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发帖数: 7644 | 1 And this is kind of an interesting story, how this happened, because I was
experimenting, as I often do, with techniques. I, basically, am very
opportunistic. I’ll do anything just to see what happens. I was thinking
about something I’d read that, according to mythology, a certain Buddha
called Amitabha Buddha, the Buddha of compassion, made a vow. He promised
all living beings, to all humans that if we would just invoke his name, we
could instantly be transported to the Pure Land, whatever that was, one of
the Buddhist heavens. And, so I thought, “Well, here again I don’t believe
things just because it’s something to believe in, but I’ll try it.” And
I was sitting in my car and saying to myself, “Okay. With all of my
sincerity, I’m going to say ‘Namo Amitabha’ in the name of Amitabha
Buddha.” I’m going to invoke the name of this Buddha and see if I get
transported to the Pure Land. Remember, this is all in the context of being
a very depressed adult. So, I tried it, and I found, that I entered a state
of boundless gratitude and happiness that seems very much like the Pure Land
. I mean I can certainly imagine why somebody would call it that. So, I
dubbed it the Pure Land jhana. And I found that I could conjure up that
state at will by either remembering this boundless gratitude or,
interestingly enough, by focusing on the third eye area which is a chakra,
the brow chakra according to some systems. And later on, I realized that
that was the moment where I can say for sure I had attained 3rd path. |
