WIN WITH THE WHOLE If I want to be a Volunteer, does the Congress want me as a Volunteer. If I want to Offer something, does the Congress want my Offering. A Volunteer is a Giver, does the Congress want to Receive. December 21, 2012 Onwards the Spiritual is Becoming Predominant. BECOME A CATALYST Become a Catalyst in Drawing Out Oneness in the Congress Collective. Become a Catalyst in Drawing Out Oneness in the Individual, Family, Village, District, City, State, Indian, World Collectives. Identify, Define, Build Multi-level, Nested, Overlapping Teamilies (Team+Families) in Advaitic Spaces of Oneness. The Rudder Gives the Direction, The Oars Give the Power. Be a Rudder or an Oar, Both can contribute. https://youtube/watch?v=6SJ_NqTCqdk https://facebook/kkpadmanabhan/posts/10204330278684026 https://youtube/watch?v=VnuSAP1WkRs https://youtube/watch?v=d3a72tPB8NA https://youtube/watch?v=PahXWJkXzuw https://youtube/watch?v=seoO6TbFb1A https://youtube/watch?v=dOUtTYlS4mI https://youtube/watch?v=L8t_jcSRSRw https://facebook/kkpadmanabhan/posts/10204294912879903 https://facebook/kkpadmanabhan/posts/10204330271203839 https://facebook/kkpadmanabhan/posts/10204330274443920 https://facebook/kkpadmanabhan/posts/10204271906664762 [young yin] [old yin] [young yin] [young yin] [young yang] [old yin] Cast Hexagram: 7 7 - Seven Shih / Recruiting Allies Deep Water beneath the Earths surface: Untapped resources are available. The Superior Person nourishes and instructs the people, building a loyal, disciplined following. Good fortune. No mistakes if you follow a course led by experience. SITUATION ANALYSIS: You must gain support from others. Find a way to make others want to see your objectives met as badly as you want it. How can they profit from the attainment of this goal? Can you command confidence that you are just the person that can bring this plan to fruition? Changing Lines: There are Two Changing Lines. Click on any of them to read about it! The Upper Line prevails. Hexagram Seven/Line Five The seasoned veteran is elevated to command, and none too soon. For the game is in the field, and it would be wise to catch it. [young yin] [young yang] [young yin] [young yin] [young yang] [young yang] Transformed Hex: 60 60 - Sixty Chieh / Limitations Waters difficult to keep within the Lakes banks: The Superior Person examines the nature of virtue and makes himself a standard that can be followed. Self-discipline brings success; but restraints too binding bring self-defeat. SITUATION ANALYSIS: Cultivating the proper disciplines and the proper degree of discipline are the concerns of this hexagram. By limiting options, you may give more attention to priorities. One who is all over the map is no less lost than one without a map. Avoid asceticism, however. Deprivation is not wise discipline. The key here is regulation, not restriction. ORIGINAL TEXT Cast Hexagram: Hexagram 7 Shih - The Army THIS HEXAGRAM is made up of the trigrams Kan, water, and Kun, earth, and thus it symbolises the ground water stored up in the earth. In the same way military strength is stored up in the mass of the people - invisible in times of peace but always ready for use as a source of power. The attributes of the two trigrams are danger inside and obedience outside. This points to the nature of an army, which at the core is dangerous, while discipline and obedience must prevail outside. Of the individual lines, the one that controls the hexagram is the strong nine in the second place, to which the other lines, all yielding, are subordinate. This line indicates a commander, because it stands in the middle of one of the two trigrams. But since it is in the lower rather than the upper trigram, it represents not the ruler but the efficient general, who maintains obedience in the army by his authority. THE JUDGEMENT The army. The army needs perseverance And a strong man. Good fortune without blame. ichingonline.org/img/Xian.Warriors.jpg - Xian warriors ichingonline.org/img/Xian_warriors_s.jpg AN ARMY is a mass that needs organization in order to become a fighting force. Without strict discipline nothing can be accomplished, but this discipline must not be achieved by force. It requires a strong man who captures the hearts of the people and awakens their enthusiasm. In order that he may develop his abilities he needs the complete confidence of his ruler, who must entrust him with full responsibility as long as the war lasts. But war is always a dangerous thing and brings with it destruction and devastation. Therefore it should not be resorted to rashly but, like a poisonous drug, should be used as a last recourse. The justifying cause of a war, and clear and intelligible war aims, ought to be explained to the people by an experienced leader. Unless there is a quite definite war aim to which the people can consciously pledge themselves, the unity and strength of conviction that lead to victory will not be forthcoming. But the leader must also look to it that the passion of war and the delirium of victory do not give rise to unjust acts that will not meet with general approval. If justice and perseverance are the basis of action, all goes well. THE IMAGE In the middle of the earth is water: The image of THE ARMY. Thus the superior man increases his masses By generosity toward the people. ichingonline.org/img/Xian_Terra_Cotta_Warriors.jpg GROUND WATER is invisibly present within the earth. In the same way the military power of a people is invisibly present in the masses. When danger threatens, every peasant becomes a soldier; when the war ends, he goes back to his plow. He who is generous toward the people wins their love, and a people living under a mild rule becomes strong and powerful. Only a people economically strong can be important in military power. Such power must therefore be cultivated by improving the economic condition of the people and by humane government. Only when there is this invisible bond between government and people, so that the people are sheltered by their government as ground water is sheltered by the earth, is it possible to wage a victorious war. CHANGING LINE: Hexagram Seven/Line Five Six in the fifth place means: There is game in the field. It furthers one to catch it. Without blame. Let the eldest lead the army. The younger transports corpses; Then perseverance brings misfortune. ichingonline.org/img/boars.jpg - Wild boars Game is in the field - it has left its usual haunts in the forest and is devastating the fields. This points to an enemy invasion. Energetic combat and punishment are here thoroughly justified, but they must not degenerate into a wild melee in which everyone fends for himself. Despite the greatest degree of perseverance and bravery, this would lead to misfortune. The army must be directed by an experienced leader. It is a matter of waging war, not of permitting the mob to slaughter all who fall into their hands; if they do, defeat will be the result, and despite all perseverance there is danger of misfortune. Transformed Hexagram: Hexagram 60 Chieh - Limitation A lake occupies a limited space. When more water comes into it, it overflows. Therefore limits must be set for the water. The image shows water below and water above, with the firmament between them as a limit. The Chinese word for limitation really denotes the joints that divide a bamboo stalk. In relation to ordinary life it means the thrift that sets fixed limits upon expenditures. In relation to the moral sphere it means the fixed limits that the superior man sets upon his actions- the limits of loyalty and disinterestedness. THE JUDGEMENT LIMITATION. Success. Galling limitation must not be persevered in. Limitations are troublesome, but they are effective. If we live economically in normal times, we are prepared for times of want. To be sparing saves us from humiliation. Limitations are also indispensable in the regulation of world conditions. In nature there are fixed limits for summer and winter, day and night, and these limits give the year its meaning. In the same way, economy, by setting fixed limits upon expenditures, acts to preserve property and prevent injury to the people. But in limitation we must observe due measure. If a man should seek to impose galling limitations upon his own nature, it would be injurious. And if he should go too far in imposing limitations on others, they would rebel. Therefore it is necessary to set limits even upon limitation. ichingonline.org/img/LakeLouise_s.jpg - Lake Louise THE IMAGE Water over lake: the image of LIMITATION. Thus the superior man Creates number and measure, And examines the nature of virtue and correct conduct. A lake is something limited. Water is inexhaustible. A lake can contain only a definite amount of the infinite quantity of water; this is its peculiarity. In human life too the individual achieves significance through discrimination and the setting of limits. Therefore what concerns us here is the problem of clearly defining these discriminations, which are, so to speak, the backbone of morality. Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man; if they existed, his life would only dissolve in the boundless. To become strong, a mans life needs the limitations ordained by duty and voluntarily accepted. The individual attains significance as a free spirit only by surrounding himself with these limitations and by determining for himself what his duty is.
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