Ilchi Lee, founder of Dahn Yoga

Ilchi Lee : Actualizing Your Vision With Devotion

By Ryan on Jul. 24, 2008.

Actualizing Your Vision With Devotion

Once you have chosen the purpose of your life, the only thing left for you to do is to actualize that choice with your utmost devotion. Devotion is the biggest force that will help you accomplish your vision. Devotion is something that arises from a deep place in your heart and is your will to be true to your true self. It is your true heart that is full of sincerity without any falsity. Devotion is something you give to something higher, clearer, and divine, to the center and the root. This is why devotion is an expression of your mind to become brighter than you are now, to grow more from the place you are at now.Hope will never leave the heart of someone who lives with a child’s mind. No matter what is said, whatever happens outside of the heart, such a person will always feel gratitude and happiness in life. Likewise, someone with a devotional heart cannot ever be lazy. However, one who has lost devotion will easily become useless and fall into despair. When devotion disappears, we become lazy and discontent.

When performing a task, there is a difference between doing it with uninterrupted utmost devotion and just doing it without resting. This can be compared to the task of gathering sunlight through a magnifying glass to start a fire. There is a difference between maintaining the exact focal point over a period of time and not doing so. In the beginning, it is a tiny difference, but later the former will be a big enough energy to light a fire, while the other will be a weak and dispersed energy that disappears without producing any results.

At first, you start putting in devotion because you expect something back. Once this devotion becomes sincere and from your heart, the initial expectations become smaller and smaller and only devotion grows. And then, once devotion becomes even deeper, your expectations disappear and only your sincere heart to give your utmost devotion remains. That is when your vision is actualized on its own without struggle.

The reason why people have a hard time doing things with utmost devotion is because they live their lives without focusing 100% on the present moment. Devotion is something you give to the present. Giving devotion is evidence that you are focusing 100% on this moment now. If you are not focused on this moment now, your mind is caught between worries about the future, attachments to the past, and it is obvious that there is no space for devotion.

by ilchi lee