Instead, push your own consciousness to its very limit with fundamental inquiries about your own existence—liring inquiries that are asked through your courageous movement through your own life. You have to be willing to risk your whole way of life to make such inquiries, and to live the ansu-ers that they bnngyou. Because I knew that enlightenment lay in the brain, I made the brain the new focus of all my strategies and plans. I wanted to share what I understood about enlightenment.
My plan was, first, to make people familiar and comfortable with their own brains and, second, to encourage them to begin living their lives as if they were already enlightened. This is the Big Secret of Enlightenment. When you live your everyday life as if you are already enlightened, you can raise yourself to a very high level of awareness. Enlightened action can lead you to a state of enlightenment. It is not necessary to wait for enlightened awareness to fall upon you in order to take enlightened action. It can work the other way around. The important thing is to develop a higher awareness of •what constitutes enlightened action.
You do not have to learn to build a car from scratch before driving one. To be really honest with you, I went about things the hard way. In any case, at least now I can benefit from my experience by showing people an easier way to become enlightened. Ilchi Lee is trying to describe that in this book.
