Being Awake(영어판)

Wolin 지음 | Kal Yonghoon Kim 옮김

히어나우시스템 2022년 04월 15일 출간 국내도서 : 2022년 03월 30일 출간

작품소개

책소개

Absolute consciousness is not something that is far and unreachable. Absolute consciousness is always present, along with the relative consciousness that your everyday thoughts spread. It's like taiji, which always contains yin and yang. When the relative world of yin and yang stops, that's the world of taiji. When the troubled thoughts and feelings from which you suffer from stop too, that is the absolute world. The relative world, with all its drama and stories, where “I” and “object” and this and that exist, is happening right on top of the absolute world at this very moment. They exist in the same spacetime, just like waves and water.

목차

● Dedication _ 03

● Introduction _ 04

● The Events That Have Formed My Life _ 11
- A Life Force Comes into Its Own When Flexible _ 12
- The Peace of Warm Water _ 13
- Emotions Can Disappear in an Instant _ 15
- Go Beyond the Pain of the Mind _ 17
- The Experience of I and the World Disappearing _ 21
- The Eye Can See Everything but Itself _ 23
- Escape from Imagination _ 29
- Using Consciousness _ 33

● Definitions of Terms _ 38
- Gamgak: Pure Stimuli _ 38
- Gamji: A Restrictive Feeling of Familiarity or Knowing _ 38
- Attention: The Transparent Energy of Life _ 41
- Thought and Consciousness: A Network of Gamji _ 43
- Identification: A Tool for Knowing Life _ 44
- Emotion: The Push-and-Pull Relationship between Gamji _ 45
- Being Open to the Senses _ 46
- Being Awake: To Be Aware of Being _ 47
- Awakenment: To Understand the Nature of Consciousness _ 49

● Consciousness
- An Anatomical Chart of Consciousness _ 51
- Why We Try to Locate the Root of Consciousness _ 53
- What Happens When You Are in the State of Gamgak? _ 58
- How Does Consciousness Arise? _ 59
- Where Does the Sense of I Come From? _ 60
- The Birth of Consciousness _ 65

● Attention
- Types of Attention _ 73
- Water Sees Not the Moon but Its Reflection _ 84
* Extended Exercise: Fill It Up with Silence _ 90

● Gamji
- What Are Gamji? _ 95
- Feeling Neutral _ 105
- Feeling the Foundation of the Sense of Separation _ 110
* Extended Exercise: The Sea of Energy _ 113
- The Pastness of Gamji: Memory _ 117
* Extended Exercise: Finding the Center of Existence _ 127

● Gamgak
- The Discovery of Gamgak _ 133
* Extended Exercise: Expansion _ 146
- Gamgak and its Various Uses _ 149
- Seeing Unfamiliarly _ 151
* Extended Exercise: Meeting Objects _ 153

● Being Awake
- What is Being Awake? _ 157
- Feeling Waking Consciousness _ 161
- Being Awake with Objects _ 165
- Being Awake with Thought _ 167
- Being Awake with Emotions _ 170
- Being Awake with the Five Senses _ 174
- Feeling that I

작가정보

저자(글) Wolin

저자 : Wolin
Wolin is the administrator of a nature-friendly consciousness development program built on the concepts of “Connecting With Nature” and “Being Awake.” He is currently working on the “Insight Game.”

The meaning of my pen name Wolin (越因) is “to transcend causality.” Everything in the external material world and the internal spiritual world is a result of the law of cause and effect, which states that everything exists as an effect of something else. We all serve as causes for one another-there is no fixed original cause. As Ouspensky put it, this is a phenomenon in which “the unknown defines the unknown,” and it applies to both the external world and the internal world. When one sees that these interdependent causalities have no root, one can come to transcend causality. Beyond the waves of causality, there is the water of origin. While there may be various waves, once one sees past their forms, there is only amorphous water. Beyond the world of causality lies our true nature. Hence, I’ve named myself Wolin on behalf of advocates of this idea. Now, let us set out on a journey toward what lies beyond causality.

Authored Books:
- Mahayana: Beyond Essence and Appearance
- Rising Above Your Inner Inertia: The Grand Anatomy of Emotions
- Spring Flourishes Even amid Death
- I Ching: Grand Voyage to the Deeper Consciousness
Forthcoming Books:
- Discourse on “Straight Talk on the True Mind”(眞心直說)
- Discourse on “Chao Lun: the treatises of Seng-chao”(肇論)
- Discourse on “Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”

역자 : Kal Yonghoon Kim
Kal Y. Kim got interested in spiritual enlightenment around the age of twelve when he started reading books about Zen Buddhism and other spiritual traditions. He majored in philosophy at Yonsei University, Seoul and then traveled around the world in search for the meaning of life, spending most of his adulthood learning abroad. While attending school in Bowser, B.C. he went through a spiritual awakening which brought him back to Korea where he met Wo

번역 Kal Yonghoon Kim