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by CreativeMind
Fri Dec 14, 2012 9:31 am
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: A Skillful Method to Ensure Rebirth into Western Pure Land
Replies: 24
Views: 7820

Re: A Skillful Method to Ensure Rebirth into Western Pure Land

I usually recite nembutsu whenever I have a lucid dream. For some reason the last time I did it a wave of fear passed over me though. I wonder if thats a bad sign? I flew through the wall of my house. It turned dark like it was going to storm and then I felt anxiety. For some reason i can understan...
by CreativeMind
Sat Oct 20, 2012 1:14 am
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: What do you think of, just before you start reciting?
Replies: 8
Views: 2477

Re: What do you think of, just before you start reciting?

I recite for many reasons, sometimes I recite whenever somebody starts talking to me, just to slow down my mind's automatic-response mechanism. In any sense of formal recitation I begin with the motivation that I am doing it for the benefit of all beings, and visualize Amitabha with Avalokiteshvara...
by CreativeMind
Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:20 am
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: What do you think of, just before you start reciting?
Replies: 8
Views: 2477

What do you think of, just before you start reciting?

I hazard a guess that most of us, Pureland cultivators, would have fixed periods of recitation and unfixed periods of recitation. For me, my unfixed periods could be confined within office hours, within the home when I doing housework for example, etc. I do have daily fixed periods as well (1 hour, ...
by CreativeMind
Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:25 am
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Halo During Amitabha Retreat
Replies: 50
Views: 15439

Re: Halo During Amitabha Retreat

The poster has mentioned that lots of people have seen the 'lotus', with their bare eyes and not through a camera lens I presumed. In this case, the lens flare effect may be ruled out. The halo is real and a common effect. The lotus is lens flare beyond a shadow of a doubt. You will notice the it d...
by CreativeMind
Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:56 pm
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Halo During Amitabha Retreat
Replies: 50
Views: 15439

Re: Halo During Amitabha Retreat

The poster has mentioned that lots of people have seen the 'lotus', with their bare eyes and not through a camera lens I presumed.

In this case, the lens flare effect may be ruled out.

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