English Recordings

sanmple sentences/<on the way>>
on the way…하는 중에; …도중에 《to》; 진행 중의, 다가오는; 구어 임신하여
• on the way 도중에.
• on the way out 시들기 시작하여, 사멸하기 시작하여
• on the way out 사라져 가고 있는
• on the way down 내리막길의[에]
• stop at a bar on the way home (귀가 도중에) 술집에 들르다
• on one’s[the] way home[to school] 집으로[학교로] 가는 도중에
• on one’s[the] way home[to school] 집으로[학교로] 가는 길에
• on one’s way home 집에 돌아가는[외출하는] 도중에
• put a person in the way of ……에게 …할 기회를 주다
• I'm {on the way} to the fitness center. -지금 체육관에 가는 길입니다.
• I ran into traffic {on the way} back. -돌아오는 길이 너무 막혀서
• A letter is {on the way} . -편지가 오는[가는] 중이다
• We missed (each other) {on the way}. -우리는 길이 엇갈렸다
• {On the way}, they were stopped. --돌아가는 중에 습격당했습니다
• I picked him up {on the way} to my office.--회사로 가는 도중에 그를 내 차에 태우고 갔다
• The man must be {on the way}. --그 사람은 지금쯤 오는 도중일 것이다
• I think I passed them {on the way} in. --들어오는 길에 본 것 같아요
• Night and darkness overtook us {on the way} . --도중에서 해가 깜빡 저물었다

--（Mar 08th 2011 01:51 ）《One of interesting language meeting~^^》--------
• Hi,everyone! It's very late at night now.(=It`s midnight now.)
• Wooo~ look at the time! Already, it`s 1:40am. /It's already 1:40am.
• I missed my bedtime. ~~ ( /It’s past my bedtime.' ?)
• So I`d better talk very briefly about today my first language meeting today. The story was~~~
•The story was~~~ Yes,! One of my Taiwanese friendS came to Seoul last week, and he talked to me about language meeting.
(=and he told me there will be a language meeting.)
• Because he has been interested in learning a language, he said that he would join this meeting.
( = Because he interests in learning languges, so he will join the meeting. )
• I was interested in that meeting as well. //
( = I was also interested in that meeting. =So am I. )
• Thus, my son, my Chinese friend and I joined that language meeting tonight.
• It was such an interesting meeting! (=It was a very interesting meeting. )
• So many people came to talk (with freedom and joy) to other people who were (also) interested in languages.
• Okay, I' ll stop here. // =(Okay, that's it for today.) // =(Okay, I'm done talking (writing) now. )
Bye~ Good night!

(Mar 09th 2011 22:14 ) <Tonight, I am a bit tired now.>
Wowooo.....It`s a late night. So~~~~?
~~~~This night, I am a little tired/
=I feel a bit tired now./
=Tonight, I am a bit tired now. /
=Tired late at night/
=I am a bit tired tonight./

I went out in the morning,
and in the afternoon(=this afternoon) I went to the army to see my son off.
I droved my son to his military base / military camp.
We ate kalguksu (칼국수:handmade chopped noodles ) nearby the army,
and I drove alone to my home.
So........................
That`s all, just till this.
=(Okay, that's it for today.)
=(Okay, I'm done talking (writing) now. )
Bye~ Good night!

(Mar 06th 2012 21:19 )<Writing an entry with the phone>==Writing an entry with the phone is not easy for me.However there's no other better way. Because I feel tired and I am lying down on the bed right now.I think I'd better sleep soon, perhaps right now!

Q: "My husband holds extremely different political views from mine. He believes in war, guns, Fox News, and Sarah Palin. I do not. How do I constructively handle our differences?"

A: Viewpoints, opinions, and mental positions are all thoughts – the thought says "this is how it is", it is some kind of judgment or perspective on things. To be identified with a mental position is to derive your sense of self from that mental position. It's a substitute identity, form identity, ego – a substitute for your true identity which is formless and has nothing to do with any thought – but is consciousness itself.

This is a good opportunity for not giving up your thoughts – you are not required to watch Fox News, but if he is there watching Fox News, and the sound is there filling the house, you can either ask him to turn it down or close the door, or surrender to what is, or walk out, or ask him to walk out. There are many choices, other than negativity. The main thing is mental positions – to withdraw your identification. You can still have your position, but there's no ‘self' in it anymore – it does not supply your sense of identity. Then you can allow somebody else to have their mental position. Perhaps you can then discover that beyond both your and your husband's mental positions – there is something beyond, where you are not in conflict. Beyond his thoughts and your thoughts – maybe you can find that place.
Your first responsibility is not to identify with a position. Everybody has to practice that one way or another. It's a beautiful practice. It's expressed in Zen. I don't remember who said it, some Zen master said, "Don't seek for the truth – just cease cherishing opinions". And that's enough. Many spiritually inclined people look for the ‘truth' – hopefully at some point within, but first it starts outside. But don't look for the truth, not even within, just stop cherishing opinions. Cherishing, not having. It doesn't say stop having opinions, because that would be difficult – maybe a very advanced practice. Even I have some opinions, about Fox News, and so on – but cherishing means to identify with the opinion, to be in the thought. And then it gives you your sense of "I". Then anybody who has a different or conflicting position becomes a kind of enemy. Then you're trapped in form. This is a very common human condition. Most humans on the planet derive their identity from their thoughts. So the thought is invested with self. Maybe this is another way of speaking about the essential truth of the Buddha, who discovered that this sense of ‘self' is an illusion. You derive your sense of self from form – because every thought is a thought-form. It's an energy field.
If this were your only spiritual practice, it would be enough. If you can try, for example, talking to the questioner, your husband can then become your spiritual teacher because he can continuously remind you not to be identified with mental positions. Then, you don't resist the other person's mental position, because you don't need to – you allow it to be. You can even allow your own mental position to be. If you resist someone else's mental position, you only strengthen it. Try arguing with him about Fox News or Sarah Palin, and you'll see what I mean.
You may find the miracle that it can happen quite easily, that somebody's mental position either weakens or it may even dissolve when it's not resisted – because it needs resistance to strengthen itself, and to gain energy through fighting another. It's quite miraculous to see how it can happen when it's not resisted, when it is allowed: "I know that's what you think, and that's okay".

Inspiring Story

My story of miraculous healing is one that I've told very few people. Maybe it's because I think that it seems too "out there", or maybe (and more likely), I still struggle to believe that it happened to me, because it doesn't make sense and I can't explain it at a physical level.
In April 2009, I began my second season of pro beach volleyball. The previous year, my partner and I had been extremely successful and so we began the season ranked #1 in the AVP qualifier. I had spent most of the off-season training like crazy for the big year I was predicting. To take my game to the next level, I decided to throw out all of the training methods and principles that had taken me to this place, and replace them with a new training method that I believed had the potential to take me to the top. Looking back on this choice, it seems crazy. What I was doing was working but for some reason, I was worried it wasn't enough.
So April rolled around, and our season was starting in two weeks. I was nervous, excited, unsure, and even though I'd been training like crazy for 7 months, I didn't really feel quite ready. I'm not sure what the missing link was, but I worked harder and harder. I worked so much one week that while in the gym I was doing a really tough workout and something happened in my body. It wasn't much, just this sense that I wasn't in control of it. It was as though I had met with exhaustion. After what I thought was the end of a brutal workout, a coach gave me one more drill to do. I remember having this total repulsion to doing it, which was so unlike me. But I did it anyways, because I thought that's what champions did.
It's probably not too hard to figure out what happened next – and I finished the workout with such acute pain in my left foot that I went home and iced it three times. I woke up and did the same thing, and continued that regime of icing 6-8 times a day for the next three months. Sure, I couldn't walk for the first hour I was awake, but if I was just a little stronger, more committed, and stricter about my diet then it would all be okay, right? I called my injury "a little plantar fasciitis" (based on my internet research) and struggled through three of the most painful and frustrating months of my life, quietly trying remedies like massage and acupuncture to heal myself.
I don't think that anyone can ever understand what long term pain can do to a person's sense of self and their happiness until they go through it. It was a dark time for me, where I felt hopelessly alone, and I alienated myself from my coaches, partner, friends and family because I thought I had disappointed them. I can honestly say that there was not one person that knew what I was going through. To me, injury was weakness and I was doing everything I could to prevent looking that way, including continuing to train nine times a week and play a tournament each weekend.
The following September, after I finally told my mom what was going on, she insisted I come home to see one of the best orthopedic surgeons in the country. I found out that I had so many tears in my plantar fascia that the doctors stopped counting. My plantar fascia had literally been tearing itself apart and was 3x the width it should have been as a result of my continuing to play on it. After getting that news, for the first time I allowed myself to truly feel the pain, the numbing, the throbbing in my foot and I cried for hours. Less because of the diagnosis- although of course I knew that my life was about to change significantly. There was this feeling of relief, that there was finally truth around this whole situation that really impacted me. In finding out the truth, I had freedom to be honest about what happened last season, and in some small way, it gave me the opportunity to stopped blaming myself.
This all being said, with the removal of the blame I had put onto myself for having such a rough season, I replaced it with this belief that I deserved the injury. I got very adamant that I SHOULD have gone to a doctor, SHOULD have taken time off at the beginning, and SHOULDN'T have changed my training program. And I believed that because I had done so much damage, the path to health would be a long and steep one. I bought into the prognosis. I was injured. I owned being injured like it was my name – I'm Leah, and I'm injured. And I kept saying it and saying it – mostly to describe why I was back home in Vancouver, why my season had sucked and why I didn't know what was next. Because as soon as I said it I was off the hook and people "understood". It really gave me an opportunity to step back and just let life take me... and take me it did.
I underwent a new therapy starting in October. It was a painful injection of glucose into the site of the tears that stimulates inflammation and healing. By February I had gone through 4 injections and had only a little bit of improvement. I was frustrated and really resigned to the fact that nothing was working. Then, things changed. One day, I woke up unable to move my foot. It was totally numb to the touch, and I could feel nerve damage through the bottom of it. It was the worst it had ever been and within a week I had a new diagnosis – I had re-torn it completely, and had also compressed all of the nerve endings in my foot. I was back at square one.
I'm not sure how to describe the next 24 hours except that it was the closest to depression that I think I am capable of getting to. By myself I cried, yelled, blamed, fought. And when it was all over, I just laid there, in nothingness. It was as if every feeling had been used up and this extreme peace came over me. In this peace, I began creating. I imagined how health would feel, what it looked like, who I had to be to have it. I got this really strong image of a sparkling white light, regenerating and healing my body with every breath in. It was so clear that it felt real, like I was pulling it in from an outside source.
For the next four weeks I was a ghost to the people in my life. I had one thing on my mind, and it was regeneration. Every movement I made I was connected to the feeling of health, every morsel of food I put into my mouth, I imagined giving my body energy to heal, and during workouts, I would picture breathing in white sparkling light that would restore my foot back to health. I can barely remember those four weeks because I was totally in the zone. Nothing could faze me as I was on a mission – and I wasn't attached to a specific result, just who I wanted to be in the process, and what I wanted to feel like. My joy came from noticing what I was able to do in a workout, knowing I had a team of doctors enrolled in my recovery, in finding moments and opportunities to help my body heal just a little bit easier. I had a newfound appreciation and love for myself, and I spent most of the day feeling very grateful. I was especially grateful for the experience of being injured, as crazy as that sounds. I decided and completely believed that I was lucky to have gotten injured. It caused me to take a step back to reflect on why I play volleyball, to have the opportunity to take care of myself (because this injury was just a symptom of me not taking care of myself on a larger scale), and to truly connect with others once again.
I knew that no matter what happened or when I would be healed, I would be okay. And then, at about five weeks, I realized something. I hadn't felt pain in a while. In fact, I couldn't even say when the last time was, as I hadn't been paying attention to that, I had been paying attention to the process and had been so busy creating the feeling of health that I didn't realize that it was already present! A week later I went to the doctor for an ultrasound and injection, and was shocked to read an email later in the day from the doctor that said, "there are no visible signs of a tear". I read and reread it over and over. In six weeks I had completely healed my foot. The impossible was possible.
I think that this quote signifies why my injury continued to persist for as long as it did...

"Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future." - Fulton Oursler

The second I let go of the past, and let go of the future, and just totally engaged myself in the moment... in what I could do right NOW, I was healed. Was it the white light I imagined, or the massage, or the physiotherapy? That had something to do with it for sure, but the truth as I know it is that it was about being okay with what is. There was no other way than the way it was, and I appreciated that and worked with it. At the end of the day, it's about gratitude. True, complete gratitude for whatever life brings us. By accepting it all, a path is created where anything is possible.

Inspirational Quotes

"If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave."

"Wisdom arises through the simple act of giving someone or something your full attention. Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness itself. It joins the perceiver and the perceived in a unifying field of awareness. It is the healer of separation."

"Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without."

（Mar 5th 2012） The entry below is from one of last year's entries. Some kind friends helped me corrected my mistakes. This time, I am trying to write it again for practice. (to review/refresh). However, if I have any other mistakes, please correct them. Thank you for revising them anyway!

（Mar 11th 2011） 《Japan earthquake and Tsunami. /일본의 지진과해일/本的地震 和海啸》>>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Today many of my lang-8 friends wrote and talked about the earthquake and tsunami Japan that happened today. • Just a moment ago, I was also watching the video on the news. • Wooo, it`s so terrible, and really scary}! • The newscaster said that it `s the biggest earthquake in Japanese history, and hit 8.8 on the Richter scale. *{Richter리히터 스케일(지진의 진도(震度) 척도, 1-10까지 있음)}

• Experts predict that this tsunami will effect countries close to Japan, and that, by about 6:00 tomorrow, Taiwan also will be affected by this tsunami . • The countries near Japan and the Pacific coast are now on high alert -*{a•lert. …에 경보를발하다}-

• I saw the footage of the Sendai airport being submerged by the waves on the news. • There are many Japanese people waiting for their flights now at the InChun airport. • Currently all air planes bound for Japan have been grounded. ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ

-*a train bound for Paris파리행 기차/outward-bound외국행의/north-bound북행 의
• This is because the Tokyo Narita Airport and Haneda Airport are partially(부분적으 로) closed.
• It was also broadcast that the Tokyo subways and electric railways were suspended(중지하다

I was bitten by a mosquito and I came up in a bump;

I'm in a league of my own.
I am in a league which has only one member: me.

The expression is "over easy" for the eggs and "to flip over the omelette"

Take a ride on the carousel.

You have to put your T-shirt back on right. It's inside-out.

You are wearing your t-shirt inside out. You should flip it. You should turn it.

Your shirt is inside-out.
You need to turn it inside-out.

Do you use coasters to set your drinks on?
Why won't guests use coasters?

The boy tugged at his mother's dress so she would pick him up

We must be careful because there is water on the floor and it is slippery.

Be careful, slippery floor.

Have a good night and sleep tight!

- Good Night, sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite. If they do, call me.

I slept like a log.

Whereupon you tickle the child to simulate bedbugs biting.

This dog doesn't like to be stroked

Can I pet your dog?

My dog likes it if you pet him behind the ears

When you know a certain person or situation is likely to trigger your Painbody, is it better to avoid them altogether or is it helpful to the development of Consciousness to stay with them and observe your Painbodies?

There is no clear answer to that - it depends on the situation. In some situations you cannot even walk away. There may be a situation at work, or wherever, that may require you to be there at that moment, and all you can do is be present with your Painbody. In other situations it may be better to walk out instead of being engaged in useless argumentation or conflict; sometimes it may be better to walk out of a situation and let someone else's Painbody exhaust itself rather than stay with that person. Nobody can give you a clear guideline of whether this is right or that is right, you have to take individual situations and feel what is right to do.

There is no way of avoiding the Painbody altogether. If you live in this world, there will always be situations in your life [that trigger it], unless you are a complete hermit. Even if you are a complete hermit, it may happen because your own Painbody may arise as a result of certain thoughts that may trigger it. There is no way to avoid encountering Painbodies. And certainly you cannot run away every time you encounter someone else's Painbody. Your spiritual practice will have to be a heightening of presence as soon as you notice somebody close to you who is being drawn into that deep unconsciousness that is the identification with the Painbody.

The intensity of Presence needs to arise so that you can counteract the deep, powerful pull of unconsciousness of the other person's Painbody, that wants your Painbody to react - it wants an emotional reaction from you. It's like a dimmer switch, you need to turn the dimmer switch up so that you become intensely present while the other person's Painbody is trying to get some kind of reaction from you. It's a very subtle thing, it can easily be confused with closing down or shutting yourself off from the other person.

When I talk about intense Presence, it has nothing to do with closing yourself to the other person, shutting down - this is energetically completely different. If you close down and you say "nothing can touch me now, I am not going to react", then you shut off. You might fool yourself into believing that you are so present that nothing can touch you. You have created a barrier between yourself and the other person. That's not what I mean by intensification of Presence. With intensification of Presence, there is a complete openness toward your surroundings, toward the Other, but there is that high degree of alertness, and that alertness is open towards what is. After a while you will find that you do that automatically, it's not a decision-making process.

Whenever there is a pull of unconsciousness in a situation, you find yourself becoming more alert and awake. When you find yourself being challenged, you will find yourself becoming more alert – like the light is being turned up. That's wonderful, because then it means that whatever the challenge may be, its function is to push you into intensified Presence. That's the only way you can not be drawn into somebody else's Painbody.

Once you realize that this is possible, you will find in situations the intensity of Presence inside you will vary. It becomes very intense the moment you are challenged by a difficult situation. Immediately you find, rather than being pulled into unconsciousness by a challenge, which is the case for most people, you intensify your presence.

Inspiring Story

Hello Eckhart and Friends,

I've been on this journey all my 40 years but didn't realize everything connected until recent years. When I was a child I already knew things but could never really explain to anyone "how" I knew them. I thought it was "common sense" or that everyone was like me and just knew them intuitively too. After a while though I began to feel like I was strange and was told by family and friends that I was strange because I always had a positive attitude no matter what happened in my life. I remember always getting yelled at by my parents and my siblings when they were upset because I would tell them "everything will be alright" "its okay -- not a problem" in an attempt to comfort them but it only made them more upset -- at the time I didn't understand why. People blew me off because they thought I was too naive and didn't know what I was talking about when I said that they had the power to control what happens in their lives. That it was easy to make the right choices in life. No one believed me but I KNEW it worked this way for me and couldn't make sense that this was not true for everyone as long as they put their minds to it.

My parents ignored me as child so my childhood was mostly spent in my bedroom alone. I can reflect back now and realize that these were my meditation moments which caused me to become very insightful at an early age. I truly believe this is what allowed me to know the truth that was already in me because I was not distracted by "outside influences". I see it now as a blessing in disguise.

As a working adult dealing with customers, I remember speaking with people and striving to make them laugh to chisel away at the wall people had up initially. I remember thinking to myself that I prefer to talk with the YOU that laughs with your family and friends -- not the YOU that arms yourself when speaking to a stranger. It always worked. I recognized these differences within individuals even then, but didn't realize what it was.

Eckhart's teachings cast a huge light for me. I am very much at peace, present and free. I was a very positive and understanding person before, but now I truly understand others when they are upset about something. With the knowledge I have now about egos, this serves me well in my marriage, with friends and co-workers. My family still thinks I'm weird. I hope one day they will connect with Eckhart's message but I don't force it on them.

Thank you, Eckhart, for helping me make sense of everything. My life is so much richer for it as well as the lives of those I come in contact with every day. I truly enjoy the journey and passing the teachings on to others.

Raquel Walter
Sterling, VA

Inspirational Quotes

"When you need to use your mind, and particularly when a creative solution is needed, oscillate every few minutes or so between thought and stillness, between mind and no-mind."

"When you look upon another and feel great love or when you contemplate beauty in nature and respond deeply, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature."

"Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you."

But if this is true, there's good reason to question their claim to outsized compensation when times are good. Surely the end of the cold war, the globalization of trade and capital markets, the rise of personal computers and the internet, and a host of other factors help explain the success of the financial industry during it run in the 1990s and in the early years of the twenty-first century.
In 2007, CEOs at major U.S. corporations were paid 344 times the pay of the average worker. On what grounds, if any, do executives deserve to make that much more than their employees? Most of them work hard and bring talent to their work. But consider this: in 1980, CEOs earned only 42times what their workers did. Were executives less talented and hardworking in 1980 than they are today? Or do pay differentials reflect contingencies unrelated to talents and skills?
Or compare the level of executive compensation in the United States with that in other countries. CEOs at top U.S companies earn an average of $13.3 million per year (uisng 2004-2006 data), compared to $6.6million for European chief executives and $1.5million for CEOs in japan. Are American executive twice as deserving as their Europen counterparts, and nine times as deserving as japanese CEOs? Or do these difference also reflect factor unrelated to the effort and talent that executives bring to their jobs?
The bailout outrage that gripped the United States in early 2009 expressed the widely held view that people who wreck the companies they run with risky investments don't deserve to be rewarded with millions of dollars in bonuses. But the argument over the bonuses raises questions about who deserves what when times are good. Do the successful deserve the bounty that markets bestow upon them or doe that bounty depend on factors beyound their control? And what are the implications for the mutual obligations of citizens -- in good times and hard times? Whether the financial crisis will prompt public debate on these broader questions remains to be seen.

If that's right, it remains to ask whether this view of the bailouts was justified. Were the CEOs and top executives of the big banks and investment firms really to blame for the financial crisis? Many of the executives didn't think so. Testifying before congressional committees investigating the financial crisis, they insisted they had done all they could with the information available to them. The former chief executive of Bear Stearns, a Wall Street investment firm that collapsed in 2008, said he'd pondered long and hard wherher he could have done anyhing differently. He concluded he'd done all he could. "I just simply have not been able to come up with anything... that would have made a difference to the situation we faced."
Other CEOs of failed companies agreed, insisting that they were victims "of a financial tsunami" beyond their control. A similar attitude extended to young readers, who had a hard time understanding the public's fury about their bonuses. "There's no sympathy for us anywhere," a Wall Street trader told a reporter for vanity fair. "but it's not as if we weren't working hard."
The tsunami metaphor became part of bailout vernacular, especially in financial circles. If the executives are right that the failure of their companies was due to larger economic forces, not their own dcisions, this would explain why they didn't express the remorse that Senator Grassley wanted to hear. But it also raises a far-reacing question about failure, success, and justice.
If big, systemic economic forces account for the disastrous loses of 2008 and 2009, couldn't it be argued that they also account for the dazzling gains of earlier years? if the weather is to blame for the bad years , how can it be that the talent, wisdon, and hard work of bankers, traders, and Wall Street executives are responsible for the stupendous returns that occurred when the sun was shining?
Confronted with public outrage over paying bonuses for failure, the CEOs argued that financial returns are not wholly their own doing, but the product of forces beyond their control. They may have a point.