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The Buddhist Monk Who Claims to Have Come Back from the Dead During His Own Funeral A Buddhist Monk in Burma claims to have died and had a variety of
experiences which convinced him of the truth of Christianity then three days
later he came back to life...during his own funeral. The former monk says that during the time he was living in a
monastery, he was diagnosed with both malaria and yellow fever. He
prepared himself for death. He remembers growing weaker by the day
then, he was later told, he lapsed into unconsciousness and died. He
was told his breathing and pulse stopped, his body began to decay, and he was
prepared for Buddhist cremation. The monk claims that during the time
he was regarded as dead, he had an elaborate series of supernatural experiences
which convinced him of the truth of Christianity and he came back to become a
Christian preacher instead of a Buddhist monk. He says he came back to
life while lying in his coffin at his own funeral and while his parents were
looking at him for the last time. |
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Background: In the middle
tropical country of ASEAN, there lives a crazy monk by the name of Matsumori. He is extremely
good at shooting craps and horsing around. He is in fact a member of the Flat Earth Society and he actually
believes the world is just a platform where human looks at each other
parallely. He is very good
at getting drunk. He works as part time as an automobile related engineer and
sometimes his customer likes to get him drunk. Here’s
a picture of him getting drunk. He likes to play
dangerous games. Here’s a picture of
him playing with a tiger. Please don’t try this at home.
"Cowardice asks the
question, "is it safe?" Experience asks the question, "is it
political?" Vanity asks, "is it popular?" But conscience asks
the question, "is it right?" There comes a time when one must take
a position that's neither safe, nor popular, but he must make it because his
conscience tells him that it's right." Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Buddhism is synonymous with the
enlightenment process, the steps that one takes to move from their current
consciousness to a cosmic, enlightened consciousness. There are two primary
approaches to this process: so called "short-path" Buddhism and
"long-path" Buddhism. Rama taught short-path Buddhism, which uses
procedures that make the attainment of enlightenment possible in a single
lifetime. Long-path Buddhism is more of a religious approach, with a strong
emphasis on the reading of religious texts known as "sutras", along
with some prayer and meditation - it is not our subject today. Short-path Buddhism is primarily concerned with meditation, and
the two best-known forms are Zen (Japanese) and Vajrayana (Tibetan) Buddhism.
As Rama describes in his lesson on Power, short-path Buddhism "involves
the release of the kundalini energy through the chakras, or energy centers,
to create very rapid enlightenment. It is also taught with empowerments from
a teacher, someone who is enlightened, who has experienced paranirvana and
gone through the gradated stages of enlightenment, and has the siddhas and
powers necessary to utilize in the teaching process." |
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CopyRight Matsumori
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