About the Book
This book conveys the following contents clearly and powerfully.
What is enlightenment, really? How does enlightenment transform me?: Enlightenment is never something abstract or vague. It is more concrete and clear than anything else in the world, and naturally, it is something that actually exists. MuRu provides the clearest and most concrete guidance about the enlightenment he has personally achieved, about that actual enlightenment existing in past and present. MuRu's guidance is a certain and powerful teaching that will naturally lead anyone to enlightenment if they follow it sincerely. It reveals the fundamental aspects of how the pursuit and achievement of enlightenment actually brings about changes in us, how it helps us, how it brings healing, and how it makes us happy. Enlightenment can be achieved, and through achieving enlightenment, we are completely transformed.
'The 4 Essential Elements for Attaining Actual Enlightenment' and the Correct Method of Pursuing Enlightenment: Anyone can attain enlightenment if they pursue it correctly and properly. This is the most important part and the most important fact. It is a 'natural' process, just like when you plant a living seed in the ground and provide water, air, and sunlight-naturally it will sprout when the time comes and eventually bear fruit. When properly pursued, achieving enlightenment is as natural as nature itself. Many people fail to attain enlightenment despite pursuing it for a long time. The reason is that they have not properly equipped themselves with the essential elements that enable actual enlightenment to occur. To use an analogy, it's because they haven't planted a 'living seed.' Another reason is that even if they planted the seed properly, they didn't adequately provide water, air, and sunlight. Then naturally, no fruit can be borne. What seekers of enlightenment need is to clearly know the 'essential elements necessary for enlightenment' and the 'elements that hinder enlightenment.' Otherwise, they will continue to waste time and effort in vain, or remain stuck in place for a long time. Because there is no progress or change, at some point they either give up on enlightenment, or delude themselves into thinking they have changed and gained understanding-that they have attained enlightenment-when in reality they haven't. This is a loss to themselves more than anyone else. The key point is: 'If you pursue properly, you will definitely attain enlightenment within a set period.'
How does the pursuit of enlightenment and the achievement of enlightenment help human individuals and groups?: Just as enlightenment is not something vague or abstract but the clearest thing, the help and usefulness that the pursuit of enlightenment and enlightenment itself provide to humans are also concrete and clear. This is especially true in the future when various innovative scientific and technological developments are expected. This book shows in detail what specific help enlightenment provides to both human individuals and groups. It explains how enlightenment heals human wounds, strengthens consciousness, fosters mutual goodwill, solves problems of individuals and groups, and brings happiness.
Review :
Many people are confused and dissatisfied with life and with themselves. Modern society, referred to as a "burnout society," makes individuals and groups suffer even more from such pain. The problems of various forms of hatred and discrimination that exist in each society on Earth are by no means few, and conflicts and clashes between nations and regions continue to occur everywhere.
These human problems are not unique to modern people alone. From ancient times to the future, they will inevitably continue to exist alongside humanity until we realize and transcend the "fundamental limitations, fundamental delusions, fundamental errors, fundamental ignorance and unknowing" that humans possess. No matter what scientific, technological, humanistic, or social developments occur, while relative changes may be achieved, fundamental solutions cannot be reached. Only the forms change, but the suffering of human individuals and groups continues to repeat in the past, present, and future.
Many people are exploring and pursuing "enlightenment." They practice and strive with the goal of actually becoming enlightened. The problem is that while doing so, they often don't know what true enlightenment actually is. Even after studying earnestly and for long periods, they may not achieve enlightenment. There may be no progress at all, or while seeming to have progressed to some degree, they cannot gauge for themselves how much they have actually awakened. They may feel they have learned various things from their studies and seem to know something and feel accomplished, but in reality, many are stuck, going in circles, or chasing illusions. Even if others don't know, they know deep inside that they haven't yet awakened, but there are cases where they close their mind's eye and deceive themselves, saying "I've achieved enough. There's nothing more to do."
The reason for all this confusion is that while claiming to explore and pursue enlightenment, they are actually chasing their own fantasies rather than "true enlightenment." In other words, they are looking at, exploring, and studying "the wrong thing." To use the metaphor of seeds, they planted the wrong seed from the beginning. Or they planted the right seed but failed to properly provide the subsequent sunlight, water, and nutrients. Naturally, they cannot bear the fruit of enlightenment. The book's author, MuRu, also went through such a process for quite a long time in the distant past, following teachings that were not true enlightenment while claiming to pursue and explore something fundamental, actual enlightenment.
However, the sincere desire for "correct, proper" truth about enlightenment was never abandoned for even a moment. Finally, meeting a truly enlightened teacher and their teachings, exploring "correct enlightenment" and obtaining actual enlightenment. Now, this book is published to share these teachings with more people and to achieve enlightenment together with them.
