Buddhist monk saved by Jesus – salvation through Jesus Christ is a chapter from my Free E-Book. Which shares my journey from Buddhist meditation and spiritual deception to salvation and new life in Christ. You can download it on my Home page ⟶ Buddhist Monk Saved by Jesus
Returning to the Monastery at the Lake
I returned to a very peaceful monastery by the lake, where life was not bound by all the traditional Theravada rules. The head monk was very kind and lived according to the teachings of my former teacher and some Zen masters. We had dogs, cats, and even a small monkey.
One evening I was watching videos on the internet. A title appeared on the screen: “My Testimony: Saved by Jesus,” which caught my attention. I had never seen anything like that before.
I began listening to the story of a young woman who had lived in a Hindu ashram. She practiced yoga and meditation and lived a spiritual life of renunciation. Her crown chakra had opened. After this pleasant experience, she noticed that she no longer had control over her body—spiritual beings were entering her through the open chakra at any time. She said that a spirit with low vibrations came into her body, which was very bad.
Somewhere she heard about Jesus and His Word. In search of a way out of those deeply unpleasant spiritual experiences, she turned to Jesus. Then Jesus set her free from those evil spirits. She said that meditation, yoga, and everything that leads to higher states of consciousness, the opening of chakras, and higher vibrations are demonic teachings and practices.
Internal Struggle, Doubts and Faith
I could not accept that, because I believed in the Buddha’s wisdom and his path to liberation. I thought something must be wrong with her understanding. How could an ordinary woman know more than all of the most respected Buddhist monks throughout history—those with countless followers, who devoted their entire lives to monastic discipline and spent decades in solitude and meditation?
I simply could not accept it; it was the complete opposite of everything I had believed, practiced, and experienced until then. I did not have the knowledge to show me it was true. On the other hand, I believed what she said about chakras and spirits, because I had experienced those things myself.
I was deeply moved by her firm conviction that Jesus had set her free and that He was the only way to the knowledge of truth. I felt something and inner faith arose in me—that there must be something real about it and that I had to find out for myself if it was true.
Turning to Jesus
I didn’t want to reject it outright. After everything I had gone through to try to discover the truth of liberation, and despite all my spiritual experiences, if I was completely honest with myself, I had not yet found the truth.
I decided to do the same.
I immediately went to my kuti, sat down on the floor, and without any plan or thought, I spontaneously said:
“I renounce all the teachers I have had until now, and all the knowledge I have received from them.”
Then I looked upward, as if Jesus was there, and continued:
“Jesus, I want to know the truth. If You are truly alive and you can hear me, show me the truth.”
The moment I spoke those words, a strong spiritual presence appeared before me, like a spiritual light. I could not see what it was, but it was something I had never felt before. Then I had an inner spiritual experience that instantly changed my life forever.
Receiving the Holy Spirit
At that time, I did not know what it was, but in the following days I learned from God’s Word that I had received the Holy Spirit.
In that experience there was far more than I had ever imagined possible to encounter. Everything I had experienced in eight years of meditation was utterly worthless in comparison. This spiritual experience was more real and convincing than anything that had ever happened to me before. Everything I had known before in meditation and emptiness was empty—a spiritual power without a person, without thought or emotion.
In this experience, I encountered God—with knowledge and emotions that are perfect in every way; nothing else is perfect. Even though I had previously had numerous spiritual experiences that seemed perfect to me, they were nothing compared to this. I experienced the presence of God, perfect in holiness, love, and knowledge. In an instant, everything within me changed. I received new life—a personal relationship with God through His Spirit. I came to know God as my Father.
God created all people, but He becomes our Father, and we become His adopted children only when we receive salvation, when we are sealed with His Spirit. This was the most beautiful and most important event that had ever happened to me in my life. From this perspective, my search for truth and liberation had ended. This experience and knowledge in God’s Spirit was given to me freely by God, without any effort on my part.
Everything I had imagined about God in the past was wrong. God made me realize that He is more real and more important than all of creation, and now I am connected with Him forever. I knew I had received eternal life with God; nothing can separate me from it, and after this life here, I will go to heaven. I realized that I had been separated from God all my life, which felt like the worst thing of all.
It became clear to me that if I had not received salvation—which is only through Jesus Christ—I would have remained a Buddhist monk my entire life, destined for hell and eternal destruction. I saw myself as deeply sinful, or stained, in comparison to God’s perfect power of holiness and love. This divine power is so holy and perfect that it melts and transforms the human soul. For this reason, I continuously gave thanks, knowing that I did not deserve it.
Yet God loves me, having granted me deliverance from sin and evil, and transferred me into His kingdom, into His family. The way to God, to salvation, and to eternal life with Him is only through Jesus Christ. All other paths, of which there are many, lead to eternal destruction.
The Bible is the Word of the Most High God—the one true living God who created all things and all beings. All other teachings, of which there are countless, are lies and deceptions from Satan, the fallen angels, and evil spirits. They are the enemies of God and Jesus, they rule over the world and have lost or unsaved people under their powers. They deceive them with their false knowledge and spiritual powers so that they would not be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.
Later, I saw that exactly what I had realized in this experience is written in the Scriptures. If it were not in the Bible, then the knowledge I received would not have been from God.
The Truth Revealed in Scripture
Jhn. 14:6 Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Him. Act. 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. Mat. 7:13-14 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Jesus is the gate; whoever enters through Him will be saved.
2 Cor. 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Rom. 8:15 You have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father!” Col. 1:12-13 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son. Gal. 4:6-7 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, who calls out, “Abba, Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Recognize the False Light of Satan by the God’s Spirit and His Word of Truth
Buddhism is only one of the deceptions or paths of destruction that come from the rulers of the kingdom of darkness; we can also call them demonic or evil spiritual beings. They have different ranks, and only some rule over all the knowledge of a certain path. Each of these rulers has its own name, characteristics, powers, and knowledge through which they deceive people.
I came to understand that all the knowledge from Buddha comes from these evil spiritual beings; they have power over all who believe in and follow that knowledge. God, through Jesus, freed me from their authority and their deceptions. Otherwise, I could never have known this. People who are not saved do not have the Spirit of God and do not know the Word of God, and therefore cannot truly know or believe—just as I did not know before.
I realized how humiliating it was to God that I had bowed to statues of Buddha and to people. God gave me life in the world that He created; without Him, I would not exist. Yet in ignorance, I had worshiped Buddha, who created nothing. In this realization, I felt deep regret and asked God to forgive me. I knew that I must never again bow to any statue or person. Only the Father in heaven and Jesus are worthy of all praise, honor, glory, and power forever. It became clear to me that I could no longer be a Buddhist monk.
Immediately after this short experience, I was extremely content. As I sat in a mosquito-net tent, preparing to sleep, spirits in the form of people appeared around me, as they usually did. Instead of performing my old false practice of blessing, I knew that they were my enemies. At the end they only harm and deceive people with their false knowledge and spiritual powers, aiming to prevent people from coming to the knowledge of the truth of God—salvation through Jesus— and to cause their eternal destruction. I rebuked them in the name of Jesus and told them never to return. They began swirling around me, screaming, and then disappeared. I saw the expressions of their screams on their faces.
Buddhist Monk Saved by Jesus is my Free E-Book which shares my journey from Buddhist meditation and spiritual deception to salvation and new life in Christ. You can download it on my Home page ⟶ Buddhist Monk Saved by Jesus
Continue with the following biblical truths
After my liberation and new creation in Christ, my life has completely changed:
New Life in Christ
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For a clear contrast between the truth of the gospel and Buddhist thought, read:
Jesus or Buddha – Truth vs. Deception
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And if you want to receive a clear explanation of the gospel of grace – how you can be saved here and now – read:
The Gospel of Salvation
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