📖 Introduction
Many people spend years chasing happiness through achievement, success, travel, relationships, money, hobbies, and external goals — yet still feel emotionally exhausted, empty, restless, and dissatisfied inside.
Even when life appears stable externally, the mind can remain trapped in endless comparison, stress, complaints, anxiety, future worries, pressure, dissatisfaction, and emotional fatigue.
This deeply reflective meditation testimonial shares the story of CH M., an employee at Samsung Techwin who reached a major turning point after years of emotional exhaustion, dissatisfaction with work, future anxiety, attachment, and constant mental restlessness.
Although he searched for happiness through hobbies, travel, and dreams about the future, nothing truly brought peace.
Through meditation and sincere self-reflection, he gradually realized that the true source of suffering was not his work or circumstances themselves, but the endless complaints, desires, expectations, laziness, attachment, and dissatisfaction stored inside his own mind.
As he learned to let go of those minds through meditation, something remarkable happened:
His work became lighter.
Relationships became easier.
His mind became spacious and peaceful.
And for the first time, he discovered a happiness far deeper than temporary pleasure.
This meditation testimonial beautifully explores emotional healing, stress relief, burnout recovery, gratitude, mindfulness, work-life balance, inner peace, emotional freedom, and discovering true happiness through meditation.
💬 Meditation Testimonial: “A Happiness Beyond Happiness — Finding True Peace and Spaciousness”
By CH M. | Employee at Samsung
⚠️ “My Life Felt Dry and Meaningless”
Five years ago, I reached a turning point in my life.
At the time, I had already been working for eleven years, and I desperately felt that something in my life needed to change.
My daily routine had become dry and meaningless.
I tried traveling as a hobby.
I exercised.
I searched for enjoyment in different ways.
But my resistance toward work continued growing larger and larger until it felt like an enormous wall blocking my life.
I worked in a design department, and I constantly felt pressured to work faster.
My mind never relaxed.
I lived in continuous tension.
At the same time, I constantly complained:
“This job doesn’t suit me.”
And I endlessly fantasized about escaping my reality.
🌧️ “I Spent Entire Weekends Lying Around Like a Corpse”
Thoughts like these constantly filled my mind:
- “This isn’t what I truly want to do.”
- “I don’t have time to waste doing this.”
- “How long do I have to keep living like this?”
My mind was never present.
It constantly floated somewhere in the future.
As a result, even the smallest tasks felt exhausting and irritating.
By the weekends, both my body and mind were completely drained.
I often spent entire days lying in my room doing absolutely nothing — almost like “playing dead.”
At the time, I was already well past the typical age people expected marriage.
That Chuseok holiday, even though I didn’t feel like going home, I reluctantly visited my parents.
Naturally, I received the usual question:
“Why aren’t you married yet?”
But unexpectedly, another “gift” was waiting for me as well.
While chatting with my family, my brother-in-law listened to my endless complaints and finally said:
“Why don’t you try this meditation?”
Then he pulled up the website for me.
That was how I first began.
🌱 “As I Emptied My Mind, My Problems Began Untangling”
For thirty-three years, I had spent my entire life only accumulating things mentally.
But as I began emptying those minds one by one through this meditation, the tangled problems inside me slowly began unraveling like loosened threads.
The person who constantly complained about having too much work eventually became someone who could finish everything while still feeling relaxed.
When I looked closely, I realized:
“The real problem had been my laziness.”
Before even starting work, I had already decided in my mind that it would be overwhelming.
Without realizing it, I also frequently disliked people simply because they didn’t fit my preferences, treating them irritably and impatiently.
But once I discarded those minds, something changed.
I gained the ability to think from other people’s perspectives.
And as my mind became lighter, my actions naturally became more energetic and diligent.
💞 “My Mind Gradually Expanded”
For most of my life, I believed happiness and money were directly connected.
I constantly dreamed about some ideal future and became attached to material things.
But as I gradually let go of those desires, I began loving each individual moment instead.
Before I realized it, gratitude toward the world naturally appeared on my face.
Even my thoughts about marriage changed dramatically.
Honestly, now I feel incredibly fortunate that I was still unmarried at the time.
If I had married while carrying all those attachments and desires, I would certainly have demanded countless things from my spouse in the name of “love.”
And whenever reality didn’t match my expectations, I would have become irritated and resentful.
Looking back, I realized I had been obsessed with marriage largely because of pride — both my own and my parents’.
Interestingly, my mother also began practicing this meditation that same year.
As she gradually let go of her attachment toward her children, our relationship became much more comfortable and peaceful.
Now I feel:
“Marriage should happen only when the mind no longer demands anything from the other person.”
✨ “Real Wealth Comes From an Expanded Mind”
After completing the first level of practice, I spent an entire week smiling constantly.
People around me kept asking:
- “Did something good happen?”
- “Are you getting married?”
Without realizing it, my awareness itself had begun expanding.
My mindset slowly shifted:
From “me” to “us.”
Before, I believed life depended entirely on competition and comparison.
But now I understand:
“Life can become abundant without competing against others at all.”
And the thing that made that realization possible was this meditation.
Today, many people judge whether someone is “living well” purely through material standards.
And people spend their entire lives carrying the heavy burden of trying to achieve that standard, believing stress and exhaustion are unavoidable.
But through practice, I came to understand:
“A truly wealthy person is someone whose mind has become large enough to embrace everything.”
🌌 “The Spaciousness of the Mind Is Like Empty Space in a Painting”
This meditation does far more than simply create happiness by emptying the mind.
It brings countless realizations.
The feeling is like the empty space inside traditional East Asian paintings:
A spaciousness within the mind itself.
That peace.
That openness.
If my mind had remained completely filled with endless greed and desires, I never would have been able to hear the true voice within.
I feel overwhelming gratitude toward my brother-in-law, who guided me toward this path during one of the most important moments of my life.
Even bowing deeply to him every day would not feel like enough gratitude.
These days, I actively encourage people around me to take:
“A journey into the mind.”
A journey called this meditation —
A journey back toward one’s true self.
