📖 INTRODUCTION
Many people spend their lives chasing an imagined version of themselves.
They dream of becoming successful, admired, talented, extraordinary, or “special,” believing that someday their lives will finally feel meaningful and complete.
But sometimes, the greater the fantasy becomes, the more painful reality begins to feel.
Constant comparison, unrealistic expectations, anxiety about the future, inferiority, self-centered thinking, and attachment to identity can gradually disconnect people from reality itself.
This meditation testimonial shares the story of HJ S., an office worker who spent much of his life lost inside imagination, fantasy, and the dream of becoming the “main character” of his own story.
Although his life outwardly appeared stable and successful, internally he constantly struggled with anxiety, emptiness, inferiority, and dissatisfaction with reality.
Through meditation and self-reflection, however, he gradually realized that the version of himself he had spent years trying to become was itself an illusion created by his own mind.
As he learned to let go of those false identities, fantasies, and self-centered perspectives, he says the world itself began to look completely different.
This meditation testimonial beautifully explores identity, self-discovery, fantasy, ego, anxiety, and the process of discovering genuine peace and reality through meditation.
💬 Meditation Testimonial: “This Meditation Made the World Look Completely Different”
From Living Inside Fantasy to Discovering Reality
By HJ S. | Office Worker
🎥 “I Wanted My Life to Feel Like a Movie”
Ever since I was young, I loved movies.
I wanted to become the hero in those films:
• Saving people
• Falling in love
• Becoming successful
• Even traveling through time
I would often get lost in imagination alone and imitate movie characters in real life.
I wanted my life to feel like a magnificent film.
I graduated from the high school I wanted, entered the university I dreamed of, and even had a relatively comfortable military life.
On the surface, my life looked successful and happy.
But internally, something felt deeply wrong.
😞 “The Gap Between Fantasy and Reality Made Me Miserable”
My mind was constantly filled with anxiety, inferiority, and guilt.
I worried endlessly about the future but rarely took real action toward it.
Inside my mind, I had created an imaginary future version of myself:
“the successful and impressive me.”
That fantasy protagonist kept growing larger and larger.
Like the main character in a movie, I always believed:
“Someday the miserable version of me will dramatically rise again and finally reach a happy ending.”
But ironically, those fantasies only made the real me feel even smaller and more pathetic.
I constantly thought:
“This weak and inadequate version of me cannot possibly be the real me.”
As the gap between fantasy and reality grew larger, I desperately wanted to discover my “true self” and live as that person.
Before beginning this meditation, my idea of the “real me” was:
someone who finds what they truly love, becomes excellent at it, turns it into a career, and lives successfully.
I believed discovering my talent meant discovering my true self.
Then, while serving in the military, I encountered a book about this meditation.
The book explained that Level 1 was a process for discovering one’s true self.
The very day I completed military service, I went directly to the main center and began practicing.
🌱 “I Realized I Had Been Living Inside a Fantasy Movie Starring Myself”
But this meditation was not about discovering:
“what kind of career would make me successful.”
Instead, it taught something much simpler:
if you discard the false self, the original true self naturally appears.
So I began actually discarding the false minds inside me.
And surprisingly, as I followed the method, I could genuinely verify the results within my own heart.
Every version of “myself” I had imagined was merely illusion.
And once those false selves were removed, something real finally revealed itself.
The first thing exposed was how delusional my imagined character truly was.
Throughout my life, I unconsciously believed:
“I am the main character of the world.”
Everything existed for me.
The world revolved around me.
Everyone else was merely supporting cast.
Even while pretending to be humble or kind, internally I believed I was somehow superior to others.
Whenever someone else was better than me, I dismissed it as meaningless.
But whenever I believed I was superior, I gave it enormous importance.
Even my concept of God revolved around myself.
God existed as a powerful supporting character for my personal story:
• Granting my wishes
• Protecting me
• Recognizing me
• Helping me succeed
• And eventually allowing me to live eternally in some glorious afterlife
🌌 “The Real World Is More Beautiful Than Any Fantasy”
My life had essentially become a movie I directed myself.
A personal mental world where I was both director and protagonist.
But the reason that protagonist always felt miserable was simple:
the movie itself did not actually exist.
It was pure illusion — a film without even physical film.
As I discarded both the false “me” and the mental film reels I had created, the true self finally became visible.
Only after removing the lifeless character trapped inside those imaginary films could my real nature appear.
And what appeared was something beyond description:
the universe before the universe,
the world before the world itself.
From that perspective, I could clearly see:
the movie called “my life” had never truly existed.
And neither had the character inside it.
As that realization deepened, the problems that had burdened my life gradually disappeared.
I gained genuine certainty in my heart about:
• Where we come from
• Why we live
• And where we ultimately go
☀️ “This Meditation Became the Greatest Gift Life Gave Me”
Even someone as self-centered as I had been was able to discover answers to life’s most important questions through this meditation.
There is honestly no way to fully express how incredible that feels.
This meditation became the most precious gift life has ever given me.
It opened my eyes to:
• How beautiful the world truly is
• And how precious every relationship and connection really is
Now, the real world feels far better than any imaginary movie I once dreamed about.
Far more beautiful.
Far more amazing.
