Pursue a more unlimited concept of yourself

Dr Tae Yun Kim is a martial artist, an author, a speaker and much more. Here is an excerpt from her book, The Silent Master.

If you are really ready to pursue a more unlimited concept of yourself, to explore your Silent Master consciousness, to become the creative driver of your life, then you are now ready to start exploring the tools and disciplines you will need along this path. In the next chapter we will do just that. We'll see that these tools and disciplines help you increase the energy you apply in creating your life.

What could be more worthy of your efforts than the discovery and fulfillment of your true being? I like the parable in the Bible which talks about the discovery of your real being:

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field...Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. (Matthew 13:44-45)

Your Silent Master consciousness is like the pearl of great value for which you will sell all to possess.

This is because when you possess the consciousness that is the source of all, you likewise possess all. Isn't it worth your time and effort to discover this powerful aspect of your consciousness and begin to use it constructively?

Choice

Dr Tae Yun Kim is a martial artist, an author, a speaker and much more. Here is an excerpt from her book, The Silent Master.

CHOICE

At the start of your journey to Self Discovery, you want to shake hands with your power of choice and love, and protect it forever. The person you are today is based on how you've chosen in the past to respond to your environment, to the people you've known, and to your own thoughts and feelings. The person you will be tomorrow is based on the choices you make regarding these same things right now. As long as you remain aware that your development depends on choices you make right now, you stay in the driver's seat to invite change and growth. But as long as you regard your present self as “just the way you are," as some sort of reality set in cement, you shut down the Self Discovery process.

The fact is, you are as open as your choices are. You can choose to open and grow, you can choose one new goal after another, you can choose to abandon one way of life for another, you can choose to devote yourself to any reasonable pursuit. Or, you can choose to say "I can't." Your consciousness is standing behind your choices with the creative force to drive it into form.

Forgiveness Brings Healing

Dr Tae Yun Kim is a martial artist, an author, a speaker and much more. Here is an excerpt from her book, The Silent Master.

Here's a simple illustration of Two Neighborhoods that shows how forgiveness and letting go of condemnation or guilt brings healing.

Once there were two neighborhoods whose residents were constantly fighting. An argument between them had started many years before, and since that time they had always been at odds with each other.

Members from one neighborhood would not associate in any way with members from the opposite neighborhood. They had been separated for so long that nobody in one neighborhood knew anything about anybody in the other neighborhood. (

One day, one of the neighborhoods started having problems with their well. Slowly, they were losing their water. Everyone in that neighborhood worked to try and fix the problem, but it got worse. A few weeks later they were out of water completely. It looked like they would lose everything they had worked for, their farm, their cattle.

Finally, when the situation became desperate, their only option was to speak with the other neighborhood about their problem. Swallowing their pride, the people approached the other neighborhood. As they walked, visions of being ridiculed and rejected were in their minds, but their only hope was to try anyway.

To Be Continued…

Forgiveness Brings Healing, continued...

Dr Tae Yun Kim is a martial artist, an author, a speaker and much more. Here is an excerpt from her book, The Silent Master.

Continued From Prior Post…

The elders who had been part of the original dispute cautiously entered the hall where the elders of the other neighborhood were gathered.  They explained their situation, and then waited anxiously as the council conferred.

To their amazement, the elders were sympathetic and compassionate. They volunteered their help and they offered to share their well.

Together, the neighborhoods came to meet this challenge. They worked together to build canals and irrigation. Each discovered admirable qualities in the other, and grew so close in their endeavors that they became inseparable.

In somewhat the same way as these two neighborhoods, we have become separated from our true Self, our Silent Master. We forget how and why we became so separated. In this story, this is symbolized by the well drying up. Sooner or later, however, some event usually turns us back to our Silent Master. Maybe it's some kind of illness or failure that makes us seek our Silent Master again, or maybe it's a natural desire to simply know our real Self. Whatever the reason, when we seek to find our real Self, we may be filled with doubt and guilt, and we might feel undeserving or afraid to turn within for healing. But if we do, our Silent Master greets us with healing and love, just as the elders of the opposing neighborhood, not with rejection. And just as the two groups prospered greatly when they worked together, you can prosper with renewed power and strength when you join forces with your Silent Master. As the Silent Master image at the start of this chapter indicates, the immaterial aspect of yourself, your spiritual being, is intimately involved in the life you create, because matter and spirit exist at the same time.

Your Silent Master Consciousness knows Itself to be immaterial in substance, but It also takes form (manifests) as your physical body and the material world around you. Thus, you may describe yourself as being both immaterial (spiritual) and material (physical) at the same time.

This is why your Silent Master consciousness is so accessible to you. The return to your Silent Master consciousness is a return to an aspect of yourself that exists within you right now - right where you are.

Let Go of Self-Condemnation and Guilt

Dr Tae Yun Kim is a martial artist, an author, a speaker and much more. Here is an excerpt from her book, The Silent Master.

Let Go of Self-Condemnation and Guilt

Most people are much too hard on themselves. When you see you've made a mistake, you don't have to pound yourself further into the ground. You need love not condemnation, not punishment when you recognize that you need to make a change. Self condemnation and guilt prevent learning, because they keep you focused on what's wrong instead of on what's right. Condemnation and guilt form a negative emotional cloud that encourages and attracts more wrongdoing rather than healing.

One of the first steps to take in letting go of the past - and getting ready for a new life - is to realize you don't need to feel guilty forever and ever. Guilt has a purpose for a little while. It makes you realize you need to change. But once you take action to create change, guilt is no longer purposeful. In fact, at that point, it's obstructive. So if you're ready to make a change right now, first let go of the guilt. Realize that your guilt is a feeling about something that's over. Whatever the "fault" or whatever the mistake, it isn't a part of the true you now. It's over. It's gone. Begin the process of healing with feelings of joy instead.