admin January 6th, 2009
Unfortunately, in many cases, the brain is infected with a “virus” that renders its main program inoperable. Now it is time to reorganize the files and reactivate the main program by finding and deleting that virus. Throw away the files you don’t need and reorganize the ones you do. Then you will realize how good the equipment that you have on your journey is. Remember, you have to do hardware and software maintenance to keep your computer running at optimum efficiency. Hardware maintenance consists of allowing your brain to breathe and relax properly, while software maintenance is feeding constructive and “good” information into your brain. (These lines are copied from Prof Ilchi Lee book)
How easily you will travel and how far you will go depends on how well you use your brain. If you use your brain well, it will make your journey much easier. If you don’t organize the information in your brain, you will encounter hardship and misdirection, adding misery to your trip. Whatever the case, you have to finish the race by running the distance allotted to you. When your soul reaches the destination and achieves what it originally sought to achieve, only then is it freed from its responsibility and allowed to return to its original nothingness state of zero. This is the salvation of the soul, to have come back to where it started. This is why there is no beginning and no end.
We started by talking about computers, and we have come a long way since that. We need a concrete conclusion that can help us live this life. Knowing what we know now. what is meant by “living right”? If we see only the patterns and not the reality behind them, we will always live in anxiety and fear, although it might be punctuated by fleeting moments of gaiety. If we see only the nothingness and not the marvelous pictures created by the flow of Life Current, we will sink into a morass of inactivity and emptiness.
admin January 4th, 2009
Here is an article about heart and brain by Ilchi Lee. If your choice requires you to completely change your life, change directions, and leave the comfort and security of the path that you have walked so far, it is natural for hesitation and second thoughts to accompany such a decision. However, as you know already, more calculations and deliberation do not make the choice any easier or wiser. Ultimately, the decision is a one-time choice.
The question to ask is simple: What is it you really want? What are the things that fill your heart with hope and joy? Ask your soul and heart this question. There is no guarantee that your choice is the one that corresponds to that original hope that acted as the seed around which your soul was built. However, if you don’t ask your soul, where else would you direct the question? If not to your heart, then where?
The soul is pure. Since it is pure, it is simple. It knows what it wants and it is always ready to do anything to get it. Once you have asked your soul and received the answer through your heart, then it is time to discuss how to go about getting it with your brain. Your brain is a monitor that displays the movement of the Life Current and records its paths. Your brain is part of your basic equipment to help you on your journey, much like a notebook computer you take on business trips.
admin January 2nd, 2009
When I expound on karma, I do so not to dwell on the mysticism generated by the term but merely wish to emphasize the importance of choice and responsibility. When Buddha taught about karma, he did so to teach his students about choices and responsibilities, not to mystify life and give it justification. Likewise, when Jesus said that you would gain the doors of heaven when you repent, he wanted to lift self-condemning people out from under the weight of guilt, not to give a green light to wanton and remorseless sins. Buddha and Jesus taught the universal truth the way they did, not because their way was the only way, but because they considered their ways appropriate to solve the spiritual problems of their times.
Say you headed East for a long time and have come far. Your trip, your steps so far, are recorded in your brain and reflected in the actual position in which you are standing now. This is a fact and has nothing to do with whether you believe in karma or not. The more important thing is where do you go from here? Is there a reason for you to walk in the same direction as you have? Yes, if you know that this is the direction in which your hope lies. However, if you walk in the same direction for no particular reason, then you are subjecting yourself to carelessness and continuing habit, which have nothing to do with your karma. You always can choose your direction.
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admin December 30th, 2008
As long as we are alive, we have to act, which involves an endless series of choices. Our choices always churn the waters of equanimity and harmony into chaos. It is the actions of Ki and Tao to calm the waters and return them to original harmony. In this sense, Tao, which means the “Way” in a literal translation, is the force for the Original Order in the universe, a cosmic rubber band that always returns to its original shape even after undergoing myriad transformations and changes. The process of living always creates chaos, and the flow of Tao tames the chaos. Responsibility not only becomes an act of accepting the consequences of your choices, but also the act of recovering the harmony, the original state of zero. If we were to borrow an analogy from physics, this principle would best be represented by entropy, the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Karma is also another expression of this principle of recovering the original state of zero.
Recovering the zero does not mean that everything disappears and nothing remains. Your experience remains. If you are wise, you would use this experience to fertilize and nurture soul. In addition to gaining self-confidence and respect for others, you would gain deep inner peace. This is the true meaning of maturity. (These lines are copied from Ilchi Lee book)
We all learned in kindergarten to put a toy back in its place once we are done playing with it. What the child gets out of playing with a toy is not the toy itself, nor the temporary emotional delight, but the maturity he gains from the experience. If the child seems too attached to the toy and refuses to let it go, then we recognize it as a worrisome sign of possible emotional or mental disturbance. In like manner, as a society, we are currently too attached to the “toy” and not to the lesson that playing may impart to further the maturation of our collective soul.
I recall seeing a sign in a national park. It read, “Please take with you what you brought and leave what was here already.” This should be the basic axiom when dealing with Earth. Earth is not ours to do with as we please. We have just been granted temporary stewardship of Earth. We did not purchase Earth with money. What we can attain during our time on Earth is not more land or higher skyscrapers but maturity. We have been granted permission to use the grand “toy,” the whole of the natural environment, as a tool to facilitate our maturity. This is why we have a responsibility to return the toy to its rightful place in its original condition.
admin December 28th, 2008
How much time did it take for human beings, descendants of monkeys but with an advanced intellectual potential, after making their appearance on Earth and wondering at the mysteries of the stars, Moon, and Sun, to realize they were not at the center of the known cosmos? In the beginning, it was probably humiliating and absolutely terrifying to relinquish the notion that the universe revolved around them. But now, it is evidence of the maturity of human awareness. Now it’s time to once again present evidence for our continuing growth. We need another Copernican Revolution in the collective human consciousness. What we need now is to realize that humanity is not the center of Earth and to find the real center of the natural harmony. That center of harmony is the Earth, not human beings.
Sir Ilchi Lee writes that the central standard of value for our life here on Earth should be Earth Herself, not our egos, needs, wants, and prejudices. We can use Earth as the standard by which to judge all actions on Earth. From such a point of view, we all become Earth-Humans first, before we are a part of a group, nation, or religion.
If there were no Earth, then no altars could exist for you to worship your god. You wouldn’t exist, nor your god. Without Earth, no nation would exist, nor would political ideologies with which to rule a nation. With eternal hope, we may eventually all learn to recover the zero point and become one with the cosmic consciousness. However, before that happens, it is more crucial that we attain an Earth consciousness. To do so, we need to overcome the group egotism that binds us, knowingly or unknowingly. All our choices and actions should be judged by the effects they have on Earth. All our choices should be geared to empty the scale of Earth and return it to zero. That is the reward and the responsibility of our choices. From zero to zero—this is the expression of the grand cycle of the cosmos.
admin December 25th, 2008
How can we restore the zero reading? What is meant by restoring the zero reading? This process of restoration is a purely subjective experience. You cannot restore your state of zero by looking at someone’s else’s scale. No, you have to reawaken your own sensitivity, pay off your “debts,” and recover your own zero. In the context of everyday life, in everyday society, recovering the zero means that you have a correct value system as a guide to your actions, a value system that can fairly and equitably judge all other values. What could be the central standard of value that could embrace the diverse values of the world and promote understanding and co-existence among them?
Prof Ilchi Lee describe Until now, we humans have celebrated ourselves as the final arbitrators of all living things on Earth and we have organized our world accordingly. We have dealt with others and the Earth under the premise that we are separate individuals, at war with one another and the world, surviving through ceaseless competition, our standards of value always at the whim of our ever-changing emotions and moods. Such has been the limit of our value system. Such is the life that we lead today.
If human beings are too subjective and “full of themselves” to develop an objective criterion for values, then what about natural sciences, religions, or politics? How does science define truth? Even in the supposedly objective realm of natural sciences, most people agree that the standards of truth only go as far as the paradigm currently in vogue among the majority of scientists. All religions that purport to teach the everlasting truth and the gods that they uphold have, despite claims of universality, specific prejudices for a certain nation or people, causing conflicts and fights. We don’t yet have a single representative God of Earth.
How about the concepts of justice and freedom, whose pursuit is lauded as a universal human trait? Freedom fights against freedom, and justice strikes against justice. This is because even freedom and justice are subject to the subjective interpretation of a particular group. This is fighting between information as produced by the tinted lenses of different groups. Original freedom and justice have no conflicts within them. Everything, including so-called universal truths of natural sciences, religions, and politics, is trapped within the cage of the prevailing paradigm.
admin December 23rd, 2008
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We have put something on the scale and forgotten to take it off. In other words, the reason that we all have different standards of value is not because our scales our flawed, but because our scales have a weight already on them. Each individual has a different weight on his scale. Since the internal scale is perfect, it faithfully reflects the different weights that we, as individuals, place upon it. This is why, when we place the same object upon the scales, the readings are all off by the weight of the objects already lying on top of the scales. We just don’t remember or recognize that we have placed this burden there. It’s akin to wearing a pair of tinted glasses without knowing it.
It is not necessary for the scale to always point to zero, nor is it necessary to look at everything without tinted glasses. The problem lies in forgetting to take the weight off the scales and in not remembering you have glasses on. If we could remember to go back to the zero reading on the scales, there would be no problem whatsoever. Enlightenment is not maintaining the zero reading at all times; enlightenment is the perfect internal scale itself. Of course, it is up to individual choice if one wants to maintain the zero state of his scale by living alone in some cave or on a moun-taintop, but it is not necessary to become enlightened. No. All you have to do is to be able to recognize that you are wearing colored glasses and know you have something pressing down on the scale—and to be able to take off the glasses and the weight.
As long as we are in this physical form, we have to eat. excrete. sleep, and engage in social relationships. Every moment of your life is a series of choices, and to make a choice, you have to judge your situation beforehand. You have to weigh the situation on your internal scale. Then you have to take responsibility for the choices that you make. Although everyone starts with their scales at zero, we put so much stuff on them as we live that we eventually forget what we have on the scales, and lose our sense of the zero.
admin December 21st, 2008
The way we recognize or see an object is like using a scale. Each person is using his own scale to weigh an object. Accordingly, everyone will have a different weight for the same object. This is akin to us seeing the same object in different ways. Why is that? Are these scales imperfect? No, there is nothing wrong with the scales. It’s possible, right now, to see that there is nothing wrong with our internal scales. Lean your body to one side. When it is leaning to one side, ask yourself who is really you. Are you the one who is leaning or the one who recognizes that the body is leaning? Let us change the question. Is your recognition perfect? If not, are you the one whose recognition is imperfect, or the one who knows that her recognition is imperfect? How you do know that your recognition is imperfect?
The reason Ilchi Lee describe that we know the imperfectness of our recognition is due to the inherent “perfectness” of our inner knowledge.
Whether you know it or not, there exists within you a grain of “perfect” knowledge, not as a result of some effort on your part, but as an inherent gift to all human beings. This core of perfect knowledge is enlightenment, and it is your choice to recognize it or not. This core is the basis for all recognition. This is what I mean when I say that there is no flaw in our internal scale.
Why, then, do we see the same object in different ways? Why do our scales read different weights for the same object? It is not because your scale is off, but because your scale is not calibrated to “zero.” Why is your scale not calibrated to “zero”? The answer is simple. There is already something on it.
admin December 19th, 2008
The problem of a central standard of value takes us to the philosophical question of epistemology or knowing. The fact that we place differing values on the same object says that we recognize things in varying ways. Even deeper, what is meant by “knowing” and/or “recognizing”? How do we know what we know? Do we, as humanity, share a common recognition for certain things? How can we confirm this common sharing?
Ilchi Lee writes if a rose were in front of us right now, you and I would both recognize it as a rose. I would describe its color as red, and you, in all likelihood, would do the same. However, does that mean that this rose looks exactly the same to me as it does to you? Let’s assume, for a moment, that I am wearing blue-tinted glasses and you are wearing yellow-tinted ones. Imagine that we don’t know that we are wearing these tinted glasses because we have been wearing them for such a long time that we no longer are aware of wearing them. Maybe we never were. Not only us, but our teachers and parents wore these tinted glasses.
However, you and I could agree that the rose is red because we have been trained to define the color of the rose as red, even though we might be registering two different colors as they come to us through our differently colored lenses. This shows that the color red in my realm of knowledge could be a different color than in your world. If we could enter another person’s brain, we might be surprised to learn that what I think of as the color red is different from what another person thinks of as red. You might find yourself exclaiming, “I always thought his red was my blue!” What color lens do your glasses have? Is it possible to see an object with objectivity?
admin December 17th, 2008
Looking from the Western perspective, Brain Sensitizing works to restore proper balance between two systems—the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. In other words, it works to relieve the effects of the stress response, which has been concretely linked to so many of today’s common health problems.
Stress is of particular concern in the area of brain health, due to its effect on learning and overall brain function and it also effect during Yoga Practice. In small doses, the chemical cascade associated with the fight-or-flight response can be good for the brain, motivating us to act and keeping us on our toes. But when we get a constant stream of stress hormones, as is often the case for people today, it can wear down on mental function, especially in the area of memory and mental acuity. Over time, this can result in truly debilitating effects on brain performance. Through Brain Sensitizing activities, you can learn to regulate the effects of stress, returning your body and brain to the rest-and-digest state of being.
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