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This memoir is an interesting blend of history and fantasy, of reality and poetry, of high-mindedness with the occasional carnality thrown in...I feel as though - not just for the fact of the words, but also for the ebb and flow of thought direction - I have been wandering the nerve-endings of your brain. Your history is there, certainly, but slathered with other gravies: poetry, philosophy, passion, and dispassion. And a great deal of playfulness. I believe there is something very Zen-'Masterish' about the angled prose you set down in this writing, a wild-and-crazy trip, man. While I was reading your history with 'C' (cosmos), I was reminded of these lines that Rumi wrote sometime in the mid-1200s: I would love to kiss you(The price of kissing is my life)Now my loving is running toward my lifeShouting, "What a bargain,Let's buy it!" - Dennis O'Keefe, American Poet

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Publié par	Austin Macauley Publishers
Date de parution	30 août 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781645367925
Langue	English

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Cosmian
Lee Tae-Sang
Austin Macauley Publishers
2019-08-30
Cosmian About the Author Dedication Copyright Information © Preface Foreword Chapter I This Is Life Chapter II Time Travel Chapter III The First Lady, Mother She, the Mother, Is the Light Chapter IV The Second Lady, Athena She, the Goddess, Seeks Cosmos in Chaos Chapter V The Third Lady, Truth/Goodness/Beauty She, the True/Good/Beautiful, Desires the Truth Chapter VI The Fourth Lady, Cosmos She, the Cosmos, Is the Taste of Heaven Chapter VII The Fifth Lady, Chaos She, the Chaos, Is the Taste of Hell Chapter VIII The Sixth Lady, United Kingdom She, the United Kingdom, Is a Strange and Beautiful Land of Goblins Chapter IX The Seventh Lady, Child She, the Child, Sings Songs of Cosmic Music Chapter X The Eighth Lady, Arainbow She, the Arainbow, Is Getting Arainbow Chapter XI The Ninth Lady, Cosmian She, the Cosmian, Is on a Cosmic Journey Chapter XII Saudade for S(e)oul Endnote Afternote
About the Author
Lee Tae-Sang is a journalist/columnist and a published author of twenty-four books. He translated Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet , The Garden of the Prophet, Spirits Rebellious, Nymphs of the Valley, and Thomas Mann’s Transposed Heads into Korean. He has worked within the publishing industry in both Korea and England and is the founder of the online newspaper, Cosmian News . He studied Philosophy and Religion and has owned several businesses.
As a court interpreter for the city of New York for the past seventeen years, he has found the ideal place to reflect on the path of his unpredictable, global life and observe the present human condition.
Dedication
To my grandchildren:
Elijah, Theodore, and Julia.
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Lee, Tae-Sang
Cosmian
ISBN 9781643784816 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781643784823 (Hardback)
ISBN 9781645367925 (ePub e-book)
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The main category of the book — BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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Preface
All of us, born on this star called the planet earth to leave after a short stay, each living with whatever kind of love, in whatever style of life, in whatever color, shape, and form, in one’s own way, each can say something special for one sentence, as different from each other. And yet if we were to find one common denominator, could it not be that ‘we all are Cosmians?’ So on this proposition that ‘we all are Cosmians,’ I am inviting each one of you to share that sentence of yours. Each will be the song of a pearl-like life, or rather of a rainbow-like love.
‘Cosmian’ is one of two newly coined words by me and the other one is ‘Arainbow.’ That is to be right on the rainbow itself, instead of just beholding or pursuing it.
Cosmian News , a daily, global online newspaper, was launched on July 10th, 2018, in Seoul, Korea. Its mission is to enlighten, inspire and uplift us all, regardless of nationality, race, sex, etc.; to realize that each and every one of us is a ‘seeker’ on one’s own cosmic journey; and to turn our chaotic world into the cosmos of harmony, love and peace. To be such an aspiring Cosmian is to be Arainbow. So let’s all be Cosmians Arainbow .
“If each one of us is indeed a micro-cosmos reflecting a macro-cosmos, all that existed in the past, all that exists at present and all that will exist in the future, we’re all in it together, all on our separate journeys to realize this. May every one of us be the sea of cosmos!” quoted from Mr. Lee Tae-Sang’s book Cosmos Cantata (Mayhaven Publishing, Inc. 2013)
Foreword
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and The Myth of Meritocracy by Robert H. Frank, which came out in 2017, was recently translated and published in Korean, entitled ‘To the Successful by the Virtue of Competence and Endeavor.’
In this book, the author, a professor of economics at Cornell University, argues that the successful tend to underestimate the role that chance plays. The issue is whether hard work or luck that decides the outcome of success. This may sound like there’s no other option, but I’d like to present the third option one can take. Whatever and how many options there are, what you decide to take is up to your choice. Isn’t it?
All the while living my life for eighty-two years, I’ve never even dreamed that there would be a day like today, one day. Looking back, had I not lost my first love almost sixty years ago, I could not have come to realize that I and all others, all beings, were ‘cosmians’ born ‘arainbow’ from the Cosmos. A young boy who happened to fall in love with the microcosmos of a flower ended up embracing the whole macrocosmos.
Although everyone encounters, from time to time, both blessings and curses in disguise, doesn’t it make all the difference depending, no matter whether it’s a ‘fortune’ or a ‘misfortune,’ on what one makes it to be, after all? We see all the time the fall of the most powerful and successful from the pinnacle of power and success, while some ‘hopeless’ and ‘helpless’ losers rise from the ashes of despair and failures, like a phoenix.
I’d like to share a bit of my most recent experience. In September of 2017, two books “ 39 Project" and” Tae-Mi Sa-Byun“* were published and appeared on The Recommended List of Books for Readers in Their Twenties in Korea. "39 Project" is an essay collection by 39 creative, free-spirited, trailblazing young people. "Tae-Mi" (a combination of the first names of the co-authors, namely Lee Tae -Sang and Kim Mi -Rae)” Sa-Byun"* (meaning Dialectic Dialogue) has the subtitle ‘Thought Romance Between An 80-Year-Old Man and A 24-Year-Old Girl.’ I commissioned this very promising young entrepreneur who had pulled off these two great surprise feats of publishing success to launch a new quarterly ‘Cosmian’ in the same spirit and vein of the now defunct, very popular intellectual monthly magazine ‘Ssassanggye’ (meaning The World of Thoughts) in March, 2018. Although this project was aborted, it was replaced by another much more meaningful and visionary global online daily newspaper, The Cosmian News http://www.cosmiannews.com .
In 2018, my Korean publisher, Ms. Jeon Seungseon, Poet, Novelist, and Playwright, started writing a nonfiction narrative of my life, ‘Cosmian’ (in Korean), and it was published on June 1, 2018. So I contacted Ms. Deborah Smith, the English translator of Korean novelist Han Kang’s novel ‘The Vegetarian,’ which won The Man Booker International Prize in 2016. Since my approach was unsuccessful, I decided to translate it into English myself, revising and rewriting it in my own words.
Furthermore, a Cosmian Festival in celebration of the inauguration of The Cosmian News was held in Seoul, Korea, on October 27, 2018. On October 19, 2019, the First Cosmian Prize will be awarded to the top two non-fiction narrative essay contest winners with 7 million won (Korean currency, equivalent to about $7,000) for the grand prize and 3 million won for the gold prize. The Second Cosmian Festival will take place in Pyongchang, Korea, in the fall of 2020, on the campus of Cosmian University at its inauguration, Cosmos willing. Cosmian University may include Cosmian School of Music and Cosmian Orchestra, again Cosmos willing.
I do agree with Buddha:
“With our thoughts, we make the world.”
A new album, Cosmian Song: As Heart Beats by Korean singer-songwriter, Navid, popular in China, Japan, and Korea, was issued on June 30, 2019. The lyrics of the title song of the album was written by Ms. Jeon Seungseon.
Therefore, as the saying goes, if not this, someone or something far better will turn up, sooner or later, if one never ceases to look for what one wants. I’m reminded of a comment confided by the late V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018), winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature, who was born in Trinidad in a family with Indian roots and just passed away. “I knew the door I wanted. I knocked.”
He must have meant to say that there are many doors. If one door doesn’t open, I’ll knock another. If another door still doesn’t, I’ll knock yet another, until one opens.
At the same time, we’d better recall Steve Jobs’ motto:
“The journey (itself) is the reward.”
It is tough to accept the hard truths of life but we all have to accept them anyway. One is that for anything to happen anytime anywhere, the whole Cosmos has to conspire. Won’t it be?
Anyway, I concur with Toni Morrison:
“At some point in life world’s beauty becomes enough.”
Chapter I

This Is Life
I’m getting ready to end my visit to earth. It’s about time to get off the roller coaster of life on this planet and resume my cosmic journey. Now in my eighties, life to me has been an amazing, mysterious, and wonderful game. Although I don’t know on whose invitation I came, I came without an inkling of how I came here, but I’ve lived with all my heart and soul, loving every moment to the fullest. I can now confess that the source of the love I felt for each breath was the Lady of my life.
I am going to