22 Year old Choi Sung-Bong has lived a very difficult life. Abandoned to an orphanage at 3, he ran away from there at 5 because of physical abuse. Since then he has lived alone, surviving by selling gum and energy drinks on the street and sleeping on stairs and on top of public lavatories. He never attended elementary and middle school, getting the certifications on his own. High school being the first school he attended.
He says that he does not sing just because he likes it, but because it makes him forget his hard life. “I become a different person when I sing,” he says. For us that is the definition of yoga. The loss of the ego-self in work or art is a form of yoga known as Karma yoga (The yoga of action). After listening to Choi, wouldn’t you agree?
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