The Gentle means crouching. Crouching is a posture of submission, humbleness, restraint and non-assertiveness. It is a posture one assumes to go down into or beneath, in order to examine, to repair, to learn, to re-energize. Crouching may be antecedent to springing out, jumping upon, or leaping ahead.
Sequence: What one experiences in life is a response of universal energy and intelligence to one's commands. To have desirable experiences, refraim from negativity. Through gentleness realize penetration. Penetrate a situation more fully. Fuller understanding is the clarity represented in opposition. Clarity leads to joy.
When the harvest is gathered, unless the trees are properly protected and the ground properly cared for, next year's growth will be impaired and endangered. When the traditions of society seem to have been stripped away, the ideal person will continue generous and benevolent while remaining quiet. The action of no-action is not cowardly, it is wise. When deteriorating forces dominate the moment, the ideal person gives expression to silence, behaves with docility and remains devoted to high motivations.
Sequence: Nature, cultures, societies and humankind all in time exhaust themselves. There is a time for becoming, for being and for decorating with adornments. Be aware that when one goes too far with adornments, decadence sets in and creates the conditions for Splitting Apart.
Sources of Good Fortune and Misfortune You need more up-to-date conceptual tools. You need to refine your terms of reference.
Instructions: Enter the Ninth Moon prepared to balance the push/pull forces. Know your appetities.
IChing is a comprehensive compandium of human characteristictics both individual and group. The book is a philosophical text of 64 chapters codified in hexagrams that can be accessed using a divinatory method or by constructing an image by combining two trigrams into a hexagram. As a sacred text the IChing is a channel to communicate with the great mystery.
What time is it for me? In Hexagram 63 Line 2 the wisdom 'Do not pursue: you will get it in seven days. A hexagram spans six days. By following the path, experiencing your life and contempating the question a realization or manifestation will come to you. The reading is 90 minutes and costs $25. Schedule a What time is it for me?
Twelve Branches is a 72 day, 2 1/2 lunar cycles spiritual journey that encompasses your life and times. Twelve Branches carries on the mandala diagrams and arcana attributed to Taoist fangshi of the Han Dynasty (206BC - 219CE) that became public during the Song Dynasty (960-1278CE). The seminar includes 14 lessons and costs $90. Schedule preparing for your Twelve Branches two weeks before.
Each Mandala contains 12 hexagrams evolving from and to the synchronised response of the Oracles' response to your inquiry.
An IChing Mandala is identified by a phrased inquiry of the I Ching Oracle. The response is a path over 72 days synchronized with the 6 lines of the 12 hexagrams.
Separation: What has worn out? Is there a les painful way to let this go? What is underneath the surface?
Family: Where ate the boundaries of the 'home' I inhabit? How am I building inner and outer relationships into the home? What kinds of growth does this environment support?
Opposition to Advantage: What if the difference was not a threat? Hoe can this tension be creative? If I can't see eye to eye, what can I see?
The one called Dale Bruder is among the cultural creatives of our age. He has developed implements and techniques to use the IChing in the times we are in. The methods describe and predicates elements, processes and experiences through practices involving uses of the body and mind.