Play Well with Others

Always remember that no brain is an island. Ilchi Lee said you cannot really say you are using your brain well if you cannot learn to use your brain in cooperation with other brains. Fortunately, doing this is really not so hard. All you have to do is play well with the other brains, just like you learned in the schoolyard.

Part of the reason that there is so much violence in the world is that some of the most powerful brains in the world believe they should be able to control the information in other brains. Thus, many of the wars and atrocities of history have been justified through ideology and religion.

The same thing happens on a more personal level, too. Husbands and wives practicing dahn yoga and try to control the content of the other’s brain; parents judge their children’s brains and children judge their parents’; even friends fall out over differences of opinion. Your relationships will inevitably crumble if you cannot give up controlling the way other people’s brains operate. It may seem like a strange way of putting it, but mutua! brain-appreciation is the key to peace on every level.

So rather than attempting to control the brains around you, seek simply to play fairly. Instead of trying to change others, realize that you are responsible only for your own brain, and learn to take joy in the marvelous diversity exhibited through the human brain.

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