Ilchi Lee Day

The journey consists of a single seed of thought, which flowers and withers, returning to its original place.

People often call the end of this journey “enlightenment”.

What does enlightenment mean? What do you have to know to be enlightened?

Is enlightenment the end?

What could be behind enlightenment?

The crux of enlightenment is that there is nothing to be enlightened about.

When you realize that there is nothing to be enlightened about, that is enlightenment.

Does it sound funny? Fishy?

from the book ‘ 12 enlightenment’ by ilchi lee

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Ilchi Lee mentions enlightenment. Many people want to get enlightenment. Lots of people want to know about enlightenment. Some people are skeptical about this. They are doubtful if the state of enlightenment exists for human being. Is there a level of human consciousness? If any, what in the world would it be like?

Ilchi Lee says many things about enlightenment. Basically, he says enlightenment is a choice. All wisdom and truth have been discovered and found by many saints, wise persons, mentors and rabbies. We all know what we should do for the world peace and save the earth. The important thing is whether you take action on what you know or not. That’s why it is a choice. You are the authority on what is possible and not possible for you. You can decide. You have the right to make a choice.

Ilchi Lee also says that enlightenment is the power to take action. It is ultimately the same thing as we say enlightenment is a choice. He says he was enlightened to the fact that there is nothing to get enlightened to. Let’s talk and think about what action we should take, instead of falling illusions about enlightenment. All the answers are in your brain.

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This song sums up all we need to transform our lives and the world—and it encompasses the highest purpose of Brain Wave Vibration. Ilchi Lee says he hopes that Brain Wave Vibration can give you the distance you need to see your own life, and all the problems that come with human existence, from a distance—even if only for a few moments at a time. As you step away from your constant thinking and continual worries, Ilchi Lee says he thinks you will be able to see the blessings that lie in everything. From that place you will begin to see the beautiful perfection of it all and will come closer to the perfection that already lies within you.

This is a beautiful and hopeful time to be alive. We are at a turning point, and your contribution to the world is needed more than ever. All of your struggles, all the struggles of your ancestors, all the struggles of all life have led to this moment right now. You are the culmination of life’s great yearning; you are the hope of the world.

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Ilchi Lee says, he believes that information comes to us in three important forms, and together these elements have amazing power to transform brain waves—as well as lives and ultimately our entire planet.

First, there is music, which contains the power to create mood and evoke emotion. Second, there is message, which forms the structure of our belief systems and influences the quality of our relationships. Third, there is action, which is the ultimate reflection of our brain’s content.

Ilchi Lee continues:

“If we can learn to use all three of these things well, think we can find great hope for ourselves and the planet. A favorite song of mine—”From a Distance,” sung by Bette Midler—has two of these three elements. It combines music with message for a powerful effect—and it can also inspire you to act if you believe in its message. I love the lyrics, because they remind me where we are all going.”

From a distance the world looks blue and green,
and the snow-capped mountains white.
From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
and the eagle takes to flight.
From a distance, there is harmony,
and it echoes through the land.
It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace,
it’s the voice of every man.
From a distance we all have enough,
and no one is in need.
And there are no guns, no bombs, and no disease,
no hungry mouths to feed.
From a distance we are instruments
marching in a common band.
Playing songs of hope, playing songs of peace.
They’re the songs of every man.
God is watching us. God is watching us.
God is watching us from a distance.
From a distance you look like my friend,
even though we are at war.
From a distance I just cannot comprehend
what all this fighting is for.
From a distance there is harmony,
and it echoes through the land.
And it’s the hope of hopes, it’s the love of loves,
it’s the heart of every man.
It’s the hope of hopes, it’s the love of loves.
This is the song of every man.
And God is watching us, God is watching us,
God is watching us from a distance.
Oh, God is watching us, God is watching.
God is watching us from a distance.

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We should always be ready for the moments. Ilchi Lee says enlightenment comes in an instant. Epiphany, awakening, enlightenment or inspiration. It takes only a moment for us to make a choice. No matter how meaningful the choices may be, it does not take long time. In many of Eastern tale about monks and their students, stories how people got enlightened are introduced. Some got enlightened by the sound of a stone hits another stone, after years of doing the brooms diligently out of constant sincerity for other fellow students to listen to their mentor’s teaching. Some got enlightenment by their teacher’s look full of love and truth.

They get enlightened with the help of their mentors. What a great and wonderful gift! That gift could not compared with any other gift on the Earth. What can the students pay for it in return. Ilchi Lee says, it’s passion. Passion for enlightenment is what they should show to their wise mentors to get enlightenment. Of course, the passion should be pure and 100% genuine. Students full of passion to get enlightenment are always ready.

Today, it’s a good reminder to be always ready for enlightenment.

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As we enter the world of the limbic system, we realize that we share the same emotional and instinctual make up, a commonality found to an even more profound degree in the brain stem through which we are all tethered to the same life energy that animates the cosmos.

-from “Brain Respiration” by Ilchi Lee

We are sharing our life energy.

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What is your dream? What brings you lasting joy and happiness? Can we tell real joy from joy from ego? There can be many different kinds of joy. It might be necessary to have a clear view of what is really needed for my true self.

In the Brain Wave Vibration book, Ilchi Lee mentions the brain stem many times. We really have to think about what we really want. Today I asked myself. What is it that I really want? I am not in my 10s or 20s any more. I should have a clear goal by now, if not I have it decades ago. Actually I do have my goal. The question is, then, how much passion I have. How much do I want it? The brick wall exists not to turn me away but to keep others who want it not that much from going over it.

This is all about making choices and imprint it on my brain. I decided that I will make a necessary choice. I don’t have any other choices to make. The Secret, the law of attraction, You can Heal Yourself, Oprah, etc. all these celebrity, successful people and books are delivering the same message. Thoughts become things.

I have made a choice. I will move forward with it. My brain stem has the answer.

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Brain Wave Vibration created by Ilchi Lee is a rhythmical training method; it begins with moving your body to the beat of music, and from there the sensation expands as you find your body’s natural rhythm. In a sense, you could say you are calibrating your brain to get back in sync with your body.

People use rhythm instinctively to help calm their own brain waves. When a baby cries or fusses, asks Ilchi Lee, what does a mother do? She rocks and gently bounces the baby until the baby quiets down. No one had to teach the mother how to do this; she does so very naturally. Children will also rock and bounce themselves on their own to calm themselves, if the parent is not there.

In Korea, we teach children the do-ri do-ri movement, which is strikingly similar to basic Brain Wave Vibration. The child rocks the head side to side and repeats, “Do-ri do-ri,” which translates as “truth” or “principle.” Because many energy pathways meet at the neck, Ilchi Lee adds, it is thought to advance children’s development, especially brain development.

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These perpetual caterpillars do not understand that there is one more stage, the most important stage, that is the source of true and lasting happiness. This is the stage Ilchi Lee calls “completion of the soul.” Once you have accomplished success in the “real” world, however you choose to define that, you can achieve the butterfly stage by turning your mind toward a different kind of success in which you find full expression of your highest sense of self. This can begin anytime in life, but older adulthood is the ideal time, a time when many other longings have been fulfilled.

Completion means reaching a state of full awakening, in which you feel and live according to a continuous state of oneness. This means stepping beyond the ego of the small self to fulfill your mission of service to humanity. At this point your mind will be enveloped in constant joy, and you will be finally able to become that beautiful, fluttering butterfly.

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Ilchi Lee likes to demonstrate this for people because it also demonstrates how to live in harmony with the flow of life, letting each note come as it will, without resistance or judgment. To me the difference between great musicians and an ordinary ones lies not in how they play the music but in how they play with the music. Likewise, we must learn to play with the reality of our lives by living completely in the flow and rhythm of each moment, rather than trying to play it according to the preconceptions and restrictions of the past.

Many years ago, Ilchi Lee developed a training method called Dahnmu, which is meant to open people completely to this sort of universal rhythm. The word dahn refers to the basic, vital energy of life, and mu means “dance”; thus it could be called “energy dance” in English. In this practice, says Ilchi Lee, which is a form of Brain Wave Vibration, you are encouraged to let go of all limitations and simply follow the energy of the moment, letting the flow of energy move your body as it will.

Serendipitously, the word mu can also translate as “nothingness.” The state of mu, or nothingness, is achieved during Brain Wave Vibration when the mind is truly empty of thought, and you are able to simply follow the rhythms of life without hesitation. According to Ilchi Lee, at this point, the boundaries of your body cease to exist, and you may experience a profound sense of oneness – first with the rhythms of your own body and ultimately with the universal rhythms of all life as your sense of separation fades away.

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