Absolute consciousness is not something that is far and unreachable. Absolute consciousness is always present, along with the relative consciousness that your everyday thoughts spread. It's like taiji, which always contains yin and yang. When the relative world of yin and yang stops, that's the world of taiji. When the troubled thoughts and feelings from which you suffer from stop too, that is the absolute world. The relative world, with all its drama and stories, where ¡°I¡± and ¡°object¡± and this and that exist, is happening right on top of the absolute world at this very moment. They exist in the same spacetime, just like waves and water.
¡Ü Dedication _ 03
¡Ü Introduction _ 04
¡Ü The Events That Have Formed My Life _ 11
- A Life Force Comes into Its Own When Flexible _ 12
- The Peace of Warm Water _ 13
- Emotions Can Disappear in an Instant _ 15
- Go Beyond the Pain of the Mind _ 17
- The Experience of I and the World Disappearing _ 21
- The Eye Can See Everything but Itself _ 23
- Escape from Imagination _ 29
- Using Consciousness _ 33
¡Ü Definitions of Terms _ 38
- Gamgak: Pure Stimuli _ 38
- Gamji: A Restrictive Feeling of Familiarity or Knowing _ 38
- Attention: The Transparent Energy of Life _ 41
- Thought and Consciousness: A Network of Gamji _ 43
- Identification: A Tool for Knowing Life _ 44
- Emotion: The Push-and-Pull Relationship between Gamji _ 45
- Being Open to the Senses _ 46
- Being Awake: To Be Aware of Being _ 47
- Awakenment: To Understand the Nature of Consciousness _ 49
¡Ü Consciousness
- An Anatomical Chart of Consciousness _ 51
- Why We Try to Locate the Root of Consciousness _ 53
- What Happ...ens When You Are in the State of Gamgak? _ 58
- How Does Consciousness Arise? _ 59
- Where Does the Sense of I Come From? _ 60
- The Birth of Consciousness _ 65
¡Ü Attention
- Types of Attention _ 73
- Water Sees Not the Moon but Its Reflection _ 84
* Extended Exercise: Fill It Up with Silence _ 90
¡Ü Gamji
- What Are Gamji? _ 95
- Feeling Neutral _ 105
- Feeling the Foundation of the Sense of Separation _ 110
* Extended Exercise: The Sea of Energy _ 113
- The Pastness of Gamji: Memory _ 117
* Extended Exercise: Finding the Center of Existence _ 127
¡Ü Gamgak
- The Discovery of Gamgak _ 133
* Extended Exercise: Expansion _ 146
- Gamgak and its Various Uses _ 149
- Seeing Unfamiliarly _ 151
* Extended Exercise: Meeting Objects _ 153
¡Ü Being Awake
- What is Being Awake? _ 157
- Feeling Waking Consciousness _ 161
- Being Awake with Objects _ 165
- Being Awake with Thought _ 167
- Being Awake with Emotions _ 170
- Being Awake with the Five Senses _ 174
- Feeling that I Am _ 177
¡Ü Identification
- Going Beyond the Self as a Sum of Past Experiences _ 183
- Disconnecting the Chain of Identification (1) _ 191
* Extended Exercise: The Power of Attention _198
- Disconnecting the Chain of Identification (2) _ 201
- Abandoning the Sense of Emptiness _ 207
¡Ü Awakenment Practice _ 210
¡Ü Being Awake: Testimonials
- The Boundary between Thought and Feeling _ 217
- Catching the Moment a Thought Arises _ 237
- Pure Sensation Wakes _ 244