The following is one of the first-hand experiences of Jeung San Do practitioners from the Incheon Juan dojang who participated in an intensive all-night meditation at the Taeeulgung Palace last April.
As told By Jang, Wonmo (54, Male)
(Translated by Son, Gyeonghee and Stuart Smallwood)

Striving to act upon the new guideline to, ‘Innovate all of our dao affairs on the basis of practicing and experiencing blessings of Creation-Transformation through the Taeeulju Mantra,’ which was recently announced by His Holiness the Jongdosanim, I have participated in an all-night vigil every Friday in my dojang as a part of my ‘Devotion for a Thousand Days’ extending over 3 years from 2016 to 2018.

 

I had last visited the Taeeulgung Palace for the purpose of meditation a long time ago, so my meditation progressed well, as I had expected. I concentrated on meditation by trying to calm and empty my mind. Following His Holiness the Jongdosanim’s chanting of dynamic meditation mantras, and intending to shape my mind like His, I did my best in the dynamic meditation.

 

A while later I could see our ancestors starting to practice dynamic meditation while sitting under the sacred altar. Soon I could see them practicing dynamic meditation in a group. They looked so exhilarated, yet stayed in good order. There were also six large drums near the altar, but I couldn’t see any drumsticks or drummers.

 

Then suddenly, a large well came into my sight and Sangjenim appeared. He was wearing a white hanbok, traditional Korean attire. He hauled up a bucketful of water from the well, ascended to the roof of the Taeeulgung Palace with the bucket, then poured the water down toward the heads of our practitioners. The floor of the altar became soaked with water and the water ran down the alter. This experience led me to think that Sangjenim was making a lot of effort to grant us as much good energy as he could. I couldn’t be more grateful.

 

After the dynamic mediation, we started to chant the Taeeulju mantra individually. There were eight figures looking similar to golden Bodhisattva statues near the altar. Behind the practitioners stood a spiritual being watching the practitioners who looked like an immortal and had a stick with a thread.
A while later, Ahn Nae-seong, one of the Holy Disciples of Sangjenim in His time on earth, came into my sight. He was wearing a large gat and a dopo, and looked just like his portrait in Dojeon. He was warm and gentle and his gleaming eyes were radiating auspicious qi. He kept watching us for about 10 minutes.

 

I concentrated on my meditation again. At a certain point, a bowl even bigger than a wash basin appeared, and I found a big carp swimming in the water in the bowl. Its scales were so transparent that I could see inside its body. Its eyes looked mysterious and crystal clear as if it had been cultivating itself with dao.

 

After a while, a bright light started to appear around my third-eye chakra. I kept chanting mantras and could see a multi-colored radiant light around the chakra which later turned gold. The light kept changing into bright or dim colors according to the state of my meditation. The more I concentrated on chanting, the brighter it turned. However, when I got a little distracted, the light went dark.

 

Not long after that, I saw a constellation shining resplendently in the sky which was just like the one that I had admired in the famous journal Science in the past. Every time I chanted the Taeeulju Mantra, the constellation emitted brilliant radiance as if it was breathing and alive.

 

A certain period of time passed and a powder-like golden light descended upon us. The light then turned into a golden spoon. Surprisingly, on the surface of the spoon head were engraved letters ‘Hoom-chi Hoom-chi’. This convinced me that chanting the Taeeulju Mantra is the way to attain the gold spoon promising eternal bliss and fortune.

 

The meditation session in the Taeeulgung Palace finished, and we moved to the Sangsaeng Hall, an education room, in order to watch a video of His Holiness the Jongdosanim’s lecture. Listening to His remarks about Sangssireum, I dozed off for a moment due to fatigue from the previous day’s all-night vigil. Then, all of sudden, the Namsan Tower in Seoul showed up in my dream and black smoke was rising up all around the tower. ‘The North shot a missile!’ A horrible thought flashed through my mind and I woke up.

 

I also experienced holy illusions while I was meditating in my dojang for a ‘Friday night vigil’, exactly 5 days after the intensive meditation in the Taeeulgung Palace. Many ancestors appeared with their gat and white clothes, and there were some unidentified spirits gathered in a large spot and talking to each other. They all seemed to be waiting for someone.

 

A moment later, I heard someone shouting, “He’s coming!”, and everyone turned to look at he who had just arrived seated in a sedan chair. I looked closely at him and I could recognize him. He was Ahn Nae-seong Sungdonim. He was wearing the white attire of immortals. His white hair and beard possessed warmth and generosity, and his skin was also glowing white.

 

As he slowly passed through the crowd of people (spiritual beings), all ancestors and other spirits gathered around him to see him from close up. They tried hard to get a closer look at him with both respect and envy, just like the public swarms around celebrities. Despite all the commotion, his sedan chair was heading somewhere as if in a hurry, yet elegantly at the same time.

 

I am so grateful to Sangjenim, Taemonim, Taesabunim and Sabunim – the incarnations of heaven, earth, sun and moon, for I was greatly privileged to have had such holy experiences. I would also like to express my gratitude to my ancestors, spirits in heaven and earth, and all my fellow practitioners in the dojang.

 

1. gat: traditional Korean hat made of bamboo and horsehair
2. dopo: traditional Korean full-dress attire
3. Sangssireum: 상씨름. Sang means “highest” and ssireum is traditional Korean wrestling. Therefore, sangssireum connotes the ‘ultimate match’, analogous to the adult wrestling bouts that climax a ssireum tournament. Sangssireum is a metaphor for the final global conflict of the Early Heaven, a war centered on North and South Korea, which shall end all wars and the Early Heaven’s reign of sanggeuk.