๐ Introduction
Many people quietly carry deep questions throughout their lives:
Why was I born?
What is the purpose of life?
Where do people go after death?
Why does suffering exist?
For some, these questions become even heavier during times of hardship, financial struggle, illness, betrayal, and emotional pain.
This powerful meditation testimonial shares the story of Sunny H., who spent years carrying overwhelming burdens while struggling to survive through business failures, debt, family responsibilities, and health problems.
Although she constantly smiled outwardly, internally she was consumed by fear, anxiety, resentment, exhaustion, and endless questions about life itself.
But through meditation and learning how to let go of the painful โmental photographsโ stored inside her mind, she gradually discovered peace, gratitude, forgiveness, and freedom.
This heartfelt meditation testimonial beautifully shows how letting go of resentment, fear, attachment, and emotional burdens can completely transform the way we experience life.
๐ฌ Meditation Testimonial: โOnce My Questions About Life Were Answered, I Felt Free Like a Birdโ
By Sun D H.
Since childhood, I always carried many questions inside my heart.
There was the blue sky, white clouds, trees growing on mountains, and countless people living in the world.
But where had all these things come from?
Why was I born?
And where do people go after they die?
I believed there had to be some purpose and meaning behind human existence.
Yet no matter how famous or successful someone became, eventually they disappeared and were forgotten in the endless flow of time.
Whenever I thought about that emptiness, I often cried alone.
๐ง No Matter What I Did, Only Emptiness Remained
I even tried religious life, hoping to fill the emptiness inside my heart.
But the emptiness never disappeared.
Then one day, my husband suddenly collapsed from a stroke.
Overnight, I became responsible for all of our financial burdens.
At the time, my oldest child was only in fourth grade, and my youngest was just four years old.
At first, I ran a business alone.
Later, I worked together with a business partner.
Honestly, running a business felt like an endless and exhausting struggle.
I operated a recycled wood factory, but we experienced three devastating fires that completely destroyed the factory.
Another time, a typhoon swept everything away.
Once, flooding destroyed the road leading into the factory, making operations impossible.
There were even times when we could not continue operating simply because we lacked money to buy small machine parts like bolts and nuts.
Our business faced foreclosure twice.
I experienced countless asset seizures and provisional attachments.
The names of people I owed money to filled notebook pages over and over again.
For several years, I received between 200 and 300 debt collection calls every single day.
Even while sleeping, anxiety would suddenly wake me up in fear.
I constantly worried about payments, operating expenses, promissory notes, and deadlines.
As my life became consumed by financial struggles, my health collapsed as well.
My heart weakened.
My digestive system deteriorated.
Many nights, I was rushed to the emergency room.
People around me believed I looked cheerful because I smiled often.
But inside, I was completely trapped by money, fear, and exhaustion.
Trying desperately to save myself, I performed 10,000 bows in a single day and prayed every dawn while doing hundreds of prostrations.
My prayer was simple:
โPlease help me avoid hurting the people who trusted me.
Please donโt let my life end before I can repay the kindness others showed me.โ
๐ฑ Then I Encountered This Meditation
One day, by chance, I came across a booklet introducing this meditation.
One sentence deeply touched my heart:
โThere is an exact method for discarding the mind, and you can personally verify that the mind is truly discarded.โ
Even then, I kept postponing going to the meditation center because life felt too busy and overwhelming.
But one day, a sudden thought struck me:
โIf I keep delaying this, I may never go at all.โ
So I immediately went.
๐ฟ As Questions, Resentment, and Hatred Disappeared
This meditation was truly astonishing.
While practicing, the questions I had carried my entire life โ
โWhere do people come from?โ
โWhere do they go?โ
โ finally became clear inside me.
Even my impatient personality gradually softened as I continued discarding my mind.
During the difficult years of running the business, I had come to see my business partner as my greatest enemy.
Every day we fought, blamed each other, mocked each other, and argued endlessly.
Inside my mind, I constantly thought:
โWhile I was tearing my flesh apart trying to survive, what were you doing?โ
But as I discarded those thoughts and emotions, something incredible happened.
I suddenly began feeling gratitude toward him.
When I looked back honestly, I realized that despite all my resentment and judgment, he had actually been supporting and enduring things alongside me the entire time.
I realized everything had begun from my own mind.
๐ง Letting Go of Hatred
At one point, while our factory was struggling badly, someone attempted to take our property through foreclosure.
That person turned out to be one of my relatives.
The resentment and hatred I carried toward that relative became so deep that attending family gatherings felt unbearable.
But through meditation, I slowly recalled and discarded those painful memories one by one.
Crying in repentance, I let go of the hatred I had held inside my heart.
Then one day, we unexpectedly met again at a wedding.
Without even thinking about it, I naturally held his hand warmly and spoke kindly to him.
Even I was shocked by my own actions.
Through meditation, I discarded countless โmental photographsโ connected to money, business, children, relationships, resentment, and suffering.
And eventually, I realized:
Everything had originated from my own mind.
๐๏ธ Now I Feel Free Like a Bird
Now I feel as though I am flying freely through the sky.
I feel free like a bird.
I realized that not a single thing in this world exists without meaning or value.
Everything has its own purpose and place.
And I also realized:
Everything begins from the mind.
Now, the only thing remaining inside me is gratitude.
Most of my debts have now been repaid.
And from the bottom of my heart, I sincerely thank everyone who helped me throughout my life.
