Haemin

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Haemin Sunim (* 12. December 1973 in Daejeon , South Korea) is a Korean Zen - monk , writer and lecturer. He lives in Seoul and makes extensive lecture tours.

Life

Haemin Sunim emigrated to the United States to begin studying film at the University of California, Berkeley . He later studied comparative religion at Harvard and psychology at Princeton .

He then taught as a professor at a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts. He returned to Korea to devote himself to Buddhism and spirituality. There he spent several years at Yonghwasa Monastery in Incheon , where he was tutored by a Seon master.

From a young age he became interested in spiritual questions such as what happens after death and studied the books of Krishnamurti in high school .

Haemin is also known as a Twitter monk because he reaches more than 1.3 million people with his tweets. Initially he wrote about the weather and what he ate on social media until he started sharing his experiences and thoughts with others. He was regularly asked for advice when someone's mother had died or someone wanted to get a divorce, but also when the neighbor was annoying with his loud music, which inspired him to help. This was so popular that the idea for a book arose.

In 2012 his book The only way to see beautiful things is when you walk slowly in Korea, where it was number one on the bestseller list for 41 weeks. Translations into Chinese, Japanese, Thai, French, English and German followed. The book has now sold more than 4 million times.

Haemin uses the sales proceeds to finance his lecture tours around the world and his School of Broken Hearts project , where cancer patients, the lonely, the bereaved and parents with disabled children find refuge. You can take part in dance and art therapy there.

Haemin teaches in a humorous way how to gain mindfulness and lose control through acceptance. The beauty of nature can be perceived again by pausing, and stress can be relieved immediately by smiling. Not believing in everything you think leaves space between your thoughts and yourself. Hence Haemin says: "You are the sky, not the clouds of your thoughts."

Haemin's key tips are:

  1. If you have ten seconds, at least you can smile.
  2. If you have a minute, you can take a few deep breaths to relax.
  3. When going home to family from work, you should be alone for fifteen minutes beforehand. You can z. B. get off the subway two stops earlier and walk, it relaxes and changes the mood. Whenever we care about others, we should take care of ourselves first.
  4. Every day you should write down three things for which you are / were grateful. After doing it for a month, you automatically start looking for something to be thankful for.

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SURNAME Haemin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sunim, Haemin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Korean Buddhist monk, writer and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Daejeon , South Korea