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Break Down Your Walls

I discovered this flash video on ilchi.com. It had a message by Ilchi Lee, and it struck a cord in me and I became excited to share it. So here it is:

I want to tell those who are encased in a wall of loneliness and emptiness,
Those who are trying to fill up that space with something, anything,
To stop trying to fill up that small space.
But instead to break down the walls and meet time and space,
The skies, the stars, and this earth.

That this is when they will feel true freedom.
That this when they will find a shining star of a vision inside their hearts.
That this is when their lives will be eternally bright and free.
That this is when they know they are eternal beings.

What do you feel when you read it? These are the kinds of messages that stir me awake.

Ilchi Lee Reveals the Lost Symbol

“What if I told you that a thought … any tiny idea that forms in your mind … actually has a mass? What if I told you that a thought is an actual thing, a measurable entity, with a measurable mass? A miniscule mass, of course, but mass nonetheless. What are the implications?”

“Hypothetically speaking? Well, the obvious implications are … if a thought has mass, then a thought exerts gravity and can pull things toward it.”

Katherine smiled. “You’re good. Now take it a step further. What happens if many people start focusing on the same thought? All the occurrences of that same thought begin to merge into one, and the cumulative mass of this thought begins to grow. And therefore, its gravity grows.”

“Okay.”

“Meaning … if enough people begin thinking the same thing, then the gravitational force of that thought becomes tangible … and it exerts an actual force.” Katherine winked. “And it can have measurable effect in our physical world.”

This excerpt is from Dan Brown’s latest novel, The Lost Symbol. Refreshingly, the The Da Vinci Code author has chosen many New Thought concepts, including those that happen to be taught by Ilchi Lee, as the theme and message for his new book. Compare the above to Ilchi Lee’s rules for your “Brain Operating System” or BOS:

1. Good news makes a good brain.
2. Choose it and it will happen.
3. Stay awake and pay attention.

These rules acknowledge the creative power of our brains, and remind us to pay attention to what we are thinking, and to keep it positive and focused on what we really want. They acknowledge that, as Dan Brown writes:

“We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of ‘the created.’ We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator’s image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.” […]

Ilchi Lee has spent his career developing Brain Education to help people harness the true creative power of their brains. He’s also helped them open their hearts, so that they can choose goals that their hearts, their souls, want—those that benefit all humanity. Because he knows that:

“The most amazing part,” Katherine said, “is that as soon as we humans begin to harness our true power, we will have enormous control over our world. We will be able to design reality rather than merely react to it.”

Langdon lowered his gaze. “That sounds … dangerous.”

Katherine looked startled … and impressed. “Yes, exactly! If thoughts affect the world, then we must be very careful how we think. Destructive thoughts have influence, too, and we all know it’s far easier to destroy than it is to create.”

He’s also gathered people into a community who want to use that power to create a happy, healthy, and peaceful world. They focus and work together in harmony because they know, as Ilchi Lee has taught, that:

“…two heads are better than one … and yet two heads are not twice better, they are many, many times better. Multiple minds working in unison magnify a thought’s effect … exponentially. This is the inherent power of prayer groups, healing circles, singing in unison, and worshipping en masse. The idea of universal consciousness is not an ethereal New Age concept. […]

Through Brain Education workshops such as Shim Sung, Ilchi Lee has enabled people to experience this truth personally and viscerally. He has helped them find the lost symbol inside themselves so they can make it their own and endeavor to live it. Mr. Lee believes that when 100 million people in the world are doing this, a critical tipping point will be reached, and the consciousness of humanity will shift to embody this truth.

I’m grateful to Dan Brown for using these concepts in his novel, because I think novels are great purveyors of ideas—Animal Farm, Atlas Shrugged, 1984, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Celestine Prophecy. All have made people think about powerful concepts, or at least made them more common parlance in our society—a critical step toward the shift in consciousness the characters in The Lost Symbol predict is on the horizon.

Declaration of Humanity: We Are All Children of the Earth

A succinct summary of Ilchi Lee’s philosophy on the nature of humanity is this Declaration of Humanity ratified at the First Humanity Conference in June 2001 in Seoul, South Korea. This 12,000-person event included such dignitaries as former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, environmental activist Maurice Strong, and renowned journalist Seymour Topping.

Ilchi Lee's Humanitarian Activities

DECLARATION OF HUMANITY

1. I declare that I am a Spiritual Being, an essential and eternal part of the Soul of Humanity, one and indivisible.
2. I declare that I am a Human Being whose rights and security ultimately depend on assuring the human rights of all people of Earth.
3. I declare that I am a Child of the Earth, with the will and awareness to work for goals that benefit the entire community of life on Earth.
4. I declare that I am a Healer, with the power and purpose to heal the many forms of divisions and conflicts that exist on Earth.
5. I declare that I am a Protector, with the knowledge and the responsibility to help the Earth recover her natural harmony and beauty.

Just 100 Million

All of humanity has a shared spiritual heritage, which is only natural because we all came from One. Realizing the Oneness of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity is not an intellectual or even philosophical endeavor. You need to feel it with every single fiber of your being, imprinted onto every one of your cells through profound experience of energy. That’s why Ilchi Lee developed Brain Education and has worked for 30 years to share it with the world.

He knows that only when enough people experience Oneness can we really come together as a society, as a people, and as Earth Citizens. The time for the chosen few is over. The whole of humanity needs to realize the truth for us to change the fortune of the human race.

But we can start with one hundred million. One hundred million is a critical mass, just a little more than one percent of the total population of the Earth, the tipping point to a mass realization of every individual’s true nature and for what we should live–love for humanity and love for the Earth. Instead of killing and competition, this strong community of Earth Citizens Ilchi Lee has been working to form will engage in acts of healing to uplift our collective human consciousness until we are indeed living in Heaven on Earth.

To realize this dream of a spiritual civilization and peaceful Earth requires the will, discipline, and fortitude to see it through to its completion. It also requires training people so that they can experience Oneness and have the strength and ability to share it with others. These people will raise the consciousness of 100 million Earth Citizens and gather them together in one exemplary community.

Ilchi Lee’s Philosophy of the Soul

According to Ilchi Lee, before you were born, your perfect soul was fully connected to the universe, existing in a state of emptiness and nothingness. When a soul is born into a body, it is separated from the divine, and so generates feelings of loneliness and dissatisfaction. But when you connect your soul to universal energy, or Chunjikiun, your loneliness vanishes. Your soul is happy basking in Yuln’yo, the light, sound, and vibration that forms the source of all life.

The root of your soul lies in your True Self, the essential, unchanging part of you. The root of your True Self lies in Chun-Ji-In, the Heaven-Earth-Human triumvirate that is One. To listen to your soul is to get in touch with your True Self.

Covering your True Self, is your False Self—all of the information and emotions in your brain. It is your philosophy, value system, and personality; it is your body and mind, and the illusion that life and death are distinct and separate. Your False Self is a mask manufactured by your ego for protection. It’s something you build on and construct throughout life to have a role to play in the world. Your False Self craves safety, recognition, and control. Your True Self on the other hand craves the highest forms of human interaction, such as unconditional love and harmonious unity with others.

People’s life struggles stem from the inherent discord between the True Self and the False Self. When people believe they are their False Self, they are denying or are unaware of their own infinite power. On the other hand, when your True Self acts as the master of your body and mind rather than the False Self, you are tapped into the creative potential of the universe. As you follow your True Self, you will let go of your instinctive need for safety, recognition, and control, and replace these desires with the desire to be Hong-ik, or widely benefitting others.

The True Self’s purpose in this life is the completion of your soul, known as Chunhwa in Korean. When your soul is complete, you truly feel happy and at One with the creative divine energy of the universe. When a body dies, a complete soul returns to this energy; an incomplete soul becomes a ghost or reincarnates again.
Completing your soul is a life process for which you must be aware of this life purpose and follow four steps:

1. Train your brain to be peaceful and healthy.
2. Develop relaxed concentration, or the capacity to concentrate, strongly and consistently, which can be only achieved through focused and rigorous training.
3. Use your brain with 100% effort.
4. Unleash the full creativity of your brain to manifest the dream of benefitting your and everyone’s life to actualize a harmonious and peaceful world. This dream is known as Hong-ik Ingan Ee-hwa Saegae.

As you develop your soul, your consciousness expands, meaning the love that is your true nature expands. Love is the unifying element that bonds people together. When we are able to love widely and unconditionally, our True Self will shine more brightly in the world. As our ability to love others grows, it radiates outward from us, reaching farther and farther in its ability to touch others. As love grows, it follows this basic pattern of expansion: self ➛ family ➛ country ➛ the world. The expansion of our consciousness renews our lives, gives us hope, and leads to a beautiful future.

Healing Chakra by Ilchi Lee: Translation of the Chun Bu Kyung

In Ilchi Lee’s book, Healing Chakra: Light to Awaken My Soul, he offers a translation and explanation of the Chun Bu Kyung, a 9,000-year old text that mathematically communicates the oneness existing among heaven, earth, and humans. This excerpt from the book communicates the origins of the Chun Bu Kyung and the basis for the training systems Ilchi Lee has developed: Dahn Yoga and Brain Education.

“In the ancient tradition of Korea, there existed a body-mind-spirit training system called Shin-Il-Hap-Il (Divine-One-Together-One), which sought to elevate human consciousness to its highest plateau, that of divinity. More widely known by the name Shin-Sun-Do, the philosophy and ideas contained therein were originally derived from an ancient sacred text called ‘Chun Bu Kyung’ or the Heavenly Code.

The Chun Bu Kyung is the highest authority among the sacred texts in Korean spiritual tradition. It is said that the Chun Bu Kyung was recorded by an ancient sage who realized his own enlightenment through his training regimen of Shin Sun Do, thereby gaining insight into the realities of life and death and the operational flow of the universe. Because the Chun Bu Kyung is essentially a numerical representation of the laws of the cosmos, it cannot be interpreted literally. It will only reveal its true nature and meaning to someone who has experienced the realities of life through Ki energy.

When I first realized enlightenment, I did not know that the nature of my enlightenment was already spoken of in the Chun Bu Kyung. When I finally had the good fortune to learn of it, I realized that my enlightenment had the same inspiration and source as that of the Chun Bu Kyung.

After knowing the Chun Bu Kyung, I could sense the energy of each of its 81 letters when I sank deeply into meditation. The teachings of the Chun Bu Kyung came to me not through the intellect, but through actual experience of its energies. When I experienced the oneness of Heaven, Earth, and Human described in the Chun Bu Kyung, I felt my body become part of the light of the cosmos, attaining a level of ecstasy and peace that spoke to me of divine blessing.
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Chun Bu Kyung contains the essence of the trinity, in which good and evil, life and death, heaven and earth are not defined as opposites, but as part of the same cosmic harmony. When we realize that our essence is identical to the essence that makes up the cosmos, we overcome fear, sadness, and anger.

Oneness, where no barrier exists between you and me, is our essence and our divinity. As soon as we are born, we begin the struggle to light up this innate divinity. Once we realize our own divine enlightenment, we will achieve Heavenly Transformation. Heavenly Transformation is the process whereby human beings reach the highest level of awareness, and consciously return to the Source at the moment of death. It is this process that is delineated in the letters of the Chun Bu Kyung.

The secret to Heavenly Transformation lies in the human brain and Ki energy. The Chun Bu Kyung can also be interpreted as a numerical code, outlining the process by which the seven Chakras of the body are activated and made to stimulate the inner potential of the brain in order to achieve spiritual awakening.
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The Chun Bu Kyung can act as a guide to lead us across the collective spiritual threshold.”

Here is an English translation of the Chun Bu Kyung:

One begins unmoved moving,
That has no beginning.
One divides to three crowns,
While remaining a limitless mover.
Heaven comes first,
Earth comes second,
Human comes third.
One gathers to build ten,
And infinite forms become the trinity (of heaven, earth, human).
Heaven gains two to make three.
Earth gains two to make three.
Three trinities make six,
And they create seven, and eight, nine appears,
And there comes a turning.
Three and four form a circle,
Five with seven makes one whole.
Way-less is the way all comes and all goes,
Features are changing, and change-less is the maker.
Divine mind is eternal light,
Looking toward celestial light.
Human bears heaven and earth,
And the three make one.

Birds, Ilchi Lee, energy, and freedom of flying

Birds fly freely in the sky. When I do energy dancing, I can become a bird. I can’t become a bird physically, but I can share their energy with them, and feel an echo of their joy in flying. When I practice Dahn Yoga I can become more connected to everything and feel a sensation of sharing energy together. Ilchi Lee wants everybody to experience this, which is why he started Dahn Yoga.

Memories

Each of us knows some people who are suffering from bad memories. Perhaps they were hurt, or witnessed something terrible, or any of the other myriad reasons that we become scarred. Those memories are so painful that they can’t get away from them. I am reminded of Ilchi Lee’s training methods, which in many cases have helped people learn to overcome difficult memories and reclaim their emotional autonomy.

How to work with your emotions, according to Ilchi Lee’s teachings

One day, my aunt asked me how you could be so calm even somebody makes you get mad?

She said, “I can’t control my emotions and they hurt me.”

Yes I have emotions too. I get hurt when somebody is hard on me.

But the important thing is not whether I have emotions or not, but how am I dealing with it.

If I am a slave of emotions I could be miserable, but I become a master of them I can live my life much more as I wish. In my case that’s the result of Dahn Yoga and Brain Respiration, and Ilchi Lee suggested these way.

Trees, human beings, and Ilchi Lee’s healing society movement

I was thinking the other day about how human beings are very much like trees. The main difference is that we can walk. Trees give oxygen in the circle of life. What do human beings give to the Earth? Well, a pessimist would say it’s suffering from what human beings experience, but Ilchi Lee believes otherwise. He pioneered the healing society movement as one of the ways to heal the Earth.

Flowers planted by Ilchi Lee

When the flowers bloom, the earth is filled with fragrance. When a flower blooms in the heart of a human being, the world is filled with peace. I believe that the Dahn Yoga programs developed by Ilchi Lee can make flowers bloom in human being’s hearts.

The Moon and Ilchi Lee

For centuries, human beings desired to get to the moon. We created different kinds of aircraft, and kept launching these physical manifestations of our dreams. Eventually, we succeeded in breaking our limitations, overcoming gravity, and showing ourselves that anything is possible. Ilchi Lee has been working to bring peace in this Earth, and has brought many hopes to fruition.

quote on motivation and achievement

“It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don’t have to.”  -Walter Linn

The origins of philosophy

Once upon a time, there was a human being. This human being wanted to know “why?” and “how?” and “wherefore?” and thus philosophy was born.

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Juice: is it better than milk?

I think all parents and educators would agree that juice is a better children’s beverage than soda. But what about juice and milk? Many believe that children need the calcium and other nutrients that milk provides. Personally, I think it’s a little strange to drink large quantities of the lactation of another species. We’re the only species that does this, to my knowledge. No wonder so many people become alergic to dairy!

Brain As Center of Human Body

I was just poking around in Ilchi Lee’s official site, www.ilchilee.com and I was struck by this quote:

Salt or Not?

Consider table salt:

Well, I guess this is a brand, but you get the point. What is the mental equivalent of salt? Tutoring?

yet more Alan Watts :)

‘…a unity which is much too complicated for us to think about, except in very very crude ways…”

“I am one of the cells in this tremendous brain [the ecosystem of the earth] which I can’t understand, because the part cannot comprehend the whole. Yet, I don’t feel [...]like I am a foreigner in this world. Its aesthetic forms appeal to me more than most of the forms which men have produced.”

Speaking of Smiles and Laughter

Ilchi Lee recommends:

If you want to live a joyful life,
once a day for the next week,
look in the mirror and smile from ear to ear
You may feel silly doing it,
but this physical action greatly stimulates one part of the brain,
creating a neural pathway allowing us to feel joy habitually.

In other words, smiles first, then be happy, instead of the other way around.

Alan Watts again, on wiggliness

“Human beings are just as wiggly as nature, and our brains are an incredible mess of wiggles!”