- Chapter One: Prologue
- Chapter Two: Doctrine
- Chapter Three: Practice
- Chapter Four: The Way of Humanity
- Chapter Five: Cause and Effect
- Chapter Six: Doubts Clarified
- Chapter Seven: The Principle of the Nature
- Chapter Eight: Buddhahood
- Chapter Nine: Sending on Spirits in Transition
- Chapter Ten: Belief and Dedication
- Chapter Eleven: Maxims
- Chapter Twelve: Exemplary Acts
- Chapter Thirteen: On the Order
- Chapter Fourteen: Prospects
- Chapter Fifteen: Entrusting
Dictionary
The Scripture of the Founding Master
Chapter Nine: Sending on Spirits in Transition
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Taegŏ asked again, “How was it decided to hold the deliverance service on the forty-ninth day after a person’s death?” The Founding Master said, “When people die, they generally stay in the intermediate state for forty-nine days before they receive a new body in accordance with their karmic affinities. Thus, in order to guide them to collect the pure and clear one-pointedness once again, we decided to offer the deliverance invocation on that day in accordance with the teachings of the Buddha of the past. However, there are plenty of spirits who receive a new body in accordance with their attached minds as soon as they die.”
The Scripture of the Founding Master
Chapter Nine: Sending on Spirits in Transition
34
Taegŏ asked again, “How was it decided to hold the deliverance service on the forty-ninth day after a person’s death?” The Founding Master said, “When people die, they generally stay in the intermediate state for forty-nine days before they receive a new body in accordance with their karmic affinities. Thus, in order to guide them to collect the pure and clear one-pointedness once again, we decided to offer the deliverance invocation on that day in accordance with the teachings of the Buddha of the past. However, there are plenty of spirits who receive a new body in accordance with their attached minds as soon as they die.”
