Archives for the month of: September, 2007

In a lecture, Ilchi Lee pointed out the power of choice, concentration and consistency. If you stay with a behavior, you change. If you stop it, the old pattern takes over again: “The body and brain function to create with continuously repeated concentration. We cannot do all of our various, difficult training exercises from the beginning. Continuous repetition creates this ability. This is something our brains create for us. With continued concentration, our brains change our bodies, enabling us to do these exercises. What happens, though, if we quit? That’s the end of it; our development stops right there.” It is all our choice, over and over again.

In a lecture, Ilchi Lee equates enlightenment and true love. One can only love this way when one is in touch with his or her true self. Only an enlightened soul can hope to get in touch with this true love:
Enlightenment is true love.
Without knowing your True Self, it is hard to know what true love is.
Although we have spoken of true love throughout history, loving without knowing your True Self cannot be true love.
Exploring the roots of this kind of love, you will eventually find betrayal and attachment.
The reason we must become enlightened is to recover the true love that lies insides our hearts.

Yuln’yo
 

by Ilchi Lee, from Healing Society: A prescription for Global Enlightenment The eternal Cosmic Order that governs all, this I call Yuln’yo. You cannot touch Yuln’yo, or smell it or see it. Yuln’yo is the essence of the order that has governed all life since the beginning, having itself no beginning or end. Yuln’yo is not some cold set of physical laws that dictates the interactions of matter, but a pulsating, warm consciousness that envelops and gathers all. Yuln’yo expresses itself through light, sound, and vibration that form the natural symphony of the cosmos. We can most immediately feel the power of Yuln’yo through our heartbeats, the steady and faithful pounding that started in the womb and is now echoing through the universe. This is the rhythm of life. Through this rhythm, we can join the everlasting harmony of the cosmos.

It’s an interesting question.  I was reading about it in Human Technology by Ilchi Lee.   He says inhaling takes energy, while exhaling does not require much energy at all.  And life begins by emptying oneself and letting that empty place to be filled.  When I let go of something small (the small breath I hold on to), I gain something great (the atmosphere of nature).  This kind practice can lead to enlightenment. 

Ilchi Lee has said that if life ends with an inhalation then the people cannot let go when they die.  But if they die with an exhalation they have released their physical body and their soul can move freely. 

From Ilchi Lee’s book Peaceology, below is the poem Earth Whispers. The great metaphor here is that the Earth is every bit as alive as our self. The Earth has a body, heart and brain. If we try, we can feel it and be inspired by it.

Earth whispers with a voice, gentle and soft:
Land is my bosom
Sea is my soul
Wind is my breath
Sky is my heart
And you are all my children
Earth whispers in a voice filled with longing
Feel the sun tingling on your skin
Hear the whispers of the moon and stars
Hear the radiant symphony of nature
Speaking with one voice
Let Earth’s dream come true

In a lecture, Ilchi Lee discusses peace in the same way as breathing – it is that accessible. It is a choice that each individual makes for himself or herself. We have personal responsibility to attain peace. Here are his words, “Peace, like our breath, exists very comfortably and very close to us. Peace is our very breath and life. This is why anyone can discover peace and help to bring it about. Peace is everyone’s purpose in life, not the province of a few select individuals. It is not something that a select group of politicians, artists, or even religious leaders can do for us. You and I, one individual at a time, are all creators and benefactors of peace, as well as its beneficiaries. Until now, responsibility for peace fell on people of influence. Now we must reclaim our own responsibility and right to peace. Those who truly love humanity, the Earth, and peace are experts in peace. One who truly loves life is a specialist in peace.”

One Begins unmoved moving, that has No Beginning

One Parts to Three Crowns, while staying a Limit-less Mover

Heaven is the One that comes First

Earth is the One that comes Second

Human is the One that comes Third

One Gathers to Build Ten, and Infinite Forms Become Triads

Heaven gains Two to make Three

Earth gains Two to make Three

Human gains Two to make Three

Three Triads Make Six, and they Create Seven, and Eight

Nine comes there, and there comes a Turning

Three and Four Making a Circle

Five and Seven make One whole

Way-less is the way All Comes and All Goes

Features are Changing,  and Change-less is the Maker

Divine Mind is the Eternal Light, Looking toward celestial Light

Human Bears Heaven and Earth, and the three make One

One is the End of all, and No Ending has the One

From Heaven Within by Tammy and George Klembith.

Hong ik – means widely benefiting, to benefit all (or many).  To keep a hong ik mind is what we need to do more and more as the earth is calling to us.  When we recycle, avoid littering, purchase items that use less packing, smile just for no reason at all, be kind when we don’t have to, love whenever we can, we are living a like of hong ik.

We all have a dream to let the flower in our hearts blossom
Once in our lives, we must let that flower blossom
For that is the reason we have come to this world

I hope that each of you will bloom that flower in your heart
For the moment the scent of that flower imbues your surroundings
That very scent will be your love for the world

For all those who wish to find their dream and realize it
I give you a flower blossom this morning

In consciousness, there is an outer consciousness, inner consciousnes and the unconscious.  When we enter the place of the unconscious, what kind of image will we have?  We transcend the concept of time and place.  So when we try to explain, usually we say, “there is” or “there isn’t”.

-Ilchi Lee