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Consolation ceremony for the spirit of the dead (Cheondojae)
Cheondojai is a Buddhist rite that leads the souls of the dead to the heavenly world by forming ties with Buddha.
However, the souls in purgatory, who cannot go his own way, becomes the ghost of resentment.
Therefore, shamans say that they become evil spirits on the prowl of the hell world that perform all kinds of evil deeds, including disease and suffering, to living relatives and offspring.
However, superstitious evils disguised as religion or custom can bring down human society. At some point, these tired and troubled generations rely on shamans to pray for their blessings and spirit of ghosts.
The same is true of politicians in politics. Attending a heavenly ritual or the scene of praying for the New Year's luck is said to be for promotional campaigns, but it is a scene that cannot be overlooked.
Blessings are not made in heaven, but by myself. The law of causality, "You will reap what you sow," explains this well, even if you don't cite the Bible. According to the Buddhist scripture's samsara, the blessings and virtues that live today are all his good deeds planted in his previous life.
Therefore, 'put down your mind' is the goal of performing it.
Therefore, it is forbidden to yearn for the mysterious world of the soul. Meditation performer should pursue a clearness of mind that transcends all things with "thoughts that are not obsessed with thoughts, not with thoughts."“
Religion claims this ability to be God's grace or Buddha's a hidden virtue. However, the sacred power only appears in silent efforts that "not to ask or rely on or worship God" And that's just the pure and lucid mind of performance from 'control of consciousness'.
It is a family history.
Dr. Nam's parents, who run an orthopedic clinic, collided with a truck on their way to Mt. Seorak and their father killed on the spot, and their mother was seriously injured and treated in an intensive care unit, eventually dying three months after being hospitalized.
Always friendly and kind, Dr. Nam's humility is a living witness of domestic education that has been handed down for generations.
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Everyone was speechless at the news of Nam's parents' accident.
In a famous temple, a great service of Cheondo and 49 was held under the theme of the chief monk. and even after his mother died, he performed a solemn Buddhist ceremony with a famous monk.
But after his mother's death, his wife has often been sleepless at night because of his mother who appears in dreams every night. Moreover, she couldn't stand it because she suddenly got scared when her family was doing the dishes or housework alone in the morning hours when all of them went to work.
Especially when she came home alone after going out, she got goose bumps and was afraid to enter the apartment door.
Just as I went to the reunion and talked about this and that, my friend asked me how my family was doing. After the funeral, he complained that his wife's pain was serious. At that time, the senior advised, "I will introduce the best shaman in Korea, so you should consult with the shaman."
Still, he wasn't happy because he wasn't a senior to talk nonsense at a high-quality gathering, but he had hope when they said, 'The ghost should be a shaman rather than a monk.'
A few days later, he decided to support all the demands in the shaman's self-confident attitude and set a date for the performs exorcisms. The shaman, who boasted that he was the best shaman in the country, ran to the scene of the accident where he didn't even want to remember, saying, "We should comfort the souls of the accident site," and performed the exorcism for a few days.
Then the shaman said they led Nam's parents' souls to a good place. But nothing has changed. Rather, it was nothing more than a great headache and folly. All the family members were in a state of restlessness because they only lost money and were in place.
I comfort Dr. Nam who visited the main session and explain that the world of soul can exist. "How funny is the 'A religious ceremony for the soul of the dead’. of the nation's top temples, even if I can't believe the shameless words of shameless shamans.” he said with an expression that religion or superstition cannot be trusted.
But he asks me for help, saying, "I must turn off the lights right now," and "Can't the Kendo director officiate the memorial service yourself, ser?"
On a young day, I had a relationship with him when I was running a kendo hall belonging to the Korean Kendo Association for about 10 years, so my name is still the director.
"Well, I can solve the problem, but it's true that I have other concerns. I'm not talking about conditions, but I'm afraid you'll see the world of the soul too easily and simply. The world of souls is a complex and subtle place, and the more you know, the more afraid you are.
We can't just listen to the shaman's words that all diseases and anguish in the real world stem from the soul of resentment floating in hell. Buddhism also translates it into the world of heaven, classifying it into 33 skies and describing it in layers at each stage.
The world of enlightenment that no longer exists above the 33rd heaven, Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi is being supplemented and explained again.
"It's a world of light that can only be climbed by a meditator of 'the inner light and sounda ', ‘doing by itself’. The world of souls can only be dominated by a high-end meditator, the sound performer of sky," I further explain.
"I'm sorry for the delay in understanding. I never think simply or easily of the soul's world. There is no doubt in your writings on meditation and your divine power to guide lawyers in Buddhist law societies," he said, asking me to step forward with his earnest request.
I brought the whole family together to hold a memorial service. Originally, ancestral rites were held to honor the virtue of their ancestors, and the souls of their ancestors appears when they think of their ancestors.
Likewise, when you call the soul of ancestors, you must prepare a defrost to have decorum for the sacrificial rite. However, it would be more important to pay tribute to the ancestors than to the abundant offerings.
In such a sense, an ancestrial memorial rite, practicing it with the sincerity is proportional to the whole heart. But an ancestrial memorial rite of sacred power can bring the souls of ancestors with simple rites.
Two candles, a little fruit, and a bowl of raw rice are a well-prepared offering.
After the family's two-and-a-half-times-long bow, each of the children enters their own rooms, and only silence and stillness surrounds the atmosphere of the house, along with the couple's memorial prayer. The candle and the shadow of the incense dance at the altar.
I quietly fall into a samadhi. The wavelength of ‘the inner light and sound’moves the writer into the space of that dimension.
The soul finally shows up. Dr. Nam's mother's spirit.
The telepathy is delivered pleadingly from her lips that sealed her mouth. She seems to have something to say to her daughter-in-law. “I have something to tell my baby's mother.”
Twice and three times, I could not help but listen to the repeated requests of my mother-in-law's soul. But I promise I will deliver it to my daughter-in-law because I can't hear it from her. And I telepathically tell her to go to a good place because the world and the underworld are different.
"Use my body to go to heaven when there is a bright light," pats and whispers.
Say "yes" and say goodbye with thanks.
The soul is transformed into a clean costume and a comfortable face and leaves for heaven.
"Your mother just left for heaven. But she has something to say, you know what she's saying?" I ask as if I intend to question his wife.
His wife bowed her head and nodded. "Yes, I know.”
“How?”
“you swear not to be stubborn and not to bully your good husband," says my mother-in-law says. While doing so, his wife stammers.
But another soul was sitting on his wife's shoulder. "No, who is that? I see an old lady with a lot of wrinkles. Do you happen to know that grandmother?" Then can you see her soul, too? Last time, when the shaman was doing a ritual, he was talking about this grandmother, and I guess that's true."she looks amazed.
She's short, she's a chignon's head, a grandmother with a round face!" I explained her.
In other words, there were two grandmothers in the house, and they can't help believing that they are now a little grandmother-in-law.
She was possessed by her mother-in-law and moved to her granddaughter-in-law when her body disappeared.
Grandmother's soul was also removed by consolation ceremony for the spirit of the dead. But his father was not seen. Why?
No matter how much I look around, there is no trace of the soul.
Telepathy is delivered. The smile of the father who boasted of his humble and friendly son of a doctor passes by.
I could guess, I decided to meet Dr. Nam again at the hospital the next day.
The next evening, a small memorial service was arranged in the director's office at Dr. Nam Hospital. Fruits, liquor, and dried pollack are also prepared, and ancestral rites are held again.
He is usually unscientific and superstitious in spiritual work, so he has negative thoughts. That's why he doesn't seem to like the job much, despite his direct relationship. But I asked for caution this time, saying, "This is your father's heavenly rite, so you must serve him reverently."
He raised the temple two and a half times and ordered his father to be called reverently.
"Father! Father! Father!" after calling number three, I induced him to meditate.
I close my eyes and enter Samadhi.
Samadhi's entrance is always guided by ‘the sound of sky’. The wavelength of ‘the inner light and sound’ calms the consciousness.
At last the soul appears. There is a scene where the right knee is severely damaged. And I could clearly see the image of a rope-like wheel trail on his chest.
Souls show their last form when they disappear into ancestral rites, suggesting that they are themselves.
Soon after, he goes to heaven with his hands clasped together in a show of gratitude as his appearance changes from the surprised and angry appearance of the time of the accident to a gentle and peaceful figure.
I explained the scene on the screen.
"The picture on the chest is embossing of the handle cover, not tire marks."
At the moment of the collision, his chest hit the steering wheel and his intestines ruptured to death, and the embossing shape of the handle cover was shaped like a rope.
In this way, the middle ghost(souls in purgatory)中陰神 is not another ghost from the outside world, but most of them are everyday families. The reason we have to practice(meditation) is because we are not going to be this middle ghost中陰神 after we die.
Worrying about our old age, we buy cancer insurance or life insurance, but can we ignore it for our postmortem souls?
When death comes, what would you do if the Virgin Mary, who had been waiting for so long, did not come, and how heartbroken would it be if Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva or the Amitabha Buddha did not appear?
Religion praying for blessings always prays for my good fortune, and it is only the well-being of my family and relatives.
Under the name of evangelical evangelism, religion can hardly deny that expansion of churches, mostly wishing for blessings, is the biggest business.
We must break away from the faith of blessing in the prayer of good luck or "depend on God or worship God," and make progress in sublimating the soul by performing meditation.
Meditation is the truth and information of life from the scriptures of East and West.
--- To be continued ---
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