"The Secret" hits it bigtime!

[thaddeus]

There is still scarcity. All the money and power in the world won't add a second onto your life.

Not to wax too philosophically, but your physical body is not necessarily your life. And your breath comes and goes, has nothing to do with scarcity of anything.

Also, I wonder if there is enough to go around. We may live in rich countries, but look at the impoverishment of so much of the world that makes that possible.

This has more to do with local politics and other factors rather than scarcity. Farmers in this country are paid NOT to grow food.

T

[VCraigP]

Also, I wonder if there is enough to go around. We may live in rich countries, but look at the impoverishment of so much of the world that makes that possible.

 

You say "I wonder..."

 

what if you were holding the thought of abundance for everyone. What would it feel like if that were the reality in this world? What if more and more people held onto that thought passionately and ACTED on it?

 

I think this is a very important aspect of the message. As long as people hold the beliefs that we are rich only through depriving others and that the poor are always poor, will always be poor, etc , then with people acting on those beliefs how possible is it to change things?

 

Part of the message is that "you get what you focus on". That goes for negative things as well!

If you focusing on that which you do not like, it is still the point of focus and you are therefore creating more of it.

To paraphrase the movie Mother Theresa said " I will not attend any anti war rally. When you have a peace rally, go ahead and invite me. She understood."

 

So if you want to create abundance for everyone, see it, feel it , believe it. Then you can open up to the possibilities which can bring it about, or at least help you see what direction you might take personally to bring it about.

 

Is this the desire you wish to fulfill? It's a big one. But it allows me to demonstrate that the secret is not just for "materializing" a nice shiny new car.

 

Craig

[Yoda]

Re: detachment, Esther says that the whole manifesting thing centers around the ability to be detached from the manifestation of the particular desire. If you don't have the detachment, you'll be too negative in your observation of the lack of the manifestation, that you won't be able to allow it in. And the reason anyone wants an external manifestation is to feel better anyways, so it's imperative to learn to circumvent and free yourself from life's external situations so as to feel more bliss, peace, love, etc.

 

She's basically just repackaging traditional religious values.

[Yi Tao]

Also, I wonder if there is enough to go around. We may live in rich countries, but look at the impoverishment of so much of the world that makes that possible.

 

Capitalism creates wealth and plenty. Interfering with capitalism creates scarcity and poverty. The only meat shortages in the world occur where price caps are imposed. If it costs me $1.50 a pound to get the meat to market and the government tells me I can only sell it for $1.20, guess what happens? If you look in almost any country in Africa, you'll see poverty on a grand scale. That's not because other countries are rich and it's not because they can't get a fair deal. Countries in Africa are poor because of the obscene corruption in their governments. The same corruption is hurting Mexico and other South American countries.

 

Study the history of Hong Kong. It was a territory with limited resources and limited land. But a few short years of freedom and commerce raised their standard of living to be almost equal to Great Britain. They didn't create wealth by stealing it from others or through unfair trade. They created wealth through action.

 

The world's wealth is not static. Profit occurs when both side of a financial trade are satisfied.

[forestofsouls]

The point is that even if people have material wealth, there is still suffering. Even if we changed the world so that everyone had enough to eat, proper medical care, and shelter, there would still be suffering.

 

Many sages have proposed the following hypothesis:

 

1. Suffering has internal causes, not external causes.

 

2. Suffering is rooted in desire, in wanting or avoiding.

 

I'm not expecting anyone to accept these because so many sages, in every religion has said so. No, but I suggest that it therefore a worthy hypothesis to be taken under investigation.

 

My own experience confirms this hypothesis*. Perhaps many of you have disproved in your own experience this hypothesis, after long and careful examination. If so, there is nothing more to say, because words are hollow compared to first hand experience.

 

 

 

*- not only that, but it also justifies certain practices, especially tuning in to the present. When I am fully present to to what's going on now, my mind has no room to wander in the past or in the future, it doesn't compare, analyze, and criticize, etc.

Edited March 17, 2007 by forestofsouls

[hagar]

I've got a good one for you.

 

Not taking all the discussion of "The Secret" into account, I had a really great experience with the LOA yesterday:

 

Me and my girfriend had a big fight. Actually, it was pretty awful, and we'd been having some rough times these last few weeks. Enough said. Last night we were both really negative towards eachother and it all flared up and I left the flat in rage, knowing that it was probably the worst thing I could do.

 

As I took a long walk, finally ending up in my office (it's cold in Norway still), I finally got the urge to try to vizualize the outcome I wanted from the situation. I saw myself getting in the doorway, and my girlfriend running towards me and embracing me, and how good that felt. No explanations, no talks, only love.

I finally felt what was making me resist that, and realized I had a hard time forgiving her. So I really opened up to what she really was, and felt forgiveness all over. It was really something. Finally, at about midnight, I came home, opened the door and looked straight into my girfriends eyes. We both started laughing, and she came running towards me, embracing me and telling me how much she loved me. It all was fine, and I felt like a million bucks.

 

Then things started to get really strange...

 

As I got up this morning, going to work, I looked at my cell phone, and saw that it was filled with MMS (picture messages) in my inbox. I opened one, and another kept popping up. There were 10 picures of pink teddybears and the word LOVE. I thought that was nice, and saw that my girfriend had sent them to me at midninght. Just before I came in the door last night. I called her up and told her thanks for the messages. Then she said: What? I did not send anything. I haven't been near my cell phone all night...

So where did these messages, all 10 of them come from? at exactly 0:00 last night, when I was just returning home?

 

h

[Yoda]

Hagar,

 

Another girlfriend then!

 

Seriously though, I'm impressed... few can do a vibrational 180 like that.

 

Yoda

[hagar]

My womanizing days are over. I should probably get married, being a father and all.

 

h

 

Hagar,

 

Another girlfriend then!

 

Seriously though, I'm impressed... few can do a vibrational 180 like that.

 

Yoda

[Yoda]

You are already a world class dad!

[redhen]

Yeah this Power of Positive thinking really works. It worked years ago when Dale Carnegie sold his books about it, it helped Norman Vincent Peale make big money by selling books about it.

 

It also helped me. I "thought", "visualized" about shitting gold bricks one time; and guess what it worked.

 

The only problem was when I ran out of stool softener.

 

God there's so many gullible people in western civilization.

[Leidee]

Wow, I never realised that being gullible was restricted to only "western civilization".

[redhen]

Wow, I never realised that being gullible was restricted to only "western civilization".

 

Well no, they don't hold exclusive rights, but they're the consumers of all these "Think and Grow Rich" scams.

 

The East has had centuries of exposure to different types of frauds; "martial artists" using "hard chi" to do amazing things, which really only boil down to basic physics, smoke and mirrors.

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvRJEWHzGTo

[fatherpaul]

many "tricks" are possible with minimal disipline.

what good are they to a man who wishes merely to be ordinary?

 

they sell "secrets" that any one can find for themselves.

 

peace and happy pancakes,

paul

[hagar]

Well no, they don't hold exclusive rights, but they're the consumers of all these "Think and Grow Rich" scams.

 

The East has had centuries of exposure to different types of frauds; "martial artists" using "hard chi" to do amazing things, which really only boil down to basic physics, smoke and mirrors.

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvRJEWHzGTo

 

The biggest fraud is always ourselves, afraid of being suckers we turn into cynics.

 

about 10 years ago, I'd probably agree with you. And yes, there are many frauds out there.

Being fortunate to have met a real teacher, I had to bite my tounge and get my mind blown.

 

In relation to the "positive thinking" thing, I couldn't agree more. And most of what is taught in "The secret" is unbalanced, materialistic, simplistic and downright propaganda. But it made me aware of some of the pararell aspects of my own practice: If I change my internal relationship with myself and my emotions, I change my world. Period. It really boils down to awareness, which is a measurable sign of your level of practice. If you have worked hard and practiced right, you are in better vibrational alignment or "tuned in" to the universal energy. If you are not "tuned in" you attract unbalanced situations. My teacher said it best: Doing Qigong can make you more lucky. For example, if there's an earthquake, you are not there.

 

If you think the techniques shown in "The secret" has nothing to them, you probably should check out some of the loving-kindness meditations in most Mahayana Buddhist lineages, or the Toglen practice of Tibetan Buddhism, or even more so, the vizualisation techniques in the Yoga Sutra. If they are just to keep bored practitioners busy, I'll bite my tounge.

 

h

[Yoda]

I just got Winn's post about "The Secret." It's a nice response and there's lots of truth in it.

 

The Secret doesn't work easily for most of us... Hagar's experiences are like the experiences found in positive thinking and business achievement books: they work for a gifted subset in an aspect or two of their lives. If it was easy to manifest, it wouldn't be up for debate in the first place. (As an aside, people who are good at manifesting things are more likely to buy into "The Secret" type of a theory than are people who poo-poo it. They might change it from new agey to a more traditional religious flavor, but you'll find it.)

 

Winn says that the meditative approach is the long term answer. (Although the same argument could be made about meditative practices... they work great for a gifted subset.)

 

The nice thing about the meditative approach is that the pleasure is here and now whereas most people understand the Secret to imply that the pleasure will come from the manifestation of the house, relationship, state of health, etc.

 

Here's the post:

 

 

"The Secret" - A Harry Potter Manual for Adults?

 

That is where so many of us fail to grasp the real Secret of

manifesting something new. The popular film "The Secret"

buzzing around the internet and Oprah these days gives the

standard channelled new age nostrums: visualize what you

want, and build a new energetic thought form. By seeing your

thought as real, and relying on the Law of Attraction to get

support, you will manifest the $3 million dollar dream house

with the pool (that cost $300K a decade ago).

 

There is nothing new here, this is an Old Secret, variations

of which appear as sexual magic (charge up a thought form

with sexual energy). The only thing that it is really new is

that New Age visualization is getting into the mainstream

media as a sign of changing times. The public is over its

head in financial debt, and the film offers a magic solution

to becoming one of the wealthy, worry-free elite. Its a

Harry Potter manual, packaged for adults, promising instant

riches. The focus is on material, not spiritual development.

But the advice offered is useful in getting people to focus

their energy, as many problems do arise from the

fragmentation and scattering effects of modern life.

 

What's not being fully dealt with is Our Resistance to

Change. That is the main impediment to manifesting the life

we truly want. No, Resistance is not a dark cloaked evil

figure. It's not Satan trying to make our life difficult,

forcing us to have a nervous break down, and then sobbingly

surrender our free will to some religious group claiming a

power greater than the Darkness.

 

Our Resistance is Invested in the Past

 

Our Resistance is the shadow aspect of our self, a.k.a. the

Self-Saboteur. It is actually the part of our Energy Body

that is invested in the past. The past represents the Known.

The Self-Saboteur is a junkie for what's known, even if

what's known doesn't really work and has us mired in

suffering. Same problem arises when our past pleasures no

longer really give us pleasure. The sex becomes mechanical,

the rich food tastes like cardboard. Our past attachment

becomes future suffering as our Shadow Junkie puts us

through withdrawal pains if we try to change from what is

known.

 

So what's the Real Secret to manifesting while living in a

habit-encrusted body with rigid personality traits? It's

pretty simple, but there are three steps. The first step is

to realize what and where you are currently investing your

energy. Once you can see your old investments, you can

choose to re-invest. But unlike investing money, where we

have the feedback of numbers in a bank account to tell us if

we are winning or losing, our Energy Body keeps tabs of its

investment invisibly. We could say sexual bonding, emotions

and mental beliefs are the most tangible aspects of those

invisible energetic investments.

 

What happens is that people want to invest in having new

lives, new jobs, new homes, new relationships, new spiritual

paths. But they forget where their past capital is

unconsciously invested. It's like forgetting the number on

your bank account, and never withdrawing the funds. Banks

make a lot of money this way in real life. And the same loss

occurs with our psychic capital.

 

For the person trying to change, half of their "energetic

money" is still invested in the past.This reduces by 50% the

amount of energetic money they have available to invest in a

new future. So when folks try implementing "The Secret" and

visualize a new life, they may be dealing from half a deck

of cards. It's hard to produce a royal flush or four aces

playing with a half a deck - even if you are the dealer and

the only player.

 

That is why, by process of trial and error, I've concluded

that Taoist energetic practices are the most valuable tools

I've discovered for managing my "unconscious money". The

money is hidden inside our body, in deep energetic patterns

- right where we invested it and stored it years ago.

 

Lots of people try to get rid of that money in therapy,

because they don't recognize it as money. They try to

discard the old self or deny the self even exists, or try to

heal the old pattern by surgical-energetically removing

these dysfunctional patterns. I've found you are best off

simply remembering that the old pattern is there, and

re-invest its chi into a new pattern that is now unfolding

in your life. You turn what is a useless self-sabotage into

something productive.

 

Breaking the Vessel of the Old Self

 

Sure, there is "big new money" floating all around us, in

the general chi field of Nature. We could say infinite

amounts of chi money has been pre-printed by Nature, waiting

to be spent, if only we could attract it. Just like there

are trillions of dollars floating around in the global

economy. But there's no point chasing after those trillions

until you break your old piggy bank and create a vessel that

is big enough to hold what you really need.

 

But if your Energy Body is habituated to being the size of

child's toy piggy bank, then that is how much "money" you

will allow yourself to receive and spend. Because that tiny

piggy bank is the vibrational vessel for your wealth. You

have to break the old toy piggy bank and build a bank-sized

vault as big as the sun, moon, and stars if you want to hold

the vibrational wealth of Nature.

 

But again, visualizing the sun and moon won't do much if the

tiny piggy bank is still the core investment that you are

holding onto in your deep unconscious. The piggy bank

represents something valuable to the subconscious child in

you. That child is holding tight in its fist the first

nickel you ever got, and only lets go of the nickel to store

it in that little plastic piggy bank.

 

That nickel seemed like huge wealth to the child - and back

then it bought a juicy handful of candy. We know from the

Law of Compounding that energy, just like money, grows over

time if undisturbed and allowed to multiply steadily. Our

Energy Body acts like a focusing vortex for the Life Force,

and it will grow exponentially if we don't disperse it. That

is why alchemists create inside their body a vessel for the

elixir. They know the Life Force will compound over time if

allowed to "cook" in a strong container. This internal

cauldron space is the equivalent of the alchemist's piggy

bank.

 

Whatever we focus on, chi will keep pouring into it until we

tell it to stop. We forget what commands we've issued in the

past - but the Life Force doesn't forget. It keeps feeding

your request until you take responsibility for changing it.

That's how it gets us to grow up.

 

So our first job in overcoming Our Resistance is recognizing

what form that piggy bank takes inside us. It could be

encoded as a small or weak self-image. It could be from a

phrase like "You are worthless!" that someone unconsciously

imbedded into our field at a vulnerable time. It helps to

locate where in your body these old energies are stored, and

note the shape, feeling, color, size, etc.

 

Second step is to break the old piggy bank, now a

dysfunctional energy pattern, but still a controlling one.

There are many methods for this, available through study of

qigong and inner alchemy and certain kinds of healing.

 

The third step is to re-invest that nickel and the hundreds

of dollars in interest it has unconsciously accumulated over

the years. You invest the past "stuck" wealth into your new

direction in life. Then you are investing from inner

strength, not struggling against your old investments. You

are putting the Shadow energy to work for you.

 

In terms of Taoist energetic practice, you won't be able to

hold much chi until you clear your inner space of old

energetic patterns - it's like furniture blocking free flow

of chi inside your body. That is what the Six Healing

Sounds, Inner Smile, Orbit and Fusion of the Five Elemetns

are all doing - clearing out old patterns while something

new simultaneously is invited to flow in.

 

Become a Moving Vessel for the Life Force

 

In this way we each become a Moving Vessel for the Life

Force. This is a flexible, process-centered identity that

eliminates the rigid psychic battle between the dark Shadow

Self vs. the good Light Self struggling over what gets

manifested. Instead, we become aware of both aspects moving

through outer time and space, while inviting the Life Force

to move through our inner space.

 

It's a dance. We wake up to the possibility of having a

vast, spacious cauldron in our center of gravity, where

before there was just the blood and guts of our physical

belly. The notion of "dan tian" takes us into a deeper

dimension of ourself, beyond the physical. The ancient

chinese characters for "dan tian" are best interpreted to

mean the "open field in which the elixir completes itself".

 

The spiritual science of manifestation is focused on

completing our soul's destiny - not on satisfying mere

culturally stimulated desires - like chasing after 3 million

dollar homes with swimming pools. Many people manifest the

dream home, but how many also end up in divorce, loneliness,

and dissipating their energy through drugs, power, lust,

etc.? Ao one Secret is not to chase after the cultural

dream, but to listen to your inner soul's desires.

 

The inner elixir sought by alchemists is your soul's wealth,

gathered from your life's experience. We can concentrate

this essence in one very pure point of consciousness that

fuses our yin-yang identity into a third force. But we need

a very dynamic space, and that is why I describe it as a

Moving Vessel, because the Life Force is always flowing in

and out of it.

 

When we are children, it feels like there's no past, so our

chi is free to flow in all directions, a time of wonderful

exploration. Because kids have no past to get attached to,

little resistance has developed. It's easy to change

direction, and do it often. But our Way in youth is a

unrefined, unformed, a lump of clay waiting to be sculpted.

Lao Tzu might say youth is carrying within itself the

uncarved block - the pure potential of the situation or

one's life, before we've shaped it into something new and

beautiful. One translation of "lao tzu" is "ancient child",

implying a sage that has learned to live in the moment with

a child's fresh joy and wonder. Yet this child-sage

simultaneously holds the wisdom of the past and future in

this present moment.

 

The Law of Attraction is also working on us, even as we

think we can manipulate it. It is a difficult force for us

adults to manage, because it impacts onto our own

(unconscious) sexual energy. Sexual chi holds the yin-yang

poles within our core self identity. They are constantly

magnetizing everything in the field around us. Yin-yang

sexual force causes the chi to flow towards us or be

repelled out of our personal cauldron. Once we can witness

this sexual inner push-pull, we can begin to shape our

manifestation process. But that is not a quick

visualization. It takes years of serious qigong and

meditation cultivation practice.

 

This is one application of the Kan & Li (Water and Fire)

alchemical process. The Lesser Enlightenment of Kan and Li

harnesses your sexually polarized soul force to re-shape

your reality. It converts the yin-yang forces into neutral

force, and then allows that to spontaneously unfold as

needed in our body and our life. Because it works at the

deep jing (sexual essence) level, I find all the Kan & Li

meditation practices to be the most powerful way to shape

the Law of Attraction and thus manifest what your soul

REALLY needs.

 

Visualization is Limited - Use Your Whole Energy Body

 

Visualizing the manifestation process is too mental and too

partial to produce the most profound results. We have to

gather and reinvest our sexual and emotional and at higher

levels of practice, our ancestral and astrological soul

energies if we really want to shape the process of

manifestation. This involves deep and long training of our

energy body. We invest decades in school to acquire outer

knowledge in order to earn outer wealth. Why not invest a

few years to learn the secrets of your internal process, and

how to invest your inner wealth?

 

Otherwise, many spiritual seekers settle for becoming

"spiritually detached", mere passive witnesses to the

unfolding of life. This is first stage, letting go of their

past. But they never get inside their body and its

spiritual secrets - they have forgotten where the "money" is

hiding in their little piggy bank. I feel many may never

realize the next stage, they never re-invest their chi. Some

become spacey and lacking worldly direction, pretending it

doesn't matter, as long as their head is in the clouds of

some other higher world. That is when their Self-Saboteur,

The Resistance, starts acting out and they wonder why

physical life doesn't conform to their idea of spiritual

life.

 

But in reality they have yet to learn the True Secret, the

need to reinvest their old stuck energy into Life's new

direction. This involves learning energetic skills that make

this process much easier, like qigong. And developing skill

in recognizing what you are really invested in, so you can

re-direct that energy. Then we can realize the creative

potential of the gift of Free Will that we each have.

[Cameron]

It's a deep and interesting question. I have been thinking about this pretty deeply myself lately.

 

To sum up my take on all this at this time:all the manifestation stuff is based on ego desire. If you awaken, the ego is no longer at the forefront of your experience of life. The non stop interest in the self and what the self wants is no longer the major driving force of what's going on here.

 

In effect..awakening changes the priorities.

 

Ime not there yet by a long shot. 99% of the people I deal with on a daily basis arent there yet.

 

But like I told Jeannie Zandi when I sat with her last month. "You know, it's nice being with someone like you..you sort of realize your self is not confined to this little me. It also involves..you know..like the rest of the universe".

 

I don't think there is anything wrong with material success and it certainly can make the whole experience of life go easier. I guess it's something we all need to go deeply into ourselves and find the answers to. These deep, deep questions.

[Yoda]

Cam,

 

I'd agree that the desires expressed in the Secret are relatively petty and that there's a bigger game out there. But I'd also say that cultivating the nervous system so that one can be enlightened/egoless/desireless/can chat with God/be God/etc is still a desire and plays by the same rules as manifesting.

 

Spiritual teachers tend to focus on the "egoless/let go and let God" aspect of manifestation and business gurus emphasize the focus and passion "ego" side of the equation, but both elements are required to fulfill any desire whether it's for a breath of air or a huge, transformative insight.

 

Yoda

[Cameron]

Great! I like your approach and don't find anything "wrong" with it. Michael is a good guy I think his stuff is interesting.

 

I would much rather be surrounded with positive, life affirming ego's than negative, destructive ego's

 

Those few I have met that are awakened represent for me something "better". But I don't think it's something that one "manifests" so much as "allows".

 

But, then again, your girl Esther Hicks now calls her work "The art of allowing". Interesting stuff...need a lifetime to meditate on it

[thaddeus]

Cam,

 

I'd agree that the desires expressed in the Secret are relatively petty and that there's a bigger game out there. But I'd also say that cultivating the nervous system so that one can be enlightened/egoless/desireless/can chat with God/be God/etc is still a desire and plays by the same rules as manifesting.

 

Spiritual teachers tend to focus on the "egoless/let go and let God" aspect of manifestation and business gurus emphasize the focus and passion "ego" side of the equation, but both elements are required to fulfill any desire whether it's for a breath of air or a huge, transformative insight.

 

Yoda

Right on..

I can't remember where this story is from but the basic idea is that someone was being shown heaven and hell. In Hell, there was a long table with exquisite foods but everyone seated at the table had really long fingers and couldn't bring the food to their mouths, so they were sitting there pretty unhappy and starving. Heaven was the same exact table, same exact food, but the people at the table were feeding the one across from them and vice versa. I have been reading a bit on the berg's version of kabbalah and Cam, I think you would be really interested in it. It's basically all about reducing the ego. When you're ego based, you want to receive for yourself. When you can transcend the ego, then you want to receive in order to share. It's the sharing that brings us to god and to our true nature. The techniques in the secret, the way it's presented, enforce the ego. Gimme gimme gimme, me me me. But I see it's the only way to wake up. By realizing that our experience is caused by us is the only way to have a heaven on earth. As long as we think life is random and meaningless, then the ego will always want its share. We will always have conflict and war. When we realize differently, when we learn that everything that happens to us is our own fault, not our neighbors, when we finally wake up to this is our dream, then we can start to really experience the divine.

T

[Eric23]

[voice]

Thaddeus wrote: "It's basically all about reducing the ego. When you're ego based, you want to receive for yourself. When you can transcend the ego, then you want to receive in order to share."

 

Chris writes: I'd say that what you describe is an increasing of the ego beyond your skin to include the center of others. Identifying with the self and others is increasing the ego. In Tao Alchemy, we work to ever increase the extent of our ego, our sense of self, to include all.

 

But, you probably have something more specific in mind in your use of the word "ego"?

 

Chris

[freeform]

[Cameron]

The question of reducing your ego or expanding your ego via Taoist practice is interesting.

 

When Ken Cohen talks about a sort of awakening he had through qigong he says he realized "center everywhere, circumfrence nowhere".

 

To me this is a wonderful explanation but not really a state of ego expansion since the nature of the experience is the dissolution of the seperate "I" thought to expanding to encompass..well..everywhere is everywhere.

 

To say this state is like an enlarged ego or something I think is interesting but not really how most enlightened people describe it.

 

I guess it works if you like. Mabe it comes down to the difference of explanation of the Atman of Hinduism and the Non-Atman-no self-of Buddhism.

 

Whether you conceive of that sort of ultimate reality as a giant all encompassing self or giant empty no self..

 

Like I said about the 'Secret'..I much rather be surrounded by positive ego's than negative one's..so probably it's good.

[Yen Hui]

"The art of allowing".

01 - "On Experimental Science: That which is sent us at the present moment is the most useful because

it is intended especially for us." ( Jean de Caussade in 'Abandonment to Divine Providence' )

 

02 - "If he knows how to meet fate with an attitude of acceptance, he is sure to find the right guidance.

The superior man lets himself be guided; he does not go ahead blindly, but learns from the situation what

is demanded of him and then follows this intimation from fate." ( I Ching, Hex. 02, 'The Judgment' )

 

03 - "Human life on earth is conditioned and unfree, and when man recognizes this limitation and makes

himself dependent upon the harmonious and beneficent forces of the cosmos, he achieves success. The

cow is the symbol of extreme docility. By cultivating in himself an attitude of compliance and vo-

luntary dependence, man acquires clarity without sharpness and finds his place in the world." ( I Ching,

Hex. 30, under 'The Judgment' )

 

04 - "It is of capital importance to understand this distinction between acceptance and resignation. To

accept, really to accept a situation, is to think and feel with the whole of one's being that, even if one had

the faculty of modifying it, one would not do it, and would have no reason to do it." (Hubert Benoit in 'Zen

and the Psychology of Transformation' )

 

05 - "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can;

and wisdom to know the difference." ( by Reinhold Niebuhr (c. 20th century), Christian Theologian )

[Wanderer]

Try Magnetic Millionaire by Matt Furey- it' actually goes deeper into the whole thing.

 

IMO better yet is Matt's 'Magnetic Mind Power'.