Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
To clarify, I am not a Buddhist, although there are/were a few in my family.
Back in May I was in Beijing visiting my wife's family and being a tourist too
While I was at the Lama temple (Yonghe Temple) in Beijing, this...feeling I guess..... came to and it came to me again later outside of Beijing, near Mutianyu, in the Hongluo Temple, which is not Tibetan.
While at Yonghe Temple a feeling started to come over me, that I can't actually explain, and when I was standing in the Pavilion of Ten Thousand Happinesses which contains an 18 meters (59 ft) tall (with an additional 8 meters (26 ft) underground, making it 26 meters (85 ft) in total) statue of the Maitreya Buddha it got stronger, like someone was trying to tell me something, but I just couldn't hear them. I don't exactly want to call it a spiritual experience, but I don't know how else to label it, or if it should even be labeled at all.
I left Yonghe and went on about the business for the day. Later that week I went to the great wall at Mutainyu and then stopped at the Hongluo temple on the way back to Beijing. And there was that feeling again, it just started as I was walking around the temple. There is something I am supposed to do, or understand or realize...but I just can't seem to get it....
Not sure what to make of it, or if I should even make something out of it. Not sure if there is something I should have realized, not even sure why I am posting my confusion here, but I thought maybe it would help. The only thing I seem to know for sure is I need to go back to Yonghe.... but that will not be anytime soon
This has been on my mind since last May...... I guess I am asking for thoughts on this from others who have a much better grasp on Buddhism than I do.
Thank you
谢谢
Xièxiè
Back in May I was in Beijing visiting my wife's family and being a tourist too
While I was at the Lama temple (Yonghe Temple) in Beijing, this...feeling I guess..... came to and it came to me again later outside of Beijing, near Mutianyu, in the Hongluo Temple, which is not Tibetan.
While at Yonghe Temple a feeling started to come over me, that I can't actually explain, and when I was standing in the Pavilion of Ten Thousand Happinesses which contains an 18 meters (59 ft) tall (with an additional 8 meters (26 ft) underground, making it 26 meters (85 ft) in total) statue of the Maitreya Buddha it got stronger, like someone was trying to tell me something, but I just couldn't hear them. I don't exactly want to call it a spiritual experience, but I don't know how else to label it, or if it should even be labeled at all.
I left Yonghe and went on about the business for the day. Later that week I went to the great wall at Mutainyu and then stopped at the Hongluo temple on the way back to Beijing. And there was that feeling again, it just started as I was walking around the temple. There is something I am supposed to do, or understand or realize...but I just can't seem to get it....
Not sure what to make of it, or if I should even make something out of it. Not sure if there is something I should have realized, not even sure why I am posting my confusion here, but I thought maybe it would help. The only thing I seem to know for sure is I need to go back to Yonghe.... but that will not be anytime soon
This has been on my mind since last May...... I guess I am asking for thoughts on this from others who have a much better grasp on Buddhism than I do.
Thank you
谢谢
Xièxiè
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