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Universities are halls of intellect for exploring the truth and are the highest educational institutions that nurture the leaders who will guide the future of our society. Despite changes in the times and environment, this role of universities must be consistently maintained and developed. Today, we are exploring how Mind Subtraction meditation is transforming university campuses to focus on character and happiness! ✨
🌅 The Need for Change in University Education
Recently, a major concern regarding university education is that universities are degenerating into employment training institutions rather than places for truth exploration.
- There is growing worry about producing knowledge elites with dried-up characters who cause confusion in society rather than helping it.
- The new era demands changes in universities, along with progressive reforms that meet the changing times and the recovery of the university’s original role and status.
- To achieve this, diverse cooperation and efforts both inside and outside the university are necessary.
- Efforts to promote students’ emotional stability, enhance their happiness, and grow their sense of community for the sake of people and society must precede successful academic reforms.
🦋 The Power of Mind Subtraction Meditation for Students
Current university students are a generation that has grown up under more pressure for studies and anxiety about the future than any other. Mind Subtraction meditation education serves as an excellent alternative for this generation.
- This meditation relieves the negative mind accumulated within and transforms it into a positive mind.
- It allows individuals to escape from suppressed minds or fixed ideas to recover the large, free mind of their true nature.
- It serves to cultivate university students’ character, stabilize their emotions, enhance their happiness, and develop their potential.
- The practice fosters the abilities of creativity, convergence, communication, and harmony required as core competencies in the future era.
This academic society has developed various meditation education programs to cultivate the character, develop the potential, and enhance the happiness of university students. These programs have been applied and practiced in university liberal arts and major courses, special lectures, and special camp programs.
🏫 Real-World University Meditation Education Cases
Let’s take a look at how several prestigious universities are already integrating this into their curriculum!
- University of Seoul: In 2024, Professor Kim Yoon-ho taught an Elective General Education course called “Organizational Life and Emptying the Mind” for 40 students.
- Pusan National University: In 2024, Professor Lee Sang-ryul taught “Meditation and Leadership” as a Pre-med Major Requirement for 125 students.
- Korea National University of Transportation: In 2023, Professor Lee In-soo taught “Happy Emergency Medical Technician” as an Emergency Medical Services Major Requirement for 33 students.
- Kunsan National University: In 2022, Professor Yoo Yang-kyung instructed a Nursing Master’s Program Major Elective titled “Stress and Nursing” for 10 students.
- Sungshin Women’s University: In 2019, Professor Jeon Min-young taught “Medical Communication Enhanced with Self-Reflection” for 30 Global Medicine students.
- KAIST: Starting April 28, 2018, Professor Lee Deok-ju instructed a Coursera Online Course titled “Meditation, A way to Achieve your Goals in Your Life”.
- Woosong University: In the first semester of 2017, 23 instructors from the Academic Society for Human Completion taught “Global Leadership” as a Required General Education course for 1,700 freshmen.
- Chung-Ang University: From December 19–20, 2019, Professor Yun Mi-ra led a Customized Employment Camp for 48 3rd-year Nursing students.
☕ Supporting Our Educators: Professor Support Business
The society also operates a meditation camp program for the healing, reflection, stress relief, and capacity building of professors who lead university education. In December 2019, the first ‘Meditation Camp for University Professors’ was successfully held in cooperation with the Human Completion Center, a specialized meditation education institution.
By supporting both students and professors, we can truly transform the future of education! 🕊️
