{"id":1241,"date":"2016-02-16T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T08:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2016-05-25T19:40:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T10:40:23","slug":"i-was-honored-to-be-rejuvenated-thanks-to-the-blessings-of-the-holy-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"I was honored to be rejuvenated thanks to the blessings of the Holy Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right; padding-bottom: 30px;\"><em><strong>The following is a practitioner&#8217;s\u00a0account of experiences from the winter retreat for the new practitioners. As Told By Lee, Gwonhan(35,M)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em> (Translated by Son, Gyeonghee and Patrocinio D. Rivera)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;\">A<\/span>t the beginning of the Opening Chiseong, I saw ancestral spirits scrambling to take a seat next to their descendents. When practicing mantra meditation, I could see Sangjenim, Taemonim, Taesabunim, Taesamonim and other great spirits sprinkling something toward us as if trying to convey the qi to all of us.<\/p>\n<p>A little later, I began to prostrate a thousand times in prayer and felt myself become light as a feather, as if reborn into a new body. My body had been entangled with iniquitous and unclean qi before starting, but soon after I initiated my meditation, I felt my body settle down in a light and peaceful state. All these experiences made me feel privileged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When practicing mantra meditation, I could see Sangjenim, Taemonim, Taesabunim, Taesamonim and other great spirits sprinkling something toward us as if trying to convey the qi to all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-experience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70zWc-k1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}