Meditation Experience - Kalayanamitra Caroline Fraser

Meditation Experience
Kalayanamitra Caroline Fraser
8th version of The Middle Way Basic Program
From Wat Johannesburg South Africa

I pay the highest respect to The Most Venerable Phrarajbhavanavisudh Luang Phaw Dhammajayo,

The Middle Way Basic
Version: “They all have seen brightness from 4 miracle girls in Johannesberg.”

Not so long after The Middle Way meditation retreat program was started by Luang Phaw Dhammajayo, has been gaining so much popularity in Capetown and Johannesberg, South Africa. Currently, The Middle Way meditation retreat program has been opened for the 9th version. For today, our team members from Johannesberg would like to tell the meditation experience from the previous 8th version, which can be announced that, “They all have seen brightness from 4 miracle girls in Johannesberg.” For today, our team members would like to share the meditation experience of Khun Carine Fraser, as an example of one of the four girls that have good inner experience.

Carine Fraser joins The Middle Way Basic course because of the sign infront of the main road.

Everytime Khun Carine drive her car back from work, she has drove passed the intersection of our temple. After reading the sign of the Johannesberg temple, she thought to herself that there must be something good and inspirational about this temple. After thinking to herself, she finally entered the Johannesberg temple to meditate on Sunday at 10 am. Two days after, she was able to join The Middle Way Basic meditation course with no difficulty, because she used to feel that the clearness of her meditation experience at previous Sundays were still vague.

The students of the 8th version of The Middle Way Basic program join into the Buddhist tradition of giving alms to the monks.

The students of the 8th version of The Middle Way Basic program learn the correct way of offering food to the monks in Buddhist tradition.

After joining the 8th version of The Middle Way Basic meditation course, Khun Carine became the first student to be able to see brightness during her meditation experience. Only when phra-ajarn has been teaching about feeling empty like the sky, Khun Carine has been able to see the sun suddenly popped out and shining brightly at the center of her body. From that day on, Khun Carine has been able to see the sun at the center of her body in every lessons of The Middle way Basic meditation program.

Khun Carine was able to see herself sitting in a meditation posture inside the circle of lights from the top view at the center of her body. She was also able to see herself spreading the radiance from her center, even though she has not been able to sit crossed legs on the floor ever since her backbone surgery.

Khun Carine told us that, “I have placed my mind at the center of my body, without doing anything. Not long after, my body has been mixed with the comfort of the atmosphere. Maintaining my soft mind, the atmosphere has been expanding to cover the sky…and then suddenly the sun has appeared. All of this has been caused at the center of my body.

From the center of the light circle, there are even more energy and brightness contain inside that are shooting upward.

The thing that have amazed and caused Khun Carine and the team members of Wat Johannesberg to be very surprised is that Khun Carine must sit in a chair almost all the times because of her back pain. This has been due to the surgery. However, there was this one time during the brightness during her inner experience that she was able to see herself sitting crossed legs meditating inside the circle of light. She told us that, “How could this be possible? My inner experience is amazing and unbelievable beyond imagination!”

The back pain was not her obstacle

Even though there was noise from preparation of the Buddhist Chapel construction periodically, Khun Carine did not hear anything. She saw only the inner light and sat crossed legs meditating inside the circle easily and familiarly.

This was an amazing event that only the small sign at the entrance way on the road could make one’s life better.

We bowed to pay the highest respect to Luang Phaw

Johannesburg Team

Translated by Pichayapa Suenghataiphorn