Ilchi Lee on For real brain mastery
By Phil on Jul. 24, 2008.
From Ilchi Lee’s new book: Brain Wave Vibration
Ilchi Lee says he remembers one time when he was a young man there was bridge under which people threw a lot of garbage. The garbage just piled up week after week. People complained about the garbage, but no one ever did anything to change the situation.
So one day, Lee decided he would do something about the problem. He began to clear the garbage away, one piece at a time. When all the trash had been hauled away, he buried it in a hole that he had dug in the mountains. He then planted pumpkin seeds in the ground covering the trash. Soon big, beautiful pumpkins were growing there.
This was a huge moment of discovery for Ilchi Lee. It came at a moment when he felt truly hopeless about his life. In his early twenties, he had failed the college entrance exams three times. He realized that all he really needed was the opportunity to do something positive for people, and that something positive could even come from a pile of trash.
True brain mastery is the ability to see possibility, even where others see only trash. Those pumpkins grew so well precisely because the garbage had been there before; the trash added nutrients to the soil.
For real brain mastery, you must learn to see your life in the same way, realizing that all the difficult, ug
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