When One Is Spiritually Awakened, Brightness Opens

When One Is Spiritually Awakened, Brightness Opens

 

The key to making great progress in meditation and spiritually awakening yourself is to sit upright and chant the Taeeulju Mantra. If you do this for hours, you reach ‘the state of losing the self.’ This is the state of entrancement, ‘the state of losing the self’ or ‘forgetting shape, forgetting existence.’

 

When you reach that level, you will see something—yet, it is not just seen. Depending on the strength of their root energy, some meditators see bright light, others see blue light like that of a glowworm. You, my students here, may see these things when you chant the Taeeulju Mantra with your eyes closed. Most people can see the glowworm light or something similar. This light might look as large as a leaf and brighter than a glowworm.

 

What happens when you are spiritually awakened? At your spiritual awakening, all brightness opens like a brilliant autumn day—a brightness like the blazing of many electric lights. Then one’s eyes can see even a caterpillar boring into pine needles on a mountain four kilometers away. If you hold still—your eyes closed—you will even be able to see all the fine details of the caterpillar. All of this is possible in the brightness.

 

As you become spiritually awakened, your mind combines with the principle of nature and becomes penetrating, and then you can peer deep into the earth and even through the boundaries of heaven.