Choonbo Choi / Robot Scientist
Brooks Automation, the world’s number one robotics company, is famous for producing precise and accurate robots. Choi Chun-bo worked as the company’s executive director and a scientist studying robot brains. The robotic software development team she led was the world’s top development team. It was called, “The Little UN.” An Asian woman who started engineering studies at the age of 40 and became a director after four years of joining Brooks in 1995; she was recognized for her leading talent in her work and her ability to earn an annual salary in the top 5% of Americans. She discovered this Meditation while trying to solve a fundamental problem in life that she could not figure out.
I had a lot of thoughts that “the days left to live will be less than the days I have already lived.”
I always thought I had lived well. But there were also tough days, including two failed marriages ending in divorce. Everything went smoothly after I started engineering. When I was 40, I majored in engineering at Massachusetts State University, graduated after three years, and at age 43, joined Brooks Automation as a new employee. Researching robots was so much fun that I really worked day and night. It was unusual for this company that a new employee, such as myself was promoted to director after four years.
In 2002, when I turned 50, I suddenly thought about it. From now on, and for the rest of my life I must live a life of service according to God’s will, but I wasn’t sure where to start. Above all, my heart was not ready to serve at all. I had to humble myself and serve others, but I couldn’t. I read good books and looked for lectures that I liked, but it didn’t work as well as I thought it would. After spending 7 years like that, I came across a book about this Meditation. The word “to throw away the mind” came into my heart, so in July 2010, I took a vacation and went to the Meditation’s Main Center in South Korea.
When I started doing the meditation however, I felt embarrassed when I realized that all of my life was an act; that I have been working hard just because I wanted to make myself stand out. I practiced praying in order to abandon my feelings of superiority and inferiority, worries about getting old, etc. I threw away those feelings, and at some point, I started to feel very comfortable. Oh, this is freedom and happiness. While doing this meditation, I came to know my original foundation, my True Self.
After realizing this, there was no pain, no worries, no good and bad. I was so grateful that I could live with this feeling. After returning to the United States I continued my training. As I continued to practice this meditation my health improved. I stopped taking gastrointestinal medicine, which I had been taking for over 15 years, and the symptoms of right sided paralysis had disappeared.
Just like removing bugs in robots, people have to get rid of their false minds. It is because I am a scientist that I was curious about the principle that eliminating the false minds we hold can make the body healthy. I realized during a meditation session that the most dangerous bug in a robot is a memory leak. In short, in order for the robot to do the next job well, the contents of the previous job must be erased from the memory (Random Access Memory), but when this bug occurs, the contents of the robot cannot be erased and are accumulated little by little. Then, eventually, the robot’s brain is filled with information and stops. In the process of resetting the robot again, the Brooks Robot company loses hundreds of millions of dollars, so Brooks and many other companies invest huge amounts of money to fix this memory leak. Our team has completely fixed this bug through research. That’s why we call our robots “the best in the world”.
But the same goes for a human. If memories from our past keep building up without being released, our brain will fail to function at some point. There are about 100 billion brain cells in the human brain, and each brain cell is made up of axons and dendrites, or branches. The branches of brain cells receive information from the axons of other brain cells through synapses. When analyzing the brains of dementia patients, it is said that these brain cell branches are just tangled. The synapses that connect the brain cell branches and the brain cell axons are also cut off. So, the correct information cannot be transferred.
If the robot’s biggest bug is a memory leak, the human’s biggest bug is ‘taking pictures of the world and stacking them up in their minds. Just like a camera, we have been living by taking pictures that are centered on me, through our eyes, nose, ears, mouth, and body from birth, and as much as it fills up, we get bugs in our body and mind. Because our mind fills up with these pictures we cannot live in good health as God programmed us.
Just as a robot transmits commands through a neural network connected to the robot’s brain, so do humans. Choi Chun-bo expressed the structure in a simple picture. Just as robots end up overloading and stop when they keep stacking memories in their controllers, so do people. Choi Chun-bo posed in front of the company’s automation system 17 years ago for photos on the company’s brochure at the time.
A very scientific and accurate mind cleansing method.
I think the method of this Meditation is really great. This is the first time in human history that clearly tells you how to cleanse your mind. The most joyful thing is that I found heaven within myself through this Meditation. I had been creating a false image of God in my mind. However, God was the existence that I could meet only when I abandoned all of my thoughts and habits. Even in the Bible, there is a saying, “He who sees God, dies.” That is, the moment “I” gave up my illusory self, and only then did I become truly happy. I realized that I was born again as a child of God and this world was heaven.
I am so happy now. No previous joy can compare to this happiness. Now I want to live a life of service. Humility comes naturally when we see that we are originally one, and can live cherishing everyone. I resigned from my job and was really excited. Now I wanted to go beyond my life as a woman and scientist and set foot in a totally new world. It’s the excitement when you can see exactly what and how to live in the future. (Laughs) I want to live by helping more people, as well as scientists, know how to get rid of this mind. As I see others becoming happier and brighter it will increase my happiness.
Source: www.meditationlife.org
