Ilchi Lee

I am very excited to work on myself, I am greatful for this 21 day commitment web site to help me achieve the discipline I need to fulfill my goal.

The past two days I imagined what it would be like if everyone got up and before they started to work did dahn exercises.  Imagine what that would be like.  I imagine the world would be more peaceful that we would just feel it, and know it.  Imagining most of the world doing something like that together, or ji-gam before anyone started their daily tasks...I wonder how the world wouldbe...I think it would make a great difference.

Hey Hey, ho ho, hee hee,

a sense of humor is needed by me...

At work, at play, all during the day

I laugh and sing and l

eave my co-workers wondering

why... I can be happy when 

nothing seems to be going right, for me or them,

and then it works! Heeyyyyyyyy

Have a great day! Holiday smiles and beautiful energy!

I am a spiritual warrior! 

I attended my first yoga session yesterday.  I enjoyed the feelings, but the session was demanding.  I know my strength and flexibility will improve as I attend more session and practice.

My goal is to lose weight, become fit and feel better.  It is about time for me to make this life change.

I don't mean to sound too egotistical but I am so happy Ilchi Lee answered my question on Ask Ilchi Lee.  Do you know how exciting it was to come home froma beautiful walk I had tonight...and it was so beautiful.  I past along poly-prep school here in Brooklyn.  I was with my husband and son.  We know in our hearts moving our bodies is the best for us in our situation.  Well as we passed along the school we saw these two geese.  They looked like they were talking, and then as we approached them, they stopped.  It almost was like they were human and looking at us saying "why are you looking at us", and then surprisingly they stopped looked at each other, turned away and walked up a hill.  Hahaha!  That was funny.  Then I cam upon a gate.  I saw a couple of rabbits, and then a whole bunch of ducks came to the gate, more rabbits, and a rooster.  In fact the rabbit and duck came out of the gate.  Wow, I really felt in touch with the animals and for a few moments nothing else seemed to matter.  It was nice to feel this especially the way I have been feeling the past few days.  It was good for the family.  To top my night off I came home.  I looked to see if my question was posted about pursuing two goals, and it was.  I felt like my heart wanted to pop out of my chest.  In fact I felt like crying.  It felt so exciting, and so honorable.  Yes it is true.  What really got me the most was what Ilchi Lee said in the end about creating something even more than you imagined.  I am thankful for his advice as all the Masters and too have the Master of all Masters answer your question...why that is really special.  It is really special.  I am sure it was not my question...I am sure it was an answer to others as well.  I know where I am going.  I am on the right path.  Things sometimes seem tough, but I know where I am going and I know I will get there.

Today I made the choice to do move my body rathar than think.  I was lying down on the couch.  It was sunny, then raining.  That is how the weather has been lately.  I said to myself God help me please with my current situation...I can't think anymore.  It actually hurts to think because I can't figure out the answer.  Then suddenly what popped into my mind wasmy meeting with a buddhist monk at the Asian festival.  Actually she could have been more than just that.  To me she seemed so familiar.  She reminded me of my previous JWJN.  I remember being amazed.  I think the only thing different about this women was her appearance.  However her spirit, her voice, her character was that of my previous mentor...Master.  I was in such a shock and shared this with the women I almost stood still...I remember for a moment staying in a wow moment, but then she suddenly changed the subject because it was like time stood still for a moment and began a conversation...almost like moving my thoughts and energy in continuing happy ones and then talking to my son too.  What does a good Zen Master do?  What does a good dahn Master do?  Well the answer to that is too make you think happy thoughts.  So after I thought about this I said I have to have a good mind today.  I have to move my body, even if I have to force myself.  Now I think I will stay more in my right mind.  Since I have recently learned and added to my knowledge about the brain...I will choose more to stay in my right brain now until whenever.  It seems that is where I should be right now to make some healthy and wise choices.  I followed my thought of doing everything in the name of love today.  Getting up off the couch and attending a family event that I had to think about.  However keeping a good mind, a sincere mind...a sincere heart... and everything I have learned from The Masters I took and traveled with me today.  As Master Jay would say "keep going"...I keep going, trudging, sometimes sailing...I keep learning, I keep going, and I am not going to give up.

I guess we all write on line because we express ourselves yet at the same time we want people to hear us or on a lighter note hope the person that reads this knows there not alone.  Sometimes life is full of strange surprises.  Suddenly people who you thought were..... are not.  We can't stop loving them.  It would be wrong.  Especially if the person has done noharm to you but decides to walk a different path and does not even share their vision with you.  In fact that person totally has a different vision to the point it could take away from family unit or hopefully bring it together.  It's not easy...disconnecting, connecting, disconnecting, connecting.  What is normal, really what is normal.  Is there such a thing as a normal marriage.  Does a house and money clarify a prosperous marriage or because a husband or wife or both want different things suddenly does it mean it could be the end.  This could be somewhat frightening.  So what do you do?  You could take a walk and talk and tell each other how much you love each other, and then you look at each other and your both not gazing in the same direction together.  You suddenly think why...why?  Maybe you want to blame it on each other only in the end you realize the truth of the matter is each person is looking for a higher purpose and with a child?  How does this all work out?  Is it all going to work out.  I guess only time will tell, and love is what can hold things together.  It's no ones fault.  I guess it's just the way things are.  Kind of scary in the latter years when you expect some solidness in all aspects of a marriage, and then suddenly each persons explains how much they love each other but wants to their own things for the sake of who they are.  I guess the roles are changing these days.  You have to expect the unexpected as my previous jwjn once told me.  I guess what I get out of all this is that it can be an illussion to expect what you think you should expect out of your husband and maybe the same for a wife.  The simple fact is we all are Earth Humans and we deserve to feel what we feel no matter if you are a man, a woman, a husband, a wife...sometimes these names don't mean anything.  Well, I guess whatever is to come you gotta do things in the name of love....just do it in the name of love.

People are often unreasonable, illogical, & self-centered;

Forgive them anyway.

 

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;

Be kind anyway.

 

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies;

Succeed anyway.

 

If you are honest and frank, peoplemay cheat you;

Be honest and frank anyway.

 

What  you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;

Build anyway.

 

If you find serenity & happiness, they may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.

 

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.

 

Give the world the best you have, & it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

 

You see, in the final analysis,

it is between you and God;

 

It was never between you and them anyway!

 

                                               ~Attributed to Mother Teresa

 

FREEDOM is....

the right to choose,

the right to create,

        for Oneself.

The alternatives of choice,

with the possibility of choice,

and the exercise of choice.

A man is not a man but a member,

an instrument, a thing.

                ~Thomas Jefferson

Believe in yourself

You gain strength, courage & confidence

by every experience in which you stop

to look fear in the face...

You must do that which

You think you cannot do.

                              ~Eleanor Roosevelt