This book’s main purpose is not to add new information or beliefs to your mind or to try to convince you of anything, but to bring about a shift in consciousness; that is to say, to awaken.
요가를 배우는 목적과 똑같다. 새로운 것을 배우는 것이 아니라 이미 내 안에 있는 것들을 발견하기 위해서.
It can only awaken those you are ready.
아무 생각 없이 오더블로 듣다가 죽비로 후두려 맞는 듯한 문장들에 화들짝 놀라 원서로 한 자 한 자 정독해서 읽기 시작했다.
If the awakening process has begun in you, the reading of this book will accelerate and intensify it.
뭐 눈엔 뭐만 보이는 식인 거지.
An essential part of the awakening is the recognition of the unawakened you, the ego as it thinks, speaks and acts, as well as the recognition of the collectively conditioned mental processes that perpetuate the unawakened state. That is why this book shows the main aspects of the ego and how they operate in the individual as well as in the collective. This is important for two related reasons:
- The first is that unless you know the basic mechanics behind the workings of the ego, you won’t recognize it, and it will trick you into identifying within it again and again. This means it takes you over an impostor pretending to be you.
- The second reason is that the act of recognition itself is one of the ways in which awakening happening.
내가 나라고 이야기할 수 있는 나는 누구인가?
나는 에고로부터 얼마나 자유로울 수 있을까?
에고의 작동원리는 뭘까?
깨달음이란 자유는 언제 어떻게 얻어질 수 있는가?
You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.
어둠은 싸워서 이기는 게 아니라 빛으로 거둬내는 것이리니….
Fear, greed, and the desire for power are the psychological motivating forces not only behind warfare and violence between nations, trives, religions, and ideologies, but also the cause of incessant conflict in personal relationships. They bring about a distortion in your perception of other people and yourself. Through them, you misinterpret every situation, leading to misguided action designed to rid you of fear and satisfy your need for more, a bottomless hole that can never be filled.
멋진 철학과 경구로 인생을 묘사하는 건 쉽지만 일상의 순간에서 일어나는 두려움과 시기, 공포와 욕망, 탐욕과 무지, 판단과 단정을 마주하고 휘둘리지 않기란 얼마나 어려운가!
Trying to become a good or better human being sounds like a commendable and high-minded thing to o, yet it is an endeavor you cannot ultimately succeed in unless there is a shift in CONSCIOUSNESS.
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.
목적을 버려야 얻을 수 있다.
그런 상태가 되어야 한다.
Their teachings, although both simple and powerful, became distorted and misinterpreted, in some cases even as they were recorded in writing by their disciples. Over the centuries, many things were added that had nothing to do with the original teachings, but were reflections of a fundamental misunderstanding. Some of the the teachers were ridiculed, reviled, or killed; others came to be worshipped as gods. Teachings that pointed the way beyond the dysfunction of the human mind, the way out of the collective insanity, were distorted and became themselves part of the insanity.
오늘날 종교가 사람을 살리지 못하는 망령이 된 이유.
Through them, they could make themselves “right” and others “wrong” and thus define their identity through their enemies, the “others,” the “nonbelievers” or “wrong believers” who not infrequently they saw themselves justified in killing.
특히 유일신을 믿는 쪽들이 심하다.
They realize that how “spiritual” you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness. This, in turn, determines how you act in the world and interact with others.
내 말이!!
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO I CREATE?
Since human life and human consciousness are intrinsically one with the life of the planet, as the old consciousness dissolves, there are bound to be synchronistic geographic and climatic natural upheavals in many parts of the planet, some of which we are already witnessing now.
인간의 존재가 그 어느 때보다 지구에 위협인 때, 우리는 우리가 가진 의식을 통해 이 세계를 구원할 수 있을까? 기독교를 배경으로 한 문화에서 자란 영적지도자가 인간의 의식과 깨달음, 세계와 올바른 관계 맺기에 대해서 어떻게 접근할지 (약간은 의심어린 눈으로) 궁금하다.
