Spirit shares I Ching wisdom.

I Ching 56 – Travel follows Abundance and leads to Wind.

Spirit explains:
Abundance can develop stagnation or restlessness.
What does one do with one’s life after one has achieved enough
and has accumulated enough of society’s rewards to almost satisfy
one’s soul, and yet feel that something is missing.

Perhaps it’s time to dare to open our eyes and to dare to allow
ourselves to accept that material and even physical health can
become as a trap that limits our growth and our incentive to move
beyond the confines of conventional limits of awareness

We seem to intuitively know that if we will allow ourselves to see,
there are worlds beyond worlds waiting for us to discover them.

Wow! Are we talking about possible future lives?

There are no future lives. There are no lives. There is, was, and
always will be only one…

Spirit shares His understanding of timeless wisdom
hidden with the I Ching hexagram 46 – Rising.

Earth is over Wind. Both are Yin.
Rising follows Gathering (45) and moves into
Exhaustion (47).

Rising expresses upward movement, such as the Sun
seems to rise from the Eastern horizon, each morning,
wherever on Earth we may be. It then seems to reach
high into the sky, about mid-day, and then begins
to descend toward the Western horizon, arriving there
to end its daily journey, each evening.

How does that story relate to inspiration?

It teaches us that we live within a structured universe.
There are rules of order, known as Universal Laws.

How can knowing them help me, here and now, today?

Beginnings and endings are inevitable, but what happens
between the two reflects free will.

How?

We each choose.

What?

Not what, alone, but also how and why.

Spirit shares His understanding of I Ching 43 – Removal.

Lake is over Heaven. Lake is the youngest Yin and
Heaven is the most powerful Yang.

Yin, in this instance is as a butterfly on a rock.
What interaction or common ground can the two share?
Frail over solid.

A rock is not easily crushed or moved, but neither can
it move itself, while a butterfly is easily crushed but
it has power to move itself out of danger; lightness
and mobility over power and immobility.

Removal follows Increase and develops into Meeting.

That’s a curious sequential order.

How so?

I can understand that increase can become clutter and
requiring downsizing, or removal of whatever no longer
serves us well, but how does this lead to Meeting?

Meeting is coming together.

With whom or what?

Awareness.

Of what?

Of what is necessary or desirable and useful, and what is
manufactured…

Wow! Wisdom and understanding blended together to express
the power of Love, a holy trinity.

Our simple seeker was meditating on the meaning and special
significance of the top triad of sephirah (energy centres)
on the Kabbalah Tree of Life.

It’s all about Life, her spirit teacher told her, in a manner
so cool and matter-of-fact that seemed to suggest that
everyone should know that.

But, the problem, or one of them, was that she wasn’t
everyone. She was a self-confessed slow learner, and yet she
very much needed to understand …

Everything?

No, not everything, just everything that I need to.

Why?

How can I develop understanding about …

About whatever you don’t now understand?

Only in areas of personal interest.

How is that possible if you do not learn or study in
areas you may be interested in, if you knew?

I’m lost.

Yes.

Spirit shares perennial wisdom with me, and
perhaps, some others.

He tells me that whatever we do as work or play,
we do to serve ourselves.

Some people seem to need to do whatever
without much, or any pleasure, but from
a sense of responsibility to self or others.

Why?

Social conditioning?

No.

Then, why?

We each connect to everyone else, with
or without social conditioning. That serves
to remind us of this connection.
It doesn’t create it.

Then, how does this serve ourselves?

To serve ourselves well requires that
some others also benefit.

Why?

It helps to protect us from losing
what we have to others, who might
seek to serve only themselves.

So, sharing with others implies
a reciprocal understanding?

Yes. You help me and I’ll help you.

Should I ever need your help?

Yes, and you will, or might.

The Page of Wands looked strangely familiar and yet
it was a young boy dressed up in clothes that he
did not seem to feel comfortable wearing.

What does it say to us?

It wouldn’t say the same to me as it would to you.

How do you know? or, do you?

What does that mean?

When anything or anyone speaks to our inner knowing,
we are receiving a message, and we know it.

Can it be an important message?

It’s always more than important. It is vital
to our self-interest and to our personal world.

That would create inner tension.

Yes.

Who wants inner tension?

It’s not a case of wanting.

Then, needing?

Yes.

Why do we need inner stress?

There’s a difference between stress and tension.

In degree?

In cause. The situation causes tension and …

Ignoring the message of tension causes stress?

Yes.

So, if we feel…

It was a glorious day in early May. Vancouver was at its finest. Rhodos and azaleas were almost in bloom, having given others the spotlight before moving into their glory.

Georgia felt a spiritual bonding to azaleas and rhododendrons, and som other shad-loving plants. Shte, too, preferred to avoid direct sunlight. It seemed to be a too in-you-face brilliance. But, she felt great pleasure as a witness to the life the sun seemed to send to all that its rays could reach.

She adored her secluded balcony that provided her the pleasure of seeing the world move by, just a few feet away, while remaining hidden from view,behind her vines and flowers.

Spirit deserves praise, respect, and perhaps much more for the pleasure this almost sacred place, she thought, almost scolding herself for not expressing enough gratitude for her blessings.

But, then, she considered, what if Spirit had nothing to…

Biting Through follows Observing (Hexagram 20).

Spirit explains: To observe suggests an attitude
of detachment and duality when, in essence
oneness is all that exists.

Biting through expresses awareness and intention;
a determination to experience oneness, and to
release or bite through whatever seems to prevent
us from experiencing that reality.

Such as?

Entrenched belief systems.

But, we must believe something.

Why?

We need guidelines; rules of order that make
sense; that we understand.

Yes.

What is spiritual philosophy?
You’re asking me?
Yes.
But, you’re the teacher
And you’re the student.
Is this a test?
Of what?
Of what I’ve learned.
How?
From your teaching.
It doesn’t work like that.
What doesn’t?
Life.
How does it work?
It doesn’t. You do.
How?
Experience and awareness.
It sounds intellectual.
What else is there?
Emotion.
As separate from intellect?
We think with intellect and feel with emotion.
Can you think without emotion or feel without thought?
Not completely.
What does that mean?
You’re trying to trap me.
I don’t try.
Have I trapped myself?
Yes.

Spirit shares His understanding of I Ching 52 –
Mountain.

Mountain above and mountain below. Now, that’s
a mountain.

Mountain follows Thunder (51) and is followed by
Gradual Progress (53).

Spirit explains: Thunder is caused by the force
of air, as is wind. Air is not without life. Air
is the breath of life, at least human, plant and
animal life, here on Earth. Without clean air we
cannot live as we would with it.

Where does Mountain fit into the picture?

What picture?

Of clean air.

Air is the background.

What about Gradual Progress? How does it follow
Mountain?

Mountains are not easily moved and so can reflect
rigid attitudes toward protecting our environment,
clean air and water for future generations of air
breathing and water drinking life forms.

A lecture in conservation?

Yes.

Note: After the lesson was over, for it seemed to be as
a lesson, Spirit…