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Leaf Theory
Ilchi Lee graphically
represents his philosophy in a diagram he called the Leaf theory.
It lays out the history and current condition of humankind and suggests
alternative ways which will lead us down a road to peace.
Our civilization has traveled through the age
of faith and the age of reason, growing externally using competition
and domination as its main source of energy for growth, to the point
where the external expansion and the internal fragmentation of our
civilization has brought us to the edge of self-destruction. To
make a comparison with the breath, this is like inhaling without
stopping, which would lead to burst lungs.
Now it is time to shift from inhaling to exhaling, from
holding to releasing, from expanding to converging. For a convergence
we need a centripetal axis, that is a central value which integrates
all the varied drives and forces of human society into a single
direction; PEACE. The centripetal axis or the central value cannot
be a religion, or a nation, or an ideology. It cannot be anything
less than the Earth itself. Taking the Earth as a central value
means re-identifying oneself as an "Earth-Humans"
who thinks and acts with the enlightenment of the experiential knowledge
that he/she is an individuated integral part of the life of the
Earth.
Thus, enlightenment means re-identifying oneself as an Earth-Human;
it is a choice. Acting on the choice is healing; healing oneself,
one's society, humanity and the Earth. Earth-Humans are the hope
of the Earth.
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1. Leaf Theory
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