In Korean, 국문 번역
https://m.cafe.daum.net/enlightenment-k/dcM5/233?svc=cafeapp

Title: Tickets for the Next Life (Travel Destination)♥

As we age, it is said that “we must move to live.” Everyone wants to live a long and healthy life without suffering until the end.

Therefore, by exercising, monitoring nutrition, and engaging in hobbies, we stimulate the extension of a healthy lifespan while taking care of social and mental well-being.

Diet, lifestyle habits, and exercise habits are crucial for a healthy lifespan. However, adhering to these three alone does not guarantee the achievement of our desired goals.

Being alive and breathing on this planet called Earth with our human body is undoubtedly for a reason.

That reason is the ultimate goal we must strive to reach in human life.

Ensuring that our body machine functions well is not only our duty but also a necessary condition and the foundation for everything we do in life.

However, if we only focus on nurturing our physical bodies, we are no different from animals. The difference between dogs and humans lies in the fact that humans can engage in deep thinking.

These three correct habits contribute to physical well-being, but they are under the administration of our mind that regulate and control them. Maintaining a Normal Mind (평상심), Even Breathing (고른 호흡), Action in moderation form the foundation for inner peace.

As human beings, we should engage in human relationships, read books, contemplate, have enlightening experiences, and base our actions on them, continuously upgrading ourselves in Body and Mind with Spirit until the end of our lives.

That is why it is good to engage in economic activities until the end.

– Economic activity means constantly engaging in relationships, requiring good thoughts, and deep contemplation.

– To pursue meaningful activities, we also compete with others and focus on generating good ideas.

– It is because we have the capability and permission from our health and abilities that we passionately pursue continuous self-development and exploration for social communication.

In the process, we stumble, fall, and stumble again, searching for the right and better path.

That is “human life.”

Within that, we can explain why humans must experience suffering, practice patience, show understanding, be generous, and love.

The clear truth is that all of these are for our own sake.

Once we realize this, we may collide with momentary confusion regarding fluctuating, superstitious, and religious beliefs.

Many illogical and unrealistic things have been passed down to us from our parents and society since birth.

In other words, it also means wasting time, money, and energy on unnecessary things, things that don’t need to be done, and frivolous and futile actions that exist in our subconscious.

Human beings create their own values and levels of consciousness up to this very moment. It determines the degree of each individual’s refinement, character, and personality in human relationships, as well as the social level and extent throughout life.

The human body is a machine that needs to move to survive, and it is said that the “Human Mind” controls and regulates it. As time goes by and the body machine ages, it becomes increasingly evident how much “one’s state of mind” has a profound impact on the human body machine. Moment by moment, in each and every experience, it is easy to perceive through daily life.

Even if the mind is slightly agitated and not at ease, the head becomes dizzy, confusion sets in, digestion becomes difficult, and the body trembles uncontrollably, experiencing moments where one can not maintain control.

All of these things are influenced by one’s “state of mind.”

As an example, people who have had a near-death experience or who have miraculously survived death undergo a complete transformation in their values and lifestyle patterns. In other words, they become new individuals and wisely weave together how to live and cultivate the remaining life until the end.

The changing points are as follows:

– The mind becomes softer and more relaxed.

– They genuinely possess a heart of giving.

– Their perspective on the world becomes fair.

– They do not engage in trivial tactics or manipulations and are not swayed by the crowd mentality.

– They live their one and only life truthfully.

– They act as they are without comparing themselves to others.

– They possess a heart of service, love, and genuine gratitude.

In essence, it means to live out one’s daily actions with a loving heart, an awakening mind, a believing heart, and a heart that seeks understanding. It is rooted in a heart of reverence, prayer, humility, gratitude, and the willingness to lower oneself truly.

It is the core essence of the philosophy of human life that countless sages from hundreds, thousands of years ago have emphasized in numerous scriptures that have been passed down.

It is the most fundamental aspect of human life that serves as the foundation for religion, philosophy, humanities, and beyond, surpassing anything that is awe-inspiring, mysterious, and profound.

If anything else except for words above mentioned, it is what humans have created.

Truth is not complex or profound, but simple and concise.

Those who possess such a mindset or state of mind are called enlightened individuals, and their lives are referred to as enlightened lives.

This can only be achieved when there is transformation in consciousness, resulting in a change in all daily habits and patterns of behavior.

It is possible for anyone because that is how we are created.

The changed patterns of lifestyle and behavior are not difficult or profound, but based on simple and basic principles that everyone knows.

They involve loving and sharing, helping and giving, constantly striving to improve one’s own life while contemplating and reflecting upon oneself.

They do not discriminate between “your side” and “my side” and are not entangled in trivial matters and manipulations.

Because something is lacking,  because something is sought and desired, they unknowingly bind themselves with their own desires and preferences.

On the right path of life, they always recognize the importance of the present moment and strive to do their best, avoiding unnecessary things.

This becomes the foundation for extending a healthy lifespan and elevating one’s own values and level of consciousness. Therefore, it comes close to the ultimate goal of human life.

In other words, the ultimate goal of human life is to cultivate Love and promote Spiritual Growth, becoming the source of driving force that makes life less difficult, less challenging, and less painful, while achieving what one desires, needs, and seeks.

People say so often that a person comes into this world empty-handed and leaves empty-handed.

But they take the “Love” they have accumulated using the borrowed machine called the body.

That becomes their Report Card of Life.

It becomes the “Ticket to the Next Destination.”

The magnitude of that love depends on each individual’s mindset. That is the Ilcheyusimzo (일체 유심조, 一切唯心造) in Korean, which means ” Throughout life, everything in the world depends on my mindset.”

Understanding the meaning is easy, but only through repeated experiences of it, one can approach the essence that makes it move.

Most people interpret it

from “a human perspective” alone.

If it can not be interpreted from “a natural perspective,” it is as futile as overlooking an oasis in the desert. Thus, it is impossible to truly experience the hidden meaning of the words. The most important thing we should know in a correct practice while living is to be able to understand how to think from Nature Prospective.

June 28, 2023

Busan in Korea

JS Kim.

Reference;

https://m.cafe.daum.net/enlightenment-k/ow4r/35?svc=cafeapp

In Korean 국문 번역

https://m.cafe.daum.net/enlightenment-k/dcM5/232?svc=cafeapp

Ants and Beetles

Tonight, the distant sea is unusually filled with fishing boats, illuminating the calm night sea with bright lights.

They diligently search through the unseen waters, struggling tirelessly throughout the night to survive.

On the other side, the night in this Oryukdo Park is incredibly peaceful. On this particular night, the bikies adorned their mopeds with dazzling headlights and lined up on the Ohryukdo Skywalk, shining brilliantly as if in their own world.

Even stray cats seem to be at ease, as if everything in the world belongs to them. The tall lotus flowers standing tall at night catch one’s eye.

The vibrant lights from the fishing boats in the distant sea, the cozy lights shining through apartment windows, create a striking contrast that captivates the heart.

The fishermen on the boats hope for a bountiful catch of fish today, though it may be in the depths of the water,

unseen by the eyes and untouched by their hands, the countless experiences of their past struggles instill confidence and hope.

This boat, that boat, yours and mine,all prepared in a similar manner. Only when the fish come in, it becomes my catch. It becomes mine as much as it comes in.

Human life is the same.

With desires, needs, and goals,

but being unable to see a step ahead

is what makes us human.

Even if we bow hundreds or thousands of times, even if we pray day and night throughout our lives, there is no guaranteed way for our wishes to come true.

The world is fundamentally fair.

Only what I do, what I achieve,

becomes mine.

That is the measure of love.

Throughout life, the only things that truly belong to us are the fruits we have harvested and gathered.

That becomes “our report card of life.”

It can also be expressed and explained as “the measure and magnitude of faith and love.”

Though it may not be visible, by preparing diligently and making efforts,

although we don’t know when it will come true, when we do our best,

the foundation for hope is laid at last.

Even the one and only given human life must be prepared in advance, only those who give their best at this moment, who strive in the present, gain the fundamental driving power to achieve their desires and goals at last.

Of course, the level and degree may vary,

there are many people just the same with a can whose inside is empty, which makes a loud noise, complaining loudly without understanding the subject, they have been around quite many.

Those who do not change their words, thoughts, and actions, but seek to achieve their goals, are the most ignorant and greedy.

Human life was given by nature. If we do not follow its flow, it is always difficult, challenging, and painful.

The difficulties and pain are not caused by anyone else but by ourselves. We are the ones who dug the hole, rolled around in it, and set it on fire.

That is what it means to be human.

Regardless of East or West, many people know that we have to think out of the box to live is said for that reason.

There are no coincidences in the world, only inevitabilities disguised as coincidences exist.

There is a story of an ant and a grasshopper in Korea. It is not about diligent (the rich) and lazy (the poor) people but about the diversity of human life. The ant lives according to its given life, while the grasshopper lives as it is. The story implies that it is natural to live your life to the fullest in your own way.

Therefore, those who are faithful, adaptable, and eager to act with recognizing the importance of moment by moment with awareness and mindfulness will live life with less hardship, less difficulty, and less pain.

After all,

they will all get back to nature again.

June 23, 2023, Friday night

at the Oryukdo Park.

JS Kim

Reference;

https://m.cafe.daum.net/enlightenment-k/dcM5/209?svc=cafeapp