Ilchi Lee Day, Dahn Yoga Essentials

Outside In

By Phil on Jan. 13, 2009.

This is the reason for the increase of collective anxiety on Earth. A poet might write this feeling with a poem about Hell’s gate opening up; priests might conjure images of apocalypse; and an engineer might use the term “non-sustainable, closed-end sys-tern.” They would all be speaking about the same thing. How about you? Where do you think we are heading to? I am not a poet, priest, or an engineer, but my instinct tells me, my enlight­enment that allows me to see one finger as one finger tells me, it’s time for us to shift direction. This is an extract from Prof Ilchi Lee’s book.

Where should we start? What should we start with? If we were to attempt to change the social infrastructure in a day, the stress and strain of such an effort would probably destroy civilization itself. How can we turn this “bus” around without an abrupt stop that would throw everything into chaos? How much has to change for us to call it a fundamental change? Our conscious, and even our unconscious, thoughts have an innate desire to be realized. It is not our conscious desire to achieve something; rather it is a fun­damental need and desire to be realized, to take some type of a form and shape, embedded within all life, that is the driving force behind all growth. Therefore, our desire for growth lies outside the realm of conscious choice, outside civilization, for it is a function of life itself.

A life created, whether it belongs to a civilization or not, has an instinctive drive to realize its potential and leave seeds behind. This does not mean that we are helpless to stop the bus; it just means that, although we may not be able to stop it, we are able to choose its direction so as to guarantee our further growth.