However, being a true master of your brain isn’t about doing what others tell you to do. Say someone told you to do 100 math problems, and you just solved them without question. Whose brain did this? Although your brain solved the problems, the person who issued the instructions to do them is its master. Living surrounded by instructions, we don’t realize how much they influence us. We believe this is being the masters of our brains. But it’s not.

The kind of brain mastery I’m talking about is creating and asking your own questions. When your brain answers them, you can take those answers with you. You own them; you did not ingest them passively and blindly. For example, most people have smart phones. These phones have countles advertisements that pop up for you to see. If you keep looking at those advertisements habitually and automatically, then who is master of that smartphone? You paid for it, but if your brain is moved by all of that information, then you are not master of it.

A master determines whether information contributes to his or her values. You should be able to choose it. You are the master of your brain only when you can determine whether different emotions and habits contribute to your family’s happiness and to realizing your own values, and then choose the ones that do. If advertising makes you feel unhappy about buying something, if you have to buy what they are selling to feel happy, then, ultimately, you’re made a slave by the person who conveys the information to you through the smartphone you keep carrying.

You have the power to search for information and the power to cut yourself off from information. These days, if you look, you’ll see that everyone is getting hacked. You can say that you are the master of your brain when, with your own insight and philosophy as one who has observer consciousness, you can judge these different things for yourself.

To be able to do that, your mind needs to reach the zero point. The zero point is a perspective of neutrality, balance, and clarity; it exists at the very center of your consciousness. Only when you have reached the zero point will you understand the true substance of all information and find your true value. You’ll be able to see where some information has come from, why you were made aware of it, and what significance it has for your own value and life. Without reaching zero point, however, you cannot make such judgments because you do not have a valid basis for comparison.

People who learn their true value do not have the drive to possess or rule. Rather, they discover the will to create a peaceful and harmonious world. When those people carry out their will, then an era of spiritual civilization will overtake our current material civilization. That is what it means to be the master of your brain, and it is the reason to recover your zero point with meditation.

After more than thirty years of daily meditation and a mindful lifestyle, my mind easily opened to the natural feast for the senses around me. The steady rushing and trickling of the water over the rocky and uneven creek bottom, the numbing coolness of the water and rock against my skin, the fresh greenness in the air with the faint scent of spring flowers all embraced me.

My mind did not remain with my senses, however. Its awareness soon went deeper and wider, and I could sense the spirit and soul of the earth that underlies and animates its form. As I did, my own spirit and soul felt more alive and I merged with that of the earth. I rejoiced as the boundaries between myself and nature shimmered into nothing.

And then I became nothing. As my consciousness descended even deeper and wider, I dropped down to the origin, the center of all, where nothingness is everything. I was beyond the compilation of cells and experiences and ideas known as Ilchi Lee. I became consciousness itself—the ultimate awareness and source of creation. I could see everything in that nothingness; it was in harmony and balance. From that perspective, everything was without flaw.

At the same time, Mother Earth, Mago, called to me, and I felt the usual urgency. In that ongoing moment of fundamental peace, I could still feel the mission that had been burning in my heart for years, and I knew once again that everyone needed to bring their awareness to zero point, to nothingness, and become the creative observer that could view the universe with clarity and balance. Only with this creative observer consciousness could the citizens of the earth adopt a lifestyle that expressed the absolute and essential values that exist at zero point when all that is ephemeral is stripped away. Only with this consciousness could all of us work together to imagine the creative solutions for changing the systems we operate under to be in alignment with these values. Only with this consciousness could we all live with love, oneness, and peace.

The towering red rocks looked ever more majestic when I opened my eyes. I got up and began my work again.

LifeParticles have the properties of electricity and magnetism. As compositions of LifeParticles then, everything that exists—our body, the earth, the sun—also generates electric and magnetic fields. Electricity and magnetism are interrelated as two sides of the same coin. Electric currents, the flow of charged particles, produce electric and magnetic fields. Magnetic fields affect the flow of electric currents.

Excessive worry, anxiety, and negativity from within and without weakens the body’s magnetic field. When the magnetic fields of two or more people clash, their protective layer of energy tears. Too many of us are walking around with damaged and weak magnetic fields. If our energy field is damaged, it’s bound to result in emotional turmoil. That is the main stressor and the cause of the mental disease that underlies many of our personal and societal issues. On the other hand, when the electricity and magnetism in our bodies is healthy, then emotionally and mentally we are also very stable and healthy.

To repair, utilize, and magnify the electricity and magnetism of our body, we do not need complex technology. We simply need to practice meditation. Meditation adjusts our energy and our brain, which go hand in hand. The magnetic field produced by the brain is generated from the blood that flows through it and from the electrical impulses created by the flow of ions through nerve cells. Therefore, when we change our thoughts, we change our brain’s wiring, and we change our magnetic and electric fields. The process also works in reverse. A “healthy” magnetic field means a healthy brain, which produces a healthy life, and collectively creates a healthy society.

I’ve been guiding meditation for over thirty years now. Some people have trouble learning and doing meditation; they have trouble managing their thoughts and focusing. However, I’ve found that if you do energy meditation, if you simply feel your energy, it’s much easier to focus. The moment you feel the energy, that’s the best meditation because you cannot feel energy unless you focus. The easiest way to feel energy, I’ve found, is to use magnets. I call it Magnetic Meditation.

Everyone can feel the push and pull of two magnets as they play with them. If we keep playing with them–moving them toward and away from each other or circling them around each other or our body in any way we like—and observing our body as we feel the magnetic pull, we’ll be able to feel our own energy more strongly and clearly because magnets expand and magnify our energy. Also, concentrating on the magnetic sensations focuses our mind so we can sense our own energy more easily.

As we focus, our brain will return to a completely normal and healthy state. The more we focus on our energy, the more quiet our mind becomes—all of our idle or unnecessary thoughts disappear.

We don’t have to do Magnetic Meditation for a long time. Just five minutes is more effective than an hour of most other kinds of meditation. Typically, when one starts meditating, it takes a long time to get into a calm state of mind. But with magnets this happens very quickly. If we were to do Magnetic Meditation every time we had some free time, or five minutes at a time three times a day, we could experience a more profound change in the condition of our brain and magnetic field, which would lead to a change in our consciousness.

With that change, we would wake up in the morning refreshed with energy, rejuvenated, and confident. Our voice would carry more power, we would glow with brightness, and we would be free of addictions and victim mentality. Most of all, by keeping our magnetic field and brain healthy, we could maintain an absolute and enduring peace.

CHANGE: The LifeParticle Effect, a film produced by LifeParticle TV, will host a promotional gift giveaway in conjunction with the film’s online release May 2nd through May 8th. Twenty-one select people who stream the film online or recommend it through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. will receive a prize. To enter please tag @lifeparticletv with the hashtag #ChangeFilm. Ten of the winners will win a copy of executive producer Ilchi Lee’s latest book, LifeParticle Meditation: A Practical Guide to Healing and Transformation, and another ten will receive magnet sets for meditation as shown in the film. One final winner will receive a sterling silver LifeParticle Pendant inlaid with colored crystals valued at $90.

The Theory of LifeParticles, featured in the film, offers a fresh perspective on who we are as human beings and what we are capable of. In essence, we are LifeParticles, the inseparable unity of consciousness and energy. Through this realization, you reach the very foundation of the reality that connects you to everything that exists in this universe. The film denotes that we create the world around us on a much deeper level than most realize. In fact, we can “consciously” create the world that we want when we realize our potential as creative observers and train ourselves to use the inherent and often untapped capabilities of the brain. This film offers viewers a new perspective, combined with working principles, so that lasting changes can be created.

Leaders in the fields of education, medicine, neuroscience, and spirituality such as Ilchi Lee, Neale Donald Walsch, and Stuart Hameroff share their insight and techniques to effect real change in our lives and in the world. Individuals who have experienced the LifeParticle effect in their own lives share their personal stories. Enlightening new perspectives combined with the scientific background of modern physics and neuroscience as well as mind-body self-help tips to utilize in daily life are fully presented in this film to assist in the fundamental understanding and practical usage of LifeParticles for real Change.

This film is offered as a tool to enable a clear understanding of your creative potential so strongly that you feel an invincible hope for yourself and the world. CHANGE is more than just informational—it is transformational.

LifeParticle TV is committed to offering life-enhancing programming through motion pictures, lectures, and meditations to engage the human imagination in the quest for growth and completion. All of the programming produced is designed as a support tool to help expand horizons and make mindful living something that comes effortlessly.

To view the film and learn more, please visit www.change-film.com.

CHANGE: The LifeParticle Effect Official Web Release
Thursday, May 2nd thru Wednesday, May 8th 2013
www.change-film.com

Last Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 243 people gathered at the Sedona Creative Life Center for a red carpet premiere of the documentary film Change: The LifeParticle Effect, for which Ilchi Lee was the inspiration and executive producer. The event was hosted and organized by the Sedona Meditation Center, a non-profit in Sedona, Arizona that teaches the many meditation methods developed by Ilchi Lee. The free, semi-formal event included a catered reception, a photo zone for professional pictures, the film screening, and a talk by Ilchi Lee on personal and planetary change. Producer co-director Eunjin Lim and co-director Edwin Kim were in attendance, with Edwin making a short speech beforehand. Many of the film’s crew and stars also attended.

The event was a mixture of celebration and inspiration. As one attendee, Lorrie Lawrence, expressed, “Being here at this event was a great opportunity to listen to the message Ilchi Lee is giving to the world for us to all help each other and learn how to use our energy and the energy that is all around us to create change in our lives and the world.”

The simplicity of the message of the film and the talk was evident: We are all made of LifeParticles. LifeParticles are consciousness and energy; at the same time, LifeParticles are brought together, moved, and pulled apart by consciousness to form what we wish. We all inherently have the power to foster change if we can clear out thoughts and emotions that inhibit our brain power and put enough energy into what we want through focus and action. When we clear our brains, we reach a point of zero, a state of balance in which we can see reality as it really is and make choices unencumbered by our past baggage. LifeParticle Meditation and meditation with magnets enable us to achieve balance and clarity and send energy for a new reality for ourselves, for society, and for the planet. During the talk, the audience was able to taste this by experiencing their own energy through feeling the energy between two small but strong magnets given to them by Ilchi Lee.

“I really enjoyed the simplicity of the message,” commented emcee Gaetano Frankel, “and how it was delivered with such sincerity, honesty, and clarity where it’s the message of being that zero point where you’re just in balance. Mainly that, I enjoyed that a lot. So that was very inspiring. And how that can inspire change, by that zero balance.”

His wife Erika DeCoronado was “so overjoyed by this concept and belief system that needs to be shared with the whole world because it’s such an important message, so important for all humanity. And I feel it’s going to really spread because we’re coming together in this oneness. It’s just so beautiful. . . . It’s just really magnificent, just to come together, in this room, . . . and share this same belief system. It’s very powerful, and this can spread like a domino effect. So it’s very touching, inspirational.”

Dawn Quaresima, manager of the East Meadow, New York Dahn Yoga Center, couldn’t “wait to share it with [her] members back in New York.” She thought the film took “many of the principles that we’ve been sharing . . . and put them together in such a clear, scientific way. Everybody I think can digest this, understand it, and connect to it.” Overall she thought the event was a “wonderful time spent to connect to yourself and reflect on where you are in your life and what you want to change. And being able to be here with Ilchi Lee is so spectacular and precious, to hear where he came from and how this all came about; it’s truly inspiring and it makes each of us feel anything is possible if we choose it.”

The film premiere was the first of a national tour hosted by Dahn Yoga & Health, Inc. and Body + Brain Holistic Yoga that will go on from May to July this year. The tour is part of a larger Change Project, which also includes two companion books and a website. Change: The LifeParticle Effect will be available on DVD and Blu-ray in May 2013.

The scope and purpose of the Change Project will evolve as new people and ideas are added to the mix. While many offer solutions to make change easier and better, an understanding of the role energy plays in the process of change distinguishes this project from other endeavors. Many people become frustrated because they cannot bridge the gap between their thoughts and their experiences. However, the Change Project believes that if we understand energy is in play between these two, and learn how to use it, creating changes will become easier and more enjoyable.

This unity of consiousness and matter that defines your life and our world has been dubbed the Theory of LifeParticles by Ilchi Lee. LifeParticles are what he has called the smallest units of life—they make and move everything. Everything in existence is a gathering of LifeParticles, including your thoughts and intentions, which affect LifeParticles as well. The Theory of LifeParticles explains the ability of all human beings to create their reality.

The Change Project begins this month with the premier screening of the film Change: The LifeParticle Effect at the Sedona Creative Life Center in Sedona, Arizona on April 16, 2013. The premiere is sponsored by the Sedona Meditation Center at 340 Jordan Rd, which provides yoga and meditation based on the methods Ilchi Lee has developed. The rest of the tour is sponsored by Dahn Yoga & Health Centers, Inc. and Body + Brain Holistic Yoga centers. Check out the dates and locations below to attend a live screening of the film, experience LifeParticles for yourself, and begin your own change!

May 9th (Thu) – 6:30 – 8:30 pm – QLN Conference Center – 1938 Avenida del Oro, Oceanside, California 92056
May 10th (Fri) – 6:30 – 9:30 pm – Sheraton Hotel Palo Alto – 625 EI Camino Real, Palo Alto, California 94301
May 15th (Wed) – 6:00 – 9:00 pm – Portland Art Museum, Fred & Suzanne Fields Ballroom – 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97205
May 19th (Sun) – 1:00 – 4:00 pm – Cadle Theatre, Lake Washington High School – 12033 NE 80th St, Kirkland, Washington 98033
May 23rd (Thu) – 6:30 – 8:30 pm – Hilton Resort & Villas – 6333 N Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, Arizona 85250
June 8th (Sat) – 7:00 pm – Shea Center for Performing Arts, William Patterson University – 300 Pompton Rd, Wayne, NJ 07470
June 9th (Sun) – 1:00 – 4:30 pm – SUNY at Old Westbury, Student Union Multipurpose Room – 223 Store Hill Road, Old Westbury, New York 11568
June 11th (Tue) – 7:30 – 9:30 pm – Tsai Performance Center, Boston University – Boston, Massachusetts
June 18th (Tue) – 7:00 – 9:30 pm – Mile Hi Church – 9077 W Alameda Ave, Lakewood, Colorado 80226
June 20th (Thus) – 6:00 – 10:00 pm – Hispanic Cultural Center – 1701 4th St. SW Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102
June 23nd (Sun) – 1:30 – 4:30 pm – Cullen Performance Hall, University of Houston – 4800 Calhoun, Houston Texas 77204
June 29th (Fri) – 2:00 – 5:00 pm – George Washington Lisner Auditorium – 730 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20052
July 9th (Tue) – Atlanta, Georgia – Details to be confirmed
July 14th (Fri) – 1:00 – 4:00 pm – Evanston Township High School – 1600 Dodge Ave, Evanston, Illinois 60201
July 20nd (Sat) – 1:00 – 5:00 pm – Agape International Spiritual Center – 5700 Buckingham Pkwy Culver City, California 90232
July 23rd (Tue) – Las Vegas, Nevada – Details to be confirmed
August 9th (Fri) – 6:30 – 9:30 pm – Hawai’i Convention Center – 1801 Kalakaua Ave, Honolulu, Hawai’i 96815

The forty-five-minute Change combines personal stories from individuals who have experienced the Theory of LifeParticles at work in their lives, the insights of experts in the fields of medicine, education, and spirituality such as Ilchi Lee, Neale Donald Walsch, Mariale Hardiman, and Stuart Hameroff, the scientific background of the Theory of LifeParticles, and practical self-help tips to apply the theory in your daily life. It goes into detail about the basics of energy, how it works, and how you can become the master of your thoughts, emotions, and destiny. For more information about the Change film, you can visit www.change-film.com.

Watch the preview!

Accompanying the film, Ilchi Lee will publish a book, LifeParticle Meditation: A Practical Guide to Healing and Transformation, in June 2013, which go deeper into the Theory of LifeParticles and its effect in different people’s lives. The beauty of this book lies in understanding the principles of LifeParticles within a real life context and walking you through its practical applications. It gives you a step-by-step guide to LifeParticle Meditation, an essential visualization technique for accessing your subconscious mind and changing your life with LifeParticles. Rather than being dragged by life’s inevitable flow of change, the meditations and ideas in this book allow you to understand, manage, and direct that flow.

The updated website LifeParticle.com will also arrive in June 2013 with new content, loads of videos, information on the documentary, and details on how you can be a part of the LifeParticle project for change.

With its many arms, the Change Project inspired by Ilchi Lee aims to bring hope for self-determination and for embracing real and positive change for individuals and the planet.

Currently, the greed of humans is leading us down the path of destruction. If we continue down this path the devastation of the earth is imminent. Greed begets fear, that fear becomes endless cruelty, and cruelty stirs up anger. Just as hot energy and cold energy collide to form a huge storm, collisions of human greed have shaped a maelstrom of anger, fear, and cruelty within the collective consciousness of the human race. It is a storm of death made by humans that could bring about the end of humankind.

However, inside of this storm, there is something that shines brilliantly. If you look with the eyes of the observer, you can see it—the possibility of a new birth, a great hope.

Both death and birth are an ever-present part of reality, and a choice. The right and responsibility to choose lies not with God, nor any saint, but solely inside of us. Within you is a great soul and divinity that wields this power of choice. If you exist in this age, in this time and space as a human life form, wherever you may be, whether you be male or female, whatever your years and whatever your position, you must choose by taking on the perspective of that great soul and divinity.

As a human being, you have the capacity to experience emotions that are both wretched and noble. The greatest gift of your humanity is that you have the power to rise above your victim mentality, your fear, and your arrogance to make a choice. Choosing your noble intentions becomes effortless when you bring your awareness to the zero-point, the place of neutrality, and think, speak, and act within the natural perspective of the zero point, which I call the creative observer, or your divinity.

From the zero point you have access to all of the wondrous and inherent faculties of your brain, and will experience the eternally unchanging divine value, which is your true nature, as the consciousness behind the controls. Your perception of the world will change. You will see the world with divine eyes, hear with divine ears, and perceive with divine senses. A beautiful world will be revealed before your eyes as you witness the great and holy divinity and soul in the hearts of all people. You will stand before the absolute truth that all human beings are one, their value is limitless, and all are equal. Your soul will tremble in ecstasy in the recognition of this truth, and you will have the strength and absolute conviction to put aside your fears and worries and act for the good of all.

Saving the world is a big job, but if we each do our part, the job isn’t as difficult. Change can happen in an instant. Choose and act right away, at this very moment. Small thoughts and small actions could build huge, great things or create great change. Sing of a new beginning from your soul. Choose new hope.

Throughout all of time, countless humans have come and gone from this earth. Living on the earth at this pivotal time presents a great opportunity for your soul to become one of the greatest, most sacred, and most beautiful human beings to be born. Crisis is great opportunity—being blasted by a storm forces us to turn to the peaceful divinity within. Be the first in your community to spark a collective wave of divine humans. Start a new culture of divinely inspired living. Choose to generate hope, share happiness, and bring peace to all people that you encounter. I wish with all my heart that you can experience being a great and beautiful human being who gives hope to the world. That is the greatest gift that you can give to yourself, and the world.

On Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm, a Brain Education Conference will be held at Arizona State University, Tempe Campus. The conference topic, Integrated Learning for the 21st Century, will be addressed by key speakers Ilchi Lee, Mariale Hardimen, Ed.D., and Raun D. Melmed, M.D.. The conference presentations express and extend current thought about learning and the brain. Presenters will explore educational techniques, models, and experiences. They will address questions such as: What is Brain Education? What is the Brain-Targeted Teaching Model, and how do we use it? How can we unlock our brain potential to create ideal lives and to actualize a more positive and hopeful future for us all?

The conference will be preceded by a workshop, The Nuts and Bolts of Brain Education, given by educator David Beal, M.A.Ed.. The workshop is designed to give participants a deeper understanding of Brain Education by experiencing its powerful effects. Participants will also be exposed to a variety of teaching methods, tools, and strategies that will help them share Brain Education with their children and students. These techniques help individuals to manage stress and emotions while enhancing focus, creativity, and confidence.

This conference qualifies for Professional Development/Certification Credit. Conference organizers will provide Certificates of Attendance on request.

About the Presenters

Ilchi Lee is a visionary, global educator, mentor, and innovator devoted to developing the full capability of the human brain. President of the International Brain Education Association (IBREA), the University of Brain Education, the Korea Institute of Brain Science, and the Global Cyber University, Lee works with the United Nations and other organizations for global peace. He has pioneered methods for integrating mind-body techniques with traditional educational models. His work has inspired a Happy Schools campaign in which more than 300 schools in South Korea have reported significant improvement in students’ academic achievement and focus. A New York Times bestselling author, he has penned 33 books, including Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back into the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy Life, Healing Society: A Prescription for Global Enlightenment, and The Call of Sedona: A Journey of the Heart.

Mariale Hardiman, Ed.D., is the Assistant Dean for Urban School Partnerships and Professor of Clinical Education at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. She is the co-founder and director of the Johns Hopkins University School of Education’s Neuro-Education Initiative. This cross-disciplinary program connects relevant research from the brain sciences to inform teaching and learning—design and delivery. Her research and publications focus on enhancing educational practices through techniques that foster innovation and creative problem-solving for all students. Her books include: Brain-Targeted Teaching for 21st Century School, Neuroeducation: Learning, Arts, and the Brain, and Connecting Brain Research with Effective Teaching: The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model.


Raun D. Melmed, M.D., is the medical director and founder of the Melmed Center, which provides assessment and treatment of people with educational, behavioral and developmental challenges. A developmental and behavioral pediatrician, Melmed is a co-founder of the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center. He has established nationally recognized physicians’ training programs for the early detection of infants and toddlers with developmental and behavioral concerns. He is the co-author of Succeeding with Difficult Children. He did post graduate work in Israel, New York City, and Boston, where he was an instructor at Harvard University.






Dave Beal, M.A.Ed., is the New York Coordinator for Power Brain Education (PBE) and a national Brain Education trainer. He has led experiential Brain Education sessions and lectures at the United Nations. In July 2009, he was a guest speaker at the International Brain Education Conference at the University of Brain Education in South Korea. In April 2009, he co-founded the first Power Brain Training Center in Bayside, Queens, to support the physical, emotional, and cognitive health of families in the Bayside community. He holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a M.A. in Education from PACE University. He is a licensed Brain Education Trainer (certified by the International Brain Education Association [IBREA]) and has worked in the New York Public School system as a teacher.

The Location

Arizona State University, Tempe Campus, EDU 117
(across from Gammage Auditorium. Entrance door faces 11th Street).

Conference Fee

Full day – $100
Main Session (Half day afternoon) – $60
Pre-conference (Half day morning) – $40

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Demand is high and space is limited. Please register early to assure yourself a place.

Contact Information

Jonelle Moore
jmoore0406@gmail.com
Tel: 480-518-6061
Fax: 949-861-9450

But oftentimes in this type of picture you become the focal point, healing the world in dedication to your own benevolence. We focus so much on our own ascension that we forget what we are doing it for. We move our attention away from the people that we are helping, the earth that we are restoring, and place it on ourselves. You spend so much time grooming and cleansing yourself that the world around you remains dark. You aid others in service to your own ego. While this may produce menial results, in order to really make a difference, in order to completely transform the lives of the people in your presence and the earth that you walk upon: you must become a cleaning cloth.

Beautiful Service

To the outside world, a cleaning cloth is not grand. If you imagine it, a cleaning cloth that has actually cleaned something does not remain crisp, white, and untarnished. The beauty of a cleaning cloth is that it wipes away the tears of pain. It moves to wipe the dirt off of a child’s face. It removes all tarnish so that the object of its attention becomes much brighter than itself. Becoming a cleaning cloth is the most beautiful service to humanity and to the earth. A cleaning cloth may not have much status in this world of competition, where everything tries to out shine the last thing. But the value of a cleaning cloth is precisely that it leaves everything in its wake brilliant and dazzling!

A person that chooses to become a cleaning cloth is a person with a great soul. As you keep choosing, recommitting yourself every day to be a cleaning cloth, you cannot expect everything to change completely in a day or two. But if you keep it up, before the end of the year the people around you will be looking at you differently. More importantly, when you look around you will see that everything and everyone that you have touched shimmers with the brilliance of your love and attention. This is truly an overwhelming experience of joy. Even if your body gets a little tired, your mind will become as bright and radiant as all that you have cleaned and restored.

True Greatness

When you experience that kind of joy, with that kind of bright spirit, what do you think will happen to your body? Your body will also become bright and magnificent, expressing itself in the world at a higher vibration of radiance. People think that if the body is first treated well and uplifted and becomes brighter and higher, the mind will also change, but it doesn’t work that way.

The birth of a new world, the restoration of yourself, your community, and humanity aren’t going to happen if everybody is trying to become brighter and higher themselves first, or to be celebrated and lifted up, or rarer and more precious. Those are methods used by the world. They think if that happens, even the soul will become higher and brighter. That’s not true.

Don’t be afraid of becoming a cleaning cloth for your own health, happiness, and peace. For if you wash a cleaning cloth, it becomes clean. And because you are the one who made yourself a cleaning cloth, and have practiced cleaning time and again, you will also be able to make the cleaning cloth clean.

The stage to use your cleaning cloth isn’t limited. Leave your workplace brighter, your home, your family, everything and every person that you come into contact with. That’s exactly how to become a good person, and that’s a person who makes a better world.

On the other hand, knowing who you are is like taking off tinted glasses. Everything becomes clear; you see things as they truly are without emotion or judgment. There is great freedom and peace in that clarity and from it is revealed true purpose. Knowing who you are means you also know why you are alive and what you want to accomplish with the gift of your life.

Two very effective ways to take off your colored glasses are breathing and meditation. These two intertwined activities place you in the present moment, in which your awareness is heightened and expanded. Instead of being focused on the events around you and your thoughts and feelings about them, consciously breathing and meditating allow you to simply be and be aware of that being. You don’t need to refer to a textbook or ask other people about that being because it simply is. You just need to be aware of it by relaxing your mind into yourself.

As you do so, the information that defines your life—your name, your occupation, your history—falls away. Anything that is not permanent, that is not the real you, can fall away. But the real you cannot leave. You don’t need to worry about letting “everything” go because you will always be there. You are self-existent consciousness; you have always existed, and you will always exist. The only thing you are letting go of are your illusions: the many stories and manifestations we use to express ourselves, to live and learn. Beyond them is nothing; there is zero. Zero and nothing are not emptiness. Rather they are fundamental existence and life’s creative force. In fact, they are even beyond existence and non-existence, being and non-being. All life comes from zero.

When you’ve subtracted everything until you’re left with zero, you reach a neutral state: the real you. This “I” beyond the “I” of all of the information that makes up your ego is an observer that watches the rest of creation with clear eyes. From within a neutral state, the experience of zero is one of stability and joy, as well as fundamental bliss and fundamental love.

At the core, you are zero. But your value is not zero. It is infinite. Your value cannot change regardless of your appearance, your actions, or other’s opinions. You are a precious being who is the very essence of life itself.