The
best person is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in low places that all disdain
This is why it is so near to tao.
The best person in your dwelling loves the earth.
In your heart, you love what is profound, in
your associations, you love humanity, in your words, you love faithfulness.
In government, you love order, in handling of affairs, you love competence.
In your activities, you love timeliness. It is because you do not compete
that you are above reproach.
When you are not like water the I Ching brings about something
where you become like water again and you experience the Tao. Whatever occurs,
flow with it. When things are wrong contemplate Hexagram 10:3 When a situation
is insufficient where balance is impossible to attain it is not as it should
be. Ask yourself, your mentors, advisors and on the Twelve Branches page 'What
may be insufficient where balance is impossible?'
Where you are like water, the I Ching will carry you. The flow is sometimes serene pools, other times rushing through ravines, cascading down waterfalls, and other times flowing in rhythmic currents.. always, always moving, seeking completeness. To have this be attentive to your twelve branches.
When the journey through the twelve branches comes back to itself at the original hexagram - the Synchronistic Response, that what you asked for is yours, in it's most appropriate form. Then, for the days until the next new moon, the becoming grows in you.
This is what is called spiritual alchemy.
The one called Dale Bruder, is among the cultural innovators who have devised implements and techniques to use the I Ching in describing and predicating elements, processes and experiences in practices involving special uses of the mind and body.
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Riding the Dragons Tail
2012 Transformative Tao Seminar
begins February 20-21
A 14 part Seminar over 72 Days
$90
Seminar Structure
Monday, February 20th 6:00 - 8:00pm Introduction to the I Ching process.
Tuesday, February 21st On the New Moon 6;30pm - 8pm casting your inquiry of the oracle and beginning your 72 day sojourn.
Monday's, February 27th - April 30th cOracle Touchstone at Tao Time meet-up. Bring your Zen shojo in for maintenance. Stay for the tao Time session. Attend the lectures you want. Online guidance and instruction at every branch.
Thursday, March 8 and 22, Friday, April 6 and Saturday, April 21 Dates to pay attention to.
Example of a Branch. each branch covers six days, includes an area to cast a personal hexagram for the period, detail a plan to accomplish, note at each line/day the essence of your experience and two blocks to note the unexpected and a summary comment.
Seminar Material
Participants receive a Twelve Branches Workbook specific to the hexagram image to be used throughout the time period between threee moons of the Chinese lunar year. Participants refer to the I Ching text of their choice.
Every New Moon begins a 3 month, 14 part seminar taking participants through the I Ching process of the Twelve Branches. Enroll here.
Call 520-331-1956 or email to Begin Your Three Currents Inquiry
You can leverage the wisdom of the ages in your efforts to make the most of your powers and capabilities at this time and in this place.
When you are ready, I am available. Call me for a Tao reading of your present and future with an interpretation on how you can realize it. The Three Currents takes between six and twelve days to come to realization.
Engagements
A 12 Branches Project - Three Month Program
A 3 Currents Inquiry - A three hour inquiry and consultation that takes six to twelve days to play out.
Topical Papers
Composing an Inquiry of the Oracle
Reading & Interpreting I Ching Answers
Example of a 12 Branches Page detailing the branches in their order.
Topics
Branches & Hexagram Interactions
Structuring questions and Inquiries
Lines & Correspondents
Riding the Lunar Tides
Yang to Yin
Yin to Yang
Lao tzu & Chuang tsu
Taoism and I Ching
Buddhism & I Ching
Zen & I Ching
The Synchronistic Response
After the Beginning
Dialogues and Discussion
Dialogues and Discussion
The Tao Time Master
Communication Links Voice/Text 520.331.1956 taotime@dalebruder.com
1976
Sojourn Currents of the Occurring Worlds
Dale Bruder is a life student of the Tao through the I Ching. Since 1976 he has been applying the I Ching to his self the way psychoanalysts and Zen teachers apply psychoanalysis or Zen to themselves before presenting to others.
His studies of Taoist, Buddhist and Confucian I Ching texts towards mastery of the 'hall of mirrors at the end of a giant kaleidoscope' continues today. His intellectual journey is to match the complexity of ordinary real life with total coherence of the three views of Chinese thought.
Life is cyclical and sequential; a series of events and episodes that advances or reverses goals and aspirations.
Making use of and learning from the experience is a key component of a well lived life. Using the Tao Time path changes the social, cultural, technological and economic push/pulls into a flow that is navigable.
Dale Bruder, a business intelligence consultant, invites you to play the infinite game.
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