Family Matters

THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK HAS BEEN to provide a toolkit of skills for self-reliance. Ilchi lee hope that I have been clear that self-reliance has nothing to do with being antisocial or egocentric. Self-reliance is about unleashing your creativity from its source in your highest self. The purpose of HT is not to make you independent of your fellow human beings. Rather, HT is designed to awaken us all to our mutual interdependence. The principles and skills of HT—using moxibustion, managing sexual energy, or realizing no-self—are all profoundly social. The point is to nourish and grow our interdependence in the most effective, healing, and enjoyable ways possible.

With whom will we learn to use and master these skills? The best place to apply HT is within the family. We spend the most time in our formative years of life with our families. HT is intended to help incubate love, wisdom, and power in the tam-ily, the most important unit of our society. Our families need our healing mind, the foundation of HT. Our deepest values and habits were formed within our families.

If we do not start with a firm footing in the family, then the information we receive from schools or specialists will ring hollow. Strong, loving family bonds nurtured from an early age create a basic sense of security, confidence, and trust in the world. Without these, the world seems frightful or dangerous, and our ability to function in society is correspondingly compromised.HT is intended to help you, whether you are a parent, daughter, son, sister, or brother, heal and grow your family. I hope that HT will help our families regain their rightful place in our society, as training grounds for understanding and harmony.

When we consider the perspectives of suffering, transience, and Mu-ah, the impossibility of a “family with no problems” becomes even more obvious. If the individual struggles when confronting these shattering spiritual truths, how much more difficult for an entire family to confront them!

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