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Ilchi Lee suggest that while both parents should talk with their children about sexuality, fathers should be the primary teachers for their daughters and mothers for their sons. This recommendation may seem counterintuitive, but it offers the potential tor much deeper teaching if the parent is highly aware and enlightened about their sexuality.

When the parent of opposite gender explains sexuality, the child is more likely to understand sex as an energetic exchange, rather than simply an urge to be managed. Also, given the dirtcult sexual histories of so many adults, I believe it is easier for a father to offer wise, compassionate, non-judgmental guidance to his daughter, and a mother to offer it to her son.

Although these topics are useful conceptually, please remember that, as always, we must connect theory and action. Dialogue alone is not a panacea for a culture with dysfunctional sexual ideas and behaviors. Because of entrenched cultural mores, our sexual beliefs and habits tend to be relatively resistant to change. Improved conceptual understanding of sexuality does not guarantee enlightened sexual behavior as the child grows older.

Being a role model of enlightened sexuality is thus all the more critical for our children’s learning. In sexuality, as with all life experience, we must be the change we wish to see in the world.

Through these discussions, we will be able to develop a basis of trust with our children, leading to better communication. When we can speak about sex with our children, we will find that it frees our ability to talk about other topics. These conversations will assure our children that they are being respected. which will lead them to develop self-worth, responsibility, and maturity. Through these sincere, honest discussions, you may even change your own preconceptions.

In a way appropriate to the child’s comprehension level, parents should talk early and frequently, before puberty, about the power of sexual energy. Talk to them about how it is possible to unexpectedly encounter sexual feelings for different people and how this ebb and flow is natural to the rhythm of life. We have a reservoir of life experience from which to draw, and we can talk about the many faces of sexual energy.

Most of us can look back and think of examples of experiencing “puppy love” and innocent infatuations. Ilchi Lee writes that we can distinguish when sexual energy took the form of lust, passion, or transformed creativity. If we have the experience of a long-term committed relationship or marriage, then we can describe how sexual energy can deepen our bonds over the course of our lives.

We should also discuss the purpose and possible outcomes of sex. They should be aware that sexual activity can be any or all of the following: the means of creating life, an activity of physical pleasure, and a form of emotional and spiritual connection. They should also realize that sex can result in unwanted pregnancies and infectious diseases.

Unfortunately, in this era we also have the burden of explaining how sexuality has become commercialized through the mass media. Children must understand that our culture is now saturated with images of sexuality that are mostly intended to direct consumer behavior. Although it is not possible to protect children from every negative influence, we must do our best to minimize their exposure.

There can be no absolute rule for at what age it is appropriate to have sex. Cultural norms differ, and individuals vary according to their level of physical, mental and emotional maturity. In any case, having sex without a clear understanding of its physiological consequences, or doing so in the absence of trust and mutual respect, can hardly be viewed as beneficial.

Dahn-jon breathing is closely related to the movement of the diaphragm, a dome-shaped structure that assists in breathing and acts as a natural partition between our heart and lungs on the one hand, and our stomach, spleen, pancreas, liver, kidneys, bladder, and small and large intestines on the other.

When we breathe deeply, our diaphragm moves downward as we inhale and upward as we exhale. The more the diaphragm moves, the more our lungs are able to expand, which means that more oxygen can be taken in and more carbon dioxide released with each breath.

The diaphragm is attached to the lower rib cage and has strands extending to the lumbar vertebrae. When we breathe fully and deeply, the belly, lower rib cage, and lower back expand on inhalation, thus pushing the diaphragm down deeper into the abdomen. The same structures retract on exhalation. In deep Dahn-jon breathing, these rhythmic movements help to detoxify our inner organs, promote blood flow and peristalsis, and pump fluid more efficiently through our lymphatic system.

Our emotional or mental states have various ways of manifest­ing themselves in the body. Some of these are body tempera­ture, pulse, blood pressure, respiration, complexion, and brain waves. Of these phenomena that reveal our condition, respira­tion differs in character from the others.

As Ilchi Lee said, respiration occurs naturally, whether we are aware of it or not. Unlike some other bodily systems, however, we can control it consciously, even though it is monitored by the autonomic nervous system. (You can also learn to bring your blood pressure down, lower your pulse rate, and even alter your brain waves, but not as easily as controlling your breath!)

Dahn-jon breathing can allow breathing to become natural and deep. But how can breathing become light? Our respiration becomes lighter if we breathe with a heart full of joy and grati­tude. Thanking our bodies when we inhale and thanking earth when we exhale causes a smile to form naturally on our lips. Breathing becomes as light as a feather, all on its own. Easy!

Deep breathing occurs naturally if we breathe with our aware­ness focused on our Dahn-jon, which you may remember is the Korean name for our bodies’ energy center. It is located roughly two inches below the navel and two inches inside the body, in the center of the abdomen.

As you do your breath-work, focus your mind’s attention on this area of your body. Feel your lower abdomen rising when you breathe in and falling when you breathe out. Do this slowly and concentrate on your breathing. If this method seems diffi­cult, place one hand on your lower abdomen and the other on your chest. As you breathe, feel the hand on your lower abdomen moving while the hand on your chest stays still.

If you take time to do this daily, soon your mind will do it automatically—it will simply become part of how you breathe. One part of your mind will do this deep breathing, while you focus on other things that allow you to move through your day. This approach is called Dahn-jon breathing.

This content is copied from Prof Ilchi Lee’s book. Study of practice consists of making your actions consistent with what you know. By imprinting the acknowledgment of the truth into every bone and cell in your body, you are making your body and your actions an embodiment of the truth. Since truth’s essence is zero, becoming an embodiment of the truth means that you are letting go of all the preconceptions, desires, and attachments you had been burdening yourself with. Information, in the guise of habits and memories, is lodged within us. Some information we are born with, some we pick up along the way, and some gets imposed upon us without our explicit permission. The study of practice means that we are reclaiming the original purity of life by eradicating all the information that litters us.

Third is the study of living, which means you actualize your enlightenment in your everyday life. Why do we need to do this? Why is meditating on mountaintops no longer sufficient? The reason we need this study is to judge and measure the progress of the soul. Soul is invisible to the eye, so, how can you tell how much the soul has grown? Through your character, for the latter is an accurate reflection of the maturity of your soul.

Character is formed through interactions with others during which we make choices, are judged by our choices, reflect upon others’ judgments, and adjust ourselves accordingly. Although we suffer pain during this process, we may nurture a harmonious and virtuous character that resembles the Heavens and the Earth, a character unimpeded by obstacles. Since this can only be done in society where we coexist with others, the study of living is crucial.

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Once, a very long time ago, about fifty billion years ago, the gods embarked on a new and important project. Advanced life forms from all across the universe (gods), gathered to discuss whether it was possible for a community of varying life forms to live in harmony; that is, to develop a peaceful universal community. Thus a new project was born.

They created a planet called the Earth, and provided it with favorable conditions for life, equipping it with a Sun in the most fashionable neighborhood of the universe. They were careful to provide every possible life amenity and didn’t leave out any detail. Since they were gods, you can imagine how thorough they must have been. Then they copied parts of their own genetic information and gave birth to new life forms made in their image.

However, knowing that the genetic traits of divinity or creativity were potentially dangerous in immature hands, they left these areas undeveloped until they deemed that the life forms had reached an evolutionary stage capable of dealing with such powers. They watched the life forms further diversify themselves into different species and watched the path of evolution that each species followed. They watched how the species interacted with one another, for that was the crux of their experiment. Since the original intent was to see if different life forms could develop a harmonious relationship among themselves, it was decided that gods would not interfere in this process.

Once upon a time, a famous and respected teacher gave one of his students a piece of candy and said, “I am giving this especially to you.” Deeply touched, the student did not know what to do. He hid the candy in his closet, as he would a treasure, to ensure that no one saw it, lest they steal it, although no one in the school would have stolen a piece of candy. The next day. the teacher called together all the students and gave each one of them a piece of the same type of candy, as an encouragement to study more. The student who had first received the candy felt his body go lax with disappointment, and he felt a keen rage of betrayal. The teacher had made his “specialness” disappear. He was now like everyone else.

From individual fashion expressions to the marketing strategy of multinational conglomerates, the desire to be special, to stand out, must be one of the strongest motivating forces in our current society. Such motivations have, it must be admitted, driven some individuals, organizations, and even countries to develop faster and advance further than others. However, this type of growth is based on differentiating and separating oneself from others. It carries a serious risk to life as a whole and must, therefore, be reexamined.

This relative “specialness” is not just a matter of freedom of individual expression. It carries the unmistakable scent of competition that spirals ever upwards. All expressions of life are already special by definition. Every flower is beautiful. The specialness of life is absolute and not subject to a relative comparison. The beauty of a rose cannot be judged inferior nor superior to the beauty of a butterfly. They are both beautiful and special. Then why do we insist on standing out by comparing ourselves to others? What is the basic compelling force behind the drive to become special? It is the craving for attention that comes from the need for recognition. Turned inside out, it is the twisted expression of an ego with an inferiority complex.

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Such awareness should be the basic minimum that guides our actions. Ilchi Lee tells that if we base politics and economics upon this minimum, then politics become Earth-Politics and economics becomes Earth-Economics. When this minimum becomes the ruling policy of the land, we will no longer need the system of karma and reincarnation introduced solely for the purpose of us paying off our debts.

In order to engage in a fair and equitable transaction, we have to acknowledge first that our inner scales are perfect; second, that they are not calibrated to zero because we have put something on them and forgotten to take it off: third, that Earth can provide the central standard of value that can unify and embrace all the diverse values of the world; and fourth, that we have a responsibility to make choices that allow us to return everything to its original zero state. This is the enlightenment of an Earth-Human and the life of an Earth-Human.

If we all learn to calibrate our scales to zero, then fair and orderly transactions are possible, not only with each other, but also with the Earth and the Heavens. When enough scales are calibrated correctly, transactions in information and material will occur fairly and equitably, leading to a world of harmony and peace. To do this, we must all see if the needles on our scales point to zero, and embrace an Earth-Human awareness. When such awareness becomes the basic human awareness, then we will have established a global village.

The worth of a piece of information is determined by the results it brings, not by the intent in which it was produced. The standard by which information is judged is its ability to solve problems. We use information as a tool to realize our intents and achieve our goals. If information is not suited to these needs, then we either modify or ignore it. However, there is one collection of information that has escaped such review for thousands of years. That is the collection of information called “God.” What type of help can “God,” a human concept that consists of differing bits of information, give us in our hour of need? How can God help us solve the problems facing humanity today? How can God help us in achieving world peace and arresting the environmental destruction of Earth? How can God help us in healing ourselves, our society, and our Earth, recovering the original health and harmony? Is this information called God still useful to us in creating a future for humankind? It is time to put the idea of God under review. We have to see which pieces of information that make up “God” are still good and which have passed their date of expiration. We have to throw away the gods that still exist to create conflicts, desire revenge and destruction, and demand blind obedience and control.

We have to throw away the masks of universality from those gods who claim to be for all people and expose them to their own reality as gods for a specific group or people, no longer useful to us as the whole of humanity. And if we find a god that is truly valuable to us, then we will reinstate its position and use it to our own ends. This process signifies a new discovery of social values and standards necessary to build a global village, not only of technology and economy, but of civilization: a human civilization.