A Journey to the Origin

If you have a chance to visit Korea, then make sure it is a spiritual journey.

And this is where the journey begins; The Jeung San Do Education center located in the city of Taejon.

And where did Jeung San Do begin?  In order to understand the movement of Jeung San Do, we visit Moaksan, meaning the Mother Mountain.  It is a truely beautiful mountain, with many famous temples, one of the more famous is the Dae-wun temple, the Great Wish temple.

This is a temple known for the great monk Jin-mook, and his portrait hangs in this temple.  This is what Sangjenim said about Jin-mook.  "Hoping to build a good world on earth, Jin-mook visited heaven to learn its many marvelous ways.  But, after he was tragically killed by Gim Bohng-gohk, Jin-mook, harboring bitterness and grief, took all the spirits who head the branches of each teaching of the East and went over to the West, where he endeavored to develop Western civilization.  Now, I relieve Jin-mook's bitterness and summon him back to his own country to have him participate in building a world of immortality." 

This is also the temple where Sangjenim opened His infinite Enlightenment for the salvation of heaven, earth and humanity.  On lunar calendar July seventh 1901, Sangjenim opened His infinite Ways here; the Seven Stars Shrine.

Again the Seven Stars Shrine. 

Beginning on His fifteenth day at Dae-wun Temple, July 1, Jeung-san did not eat or drink anything for seven days. He meditated with one mind without once moving from where He sat. On July 7, His twenty-first day at the Temple, thunder roared and the earth trembled in the midst of an auspicious heavy rain. Amidst all of this, He became enlightened to the ultimate dao and opened the great gate of the spirit world. From then on, He exercised authority over the three realms and employed at will the universe's power of creative change.

Accross from the mountain from the Great Wish Temple, is the Geum-sahn Temple.  It houses the tallest indoor Maitreya Statue in the world.

The night before Jeung-san attained enlightenment, He had said to Geum-gohk, "Go over the mountain to Geum-sahn Temple and stay inside the Maitreya Shrine."  As the monk left Dae-wun Temple, he saw a brilliant pillar of fire descending from the sky to the roof of the Seven Stars Shrine. While he was inside the Maitreya Shrine, heaven and earth suddenly shook so hard that it seemed as if the statue and shrine would collapse. Barely able to maintain consciousness and unable to remain upright, the monk clung to a pillar inside the shrine. Despite this, he experienced a state of rapture. At daybreak, he returned to Dae-wun Temple and reported what had happened that night. Geum-gohk realized that, at the moment of his rapture, Jeung-san had attained enlightenment.

The Geum-sahn Temple meaning, the Gold Mountain Temple houses saries from the ancestor Buddha, the Shakiamuni Buddha, as well as the Statue of the Maitreya Buddha.  Saries are bones in the shapes of pearls that are formed in the bodies of Buddhas.  After long meditations, the essence gets concentrated and makes these pearls in the body.  It is known that more than one hundred of these pearls were recovered from the cremated body of Shakiamuni Buddha.  The tall tower in the picture houses saries from the original Buddha before the Shakiamuni Buddha.  The smaller tower behind holds saries from the Shakiamni Buddha.

The Maitreya Buddha Statue.  Sangjenim said the Maitreya statue holds the Dragon Ball in His Hand, but Sangjenim holds the Dragon Ball in His mouth.

The Maitreya Shrine in Gold Mountain Temple was built by the great monk Jin-pyo.  He received enlightenment from the Maitreya Buddha and Maitreya promised Jin-pyo that He will be born in the land of Korea for the salvation of humanity.

In answer to Jin-Pyo, Maitreya Buddha was born in Korean in 1871 for the salvation of humanity.  He called himself JeungSan, because He was born under the Jeung Mountain, meaning the rice cake cooker mountain.  It is a small mountain that is in the picture.  If you go there, you will see all other mountains circles this moutain in respect and bows to this mountain.  His title is SangJeNim.  In Chinese bible God is translated as SangJe.  JeungSan is the Maitreya, God the Father, who sent Jesus to earth for His work.  Now God Himself was born on earth for the complete salvation of humanity.  However God is never alone.  God comes in pairs, there is God and then there is Goddess.

This is the portrait of God and Goddess.  Please go to http://www.dojeon.org/english_main.aspx and read the words of God and Goddess.  Why did God come to earth?  What did God do while He was on earth?  What will happen to us that now God was on earth?  The answers are on the pages of the book.

Sahng-jeh-nim said to His disciples, hose who believe in Jesus wait for the second coming of Christ. Those who believe in Buddha wait for the coming of Maitreya Buddha. Those who believe in Eastern Learning wait for the rebirth of Chey Su-oon. No matter who it is, when the person comes, all will proclaim that he is their teacher and follow him.?He also said, sent Confucius, Buddha, and Jesus to earth for the purpose of My work.