Close your eyes and imagine a bright light entering you through your head and filling your body until it overflows. It washes away all sadness, fear, worry, hatred, and judgment, leaving only love and peace behind. That love and peace is not a myth, nor something you need to take on faith. It’s your own true nature.
Once you experience it, it’s not hard to realize that your true and pure nature is divine. However, most people spend their lives not giving it much attention, or thinking it’s something they will only know about once they die. Yet the Chun Bu Kyung, a text of just 81 characters recorded thousands of years ago, says that while we are alive, we can dig out this part of ourselves that’s been buried, and live with the consciousness of love and peace for ourselves, all creatures, and the earth. In fact, it says doing that is the purpose of our lives. And it gives us the directions to do it.
If you look at the Chun Bu Kyung literally, those directions may not seem obvious. It describes life’s essential mysteries of birth, growth, and completion in terms of a system of numbers. But each character, as well as the text as a whole, has a certain energy that you can connect to in meditation or feel when it is vocalized. The energy will unlock the answers to the mysteries that lie dormant in the part of your brain or mind that is part of your divine nature.
In my own experience and interpretation, I’ve found that the Chun Bu Kyung teaches these three truths:
- Everything comes from One Source, a Source that has no beginning or end, and eventually returns to that Source.
- The One (il) has spiritual, materialistic, and energetic aspects described as heaven, earth, and human. Each human being came from the energy of heaven and earth, and in each human being the energy of heaven and earth reside. In this case, heaven is not a place you go after death, but is the divine aspect of something.
- The Oneness of all naturally expresses itself through actions that benefit all. In this Oneness, good and evil, life and death, heaven and earth are not defined as opposites, but as parts of the same cosmic harmony.
Tomorrow I’ll share with you practices you can do to feel each letter of the Chun Bu Kyung, and in future posts I’ll go through each line and explain it. I hope you’ll stay with me. Don’t forget that every week this month you can win a deck of cards with each letter of the Chun Bu Kyung and an interpretation and meditation for it by posting a comment on my Facebook page.
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Thank you for these beautiful explanations and interpretations!
Thank you for sharing this Seuseungnim. I feel very lucky to be able to read this!
Thank you. I have always been lightened by the Chun Bu Kyung and I am so happy to hear details about it from you. Also I will continue to study the Universal Principles as they intrigue and brighten my mind. More and more I find the usefulness of them which leads me to my inner conversations allowing me time to be creative in life. Thank you again for this awesome chance to choose my direction and destiny from within. I choose peace, harmony, happiness, and healthy living.
That was beautiful, Christine. :}
Yes, I totally agree with you. We are so lucky, right?
I am really looking forward to learning how to experience the Chun Bu Kyung in more depth. Thank you Suseungnim.
Happy new year!
I love ChunBuKyung Class. Thank you.
It is a great lesson. Thanks for your inspiration. I love it.
Thank you for these postings. They are an inspirational way to start the day! I’m really grateful to get a personalized CBK class from you!
How blessed I am! I feel like I have the key to open the heaven.I am looking forward tomorrow’s lesson. Thanks.
This is a really great teaching and lesson.
I am very grateful to Ilchi Lee for his teachings.
I love and respect you.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom–it is a gift to all of us!
I’m excited to learn more.
Thank you so much for personally sharing this with us. I look forward to learning how to better feel the energy of each character in the Chun Bu Kyung.
Your guidence helps my journey to help guide those I connect with.
What really drives this home for me is the mention of experiencing our true nature while we’re alive. Most of us think it is only something that can be attained when we die. But we are part of the divine.
Thank you for this opportunity to learn more about the Chun Bu Kyung.
It is a truly beautiful heavenly message. Thank you!