[MUSIC] Hello, this is Duck-Joo Lee. During the last class we discussed about stress. The responses were absolutely enthusiastic. There, also, was a lot of attention paid to me personally. Many people were concerned about my claustrophobia too, thank you. Fortunately, I am now able to fly in airplanes very well. If anyone invited me, I could fly anywhere to lecture. After seeing your responses I once again recognized that we are all really living in stress. Well let's hurry and do the self-reflections. Close your eyes. The time is passing. Ten years have passed. And now 20 years, 50 years, 100 years. 200 years have passed. I died. After death, I became a spirit, and I left the Earth to go up to the universe. Even after going to the universe, 100 years have now passed. Far away the Earth looks like a tiny bean-sized dot. Please remember, all of you live the life and related memories on the Earth. Especially those memories related to stress. All these are stories from 100 years. 200 years ago which occurred on the far away bean-sized Earth. Those of you who are able to acknowledge it as well, you can also consider it past 500 years or 1,000 years. Keep your eyes closed and concentrate to remember. Try to remember your most current stressful times. When are typical situations which cause you much stress? Is it when you want to improve? Try to remember the times when you wanted to gain approval, and needed to be praised. There may have been time when you were fearful or afraid of people's eyes on you. Think about the time when you were in the thick of competitions. The situations where you were competing with peers for grades and competing for job promotions at work. The pressure to be a good child to your parents, or be a good parent to your children. The pleasure to be a role model in societal positions, or be a good person, an excellent person. Remember how hard it was because of the pressure. When you were stressed, how was it? Perhaps you just suppressed it, screamed, or cried. Did it make you feel better? But if such situations were repeated, you would still get stressed again similarly. What is the reason for such a stress to keep happenings? Reflect on the cause of all your stress. Where would it have started? We will do up to this point. Even though we reflected briefly we could see that we are constantly exposed to stressful situations big and small. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration if we said that our lives since birth were stress itself. These memories were causes of stress More we have such as stress, we are unable to focus and always anxious. For example, if an athlete filled with regrets about the past defeats and was afraid of the same things occurring, he wouldn't be able to concentrate on the present event. Truly, athletes would be in a great pressure. Since they must always compete in the midst of victory and defeat and are evaluated by many observing them during athletic events or games. So they strive to build a strong mental capacity. Archery in Korea is world famous sport, It had been known that they can control their minds very well Hyun-Seuk Jang, the director of a Korean National Team. As well as on Archery Team of a Hyundai still and Chun Byung-Kwan. Gold medal lifter, 1992 at Barcelona Olympics. The director of an archery team of Hyundai Department Store as well as a training athlete Psychology Professor of the team and the physical therapy team all experienced the self-meditation. After the meditation, they said I felt that I started to come out into the true world little by little, from the picture world. I was imprisoning myself in a frame of mind and condition which said, I must do this. I have learned the method to enjoy my life through breaking the frame of mind using self-reflection. Ultimately, I found that all problems get bigger in my own imagination to encroach on me and that my trauma from past childhood is still repressing me. This became my opportunity to self-reflect and solve my concerns and worries sufficiently. After throwing away my pictures of mind, I was at ease. And without my knowing, I started to think positively. This meditation was my turning point of life. Concentration is also important in golf. Hee Yeon Jung, a world famous professional golfer who won 2012 Korean KPGA championship also said this after the meditation. In the end, only the infinite wisdom of the universe and happiness are the roots of power which move all things of the world. But “I” tried to move things using my human mind, sight, and thinking. The universe is one and all are the universe, including myself and my environment. The flowing and circulating mind is also one, and whatever I considered mine is the universe itself and owned by others. Why was I so attached to it? After the meditation, I now wear a light smile instead of suffering. If golf and archery are considered individual sports requiring concentration, basketball is more intense set even violent at times, requiring much teamwork. Sung-jin Ha, who is a member of Korean National team and the current professional basketball players of Jeonju KCC Egis Team, also tells us he did the self-reflection, meditation as a method to solve his stress. Basketball is an intense sport. It is also very delicate sport because it requires work of hands. So the condition of players can impact on winning the game. The most stressful (of the sport) relates to performance. It is ironic, but even when the team’s performance is good, if the individual player’s performance isn't, it is easy to fall into a slump. I also injured my body and the games I played weren’t good. When my mentality sharply spiraled down, I started the self-reflection meditation upon my coach's recommendation. As I self-reflected, I repented on many things. I saw how I approached others in a certain mindset. It is as if I thought I was living in clear water, but when stirred up, I felt all those submerged deep within were revealed. As I self-reflected one-by-one and took out those minds, my fundamental anxiety disappeared and I was so much at ease. These days I do the self-reflection meditation every day. Previously, I used to hold on to losing games or my slump for a long time, but as I started the meditation, I was able to let go quickly and concentrate on my next game. During the seasons, I typically couldn't sleep well due to having too many thoughts (worries) related to pressures about the games. But these days, I like that as I lay down to do the meditation, I fall deep asleep before I know it. Athletes grow up in midst of competitions since childhood. If they don't win others, they lose, so subconsciously their stress is great. When meditating, those stresses are emptied so one can always return to a beginner's mind to start fresh. I am grateful to this meditation which is very important to sports players requiring concentration. Now that I looked at it, the similarities between the sports and examples used, was that archery targets a small round area from far away. The golf targets a small hole to put his ball and the basketball target. A basket to ’goal-in’ a ball. All these require a tremendous concentration. These players all said that after throwing away their accumulated minds through the self-reflection meditation, their stress due to anxiety, regrets, and fear about their games were gradually reduced, and eased mind and concentration increased. How about it? To think it really helped these sports athletes, wouldn't it be amazingly big help to ordinary people like us? These athletes are continuing to do the self-reflection meditation like their practice their sports. I hope that this self-reflection also becomes a natural daily activity to us as well. Currently, I am talking about beneficial effects and stories of people who became happy and improved personally through the self-reflection meditation. Why? This is so that your motivation would be heightened. Only then the ultimate goal of escaping the force picture world which is the human mind and living happily in the true world with the universe mind can be achieved as we discussed in the first week. Do you understand? If there is anything you do not understand, or have questions about, you can always ask. For the next lecture, I would like to give you a simple homework. It is something very easy you can do while walking around. As you walk, please count each step. There shouldn't be any thoughts while you are counting up to 100. One, two, three, four. If there are any thoughts at all, go back to the beginning and count from one. I will see you next lecture time, thank you.
