#16

                           [Moon in Sedona]

16.  Returning of the Fire

- Returning Home, Returning due to Visa problems

It was a time when the pioneering that began with Ilchi Lee’s open public lecture, was holding a certain place and moving forward, but an unexpected event took place.  It had been over five months since coming to America, and it was almost becoming six months. 

One day, the acting Jiwonjangnim asked about my visa.  When I asked what a visa was, he said “Wasn’t there something that was stamped by immigration when you entered America?”  But no matter how much I thought about it, I did not have any memory of going to a place like immigration.  So when I said I have never gone to immigration, he asked to see my passport.  When I showed him my passport, he asked “Didn’t you see someone stamping a small piece of paper on your passport when you entered America?” 
I did not have any memory of it, but I remember taking off a piece of strange paper that was stapled on and placing it in a book.  So hurriedly I looked for it; and fortunately it was there.  So I said “Is it this that you are talking about?”  Then, he looked at it carefully, and he said that I received a six months permit; and since I entered America on May 24th, I had only 10 days remaining before I needed to go back to South Korea and then come back, or get married here, or we needed to take measures for me to stay. 
When I was coming to America, I came without much thought.  Even though I obtained a visa, I really did not at all realize what a visa was, why it was needed, and when and where it was used.  Even when getting off the plane and passing through customs, I did not realize that it was the immigration.  Like that, whether the visa expiration date is stamped or not, I wouldn’t have had the interest in looking for it. 
With such an unexpected event, I had to prepare in a great hurry to return to South Korea.  All the things that I was working hard on were rearranged, and Master Yong Soo Moon took over in place of me.  Korean and English speaking members all gathered and they gave a going away party for me.  I gave many people greetings of gratitude, and asked them to take care of the remaining work.  Then, on the December 23rd flight, I returned back to South Korea.  

#15

 [ The poster of Mago's Soul Training]

(Mago = Mother Earth)

15. Response to the Flame – English Speaking Members’ Initial Response
In the beginning, when the training was over and I asked, “How do you feel? How is your condition?” they would say “so, so.”  I did not understand what it meant.  Afterwards, when I asked Master Bong Pil Yang, it meant that it was not that great.  Like that, days passed.  Little by little time had passed and again I asked.  They said “good.”  I understood the word “good” meant something that is really good, but even this meant “just good.” 

And, about one month had passed.  When I asked again, then, they said “very good, so very good.”  Two months had passed.  They said, “wonderful, won..derful, very…so…much wonderful.”  Now, they are saying that they are greatly satisfied.  Like this, training for the English speaking members had begun. 
Members increased, and through an introduction from Master Bong Pil Yang, a company president, a company chairperson, a police chief, a state senator, a congressman, a local newspaper reporter, a magazine reporter, etc., they showed their interest and began to attend. 

Among them, there was a company chairperson and a person who was working as a director.  They said that they were so tense and had such a feeling of being under pressure before and during a meeting, that they always had a little drink or used some type of drugs to relax the tension and release the feeling of being under pressure.  However, after understanding the energy and doing the training, those tense feelings or pressure disappeared, and they were very thankful to have the meetings joyfully with so much ease in a relaxed state. 

Afterwards, a newspaper reporter covered the story, and the article was in the newspaper. All day long many phone calls came in.  Here, another problem arose because I could not speak English.  A phone call can’t be done by looking at a person’s face; it’s a consultation without looking at a person’s face.  I was quite at a loss, so I asked Master Bong Pil Yang  to search among the Tae Kwon Do members who could do the phone consultations in English and have them do it. 

In that area, it had become the subject of a new interest.  With such a positive response for the first training class for the English speakers, I gained confidence.  Without having any materials that are in English, it was truly creating from a place where there was nothing into something.  Now, even though I could not speak English well, I wasn’t afraid.  It is because, Cosmic-energy (Chun-ji-ki-un) and Cosmic-mind (Chun-ji-ma-um) are not communicated through words, but through feeling and experience.  Anyone can do it if there is a know-how in communicating them, any time and any place, and to anyone.
Then changes will naturally occur which lead to completion within oneself, and one comes to have a firm belief in that truth.