Actively recovering and cultivating your sense Part II
admin April 26th, 2009
These lines are written by Ilchi Lee
” She nodded. I also asked her, “I have heard that Nepal has many enlightened and revered monks. Yet, it has a fifty percent infant mortality rate and I see beggars on the streets with their limbs cut off on purpose to extract pity and a few coins from passers-by. Do you think that an enlightenment that ignores such plights can be called true enlightenment?” Finally, I told her, “Enlightenment that is reputed to be the salvation, happiness, peace, and freedom for mankind and yet cannot make a positive contribution to the real world has lost its meaning. And enlightenment that has become the object of worship in and of itself has lost even more meaning. Enlightenment that leaves fattened cows to run around on the streets because of religious beliefs while letting infants starve to death is not real enlightenment. Enlightenment that has lost its real-world priority is not enlightenment. Only enlightenment with True Love can be considered enlightenment. Only enlightenment with True Love expressed through reality-based works that contribute positively to society can be considered true enlightenment. These Nepal monks could be enlightened. But as I see it, it is enlightenment without courage or True Love. And ultimately, such enlightenment is not enlightenment at all.”
Ilchi Lee said I am not here to criticize any specific culture or religion. I am here to criticize all cultures and religions that fail to break out of the original, suffocating mold and demand that all its followers suffer so that they may pay homage to some old, abstract ideals, no matter how noble they may have been at one time.
- Brain Education , Ilchi Lee
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