Book Title: The Trap of Time: 19 Exercises to Unbind the Conditioning of Time and Release Life’s Ultimate Restraint (Based on the author's "Total Life Series")

Synopsis:

When time becomes humanity’s greatest collective trap,

how do we break free from its entanglements

and live out the full potential of our lives?

The brand-new masterpiece by Dr. John Ding-E Young.

19 exercises to loosen the conditioning of time and unlock life’s final constraint.

Who among us has not sighed over wasted days? Regretted missed opportunities? Or felt constantly tense trying to keep up with schedules?

You and I live in the torrent of time, believing it to be the entirety of life. We have never realized that life is inherently beyond time and space—it is originally a "timeless eternity."

Dr. John Ding-E Young provides an incisive analysis of how human beings generate the abstract concept of "time" through the mind's most fundamental dualistic opposition. Although it provides the drive for survival, it simultaneously becomes humanity’s greatest collective trap.

We count time, we rush ourselves, and we demand that one another live by time—thinking, feeling, acting, reflecting, regretting, and suffering according to time... Inadvertently, we have all become addicted to time. Time has become our greatest problem and a heavy burden on life.

Spanning 37 chapters, this book approaches the essence of time through science and philosophy. Weaving through the small details of every corner of life and paired with 19 portable exercises, it accompanies you and me step-by-step out of the trap of time.

【A Few Portable Exercises to Step Out of the Time Trap】

Exercise: Affirm Everything

Repeat this several times a day, even right after waking up or when about to sleep, constantly reminding yourself of the following:

Faced with anything, no matter how good or how bad, accept it completely. What you accept is this—the universe can absolutely never make a mistake; everything is arranged just right.

Faced with any disaster, it is still just right. Just right, because through them, I have arrived here and now, and can affirm that everything is just right...

Exercise: Do Not Add Adjectives

Throughout the day, do not differentiate between things as good or bad, and stop adding adjectives to them. Refrain from using words like big, small, long, short, tall, short, fat, thin, beautiful, unattractive, good, or bad, and do not attach them to any person, place, or thing you encounter.

When you see, hear, smell, taste, or touch anything, remain entirely neutral. We naturally become a watcher, observing everything, letting it come and letting it go. Do not add another thought on top of it...

Exercise: Avoid Using "I" Throughout the Day

Give it a try—see if you can go through an entire day without "I."

Observe yourself closely. Whenever you say "I," such as "I" want to eat, "I" think..., "I" feel..., or what feelings "I" have... you will notice that these statements are all spoken from the limited and personalized perspective of the ego.

Simply observe the rising of "I," or the source of "I" clearly, and allow this motivation to dissolve itself at any time. A person will naturally and effortlessly live in a timeless state...

【Dr. John Ding-E Young's Study】Introduction to the "Total Life Series"

Human health—body, mind, and spirit—has never been separate. From the perspective of holistic health, Dr. John Ding-E Young reintegrates wellness methods and philosophical systems from ancient to modern times and from all over the world. Expressing them in modern language, he helps you and me live out our full life potential.

Primordial Medicine views the world from the body and mind—that is, from the realm of "form" (the manifest). It aims to help you and me integrate body and mind in this fast-paced society, hoping to bring everyone back to balance. After all, in an imbalanced state, a person can be pulled apart at any moment by physical and mental disharmony, making it difficult to experience the deeper dimensions of life. Yet, everything is multiple facets of a single whole. With the foundation of the "Total Life Series," one can naturally experience love, equality, stillness, and hope in every corner of this most comprehensive preventive medicine.

From The Science, Medicine, and Spiritual Journey of Meditation, and the "Total Life Series" titles including The Total You, The Divine You, Spiral Dance, Structural Adjustment, and Unreasonable Happiness, to Who Am I?, Collective Amnesia, Falling to Earth, Stillness, then to the two Q&A volumes Crossroads and Plugging into the Right Mind, and now this book, The Trap of Time—gradually, your perspective shifts naturally. It moves from dualistic opposition to oneness, from "emptiness" observing "form," from the inner world observing the outer, from "being" observing "doing," and from the "heart" observing the "person."

With each work, what we delve into is not knowledge, but a dimension that exists within every person’s heart—the deepest wisdom and compassion of life. This is humanity's ultimate healing.

About the Author

Dr. John Ding-E Young

Written Works: Primordial Medicine: The Most Complete Preventive Medicine of the 21st Century, The Science, Medicine, and Spiritual Journey of Meditation, The Total You, The Divine You, Unreasonable Happiness, Who Am I?, Collective Amnesia, Falling to Earth, Stillness, Crossroads, Plugging into the Right Mind

Audio Works: Waiting for You, Rebirth: Transformation Between Breaths, Are You Present?, Yoga of Light, Authentic Yoga, Breathing Yoga, Yoga of the Four Elements

Video Works: Spiral Dance, Structural Adjustment, Transformation · Rebirth, Here, Now: Live Recording of the One-Day Retreant DVD

About the Editor

Meng-Yi Chen

Editor of The Total You, The Divine You, Unreasonable Happiness, Who Am I?, Collective Amnesia, Falling to Earth, Stillness, Structural Adjustment, Crossroads, and Plugging into the Right Mind. Translator of titles including The Science, Medicine, and Spiritual Journey of Meditation, The Healing Power of Breath, Miracle Halfway, Sex, Money, and Bulimia: Form and Substance, Parent-Child Relationships: The Hardest Lesson in Life, and Psychology: The Mind Adapting to the Environment.