My Life & My Existence - Who am I?

11. Pioneering to America-New Frontier

                         [Rainbow from 89A, Sedona, AZ]

He went to Philadelphia in America with Dae Sun Sa (Ilchi Lee) nim between June and December in 1991 to open Dahn centers. He stayed for 6 months and made plans to open the first center and went back to South Korea because of his visa. In 1996, he came back to America to actually open the Dahn center.

Fortunately, a business man who lived in America invited him to visit with him and helped him to begin “Open Seminar”. And he could use a space (100 sq feet wide) at the business man’s building. Six month later, around 100 members were gathered at that first Dahn Center in USA.

Because the space was too small for that amount of people, he borrowed one of the Tae Kwon Do training halls from time to time on a temporary basis. He also borrowed two other Tae Kwon Do training halls and taught classes every other day.

He did not have any English manual, and because he didn’t know English very well, he had hard time. He tried to memorize English words and simple sentences. Fortunately, many members understood him and helped him a lot.

The most important thing was because he could let people experience Chun Ji Ki Woon (Cosmic Energy) and Chun Ji Ma Um (Cosmic Mind) through their minds and bodies, things went easy. It depended on letting people have the experience. Because they experienced it, everything became clear to them. He thought that teaching people to learn to have this experience was possible wherever, whenever and whoever. Because even though they have different languages, cultures, habits and whatever cases, he could guide them to have the same experiences.