive yourself for any part you may have played in the negative actions of the past. In this way you truly leave the past behind.
Be dignified and compassionate as you do the work to leave old, negative habits and patterns behind. It is with these actions that you will rise to new heights of self-love and self-respect. From that pinnacle you will find and attract love and abundance in ways you have desired and have previously held only in your imagination. This is a time of creative transformation, and with intention from your loving heart you will manifest in calmness and with grace. In this way your transformation will, in itself, be without effort.
Take note that Guai comes with a caveat: even in times of enlightenment, darkness, in the form of the ego’s desire for control hides just around the corner to tempt you; don’t go for it! As you move forward, do not compromise your beliefs. This would disempower you on your journey toward the resurrection and building of your dreams and plans that previously may have hit a wall of obstruction. The benefit now is to intone to the Spirit Helpers what your dreams are….if you don’t have a dream, how will you have a dream come true
Your intuitive forces are now in their most available light and can be accessed and trusted, as it is you and only you that can bring about the global change we are all envisioning. Speak openly of a new paradigm. Take these coming days to celebrate life and the shift of the ages that is happening now. Do consider being of service now—find joy in serving others with whatever you have at hand. In this way you can lift your tribe up into the light you are seeing and feeling now. By empowering others, you are, with pure intention, empowering yourself.
Be of love these days. Smile to others at work, in your community, in class, on the street, as you drive past them on life’s highway, the highway of love and of a life well lived.
Be love, teach peach,
Make Christmas you personal resurrection and
make love, not war !
Let go of the past, let go of the future,
let go of the present, and cross over to the farther shore of existence.
With mind wholly liberated,
you shall come no more to birth and death.
Dhammapada 24.348
The Dhammapada: The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom,
translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita
Think not lightly of evil, saying, “It will not come to me.”
Drop by drop is the water pot filled.
Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little,
fills oneself with evil.
Dhammapada 9.121
The Dhammapada: The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom,
translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita
The Wisdom: Bring hearts and minds together There is a great task ahead And it best done with love and community
To live a life well balanced and in harmony with the oneness it is a vital component in life to be of service.
To be of service to a group or a community you must be well prepared. For the good of all look to your thoughts and motivation and be sincere in your actions. If you are going into service so you will look good to others or it will allow you to mingle with a desired group, be cautious ,movement of that type will surely lead to a wounding that will be difficult to heal.
The time is coming when you will be called to a position of leadership, or perhaps that time has already arrived. In this position you will benefit by being prepared to lead without ego, with strength, sincerity, and dignity.
It may be within your family, your business, or personally, in your relationship or your spiritual journey, that you are being called to leadership. Your role is not to create a commonality of thought and action, but to encourage a strong individuality, remaining true to the highest good. In this way you will bring all parties together by combining individual strengths, which in turn will take you all toward a common goal for the greater good.
Do not lead by issuing orders Or setting limits; Rather, lead by encouragement, Working together for The common good.
In Sun Tzu’s (722–481 BC) The Art of War it is said that the greatest leader does not lead from the front of his troops; nor does he lead from behind. The great leader leads from within. It is in this way that the true power of a group, community, or relationship is actualized, and great things can be accomplished.
Achieving harmony in your projects with others or in your personal relationships is now required for prosperity to flourish. This is accomplished by adhering the actions that has the constituents of honesty, sincerity, and integrity.
Leaders who are well prepared,
When met
With ignorance or arrogance,
Maintain inner discipline
And are examples to all.
When people gather together it is natural that there will, at times, be conflict. Conflict creates energy. It is the task of the leader or head of the clan to convert the energy created by conflict into a positive force that can lead all concerned to the goal of love, abundance, completion, and success. To do this the leader must remain calm, devoted, and centered. This inspires the same in relationship, tribe, family, and community.
A great leader may not necessarily be recognized as a leader at the time. Leadership, according to this hexagram, can be achieved invisibly, without outward acknowledgement. By maintaining a correct attitude, egos are not challenged, and prosperity is assured.
Three true stories:
A lovely woman I know was telling me recently about an aspect of her work on a creative project that required collaboration with a crew of people with diverse skills and personalities. They were on a tight schedule and the project had to get done, and done right. She told me that as she drove everyone toward the goal of completion, she became intolerant, controlling, and angry. Though in the end the job came out very well, she said she didn’t like it that she had resorted to this kind of behavior. Afterward, even though the project had been completed successfully, everyone on the team felt badly about her behavior and the crew she assembled would never work with her again.
Many years ago I lived near a film director who had the reputation of being highly creative, with an eye like no other. This person could create emotion and a depth of feeling in his works that had gained him a great reputation. He was very successful and well paid, and many projects came his way. However, along with his reputation for being a skillful director, he also had the reputation of being disrespectful and demeaning to the people who were hired to collaborate with him on his various projects. At first, because the quality of his work was so extraordinary, his negative attitude and bad behavior was overlooked by the clients and producers who gave him his commissions, and for a while this person still got hired for the best and most profitable projects. But as time passed, this bad behavior was no longer tolerated, and so the commissions began to go to others. This man’s career eventually came to a standstill. He became dark and depressed; soon he was just the shell of a man. It was fear that destroyed him.
A man I know has been remodeling his home. He served as his own general contractor, hiring many workers, some highly skilled, others without developed skills. To those who were still learning their crafts he gave encouragement and advice, working alongside them. With the skilled workers he also worked side by side, without ego, and expressed his gratitude to them, complimenting them for their skills and their efforts. Recently at a dinner he told me the story of how, when it came time to pay his crew, the workers came to him and said, much to his surprise, that he was paying them too much and as he had not completed the project they offered to take less money and stay on the job to further help him reach his goal.
In the first two stories, the people in the leadership roles were not sensitive to the needs of others. Both of them had fear. Though they were conscious of their actions, they did not have the foresight to understand that strong and positive leadership must be combined with harmonious relationship; this is the correct way to behave. This attitude of correctness, had these two adopted it, would have led to everyone feeling good about themselves and their projects; it would have fed the souls of all involved. Work would have continued to come to the artist, and the woman in the first story would have experienced a priceless feeling of inner contentment and accomplishment.
In the last story, the leader handled the project and all those involved with it respectfully. The workers were satisfied and were able to do their jobs and be paid back in more than just monetary ways. This person did not have fear and had a balanced relationship with his ego.
Ts’ui gives the requisites for proper leadership that will lead to prosperity: on the road to abundance, satisfaction, and completion you will be challenged; meet these challenges with calmness and with the strength and attitude of the sage.
When it is your time to lead, do so with integrity and dignity. This is in harmony with the universal laws of attraction and abundance. Trust yourself.
Hālau 'Aha Hui Lānākila 