My memo

Education develops character in humans

Let us begin by awakening our dormant senses first. We do not lack for information. What we lack are our senses that should warn us of the gravity of the situation we are facing right now. When we have awakened these senses, we can begin the transformation. Let us all awaken the senses that will allow us to communicate with each other and with the Earth in a way that verbal language cannot. Let us awaken the sensation of energy that gives us life, and the spirit that is our eternal existence.

Ilchi Lee advice that enlightenment is not far away. It could not be closer. Stop putting your own enlightenment off and choose to acknowledge it – this is the first step. This choice will bring you clear-sightedness to see the world as it really is, and to honestly judge what you have done so far. It will show you where you want to go in the future.

Education develops character in humans. Thus, the educational system should be the first thing that is changed. Parents must once again take on the role of educators, enlightened educators who can communicate their Earth-Human awareness to their children. An Earth-Human parent is a teacher, healer, and an activist at home. They are healers skillful enough to care for their family’s mental and spiritual health, and activists who live what they teach. When parents fulfill their roles as teachers, healers, and activists, homes will compel society to recover its lost role as a living, vibrant community. Change at home will translate to change other parts of society. Home will be a rich and fertile field from which the seeds of Earth-wide change will sprout.

Tao Fellowship Mago Garden

Where You Can Feel Your Soul

Sedona Mago Garden (“Mago” is the name for “Mother Earth” in many Asian cultures), founded in 1998, is owned and operated by Tao Fellowship, a nonprofit organization committed to “love of humanity and love of the Earth.”

Tao Fellowship has articulated Mago Garden’s mission to be growing the spirit for healing – healing of the body and soul, of human society and our living planet. Through its programs and services provided, Tao Fellowship’s premiere retreat center works to create, enlarge and share an example of enlightened leadership for healing the world as a whole and facilitating peace on Earth for the Earth’s entire community.

As it has been for more than 15,000 people from around the world, each guest to Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden will sense a strong feeling that this land is sacred. The awesome and indescribable beauty itself can induce people to feel as sacred in their being as the geography they see and on which they walk.

The sacredness of the 160-acre Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden and the larger surrounding Coconino National Forest impresses guests with a combination of breathtaking beauty and palpable energy:

Beauty at Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden comes at people as the experience the wide expanse of landscape, where many places offer 360-degree vistas. Red-rock mountains, covered by vivid greenery, contrast with the blue sky, with white or sun-tinted clouds by day and silvery stars and luminous moon by night. The central area’s rolling hills are truly a garden of juniper trees, cactus plants and flowers growing in the red earth.

With one’s mind relaxed and senses open, one can feel the vortex energy that emanates from the Earth and envelops all of Tao Fellowship-Mago Retreat. Vortexes restore the balance and heighten the inner sensation of energy for all life forms, including us, thus promoting learning, healing, peace and enlightenment.

Tao Fellowship’s Sedona Mago Garden

The entire Sedona area, which surrounds Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden, was traditionally considered by Native American tribes to be sacred for meetings and ceremonies, but was not used for habitation.

Knowing Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden’s sacred character can come from what the setting enables one to see, feel and do. From spending time exploring and meditating in Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden, one can become inspired and uplifted:
•    Feeling an ease of spiritual reflection and source of insights.
•    Seeing Nature putting on a constant and glorious show.
•    Realizing more deeply the meaning of Earth, humanity, life, change and eternity.
•    Releasing old and negative memories and emotions.
•    Gaining greater confidence, courage, peace, love and joy.
•    Affirming the purity of one’s unchanging soul.
•    Opening to spiritual awakening, renewal, expression and flowering.
•    Articulating one’s vision for a life contributing to humanity’s and the Earth’s betterment.

When people visit Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden, they can feel a familiar sense of kinship with the place.

Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden is indeed our soul’s home.

GRAY MATTERS: MORE THINGS YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR BRAIN

PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL

Look closer at the subtleties in things and people—the shadings and brushwork in two paintings, the fruit flavors in fine wine, or the body language of two people speaking on the other side of the room. Paying attention to minute detail is a spectacular workout for the brain.

TRAVEL

Unfamiliar places and situations may make you uncomfortable, but that is the point. Dealing with unfamiliar customs, trying to speak the local dialect, and learning about new cultural wonders all earn you major brownie points from your cortex.

BREAK YOUR ROUTINE

Stop doing things by rote. If you have been following a daily schedule for twenty years, break it. This can be as easy as changing the order of the body parts you wash while you are in the shower.

MEET SMART FOLKS

Talk to smart people-really talk to them. Engage in conversation that challenges your political or religious views and forces you to see other people’s points of view. Ask questions, debate issues. Trading ideas forces your mind to ask questions, and that is always good.

GET SHIFTY

No joke. University of Toledo researchers found that if you move your eyes back and forth for twenty seconds, like a pickpocket looking for his next victim, you stimulate the frontal lobes of your brain, which are responsible for memory. The researchers call it visual ping-pong. We call it effective.

Meditation and Why the Brain Loves It

Useful info by Ilchi Lee that meditation is the brain’s way of “breathing deeply.” It is Dahn-jon breathing for the brain!

Now, remember that the mind and the body are inextricably linked. And just as Dahn-jon breathing calms the mind, so, too, does meditation calm the body.

Meditation is a term that refers both to a state of consciousness in which a practitioner watches oneself, as well as a method for achieving such a state.

As a method, meditation means quieting the mind in order to more clearly see one’s self. That is something that most people know. But here is something that many people do not realize: meditation is a phenomenon that occurs naturally as our consciousness awakens.

Acupuncturists must undergo training

Acupuncturists must undergo training and receive a license in order to practice in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, among other countries.

In the United States, the first state licenses for acupuncture were issued in the mid-1970s in California. Not all states regulate acupuncture. Since acupuncture is a relatively new profession in the industrialized countries, there is wide variation in licensing, training, guidelines for practice, and proficiency examinations from state to state.

At the time of this writing, in New Mexico acupuncturists have significant latitude in their practice of acupuncture. Upon licensure they are granted the title of Doctor of Oriental Medicine. By contrast, the states of Idaho and Wyoming have no acupuncture provisions; practicing acupuncture is neither legal nor illegal. In Arizona, one can self-administer acupuncture without a license.

Alternating Brightness and Darkness

Nature is cyclical. Day turns to night, and night turns to day. The body’s energy system is also a climate, continuously fluctuating between dark and light. Dahn Yoga exercises increase and free energy, making it lighter and brighter as heavier energy is released. In the process, toxins held by stagnant energy are washed out of the body.

As the energy system begins to release stagnant energies, numerous uncomfortable sensations, called Myung-hyun, may appear. Myung-hyun literally translates as “brightness” (myung) and “darkness” (hyun). The symptoms persist until energy is able to flow freely. Although Myung-hyun may feel uncomfortable, its symptoms indicate that the body is restoring itself. The Myung-hyun phenomena may include both physical and emotional symptoms.

Practitioners may feel unexplained levels of fatigue or experience flu-like symptoms. After the symptoms disappear, energy levels increase. Bruise-like stains can appear on the skin at the sites of old injuries, or an old pain may return for a short time. Similarly, practitioners may experience a recurrence of a health problem or an unusual physical sensation, such as a persistent vibration in some area of the body. Strong waves of cold or heat could suddenly emanate from the center of the body. These symptoms indicate that healing has started to occur at the energy level, rather than just at a physiological level. Physical Myung-hyun symptoms are alleviated when the basic energy flow of the body is optimized to the state of Su-sueng-hwa-gang.

Shim-ki-hyul-jung

Posted by: Ilchi Lee
The principle of Shim (Mind)-ki (Energy)-hyul (Blood)-jung (Body) states: “Where consciousness lies, energy flows, bringing blood and transforming the body.” This phrase implies that consciousness is the true reality behind the appearance of form. A simpler way of saying Shim-ki-hyul-jung is, “Energy goes where mind goes.” Try this simple exercise to experience Shim-ki-hyul-jung.

Breathe in and out a few times to relax your whole body. Concentrate intently on the center of your palms. Keep concentrating and imagine that your palms are becoming hotter than the rest of your body. After a while, if you measure relative temperatures with a thermometer, the temperature of your palms will have increased compared to the rest of your body. This phenomenon occurs because your conscious concentration sent energy to your palms, increasing circulation and warmth.

When you develop deeper sensitivity, you gain the ability to send energy to any part of your body. You can warm or cool a specific part, if you so desire. With an amazing switch located deep within your consciousness, you can draw on the infinite energy of the cosmos at will. With enhanced concentration comes increased ability to control this access to energy.

Crisis: To Qo or Stop

Article selected by: Prof Ilchi Lee

Meanwhile, the original supporters for unlocking the divine creative potential in humans, the white-robed gods, sometimes made an appearance on Earth in various disguises to inject the human psyche with good and positive information and to clean up the bad and negative information. During their time on Earth, these gods, within the limitations imposed by their human manifestations, strove to wake up the enlightenment mode of humans.

In the beginning, many high gods visited Earth with this purpose; the traces of their visits are recorded in legends and myths. Some of these gods mated with humans and left descendants with whom they created model communities of cooperation and harmony for all humans to follow, hoping that such a coexistence model would become the norm on Earth. Many other gods came after them, and their stories have come down to us in more concrete forms. Although each had his style, all had one common theme: Activate the enlightenment mode embedded in the human psyche. Instead of following the gods’ teachings faithfully, however, humans twisted and idolized the teachings, turning them into religions. Although a few humans managed to reach the cusp of enlightenment, the majority remained at a very low level of conscious awareness.

Then an incident occurred that prompted the gods to call an emergency meeting: the humans invented the nuclear bomb. They had actually used the bomb to annihilate a portion of their own number! Like a foolish child who sets his own house on fire by playing with matches and is now looking at the burning house from the inside with amazement and joy, humans who had unleashed the destructive power of the atom were smug and self-satisfied. daring others to challenge their suddenly paramount power lest they, too, be destroyed.

Self-Declaration:The Voice of Creation

Another HT tool that I would like to introduce is self-declaration—the voice of creation. A declaration is not an explanation or description. It is not tied to comparison or to circumstance. It is pure choice. Our declaration reflects our being, here and now. No reasons or justifications are necessary.

Since self-declaration is the voice of creation, it is one of the most powerful ways of expressing our passionate life purpose. Our declaration creates a new possibility from Nothingness (Mu). Listening to the voice of our soul as thoughts and emotions recede into the background, we journey to that place of emptiness. From there we declare ourselves to the universe.

Once you have discovered your declaration, write it down. Say it over and over. Shout it from a mountamtop or tall building. Talk to a supportive friend or a mentor about the life you envision. Declare yourself consistently, diligently, and sincerely. Your declaration is truth.

Life events may be the best training of all

Effective training to realize Mu-ah (literally “no-self” in Korean) is the most difficult of all. In past times, spiritual masters put their students through all manner of grievous hardship so they could awaken to godlessness. Such methods can be profoundly effective but there is no guarantee. I myself underwent twenty-one days of fasting and sleep deprivation, but I do not recommend this to anyone. Nonetheless, if you do wish to train to achieve Mu-ah, then I suggest you begin with meditation. Let yourself be guided to a teacher who is right for you.

Life events may be the best training of all. Your reaction to a thoughtless remark, a call for help, or your actions can all be used. Through a simple but radical shift in perspective, you will find that your life is full of opportunities to experience Mu-ah.

Keep in mind that realizing Mu-ah does not require a position of “meek selflessness.” Mu-ah is available in any moment, whether mundane or climactic. In fact, the deepest experiences of Mu-ah may be imperceptible or counterintuitive to an insensitive observer. Washing a dish, being one with the setting sun, even training for a battle—all of these may be authentic realizations of Mu-ah.

Finally, let me share with you the most compelling reason to be Mu-ah is through Mu-ah that the greatest creativity is manifest. “I” always has some degree of smallness motivating its creative actions. By its very definition and nature, “I” is a contraction to a single, limited perspective.

Allow me ask you a question. Has your knowledge delivered you the answers to the most important questions of life? Has your experience delivered you the answers to the most important questions of life? (Read more Prof Ilchi Lee’s posts).