臨 (lín) - Breaking Stereotypes
臨 (lín) - "Breaking Stereotypes"
“Nearing” - “Approach” - “Forest”
The third level. Hexagrams №№17-24.
Solar Plexus Chakra – Manipura.
Color: yellow.
Location: solar plexus.
Purpose: obey or subordinate.
Properties: to act and to be an individual.
Personal power – the right to think. Balance of intellect, self-confidence and ego power.
Disharmony: stubborn and arrogant, overly aggressive, domineering and controlling.
Dominant: feelings, will, control. Adjust to the event stream or create the event stream itself. At the level of “Manipura”, consciousness is still limited by crude levels of existence – sensuality, ambition, greed. Manipura chakra corresponds to a top stage of evolution of animal beginning of the person.
Positions to consider:
- Nobody can give up stereotypes altogether, as it would be equivalent to rejecting all the cultural heritage.
- “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them,” Albert Einstein.
- Stepping out of the stereotypes matrix is equivalent to being out of your mind, which is madness.
- “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it,” Vincent van Gogh.
- “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you,” Carl Jung.
- In fact, the overwhelming majority of people do not live at all, their stereotypes live for them.
- “Nothing prevents one from seeing, as much as one’s own point of view,” Don Aminado.
- “Common sense is the collection of prejudices, acquired by age eighteen,” Albert Einstein.
- “Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature,” Anne Frank.
- “The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules — but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them,” Aleister Crowley.
- “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform,” Mark Twain.
- “We form our beliefs in childhood, and then move through life, recreating situations that would fit our beliefs,” Louise Hay.
- “The words of truth are always paradoxical,” Lao Tzu.
- “Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking,” Albert Einstein.
- “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense,” Buddha.
- We do not see the world directly. The visual signal first passes through the data bank in the brain for identification (stereotyping), and only then it is available for awareness. We are forever doomed to be a prisoner of our stereotypes!
- “The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion,” Albert Einstein.
- “A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be,” Albert Einstein.
- “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions,” Albert Einstein.
- “Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking,” Albert Einstein.
- “The golden rule is that there are no golden rules,” George Bernard Shaw.
- “…a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage,” George Bernard Shaw ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’.
- “…and led me to finally recognize that I was but an automaton devoid of free will in thought and action and merely responsible to the forces of the environment,” Nikola Tesla, ‘My Inventions’.
- “I was merely an automaton endowed with the power of movement, responding to the stimuli of the sense organs and thinking and acting accordingly,” ― Nikola Tesla, ‘My Inventions’.
- “The most difficult step is a step beyond what is usual,” an unknown author.
- “If you live according to the instructions, then you may die from a typo,” the author is unknown.
- “I will believe anything, if only it would be completely unbelievable,” the author is unknown.
- “What if the plants grow us, supplying oxygen only so that after a death we serve them as good hummus?” – unknown author.
- “The golden rule is that there are no golden rules,” George Bernard Shaw.
- “Patriotism: the conviction that your country is better than others because you were born in it,” George Bernard Shaw.
- “You are limited only by the walls that you yourself have built around yourself,” Eddie Murphy.
Sources:
ChangeBeing.com
Yi-Cards
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