New Direction Basic Material Highlights
Invisible
The visible exists because of the invisible.
Deep Looking
Deep looking is seeing what you do not see and knowing beyond what you know.
Deep Looking 2
Deep looking reveals not only what you see but also yourself and the world.
Great Intelligence
Seeing a cup and knowing it as just a cup is ordinary intelligence but knowing yourself and the world is great intelligence.
What You Know
What you know is because of what you do not know. Realizing what you do not know is knowing beyond what you know.
A Thought and Reality
What you think it is is a thought. What it is is reality.
No One Wrong
No one is wrong but there are people who are at different stages of their growth.
The Worst Ignorance
The worst ignorance is not knowing one’s own ignorance.
Three Kinds of Knowledge
Knowledge about nonself. Knowledge about self. Knowledge that can only be gained by knowing both self and nonself.
Rediscovering Eating
Unlike animals, humans can benefit more from learning through eating than eating itself.
Wisdom and Good Deeds
When the wise benefit others, it is called wisdom. When the unwise benefit others, it is called good deeds.
The Biggest Obstacle
The biggest obstacle is the one that you create for yourself.
Self-Imprisonment
We are both guards and prisoners of the prison we create.
Blaming Others
Blaming others is like blaming the weather for an inaccurate forecast.
Eliminating Loneliness
Loneliness can be eliminated. But eliminating loneliness without addressing the cause can make your life worse. It is like silencing a fire alarm and letting the fire continue to burn.
Contradictory
One who is thinking he knows does not know that he is thinking.
From Contradiction to Transformation
Knowing one’s own contradictions is the beginning of knowing one’s own ignorance. Knowing one’s own ignorance is the beginning of knowing oneself. Knowing oneself is the beginning of self-transformation.
Life Lessons
Learn from life or repeat its lessons.
Learn or Be a Lesson
Learn from life or become a lesson.
Rediscovering Yourself
Not as a servant of life but as the owner of your life.
Living Without Awareness of Being Alive
Living without the awareness that you are alive prevents you from understanding and improving yourself and your life.
Knowing Self and Nonself
Knowing nonself is gaining knowledge. Knowing self is changing life.
Knowing Your Mind 2
You can be successful without knowing your mind if you live as a resource. But it is hard to live as a human if you do not know your mind.
Rediscovering Your Body
If you look deeply into your body, you will realize that it is not your body, but at the same time it is your body.
Rediscovering Breath 2
If you look deeply into your breath, you will not only discover your body and the world but also your past actions, inner self and mental states such as desires, perceptions, beliefs, limitations, motivations and contradictions.
Rediscovering Your Life
A life living as a human instead of living as a resource.
Benefiting from Life
Benefit from both what life gives you and what it doesn’t.
A Higher Intelligence 3
Knowing one’s own ignorance is a sign of a higher intelligence.
Getting Out of Unhappiness
No one can get you out of your unhappiness unless you stop doing what will bring you unhappiness.
A Role of Unhappiness
Unhappiness brings ingredients of happiness. If you are unhappy, you probably already have what it takes to be happy.
The Best and Even Better
What you have right now is the best you can have at the moment. If you appreciate and make the most of it, you will have better things.
Rediscovering Humans
From ones who work and consume to ones who are respected.
Human Happiness
It is difficult for humans to be happy when living as a resource.
Rediscovering Work
Work is a school of life where you learn to live. Salary is a scholarship.
Money and Wisdom
Without money, living poor. Without wisdom, living foolishly.
Earning Money 2
The true value of earning money lies in the lessons it teaches.
Human Flourishing
Humans can truly flourish when they live as humans, not resources.
Power of Watching
Watching your breath changes your breath. The same goes for your body, mind and life.
Seeing a Flower
See a flower to discover the flower in your mind.
What You Want
Getting what we want always comes with an extra, the consequences.
What You Truly Want 7
To chase what you think you truly want is to miss what you truly want.
Breaking Truth
Breaking what you believe to be the truth is gaining something greater.
Wise and Wiser
If you grow wise, the people who you considered not beneficial to you become beneficial to you. If you grow wiser, even your enemy becomes beneficial to you. However, if you are unwise, even beneficial people become not beneficial to you.
Wise and Wiser 2
If you grows wise, you benefit from both what you have including adversity and what you do not have. If you grow wiser, you benefit others and the world.
Working Wise
Money naturally fills your pockets even though you work for a purpose greater than making money, just as food naturally fills the stomach of one who eats for a purpose greater than filling stomach.
Desire Without Wisdom
Desire without wisdom darkens future.
Silencing a Fire Alarm
Eliminating only the symptoms of life problems while ignoring the cause is like silencing the fire alarm and letting the fire continue to burn.
Ignorance and Foolishness
When we are ignorant, we just don’t know. When we are foolish, we believe we know what we do not.
From Ignorance to Wisdom
Ignorance leads to foolishness. Foolishness leads to pain. Pain leads to wisdom.
True Gratitude
True gratitude is appreciating everything in life, both received and not received, not just receiving what you want.
True Victory
True victory is a victory without losers but all win.
A Bright Future Through Solving Inner Causes
Solving your inner causes of your life hindrances for the benefit of all is creating a bright future for all.
A Bright Future Through Inner Greatness
Cultivating your inner greatness for the benefit of all is creating a bright future for all.
A Bright Future Through Benefiting Others
Benefiting others honors the sacrifices and contributions of all living beings that made our lives possible and creates a bright future for all.
A Bright Future Through Greater Value
Acting with genuine motivation and intention of benefiting others creates a greater value for society and a bright future for all.
Transformations
Butterflies emerge from caterpillars, humans from human resources, and the apex protector from the apex predator.
Rising
The sun rises from darkness, wisdom from foolishness, hope from hopelessness, flourishing from suffering, and a bright world from a dark one.
The Greatness of the Universe
The greatness of the universe is within you.
A True Gift to Yourself
Benefiting others is a true gift to yourself.
Your Privilege and Power
Acting with genuine motivation and intention to benefit others is your privilege and power that can create a brighter world.
source: New Direction Archive