As we discussed in Chapter 3 (The Core of Health), Oriental Medicine suggests that life is generated and maintained by the harmony and balance between two primordial elements: Fire and Water. One reason that acupuncture and moxibustion are effective is that these techniques are methods that affect the balance between fire and water—moxibustion affects fire, and acupuncture water.
As per sir Ilchi Lee concern oriental Medicine posits the existence of five primordial elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. These elements emerge in physical reality as the result of the interactions of the two fundamental poles of the universe: Yin and Yang.
The five elements have either generative or controlling properties with respect to one another. In the order of the generative cycle, the five elements can be ordered thus: Water-Wood-Fire -Earth-Metal, and returning to Water. In terms of the controlling cycle, the five elements can be ordered as follows: Metal-Wood-Earth-Water-Fire, and returning to Metal.
For example, water nourishes growth of a tree (wood); wood generates fire; fire creates ashes that turn to earth; and earth over time produces metal (ores). Conversely, metal cuts wood; wood controls the earth (tree roots); earth blocks the flow of water; water can extinguish fire; and fire melts metal.
The root of your character is in your habits. A once-in-a-blue-moon choice does not speak to your character. A countless number of choices will gel into a habit, out of which the flower of your character will bloom. Good character is a fruit borne by a tree of good habits. Your goal should not be to attain enlightenment, for enlightenment is given to you already, whether you realize it or not, admit it or not.
As Prof Ilchi Lee tells in his book enlightenment exists within you, independent of your choice. Your responsibility lies in nurturing good character, bearing the best possible fruit or the most beautiful flower, from a perfect seed in the Garden of God. Your soul is this divine seed. We call this divinity. All souls are perfect. Depending on which soil you plant this seed in and what care you give, it will bear fruit or flower of different sizes, shapes, fragrances, and flavors. The process of planting and nurturing this seed is a series of endless choices. An accumulation of such choices will become your habits, the tree from which the flower, your character, will blossom forth.
Some people use the excuse, ‘Because I am not enlightened, I cannot make the right choices.’ Now we know that this is axiomatically false, for your enlightenment is already a part of your birth package. Such excuses are exactly that, excuses. We must now all become people who not only recognize our enlightenment, but who actively use it to make good choices. We must go from knowing to doing. This is an Earth-Human.
People make the mistake of thinking that enlightenment will automatically lead to good choices. However, this is far from the truth. Our choices are based on our ingrained habits and patterns. Realization of enlightenment only tells us which choices are good and which are bad, but this does not necessarily guarantee that we will make good choices.
Our established behavior patterns are always trying to lead us in the same direction because they are comfortable and familiar. We make judgments and choices based on what we see, hear, and feel. Life itself can be called a continuous series of choices. Whether we realize our own innate enlightenment or not, we continue to see, hear, feel and base our judgments and our choices on these underpinnings.
Unless you have a handicap or a deficiency in your senses, there is no difference in Ilchi Lee view that what you see, hear, and feel from what I see, hear, and feel, regardless of whether or not you realize that you are enlightened. In other words, enlightenment does not by itself guarantee that you will make the best choices. Of course, the ability to see. hear or feel something as it is will assist you in making a wise decision. It does not necessarily lead you to make the best possible choice. Ultimately, the process of making a choice depends not on acknowledgment or realization, but on your sense of discipline and character. Your choices are based on your character.
Ilchi Lee repeatedly said that enlightenment is a choice. It is the choice to acknowledge or deny the enlightenment that we already possess within. Therefore, enlightenment is not a finish line. It is just a starting point. Acknowledge the perfect and complete enlightenment within you. And realize that you are the master of your own choices and your own life. Then you will be ready to begin a life of universal, spiritual responsibility. The really important thing is not whether you consciously realize that you have joined the elite ranks of the enlightened ones, but that you make your daily choices based on what you see, hear, and feel and take responsibility for those choices.
Imagine a bell in front of us, and a stick that you use to strike the bell. Enlightenment is that you know that a bell sits front of you. However, enlightenment itself does not bring about change. The bell may sit there for the next thousand years and nary a sound will be heard if someone does not pick the stick up and strike the bell. Without someone who will act to bring the bell and the stick together, that bell will never become a true bell. It will be just a lump of metal.
Only when action follows knowledge is true creation witnessed. A state of enlightenment must be followed by action in order to have any meaning in this world. Therefore, the important thing is not enlightenment, but your choice to act.
Many of us have certain prejudices and preconceptions about saints and enlightened masters. These preconceptions create an illusion about that person. For example, suppose Buddha stepped into a bath full of water that was too hot, mistakenly prepared by one of his disciples. Do you think that the Buddha would sit in the bath, with a smile on his face anyway? Would he just sit there while his skin was being scalded because he had to be always merciful and forgiving? Or do you think that would jump out of his bath, yelling, “Ouch!” If Buddha had a normal sense of touch, then the latter would probably have been the case.
Many of us have misgivings about even thinking about Buddha in this light, because we don’t w7ant to take the veneer of sanctity and other worldliness away from him. But is this for him or us? Buddha was a human being who went through many upon many hardships before recognizing his enlightenment. He himself taught that everyone could become a Buddha. However, many people have instead chosen to place Buddha inside a shell of illusion of our their own making, without regard to the actual message of his teachings.
Likewise, many people regard Jesus Christ as someone who can never be considered a human being, despite his having chosen to die on the cross just to prove this. If we only regard Jesus as a divine being that we humans can never approach, how can we become like him? Instead of trying to live as these Masters have, we often encase them in an altar of worship, using them to soothe our own conscience once or twice a week by begrudgingly going to a church or temple. Do you think that Jesus would have preferred us to live the life of Jesus, rather than merely worship the life of Jesus? I think so.
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