{"id":1352,"date":"2016-05-04T17:34:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T08:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2016-07-04T17:35:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T08:35:31","slug":"his-holiness-the-taesang-jongdosanim-granted-teachings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"His Holiness the Taesang Jongdosanim granted teachings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/strong><\/em>
\nAs Told By Lim, Seonyeong (60, Male)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>
\n (Translated by\u00a0Son,\u00a0Gyeonghee\u00a0and Stuart Smallwood)<\/em><\/p>\n

I<\/span> took my seat in front of the sacred altar of the Taeeulgung Palace to begin night-long meditation with other practitioners of my dojang. I just looked toward the portrait of His Holiness the Taesang Jongdosanim, and He seemed to be living, gently smiling at me.<\/p>\n

After 2 o’clock in the morning, I felt tired, bored and lethargic and couldn’t properly concentrate on the meditation. At that very moment I looked up at the portrait of His Holiness the Taesang Jongdosanim and heard His remarks;
\nHe said, “Chant the Taeeulju mantra with an earnest and dedicated mind as if you are trying to save a dead man lying in front of you.” Sangjenim also cautioned me not to chant the Taeeulju mantra pretentiously, superficially, with too much dignity, or too weakly.<\/p>\n

My fellow practitioners came in sight and they were surrounded by qi that looked like plump clouds. The clouds varied in size and shape. Once I resumed chanting the Taeeulju mantra, the plump cloud-like qi gathered around me and filled my head. Simultaneously, all distracting thoughts were eliminated and I could totally concentrate on the meditation, oblivious of who I was.<\/p>\n

Then my vision was filled with brightness, and crystal clear light appeared before me. I could then see a house on a far-off land across the sea as if it stood right in front of me. A bowl of fresh water looked white and lucent, and the cloud-like qi kept rising from the inside of the bowl.<\/p>\n

From then on, the fatigue that had accumulated during the night vigil went away and I felt wonderful. My whole body experienced bliss with unworldly pleasure. I would like to pay my gratitude to His Holiness the Taesang Jongdosanim, He who granted blessings allowing me to have this enjoyable all-night meditation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Lim, Seonyeong (60, Male)\u00a0 (Translated by\u00a0Son,\u00a0Gyeonghee\u00a0and Stuart Smallwood) I took my seat in front of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brightness","category-experience","category-spiritual-experience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70zWc-lO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}