KyungYong Yang (40 yrs)
Level 7 / Gwacheon Center, Korea
Written in Feb 12, 2015
It has been about two years since I started this meditation. It was about six months later when I had started working. At that time, I was filled with greed to learn things at work, but I was quite lacking and I was not even given the chance. It was then when the stress accumulated and my body and mind got exhausted.
I spotted this meditation book in the cradle. The expression of the cover model was so bright that I was curious. When I read the experiences and testimonials of those who practiced the meditation, I thought the stories of those people were quite similar to mine. And although I had the thought of wanting to try it, I wasn’t readily inclined to try the meditatio, as I had already visited too many this kind of places in the past.
But as the days passed, the burden of my mind and heart only grew bigger. So I made up my mind ‘This time is the last time’ and I registered at Gwacheon Meditation Center. During level 1, as I was reflecting on the life I had lived, all the pictures that came up in my mind were only about myself feeling unfair and having resentment for others.
However, as I looked back on the life I had lived several times, I found that those pictures remained due to my fault. I realized that I had misunderstood and accused others even though I was pretending. It was all my fault. When I confirmed level 1, I clearly got to know that the half of the thoughts which had been always remaining and repeated have disappeared. And after reviewing level 1 for a week, I knew that even the remaining half had also disappeared.
After realizing “Wow! This method works,” I came to have confidence in the method and continued to practice the meditation. It has now been two years since I started, and I could know that my mind has been discarded level by level. Sometimes I used to be caught up in depression, but I could get out of that depression with time. Sometimes, I felt it difficult when I was exhausted, but I could be liberated from that exhaustion with time. I passed each level to get this far, as though I crossed the Arirang Pass numerous times.
As I reflected on the past to write my experience, I realize again how tremendous this method is and I feel grateful. I am also grateful for the conditions that forced me to practice this meditation. I live in the same building where there is my meditation center. And my workplace diagonally faces the meditation center. I am able to meditate when I get off work on time, during the weekends and special holidays, and during my vacations. I am grateful to such great conditions to meditate. And I am so grateful to this method.
Source: www.meditationlife.org
