Ilchi Lee Day Celebrations

Now, let us breathe again. Breathe in deeply. Breathe in until you can’t breathe in any more. Then pause. Stop. Do nothing. Do not breathe out. Remain still. Ilchi Lee believe that we are at this exact moment as a civilization. This is the moment of the pause in breathing that marks the boundary between inhaling and exhaling. We, as humanity, and as a civilization, have inhaled to our lungs’ capacity. And now it’s time to breathe out. What will happen to an individual if he or she insists on breathing in without breathing out? What will happen to a civilization? What will happen to us if we insist on continuing on this path of breathing in without pausing to breathe out? Our lungs will explode, ending life, as we know it. Only when you breathe out, can you again breathe in. This is a complete cycle, a full circulation. And life is a series of cycles. Life itself is a great cycle. And nothing less than the truth is in the cycle. We as humanity are at a transitional point in our current materialistic civilization. The driving force of our civ ilization has been competition. However, competition cannot satisfy everyone, for it is a system of separating people into winners and losers. For every winner there is a loser, for every success a failure, and for every feeling of happiness, a sense of despair, creating a pool of losers filled with insecurity and fear. This will eventually express itself as violence, creating even more victims who seek to vent their fear and anger through violence. In this cycle of competition, winning is necessarily temporary. Winning plants the seed of its eventual downfall by the creation of ‘losers.’ As time goes by, more losers are created for every winner, creating a social caste system of an elite group of winners controlling and dominating an increasingly large number of losers. This creates a correspondingly large pool of insecurity, fear, and anger. Such is the world that our materialistic civilization has created through ceaseless competition, … a far cry from the peace and harmony that we all pay lip service to.