This is why enlightenment is the beginning of a new journey. Chasing the butterfly, you suddenly remember. “Oh yes. I was on my way to the market to buy flour’” or: “I was on my way to a neighbor’s house to borrow a hammer.” This is enlightenment. So. you leave the butterfly behind (with some wistfulness) and continue with your original errand. This is where the teacher comes in. A teacher is someone who reminds you of the errand. However, the teacher does not run the errand for you. You have to go yourself, borrow the tool or buy the flour, and return home safely, without getting sidetracked. Only then will this journey end, and will your soul end its time as this particular incarnation.
The lake will then become just water again. The nucleus that held the soul together need no longer be maintained, for it has been satisfied. Therefore, the Life Current that coalesced around this nucleus is loosed from the chain that bound it to the soul. Once free, it goes back to its original condition of absolute freedom.
No one knows how long this freedom will last. The time of freedom, from another point of view, could be the time before the Life Current is called forth again to come together around another seed of hope and give shape to another soul about to embark on a new journey. It is getting ready to dream a new dream. Just as our bodies decay and provide material for new life, Life Current is recycled continuously to serve the needs of the soul. This process is happening naturally without waiting for someone to attach a label or meaning to it. Put in human terms, we could call it an act of sacrifice and highest love, for it willingly gives up absolute freedom to help one seed of hope to come to fruition and be realized. Read more articles by Ilchi Lee.
These lines are copied from book of founder of dahn yoga Prof Ilchi Lee. 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? Let us think for a moment. The conscious mind that so desires enlightenment is merely a temporary phenomenon without underlying reality. The real mind, which is the sea of nothingness from which all existence springs, has never not known something. To summarize, the mind that desires enlightenment is actually without reality, while the real mind is the definition of enlightenment itself. Who is it that wants to be enlightened, and to what? There is no enlightenment, and efforts to achieve enlightenment are by definition futile—this is true enlightenment.
Therefore, enlightenment is a new start for the journey, not the end. Until now, we wandered aimlessly through many lifetimes and went through untold experiences because we did not know how or why this journey started. But now we remember the original purpose of the journey, and this helps us find our way to the destination. This is the reason we need enlightenment. Have you ever gone out on an errand on a warm spring day and been led astray by the trembling beauty of a butterfly, forgetting the purpose of your errand? Your mother probably told you numerous times to go straight to the store and come back, a warning you promptly forgot. Your mother knew that although you would eventually return home, for there was nowhere else to go. the time of your return was open-ended.
Within this magnificent garden, countless seeds are scattered and countless flowers bloom. Even now, you are scattering countless seeds of hopes and thoughts into a field of nothingness plowed and fertilized by the Life Current. The seeds of hopes you scatter into the field are even now taking root and causing the births of innumerable souls, actions, and lives. Just as you are living the life you have been given, they will live the lives that they have been given. Some will scatter in the wind while others will live out several lifetimes before finding their way back.
There are many book by Ilchi Lee in the market about brain education and dahn yoga. He said a seed, once planted, has the right to sprout, whether it be bad or good. You can choose whether to plant or not, or which seed to plant, but you have no right to gainsay a seed’s right to grow once it’s planted. A seed, once planted, will never just fade away. The seed will bring forth a life from which more seeds will arise. Thus the cycle continues endlessly.
There is no hidden meaning or intent in this cycle. It just goes on, continuously. It just is. There is, in fact, no meaning to life. Because this truth is too empty to bear, we look for even a grain of meaning and expand upon it and build it up until we become prisoners of the “meaning cage” of our own construction. We construct an artificial justification for our lives when life needs no justification. And while living thus forgetfully, we encounter an event that compels us to finish what we came to do and to go back to where we came from in the first place.
Ensure there is no break in tie continuity of the movement when you thrust your hand, with wrist bent, toward the front from the ribs underneath your armpit. The key is to do the movement smoothly, with the sciences of your shoulders relaxed. Unlike the right side, people frequently have a difficult time performing the movement correctly on the left side. This reflects a difference in our nervous systems and sense of balance between the left and right sides, so be sure to train your weaker side thoroughly.
In this set, we perform the movements of Education set simultaneously with both arms. A characteristic of the Civilization set is that it expands Ki to infinity, spreads energy to the ends of the Earth, and develops awareness significantly. When performing these movements, we focus on becoming one with the universe, on the principle that Heaven, Earth, and humanity are one. We train with our awareness focused on the Dahn-jon by Ilchi Lee, our hearts full peace and love.
Adopt a horse stance with your knees bent appropriately for your level of conditioning. Bend your arms slightly, with your palms facing upward at chest level.
Inhale as you spread your arms out to the left and right from in front of your chest.
Bring your right arm back the same way, describing a circle with your hand as it comes under your armpit, and then raise it to make Stretch out your arm fully another circle above your head’ to the front, lightly touching your ribs with your hand as it moves forward.
From this position Prof Ilchi Lee suggest that pull your right hand back toward your ribs under your right armpit.
Bring your hands in front of your chest. The palms always face upward at this time, as if holding a dish.
Continuing on the opposite side, move your left hand the same way you did your right hand. Perform these movements three times, alternating between your left and right sides.
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