 First-Person Stories
October 26, 2009
Hmm, life plans rarely ever go according to one's way. So instead of staying at the Maum Meditation center for several months until I complete the entire program, I needed to return home to tend to urgent family concerns. There is reason why things happen so I accept this change in my plans.
Regardless how long I stayed at the center, I believe that I have learned the most important aspects of mind cleansing. Furthermore, I will stay in touch with a mentor who will guide me via email.
What I completed at the center focused on mental meditation while sitting in a classroom while the rest of the program built on that through physical work. At home, I would do the same except that the principles of meditation would be applied to my daily work and other activities that serve the people and the world.
Essentially, every moment is meditation where I negate or throw away my false mind within to reveal the true mind that is one with the Origin or expressed in other ways as the Spirit, Mind before the mind, Creator, Energy, Light, Source, Higher Power, and God.
In the coming weeks, I will continually share my fascinating, enlightening experiences at the Maum Center and some aspects of the practice I found questionable...well, it's good to keep your critical mind working for discernment in these times of many misleading, dubious "spiritual" entities, don't you think?
The mosquitoes welcomed me to S. Korea on the first night I spent at a branch center. Guess what, I got a farewell from these same creatures on the last night at a different branch center...with huge bites all over! This I will not miss, for sure.
October 17, 2009
What is Maum Meditation?
It allows one to be free from self-centered world of one's mind.
It breaks one's conditioned habits and presuppositions.
It makes one reflect on oneself and discern if what exists within is true or false.
It results in an escape from the false, mind/picture world within to be reborn with true mind/consciousness.
October 09, 2009
The next step in maum meditation involves physical movement. Thus you can say, "meditation in action." Practitioners are given tasks to clean our living spaces. To get a glimpse of this in advance, I was given a task of putting on clean sheets to pillows, blankets, and thin mattresses we use in our rooms. Sounds simple, right? Well, it is and yet so physically demanding for someone like me used to relatively easy, comfortable lifestyle in the USA.
Thoughts of "Why do I have to do this? I am paying my good money to change sheets for other people instead of getting paid?" But these thoughts are the very things I must negate/throw away as I accept I am the Universal Consciousness and all things that exist are one with me. I accept, love and care for all. Hence, the self with the self-centered thoughts that lead to selfish actions are negated and transformed into other-centered, loving oneness.
One unpleasant side effect of this physical activity is that my allergy symptoms have become more pronounced due to excessive dust exposure. Oh well, no one said the path to enlightenment is easy and comfortable...as far as I know.
October 02, 2009
Due to Maum meditation's intensive, rigorous nature, there isn't much time for me to reflect on what I am learning and practicing. And actually, too much thinking, talking with others, and writing are discouraged because the meditation is about throwing away the pictures we create in our mind from these activities. So, after I write this, I must throw away this picture of me doing this very activity. I will write more in detail what the practice involves later. But for now, these are the main points:
1. We live in a false world, that is, a picture world we have created in our mind...like a videotape. This is false because it exists only in each person's mind and is not alive. Our external experiences our based on our subjectivity.
2. Once we erase or throw away our false picture world, we will see that we are the Universe because we just are...emerged out of the living yet immaterial Origin. Henceforth, we can live freely as we were meant to live, not trapped in our subjective, distorted world of the mind. This world is expressed as "ghost" because others don't see it and each of us don't either but is around and haunt and control our lives.
So at this time I have learned that I am the Universe by throwing away the mind's pictures. Then by throwing away my mind which involves the body and the human relationships, I realize that I am one with the Universe for there is no division within and without. At the third level, I am destroying my physical body for the mind and body are one and the body contains the false images on a cellular level. And again, the end result is I am the Universe when all that I think I am is destroyed.
This week continues the same process of destroying my false body for doing this is very difficult for people to do, as you can imagine. We are taught to value our body and take care of it. Herein lies the paradox. Will continue my sharing next week. Thanks again for being part of my journey.
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