Welcome to this transmission and contemplation.
On being with confusion.
Please exhale.
And to make some space using the breath.
As we prepare to receive.
Guidance from the I Ching and also internal wisdom.
And let's use the breath again.
To exhale a little bit more.
Allowing the body to relax.
The face as well.
Letting the mind quieten.
And the whole body is softened.
When we are relaxed.
We tend to have a more open heart.
And also or of an open mind.
To be receptive.
To the inner guidance.
As well as your inner light.
We're going to set an intention together.
Please connect with your heart center now.
And then repeat with me.
I trust.
The wisdom I am receiving.
From this ancient teaching.
As well as my own inner guidance.
These are both aligned with my highest guru.
And for the greater good of all.
Breathe into that and affirm once more with the words I trust.
Exhale,
Let go.
It's more just relaxing,
Quietening.
And being gently available.
To know it all.
What of the messages?
Are speaking to you.
So when we contemplate being with confusion,
This is the teaching.
Beneath the surface of hexagram 64 of the I Ching.
It's entitled,
Having Not Yet Crossed the Stream.
And it is the final teaching.
Final hexagram.
Of the 64.
The flow starts,
Of course,
With hexagram 1 and 2,
And 1 is of complete yang nature,
2 is of complete yin nature.
Vibration and these two are often likened.
To the parents.
Primal masculine,
The primal feminine.
And so we go through the journey.
Through the rest of the hexagrams,
Rest of the transmissions.
Farming different combinations of yin and yang sequences of this binary code that talks into various architectures.
And then it culminates in.
63 having YONG YEN YONG YEN YONG YEN expression.
Where we have the primary archetypes and elements of water and fire.
And there water is above fire and that is a harmonious situation to be in.
And the title of that hexagram is Having Crossed the Stream.
And the reason that I'm mentioning all of this is it helps with the understanding of the positioning of 64.
To now with our 64th and supposedly final transmission of the I Ching.
We see the yin-yang expression.
Also alternating in a weaving style like 63 but this time starting with an open line of yin.
And then yang,
And then yan,
Yang,
Yan,
Yang.
So in this expression,
We again see water and fire as the primary elements,
But now fire is on top.
Water is beneath.
And this position is a very difficult position for these two primal elements to be in.
They are much more harmonious.
As they appeared in 63.
Wouldn't it have been so much easier?
To complete a transmission.
With having crossed the stream,
With order like we saw.
In the teaching.
Of hexagram 63 but instead this ending to the I Ching.
Brings confusion.
Things are not.
Perfectly and all beautifully complete as we might like it to be.
And so we have this opportunity to.
.
.
Accept and comfortable with.
These times.
Of not knowing.
That perhaps we would have expected.
Things to have been completed by now.
Or Perhaps there was an expectation of something else and now one is in a situation where there is much change afoot.
But at a time like this.
The vision of the new is not yet in sight.
It does not mean that it is not there.
It is just not in our.
.
.
Form of vision as yet.
And so we are us.
Return to all those practices that we have learned.
Been implementing.
Over this time.
Pressed.
Grounding.
Relaxing into.
And reminding the self that all is well.
And that an amazing new direction and experience and vision is awaiting us perhaps beyond our imagination at this point.
And so in times of appearing chaos or disorder.
Instead of trying to figure it out with the mental mind.
With the logical left brain.
The teaching of being with confusion.
Asks us to relax into the unknown and allow the mystery,
And the wonder.
Of our super conscious self.
To bring forth marvelous ways,
Opportunities,
Solutions.
And all we have to do is just relax.
Relax into not knowing.
Relax into knowing and trusting that All the answers.
Within you and at the right time there will be an illumination.
From within and around.
Words from the I Ching say.
The hexagram suggests forces which are polar opposites.
But are not arranged so that they are complementary.
Arduous effort to create order out of such disorder.
Will require great caution.
And firm discipline.
The hexagram's name refers to the tremendous undertaking not yet completed.
And so there's caution and firm discipline that is being referred to.
Is asking.
For us to not meddle and not try and sort things out in the usual way.
Be cautious against one's own monkey mind or erratic.
Behavior.
Automatic responses.
Just relax.
Into how things are right now.
Doing this repeatedly,
Moment after moment,
Day after day,
Is where that discipline comes in.
And while the last line might sound like we have so much to do because it says the hexagram's name refers to the tremendous undertaking not yet completed.
And the edge.
In order to allow this completion to take place.
We are us.
To be quiet and listen.
Listen to your inner guidance.
If there is ever a time to trust your intuition and be guided by it.
Now is that time.
Let that be a guide for you multiple times throughout your day,
Where once you would have responded perhaps without thinking,
Now,
All's well.
Ask.
Way.
Listen.
And so,
Perhaps after all,
It is quite apt.
That this teaching.
Of confusion and being with confusion.
Is part of.
64th and supposedly final transmission,
Or is it really?
For this allows us to unfold.
Into hexagram number one and two.
Pairs of the parents taking us on the journey once more.
Through yin and yang expressions of life.
Heading towards complementary,
Opposite.
63rd and 64th hexagrams.
Which we can now perhaps.
.
.
Consider.
As the grandparents,
Maybe even the great-grandparents.
So what is your very personal takeaway?
From this teaching today.
What are you going to be doing differently?
And if you had to describe this teaching to a friend,
How would you sum it up?
And so dear friends,
As you stand now between what has been,
What is yet to come.
Continue to truss the unfolding.
For every ending carries the seed of a new beginning.
And in its own perfect time.
The way reveals itself.
You
