Celestial Messages: Conversation with Original Nature Vol. 1

Celestial Messages: Conversation

with Original Nature Vol. 1

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Contents

About the Author

Publishing This Book

Around Meeting

My Original Nature

On the Universe

Men and Women

Effective Practice Methods

An Upright Life

The Mindset to Send Off a Year

The Mindset With Which to Begin a New Year

Han1

Putting Things into Action

What Is an Opportunity?

Why Many Distinguished Women Live Single

Mountain Is Mountain, Water Is Water

Han 2

Concentration Time of Practice

A Wavering Mind

Men and Women’s Relationships

Agonies 1

Agonies 2

Managing Physical Strength 1

Mental Agonies 3

Mental Agonies 4

The Goal of Practice

Enlightenment

The Methods of Practice

The Destiny of a Nation

A Human Life

Affairs in the Human World

Breathing 1

Breathing 2

Breathing 3

Studying Celestial Messages

Managing Physical Strength 2

Breathing 4

Han 3

Practice 1

Breathing 5

The Importance of Practice

Temptation 1

Sad Joy, Bad Joy

Acquiring and Casting Off

Practice without Holidays

Breathing When You Feel Heavy

The Right Mind

Practice of Truth

The 44th Birthday

Breathing 6

Opportunity for Practice

Breathing and Consciousness

A Consistent Mind

Live Right

Religions

The Path of Tao

Certification for Preliminary Enlightenment

Do Not Waver

Asceticism: The Substance of the Right Mind

You Should Abstain

From Overworking Yourself

The Way to Help Others

Light Is No Mind

Han 4

Practice Is a Process

Han 5

Promote Your Rank for Yourself

Interpersonal Relations

Temptation 2

Fellow Trainees

Breathing of the Celestial World

Body and Mind Only for Practice

Breathing Should Be Smooth

All Things Are Breathing

The Universe Breathing

The Control of Mind

Crisis and Unreasonableness

The Practice Courses of Men and Women

Keep Balance

Enlightenment Is Something Natural

Do Slowly

The Great Universe Is Nothingness

Karmic Connection to Practice Is the Greatest Blessing

Sacrifice Yourself

Have Confidence

The Range to Cover with Self-trust

The Subject Is You

Emotions Are the Creation of Heaven

and Earth

Trials Through Family Affairs

Your Self Becomes the Driving Force

Parents in the Celestial World

Preparation for Independence

The Universe Is an Organism

The Karmic Connection to Practice

Is That of Heaven

Make Efforts

Beyond My Ability

Be Careful About Words

Energy Is None Other Than Willpower

The Ethics of the Strong

Keep the Tension

Confidence and Conceit

To Be Able to Move Minds

What Is a Human Being?

Obligations and Endurance

A Day Depends on the Morning

A Day of a Person

An Unnecessary Relationship

Will Is a Variable in Destiny

Expansion of Virtue

Results Are More Important Than Causes

Material Exists On Behalf of Human Beings

Deliverance from Material Things

The Fact That You Are In Practice

Don’t Neglect Small Affairs

Asceticism Is…

The Causes of Conflicts Is One’s Self

You Should Put Urgent Matters Behind

The Extreme Good Is Also Undesirable

Keep a Stable Attitude

What Is Providence?

The Universe Resides in You

Everything Is New

The Body Also Has Its Own Will

A Shock Method

Be Careful of Even Your Imagination

Family Relationship

Breathing Is the Cause of Creation of All Things

Cast Off Your Thoughts

Study Is to Fill Yourself with Emptiness

The Time When You Are Alone

Words of Praise

Seong

When You Give Up the Present You

Mind Creates Everything

The Wall of Mind

Tao Is Near

Don’t Look Back

Concentration Is Breakthrough Power

Your Circumstance Is

Another Expression of You

Trivial Matters Are Important

Your Mind Should Stay Clear

Practice Is the Automation of All Things

Patience

Just Before Deliverance Is Ecstasy

Joy Is Power

Practice Is Endurance

Nothing Is Always Big

You Are Great

Stray Thoughts

The Realm of Good and That of Evil

Every Matter Is Practice

Morning Practice

If You Find Practice Heavy,

You Are a Beginner

Calmness Is Power

Behind Breathing Is a Cliff

Establish a Will

Original Nature and Individuality

Do Something Only When There Are No Conditions Attached

The Unity of Original Nature and You

Do Not Lose Your Balance

Small Things Are Important

The Truth of the Universe Is Absolute

Energy Is the Sense of Gi

Elementary, Intermediate

and Advanced Practice

Confidence Is the Greatest Power

The Breathing Method

of High-Caliber Trainees

Destiny Is a Frame

Everything Is Yours

Sways

An Unshakeable Mind Is the Original Nature

Give Up Precious Things

Hollow-heartedness Makes You Sway

Have Space in Your Mind

Breathing to Calm Down

What Are Seonins?

Why the Enlightened Are Highly-ranked

The Love of Trainees

The Obligation Between a Teacher

and a Student

The Obligation of Human Beings

What Is Destiny?

Stability Comes Out of the Danjeon

Accumulation of Energy

Reasons

Cutting Off

Tao

Do As Your Mind Guides

Do Not Deceive Yourself

The Secret of Practice

Karmic Relations with One’s Self

Making Haste

Have Confidence

Your Mind Should Be Comfortable

Practice Is Confirmation of Yourself

Seize Opportunities

A Person Who Heaven Asks For

Unusual Changes in the Weather

You Are of Absolute Value

The Practice After You Find Yourself

The Avatar of Yourself

Variables in Human Affairs

Unity of Breathing and Mind

Mind Is All Creatures of the Universe

You Should Stay in Your Position

Give Up

Every Moment Is an Opportunity

Simplicity Is Fundamental

Help and Burden

What Endurance Is

Have Confidence

To Be Common Is Difficult

The Mind Has All

Keep What You Determined to Do

for a Long Time.

Be Accurate

Three Opportunities

Help While In Practice

Achievements Are Affairs of the Universe

Break Through Yourself

The Breathing of Spirit

Information Is Breathing

Breathing Energy In and Out

Judge Through the Danjeon

Giving Is Receiving

Space Is Power

Enlightenment Is a Midterm Goal

Live for Your Own Good

Harmony of Living and Practice

Willpower Is the Medicine for Endurance

Self-confidence, Not a Self-conceit

Achievement in Literature

Be Careful of Thinking

Breathing Comes Before All Things

The Concentration of Power Is Possible Through Harmony

How to Accomplish Neutralization

Breathing Is Everything

Tao Is Mediation

Tao Does Not Exist Initially

Be Thankful for Breathing

Myeong Is Controllable

Daily Plans

What You Can Do As You Please

Practice Is Neither Small Nor Big

Your Mind Is Your Teacher

Small Things 1

Small Things 2

Small Things 3

Devotion Is What Makes a Man Great

The Difficulty of Literature

Giving Priority to the Material Will Make Your Neck Bend Down

Repeated Frustrations

You Should Begin With Precision

Small Enlightenment

and Great Enlightenment

The Meaning of the Sea of Bitterness

You Are the Absolute Preposition

The Present Position Is the Most Important

Devotion

Learn to Be Satisfied with Yourself

Breathing 7

Daily Life Is Important

Aim At One Direction

Effort Impresses the Universe

Morning Is the Time of Heaven

Even God Can’t Stop Humans from Training

Dissatisfaction Guides You to Enlightenment

If You Lack Something, Live As You Lack

From Gigong to Simgong

The Universe Moves Through Thought

Seeing Through the Danjeon

How to Rest

A Heavenly Human

The Eye of Energy, the Eye of Spirit, the Eye of Seongye and the Eye of Truth

If You Concentrate Your Mind on One Thing, What Cannot Be Achieved?

The Right Time Is the Time When Energy

Is Backed Up

Stray Thought Is a Sin

The State of Impassivity Is

It Is Your Self That You Need

to Put Into Your Whole Mind

Practice Is Power

The Two Sides of Love

Tao Is the Unity with One’s Self

The Meaning of Casting Off

The Tie to Practice

The Original Nature Is Same for Everyone

Be Faithful to Your Duty

Women’s Menstruation and Practice

Do Not Boast of Heaven Energy

Reason Is

Health Is the Value Prior to Anything

Nothing Is Impossible 1

The One Thing

One’s Own Work

The Sky Is Always Clear

Heavenly Punishment Is…

Nothing Is There

The Sequence of Affairs in the World

Rank in This World

The Universe Is the Mind

The Practice of Heaven Energy

The Mind That Enables Concentration

A Pure Mind Enables Communication

with the Universe

The Course in Which to Be Introduced

to Practice

Those Who Can Communicate

with the Universe

The Opportunity of Practice

The Morning Prayer

If a Clue Is Found Through Practice

Practice Is to Guarantee Life After Death

The Breathing Chant

Heaven Is Impartial

Everything Is Made Up Only from the Mind

Sincerity Is the Power That Moves

the Universe

The Human Future

Seeing Everything in a Correct Way

Manage Your Life Actively

Men Should Always Be Consistent

Your Help Should Be in Secret

You Need to Have Power

Retrial Is Permitted in Practice

Unity with the Truth

Tiny Things Create History

Making Use of the World in a Positive Way

Everything Is Attributed to One’s Self

The Cause Is in You

Humankind for Whom Telepathy Is Possible

Practice Is Not Light

Give Thanks to Yourself

Giving Good Deeds

The Improvement of Memory

When Replenishing, Only Replenish

Appendix

The Courses of Seongye Practice

The Stages of Enlightenment

[The Meditation School, Suseonjae that published this book is…]

Practicing Love to Save the Earth

About the Author

Suroso Mun is one of the major spiritual teachers of our time. Her students are training through her teachings all around the world.

She was born in the middle of the Korean War. Although her living was materially poor in the aftermath of the war, she spent an intellectually rich childhood with her three sisters and her mother, a former school teacher.

After graduating from one of the prestigious universities in Korea, she had developed a very successful career at the Korean National Assembly and Red Cross. In her late thirties, at the pinnacle of life, she suddenly stopped everything she was doing and started meditation. She became fascinated by danjeon breathing that she happened to begin by chance. After a while, she met her teacher-in-spirit and inherited the lineage of Seongye Practice (meditation training). She went on a thousand day abstinence training, eventually meeting the original nature, and attaining ultimate Enlightenment.

When her first book came out in Korea, The Seon Way to Enlightenment, which was her meditation journal, many who read this book asked her to guide them. That’s how she started teaching the training. Since then, the number of the voluntary training group has increased every year, and now it has grown to establish Suseonjae, the Meditation School. It owns global centers in countries such as Korea, the US, China, and South Africa. Suseonjae is a meditation center, where one can learn different levels of meditation courses from easy and popular meditations up to the level of Enlightenment, and contributes in teaching how to control the mind and develop the spirituality of contemporary people who are passing through a difficult lifetime.

She has written several books about spiritual evolution such as The Seon Way to Enlightenment about her courses up until she met the original nature through breathing practice; and Jesus Was Misunderstood: An Interview With Jesus Through Meditation, the record of a real-time interview.

Publishing This Book

We human beings feel loneliness.

To discover the fundamental reason for loneliness and to relieve the loneliness, we wander around many places and try to meet many people during our lives. Or sometimes we just keep drifting away all together even without really recognizing the fact that we are feeling loneliness in the flow of the hectic world. Nevertheless, the feeling inevitably passes by us occasionally, I feel lonely…

This book, Celestial Messages: Conversation With Original Nature begins by mentioning that the reason that human beings are lonely is because we are separated from our original natures.

Original Nature, one’s original self…"

Since we are born from the origin, until your present self meets and unifies with the origin, you won’t feel fulfilled or satisfied with anything. Original nature is our original self and the teacher of eternity. Also, we tell you the original nature is the same for every person.

The Universe shares everything through waves[1]. The meeting with your original nature becomes possible when you reach the wave band of the original nature on your own. Human beings, who have physical bodies can enter the extremely low wave band of the original nature by purifying and tranquilizing their bodies and minds through deep breathing training with pure universe energy. After meeting your original nature, you are meant to reach the band of zero waves as your wave level becomes even lower. In this level you can find all the answers to your questions about life and the world through conversation with original nature.

Conversation with original nature provides you with clues about where you are and who you are in the middle of the history of the gigantic Universe. It expands the frame of your consciousness and plays the role of a telescope that lets you more profoundly understand the lives of others and your own. Also, it is a microscope to let you know how precious every single day given to you is and allows you to closely examine the life you are living today.

The sincere training journal of the author that began from the book, The Seon Way to Enlightenment and her dialogues with original nature have changed many people to be pure, bright and warm through the Meditation School, Suseonjae over the last 10 years. This is the reason why we can’t just leave these dialogues as old history and we want to publish this series of books to invite many more fellow trainees.

Through this book, we deliver the hope of the many people who have already begun walking along the path to meet their original natures. We wish that the sentiment that flows in the dialogues of this book, which are the passionate, brave and heart-throbbing truth of life, to be conveyed to those who feel lonely without specific reason and who feel that something is missing from their lives.

We have learnt that the meeting with our original natures is the path where our humility, love and wisdom become deeper. With heart-felt love and respect, we thank our teacher, Teacher Mun, who opened this path for the first time.

2010 July

Suseonjae

Around Meeting

My Original Nature

I entered my original nature[2] on the dawn of April 27, 1994. This writing is composed of omitted conversations from the book, The Seon Way to Enlightenment, which I had with my teacher-in-spirit in Seongye[3], Seonin Cheongang, my questions and answers with my original nature and celestial messages[4].

On the Universe

Human beings can reveal at best one or two percent of the laws of the Universe at their present level through their science. In the world of imagination, they can be partly revealed up to thirty to forty percent; the rest is, however, impossible to be revealed, even in the imaginary world. That is because humans cannot push their imagination ability beyond the current level.

There are many realms in the Universe that the current science of the Earth cannot approach. It is unreasonable to explain all those things through human science. To give a familiar example, humans can figure out only theoretical answers, not completely sure ones, to answer questions about UFOs or other astronomical phenomena. Even if the real answers to such matters are given, the humans’ way of thinking keeps their consciousness from changing as they only believe when the answers come through scientific formulas—. Science develops at a walking pace, while the change of one’s consciousness is possible at hundreds of billions of times faster than the speed of light. There is nothing more stifling than those who can finally understand something only when they measure it with a ruler.

The Universe is not so simple. Though so many complicated things (all creations) are entangled, the fundamental principle is very simple. First, it is continuously moving; and second, it is changing. Third, it is moving as it has to. That is, things are never stagnant, are always in motion and do not move forward by force. All things are proceeding according to the reason of the moment no matter whether it is good or evil. It depends on one’s own efforts which flow one will take.

The reason for a change in one’s line is that one has moved him/herself to a different line just next to him. To leave one’s original line is possible for those who are always preparing for an opportunity and are always waiting; and this is also the law of the Universe. The desire to leave one’s own original line can make a hundred times more change from what is actually scheduled for the person.

It is not desirable to think you have a vocation unless you can convince yourself about your life. This is possible after you are one hundred percent sure about this, or at least more than eighty percent sure about it. A vocation is settled on one’s own stream line; it is neither necessarily singular nor several.

Religious circles can be said to be the places where those who are close to their original natures get together. It is considerably difficult to get near to one’s original nature in a mundane life. When one approaches one’s original nature, nothing will be out of his/her reach. It is possible in the lower stage that that one gets enlightened at a mundane level. The real Tao finally begins when one attains more than eighty percent of unity with his original nature. It is the path of Heaven, where anything can be seen when one is pure.

Men and Women

= What is the relation between men and women?

—As a man is born to the world by borrowing a woman’s body, he is indebted to her from his birth. He should get out of the debt through Enlightenment[5]. That is why he should study[6] hard. Yin (-) just exists as Yin (-) itself. However, Yang (+) can produce Yin (-) by itself, which distinguishes Yang from Yin.

Therefore, a woman has difficulty in making out the motives for her own development, but a man can develop by himself. Men are in debt to women, and so men should not forget that the biggest way to pay the debt is helping women attaining Enlightenment, and they should spread the will.

= Why was I born as a woman by nature?

—That is your inborn characteristic. It is a karmic feature of yours. Therefore, it will also offer you a chance to get more lessons. Accept it with pleasure.

Effective Practice Methods

= Are there any effective practice[7] methods?

—Sure there are. The most effective method in practice is that one’s practice goes on while both of his/her external and internal conditions are being satisfied at the same time. The internal condition is one’s mental attitude and the external condition is one’s own surroundings; these two conditions are to be met simultaneously.

There is no one who is born already meeting these conditions. As time passes, one’s practice state changes; one has to proceed by making harmony between both of the conditions. The arrangement of your surroundings is that of your mind, and the arrangement of your mind is to be revealed in the form of your surroundings. After having arranged those, practice will be more effective.

= Are there any ways to use taeyang shingyeongchong (a chakra that is situated in one’s upper danjeon (the domain in charge of wisdom and the control center of one’s energy, situated in one’s head) and plays the role of sending energy to outside during practice)?

—You do not need to activate it by force. Everything is designed to get activated of itself, in accordance with the stages of practice. Although things can be operated by your own intention, it is not desirable that you operate artificially before it gets to be the right time. Let it work by itself.

In any cases, you should gather energy in your danjeon[8] through your mind and breathing, and even physical change should be attained by the energy naturally. Do not deviate from this principle and have unreasonable desires.

= I understand.

An Upright Life

= What is an upright life?

—First, nothing weighs on your mind. This means that you have nothing that troubles your mind. In order to have nothing that troubles your mind, you should think of everything in the right way. Right thoughts are followed by right actions; and in this process, everything should be done right.

You will be able to proceed without so many mistakes if you do not conduct yourself according to the thought of a moment, but take right ways after thinking over a matter at least three times. You have some things that weigh on your mind. That signifies that about half of your behaviors are humane. As your practice progresses, you will be able to search for those.

If you do not make haste and think in the right way, things will be sorted out. As living in the mundane world itself is you are staying in the middle of contamination, you should keep your thinking serene and be careful not to be tainted with agonies.

The Mindset to Send Off a Year

= What frame of mind should trainees have in closing a year?

—The last day of a year is the time when trainees must look back the whole course of the year and check out the practice plan for the next year. The beginning stage is the most critical. At this stage, many trainees drop out of practice. Once trainees advance into the full range of practice, they will become able to pass over obstacles lightly afterward.

It is difficult to obtain such an outcome while practicing in the mundane world; however, since the meeting with the Universe has just begun, it will be most significant that you don’t neglect to take care of the will of the Universe. The will of the Universe is not that everyone goes in one direction, but that they are meant to gather toward the very center, han.

All comes out of the han and returns to this. From han, everything is designed to be realized and to disappear. You can go anywhere through han, and if you don’t know han you will become unable to go anywhere. Always stay conscious of han, go along with han, and live up to han. As han itself is the Universe as well as Heaven, you can accomplish all in han. It will be desirable to have next year be a year of studying han. You have worked hard this year.

= Thank you. I will work much harder.

—Keep it up.

The Mindset With Which to Begin a New Year

—How will