The true me is never changes, and it is not me that changes.

So there is only one unchanging principle in the world, and that is that it ‘changes’.

The most important point here is not that it ‘changes’, it is that it is the ‘only principle’ and that is our unchanging nature, which is enlightenment.

Our bodies and our lives change over time, and we think we’ve accomplished something with them, and we live our lives believing that our bodies are us until the end of our lives, and then one day our bodies reach the end of their lifespan and we die, and then we die with them.

It reminds me of the foolishness of the king of a country who mistook his body for the only thing he had, and when he died, he wanted to bury his many subjects and possessions in his tomb so that he could enjoy eternal life.

In our normal lives, where we firmly believe that our bodies are us, we want to know the history of each other’s bodies, like when we buy salami at the supermarket, we want to know the date it was made, etc.

If you ask me what my true nature is, I’ll hold up a finger, and if you ask me again, I’ll say “this” out loud.

This is to show you that my nature and yours are not different, as pouring water on water to be came one instead of two, so that the answer to your question is one.

Nevertheless, if you are interested in my body and its history, I will give you a brief introduction.

I don’t know exactly why I came across this body or what motivated me to manufacture it, but I do know that the country of manufacture is Seoul, South Korea, and the year of manufacture is 1970, which I was told by my parents.

I don’t remember exactly how I first learned about the use of this body.

However, just like when we first encountered a car, I gradually got used to it over time, and as it was upgraded, I gradually developed precise senses such as navigation, and dreamed of the future, and the functions of the body got better and better, so by the time I was 18 years old, I became a movie star according to the flow of life, and I studied abroad in Japan and had the experience and thought that the world was wide.

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But at a certain point in my life, I realized that I was attached to this body, which is not the real me, although I keep it close to me and use it according to my connections, like my house, my car, and I don’t even know where it came from or where it’s going, and I started to doubt the things that I thought were me all my life, so I went on the path of Seon (Zen) study to find the real me.

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In order to follow in the footsteps of the founder of Zen (Dharma Master), I traveled to Shaolin Temple in China in the winter of 1994, where I met many monks and friends, but never met my true teacher, and spent many hours in zazen at the place where the Bodih Dharma was staying.

Then I met Rainer Deyhel from Germany in Shaolin and we became sworn brothers, and he opened the German Shaolin Temple in Berlin in the early 2000s, and I was teaching zazen to people in there and living as a ‘Zen Master without enlightenment’, but one-day the German Shaolin Temple, which had a European license, learned the expensive lesson that ‘Buddhism without enlightenment is not Buddhism’ and eventually closed its doors, and we both left Germany for Cambodia, leaving all memories behind.

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I practiced for a long time, as most practitioners do, in a vague and complacent way, thinking that one day I would realize, but I never resolved the question of ‘who am I’ and wandered around Hong Kong, Thailand, Cambodia, and other countries as fate would have it, before returning to Korea permanently around 2014.

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In the winter of 2015, he stumbled upon a book by an ordinary 90-year-old Korean man called ‘Even the Buddha Can’t Go There’, which became the catalyst for the enlightenment, and I spent the next six months listening to his teachings day and night, even in my sleep, without removing my earphones.

Then one day, the experience of everything crashing down around me, including myself, with the very ordinary and mundane sound of wood knocking outside my house is a ‘moment’ that cannot be measured in time, but it clarified the nature of not only me, but of everything in the world, and all the questions that had been bothering me were extinguished in a single moment.

With the help of the Korean Seon (Zen) masters who guided me through that liberating experience, I became even clearer and have been living a life of sharing and validating valuable experiences with those who connect with me ever since.

I would say that the Buddha’s enlightenment, or the enlightenment of any great man, is only another person’s experience, so don’t be fooled by stories, and verify it for yourself.

In the end, all I am talking about is ‘this’ and nothing else.