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\nThe 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.
\nAs told By<\/strong> Jang, Wonmo (54, Male)<\/strong><\/em>
\n(Translated by Son, Gyeonghee and Stuart Smallwood)<\/em><\/p>\n

S<\/span>triving 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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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<\/span>.<\/em><\/span> 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.<\/p>\n

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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.
\nA 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<\/em> and a dopo<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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<\/em> in the past. Every time I chanted the Taeeulju Mantra, the constellation emitted brilliant radiance as if it was breathing and alive.<\/p>\n

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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’.<\/span> This convinced me that chanting the Taeeulju Mantra is the way to attain the gold spoon promising eternal bliss and fortune.<\/p>\n

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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<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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1. gat<\/em>: traditional Korean hat made of bamboo and horsehair
\n2. dopo<\/em>: traditional Korean full-dress attire
\n3. Sangssireum<\/em>: \uc0c1\uc528\ub984. 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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