Yet, as I mentioned before, individual enlightenment that does not make a concrete difference in society is no enlightenment at all. We are not looking for just one more enlightened being to walk among us. We are all looking to be enlightened beings ourselves. To that end, we need to form a society of New Humans, whose goal will be to effect a total transformation of the human spirit, and to collectively recover our sense of True Love.
When I was twelve, I asked a close friend to go swimming with me in a lake. Although he didn’t want to, I convinced him anyway. So, we were swimming when he drowned. I almost drowned myself trying to get him ashore. Then what could I do? I didn’t even know CPR then. So, I carried his lifeless body back to his house, almost four miles, and placed it in the yard. His parents went crazy with shock and grief, and if the neighbors hadn’t stopped him, my friend’s father would have beaten me to death right then and there. To know more read Ilchi Lee notes.
