比 (bǐ) - Union
比 (bǐ) - “Grouping”.
“Uniting” - “Soul union” - “Holding together” - “Alliance”
The first bottom level. Hexagrams №№1-8.
First Chakra Muladhara.
Color: red.
Location: base of the spine.
Purpose: foundation.
Properties: to be here and have.
Represents our foundation and feeling of being grounded. Survival. Deals with tasks related to the material and physical world. Ability to stand up for oneself and security issues.
Disharmony: overeating and obesity, rigid boundaries, greed and hoarding, fear of change, addiction to security.
Dominant: survival, vitality. The chakra is connected with our animal instincts. Full activation (the opening of this chakra) causes the ability of levitation.
Positions to consider:
- “Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions,” Indra Devi.
- “At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self,” Brendan Behan.
- Today we unite, tomorrow we part. There is no union for good, the only permanent thing is change.
- “People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in,” Margaret Cho.
- Union with your Supreme Self, with the Absolute, is the only real infinite union that can be reached.
- Aspiration towards union is just an initial step on the spiritual path. Once you outgrow those around, you will find yourself alone.
- “God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history,” Richard Rohr.
- Obsession with uniting will only result in enhancing duality! This is the law of our split existence, the dark and the light must always be balanced.
- “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable,” Daniel Webster.
- “Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion,” Wilfrid Laurier.
- Ability to unite is a reflection of the deeper understanding that we are all but a universal whole.
- “Without a union, the people are always cheated, and they are so innocent,” Cesar Chavez.
- The perfect state of master’s mind is a coherent combination of hostility toward the enemies outwards and a core union with them deep in his heart.
- “Imagine all the people living life in peace,” John Lennon – Imagine.
- “What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife… Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment…”
Sources:
ChangeBeing.com
Yi-Cards
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