weather : sun is gone with the wind

A Korean student at the Maum Meditation center 

translated this article on Maum Monthly for me. 

thank you :)  

Looking in a mirror Steve Jobs asked himself every morning for more than 30 years
the question "If today were the last day of my life, would I wanna do what I am about to do today?"
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"Your time is limited. So don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trap by dogma which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drowned out your own inner voice. And the most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

Money, degrees, beauty, career, the perfect wedding...

What we are seeking tend to gratify the outside factors rather than inner joy.



What do I really want? Most people are lost in regrets for past, discontent in present, worrying about future.
They can't even answer to what they really want.
If I have encountered a rude worker in the convenience store this morning,
what she said is still bothering all day even though those words do not exist now.
A psychiatrist named Warren said that normal people speak to themselves with 1,300 words per minute speed.
People are living in their mind worlds being swayed by thoughts which constantly come up.
To listen to the inner voice, heart, you first have to clear those thoughts which never stop speaking to itself.


Take your time to think about the moment when you felt the happiest.
When I was surrounded by great nature, when I look at the baby, when I finished the hard task,
when I helped someone without any price.
People usually think that being well-off is a good life, but that happiness doesn't last.
Money, career and so on. Even though I achieved my goal, that excitement lasts shortly
and I get back to struggle to keep what I've got.
Paradoxically, when I let things go, I feel fullness.
If you want to find a real life, you have to keep practice to get out of stereotyped mind of my own
which is myself.