Engineering Self-Reflection for Human Completion

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Overview

Have you ever seriously reflected on yourself? It is difficult to dobecause you spend your busy life every day with so much to do. Therefore, youare always looking forward, looking ahead. It is not easy to stop and take timeto reflect on yourself. Research shows that if you reflect on yourself throughmeditation or writing a diary, you can work more efficiently and become asuccessful leader.

Inthis lecture, I will introduce a practical methodology of self-reflectionmeditation.  It is also a sustainable methodology you canpractice in ordinary life. You will check your path in life, and you canunderstand yourself better in social relationships. You can concentrate on thepurpose of your life through self-reflection. Examples from nature and air vehicles arealso used as corollaries to demonstrate how to live a fulfilling life.

After reflecting on yourself according to thismethodology, you will know clearly your character, your pattern of response,past trauma and your current problems. If you eliminate the negative mind of the causes of the problem, yourinner positive strength will be revealed. And more, you will also learn themethodology to live a free and complete life. It is highly recommended for students withengineering and science backgrounds to enroll in such ahumanities course to achieve a balanced education and life.

Human completion is to exceed your boundaries and live with your neighbors in the world in happiness and harmony. This is a totally new methodology.

Syllabus

Week 1: Necessity of self-reflection

Self- reflection is the methodology of meditation for growth, happiness and human completion

-   Why do we need self-reflection?

-   Academic research on self-reflection

-   Draw my life graph

-   Ultimate purpose of self-reflection 

Week 2: Principle and practice of self-reflection

Learn the principle of self-reflection and practice the self–reflection through 5 subjects

-   Methodology of self-reflection

-   Practice of self-reflection through 5 essential subjects (barrier in relationships, inferiority and ego in childhood, emotion of love and hatred since childhood, worries, response to problems )

-   My past life and my current self

Week 3: Copied world and real world

Recognize the copied world and real world and think of living free from the self.

-    Principle of mind formation

-    Human recognition observed by philosophers and neuroscientists

-    Understanding the reasons why we cannot live with free will

-    Human mind and Original mind 

Week 4: Methodology of mind subtraction changes myself

Learn and practice the methodology of mind subtraction

-    Do you want to change yourself?

-    Methodology of mind subtraction

-    Repetition of the self-reflection of 5 essential subjects

-    Real potential and positive mind 

Week 5: Self-reflection and mind subtraction in ordinary life.

Learn and practice the methodology of self-reflection and subtraction the mind in everyday life.

-    Stress is the impetus for growth

-    Case study on overcoming the self

-    Health-mind relationship and brain wave changes

-    Meaning of self-reflection and mind subtraction in life. 

Week 6: Starting point of new life, life with wisdom and peaceful world

Let’s start the peaceful life with wisdom

-    Draw your life graph again

-    People at school and the office practicing self-reflection continuously

-    Meaning of self-reflection in social aspects (through reflections on communication and relationships)

-    Starting point of peaceful life with wisdom

Taught by

Duck-Joo Lee