Category Archives: Experience

Feeling my son’s pain and healing together through prayer and chanting

On the night of Saturday, the 29th of August, my four-year-old son got a high fever. The next day on Sunday, I left the sick child and went to the Il-san Ma-du dojang where my sister was offering an ancestral requital chiseong . When I returned home on Monday after work and saw my son’s condition my heart broke. Even if he took medicine, he was not feeling any better and it seemed like he had pain in his throat because he couldn’t talk, as if he became deaf, and he was having a hard time breathing.

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A smile of complete love of a white bearded grandpa

When I was immersed in the sounds of jee-gee-geum-jee-wun-we-dae-gang during dynamic meditation, a scene suddenly appeared in front of my eyes. I wet my finger tips in the ink placed in a bowl beside me and continued drawing something on a big white sheet of paper, as if I was trying to express something. I was a mess. I had ink all over on my face and my clothes and then I noticed a white beard so I held my head up.

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