Please, read it carefully; it will give you a practical clue on the idea of rebirth

Please, read it carefully; it will give you a practical clue on the idea of rebirth

I have one faithful European Vipassanā meditation student who has faithfully and loyally followed and respected me and my teaching of Vipassanā meditation till the last moment of his life. We have had a long time relationship between he and I for more than two decades on the path of “Mindfulness-Based Vipassanā meditation practice”. Two years age, he unexpectedly passed away by cancer at his operation room of hospital in Austria. When I received the email that mentioned “He passed away”. I couldn’t accept it at once because I have never heard of he has suffered for cancer. However, it was a real message from his responsible doctor.

Last night, around 12 p.m. he gave me a dream that he was born in a celestial abode as a beautiful shining celestial being with other friends. In the dream, he said, “Ashin, I was so lucky to meet you, accept you as my spiritual teacher and practice “Mindfulness-Based Vipassanā Meditation” with you as you taught me more than two decades. I’m so happy to be born now in celestial abode and to continue practicing the technique as you taught me while I was with you. Please, keep practicing and teaching people. Do not go away from such a beautiful forest. As you said, nature is perfect with meditative mind and with contemplative monk like you. Thank you so much for your Teaching.”

What a strange thing to me is that I have no time to dream while sleeping because I’m used to sleeping for 5 hours everyday because of my active and intensive and attentive meditation everyday but I’m quite happy to see that my long time meditation student, now a celestial being, Ewald is so shining and satisfied with his new life that made me really interesting.

Whether you believe it or not, Ewald came to me last night at midnight and talked to me very pleasantly and satisfactorily in the dream. I don’t want to write it down on Facebook but I think that I should share it with my meditation students across the world including Myanmar. If they are interested in something new like that, they can see it.

Of course, he didn’t intend to be born in such a celestial abode as a celestial being by practicing this meditation. However, We both see that the benefits from meditation practice are visible to our lives. We both are very practical and living day after day life.

We have never argued with each other for the next life or the existence of a certain God because it will stupidly waste our precious time but we live very mindfully in day-to-day life. We are very practical. We have never wasted our precious time by talking about the past but always reminded to learn our lessons from the past. It is the truth.

Thanks a lot Ewald for the beautiful and wonderful dream you give me. Take a good care in your new celestial life and please, continue practicing “Mindfulness-Based Vipassanā Meditation” as I taught you. It will bring you a great benefit visible to you.
Deep regards
Yours

Author:

Ashin Kekasa is a graduate in Mathematics. He finished his both public and monastic educations. His major interest was Mindfulness-Based Vipassana Meditation instructed in Buddhism. He took six months long retreat course in Mahasi Meditation Center when he was a layman. After his six months long meditation practice, he became a Buddhist ordained in Mahasi Tradition. However, he wanted to know much more about Buddhist philosophy so he moved to Mahagandhayon monastery to study Pali scriptures seriously. He has spent teaching and practicing in Mahagandhayon monastery. He did it well. Then, he moved to the forest for his serious meditation practice. He founded his own forest meditation center 15 years ago. He has been conducting Vipassana retreat for laypeople twice a year. He has also been used to travelling to abroad since 2004 because he is invited by people to teach them meditation. It is just a brief biography of Ashin Kelasa.