Namo Amitabha.....

[ChiForce]

Hmm...another one of those "experience." Vision showing me the Dharma wisdom. It was this morning, around 7am. I had this vision. I saw myself as an abbot monk dressed in a long yellow and red robe. I put my left hand by my chest and bowed down and chanted namo amitabha. Why? No ideas. Bowing to who? Not sure. It could be my grandma's coffin since she passed away 2 weeks ago. There was something about the chant because as I was chanting it, I felt something deep. Then, my consciousness sense around me about the world, about my body.....everything stopped. Everything ceased and frozen in time. This sensation that I actually stopped the Samsara!!!!.....it only lasted for 2 seconds.

 

Then, everything was back to normal. Somehow, I saw myself as a regular monk now and dressed in a normal yellow robe.

 

Did I just "remember" the Dharma wisdom of chanting namo amitabha? The wisdom embedded in chanting "namo amitabha" is to stop Samsara and to stop all karma generating forces? Because in one of my past lives I was an abbot monk, maybe even an arhat?

[GrandmasterP]

Nembutsu's an outstanding cultivation and very democratic.

Anyone can do it.

Some Pure Land resource links here.....

 

http://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=4317

Edited August 15, 2014 by GrandmasterP

[Gerard]

I saw myself as an abbot monk dressed in a long yellow and red robe. I put my left hand by my chest and bowed down and chanted namo amitabha.

 

 

It could be a vision of one your past lives (most likely), which explains why you are involved in this path in this lifetime, or possibly a vision of the future (in this or a future life). No arhant...arhants are no longer reborn in the human plane They either reach parinirvana after passing or reborn in one of the higher planes from where they reach nirvana.

 

"In the Jatakas, the stories about the Buddha's former existences, it is reported that the Buddha-to-be and Moggallana had lived together quite often. In no less than thirty-one lives the Buddha and Moggallana had met, and in thirty of them Moggallana and Sariputta had lived together. So strong was the bond that already in previous lives had connected these three. To be sure, the thirty-one which have been recorded, is a very small number compared with the infinity of lives through which every being in Samsara has passed." (Maha-Moggallana sutra).

 

 

We indeed are trapped in Samsara, the eternal dream.

 

Edited September 21, 2014 by Gerard