Jan 12th, 2009
Our Assignment Civilization Shift
Prof Ilchi Lee said that without these rules, no one movement or event or civilization can go on for long, no matter how strong its momentum may be at the start. A cell that does not think first about the whole organism, a team member who does not follow the team’s wishes—a nation or a religion that does not align itself to the needs of the whole Earth—these can be described as cancers. What does a cancer cell do? Destroy the organism and ultimately itself in an orgy of individual, isolated frenzy.
So what does mastership signify? How does a master act? A master sustains the natural order of the universe by following the three rules in all his actions, including speech. A master realizes that the three rules represent the operating axioms of the universe, that they are a reflection of the cosmic mind itself. Order and harmony will appear when these rules are adhered to, while chaos and conflict will rule when they are ignored. The flow of cosmic energy and cosmic mind, although invisible, continues uninterrupted and unimpeded, consistently and forever, never late nor early. This flow of the essence of the cosmos bathes us with its immeasurable love and guides us with its austere mercy, for only through the austerity of its mercy can all life gain an opportunity to realize itself in safety.
The daydream we most often enjoyed when we were little was probably of the “What if I were older?” variety. This daydream is only possible when the future is wide open, providing an infinite variety of dreams, limited only by the range of our imagination. A wide-open future always gives us joy, for it gives our dreams and hopes a spacious canvas on which to paint. Having a future, by definition, means the possibility of a choice. To be able to choose—do any one of us truly know the deep significance and feel a keen appreciation of this? A future without the possibility of choice is a dead future, a closed future, a non-future. How fortunate we are that we can still choose.