{"id":428,"date":"2023-08-22T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purelifepraha.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:41:45","slug":"what-is-soul-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelifepraha.com\/cs\/what-is-soul-awakening\/","title":{"rendered":"What is soul awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"428\" class=\"elementor elementor-428\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1f90f470 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default sc_fly_static\" data-id=\"1f90f470\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b425ca0 sc_content_align_inherit sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left sc_fly_static\" data-id=\"b425ca0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-574bff13 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"574bff13\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Zhuangzi said: \u201cI didn\u2019t want to be born, but suddenly I was born in this world; I didn\u2019t want to die, but suddenly the time for death came.\u201d To us, birth and death seem uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget_area sc_widget_video\"><aside class=\"widget widget_video\"><div id=\"sc_video_1026915322\" class=\"trx_addons_video_player with_cover hover_play\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/purelifepraha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/post34-copyright-840x499.jpg\" alt=\"Video cover\"><div class=\"video_mask\"><\/div><div class=\"video_hover\" data-video=\"&lt;iframe allow=&quot;autoplay&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/222893330?h=&amp;autoplay=1&quot; width=&quot;810&quot; height=&quot;456&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"><\/div><div class=\"video_embed video_frame\"><\/div><\/div><\/aside><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>In the film &lt;Hi Mom&gt;, when the mother knew that her daughter was going to the Theatre Academy, they cycled home with rapture but encountered a car accident on the way. The mother died. The daughter was separated from her loved one, so went from happiness to tragedy in an instant. Her sudden death became an eternal pain in the daughter\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Birth and death are impermanent<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are people so afraid of it? Because we lack the understanding of what birth and death are. After living in the material world for a long time, we get used to chasing after wealth, status, romantic love, career, etc. But we don\u2019t know that the material world is limited, and will eventually disappear. Death means we\u2019ll be separated from whatever we\u2019ve gained in the material world. Unfortunately, we haven\u2019t learned about the life system, or seen the reality-truth of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you thought about \u2018life after life?\u2019 Have you thought about whether there\u2019s a next stop after this human journey? Do you feel that there is? Do you know what difference it makes, knowing if there\u2019s a next stop or not? Do you know where you\u2019ll go for your next stop? Are you prepared for going to the next stop?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n  \n  <div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n    \n    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34343\" src=\"https:\/\/purelifepraha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/blog-soul-awakening01.png\" \/><\/figure>\n    \n  <\/div>\n  \n\n  \n  <div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n    \n    <p>We human beings not only have a body\u2014we are made of body, mind and soul. The body will die, and we will forget the feelings in our mind (happiness, anger, sorrow, worry and fear). But the soul is immortal. Therefore, for the soul, death is just the end of one life journey.<\/p>\n    \n\n    \n    <p>Since death is inevitable, what\u2019s the meaning of life? The famous Japanese entrepreneur Kazuo Inamori has a famous saying:<\/p>\n    \n  <\/div>\n  \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n  <p>No matter how rich or powerful you are, when your life is over, everything can only stay in this world, and only the soul will follow you to the next journey. Life is not a material feast but a cultivation of the soul, letting it be nobler at the curtain-call than at the beginning of the opening.<\/p>\n  <cite>Kazuo Inamori<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We are a soul, and our body is a carrier or vessel. After coming into this world (because of the body needing material support), materials become more and more important\u2014even when we\u2019ve already gained more than we need. We start to become limited by our old thinking patterns, lifestyle, habits and cognition: being rich and having status means success; eating meat is healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are driven by bodily feelings. We tend to see beautiful things, hear nice words, eat tasty food, etc. We are paranoid, entangled with anger, hatred, greed and contention. Our soul is wrapped in these \u201cintoxicants,\u201d then falls into a deep state of sleep. This state is similar to the story \u201cFish in the aquarium.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fish in the aquarium<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n  \n  <div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n    \n    <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34344\" src=\"https:\/\/purelifepraha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/blog-soul-awakening02.png\" \/><\/figure>\n    \n  <\/div>\n  \n\n  \n  <div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n    \n    <p>At first, when fish are captured from the sea and placed in an aquarium, they feel the limitation. They hope to return to the sea for a time, but soon lose hope.<\/p>\n    \n\n    \n    <p>The second generation of fish is born in the aquarium, and swim from west to east and from east to west every day. Gradually, they get used to life there, believing it\u2019s their home, not knowing that the sea is their original home.<\/p>\n    \n  <\/div>\n  \n<\/div>\n\n\n<!-- Continue normal flow -->\n\n\n<p>The third generation doesn\u2019t even talk about the sea anymore, because they\u2019ve become aquarium fish. Their grandfather keeps telling them they\u2019re from the sea and have to go back to the sea, but the sea has become merely a legend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n  <p>Our life is like the fish in the aquarium. Our body, mind and soul are confined in an aquarium.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Soul cultivation is the process of awakening from sleep. 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