Chinese past lives?

[kemetic18]

I was wondering, how many people here recall a past life in China? If so, please share.

I recall a Chinese past life that was very pleasant. It feels like it was a very long time ago maybe in the 1200s or 1300s, but since I know very little about Chinese history, fashion, etc, its hard to tell.

I remember being a woman with my feet bound. I don't remember anything big or spectacular about this life - just little ordinary things. Walking in a beautiful garden, cooking, and doors...these huge tall red doors which seemed like maybe a temple of some kind. They seemed enourmously tall with soliders or guards pulling them open by tugging on ropes. I think whenever I saw them in that lifetime I must have been a child and that's why they seemed so huge.

I was married, but had been arranged and my impression was that it was a loveless but nonetheless compatible relationship. We had a nice house with a courtyard in the center, not extravagant but certainly not poor. I have one memory of a woman talking to me and she seemed to saying my name. It sounded like "Zoo-ay" or "Zoo-way".

When I was in grade school (in my current life) my class to a field trip to the smithsonian in washington. I remember being enthralled by this very old, very simple chinese painting of a mother teaching her daughter to make silk. It was gorgeous and gave me such a nice happy feeling, like I remembered doing that.

 

[Shiftkitty]

Not Chinese, but I have flickerings of a very quiet, contemplative life in Japan.

 

[Totoro]

My recollections of China are more recent.. early 1900's. My thread is below and I also have a blog that's in my signature.


http://www.reincarnationforum.com/threads/my-past-lives-research.2985/#post-51759

 

[rynen]

I remember one time I was to visit my Chinese grandmother, somewhere near the sea. I was half Chinese (father) and half something else (my mother was from a neighboring country). When I arrived and was introduced to her she thoroughly checked me. I was nervous because I wanted to find grace in her eyes. But I felt like a horse on a market. I wanted her to acknowledge me. Yet I was also glad to see her since it was my first time meeting face-to-face. In the end she found what she was searching for in my face and stated that I was Chinese enough to be her grandson. This made me think her to be judgemental but somehow I understood why she did it. When I woke up and even now I wonder why the hell I understood.

 

[usetawuz]

My life in China was remarkable because of its brevity and its closeness to the woman who is my current wife and with whom I am currently parting. In that lifetime we were all each other had so there was no outside influence to drag her away...we have both paid for outside influences which drag her away from the mutual goal we have planned...for some reason I can get past the societal influence but she cannot...so she gets sucked in and I move forward. We are primary soulmates so I care her progress but in our current lifetime she thinks I am a nut...so I have to let her run her course without me. This is the only lifetime I am aware of in the orient...and it took place in China

 

[Shiftkitty]

When I arrived and was introduced to her she thoroughly checked me. I was nervous because I wanted to find grace in her eyes. But I felt like a horse on a market. I wanted her to acknowledge me. Yet I was also glad to see her since it was my first time meeting face-to-face. In the end she found what she was searching for in my face and stated that I was Chinese enough to be her grandson. This made me think her to be judgemental but somehow I understood why she did it. When I woke up and even now I wonder why the hell I understood.

[slightly OT] This reminded me of an incident in my current life where a pair of older Scottish ladies showed off an unusual talent by calling my entire ethnic heritage by checking me out up and down like an old slave market. It really honked me off at first because I had no idea who they were, what they were doing, or why they felt they even had the right to walk up to me and start acting like they were trying to decide on whether or not to start bidding on me. I was utterly amazed when they were done. They had called it right down to tribes and clans. I was declared to be "Scottish enough". They meant no harm and it was incredible to have one's bloodlines ripped open and laid bare for all to see. A real eye-opener!


[back OT] I was picking up a case from a dentist today, and the place was surrounded by Chinese shops, such as restaurants, specialty food stores, and a reflexology place (where they do pressure stuff to your feet to cure ailments). I don't place much stock in such things, but as I wandered through a strip mall I've come to know as "Little Beijing", I had the fleeting glimpse of being in an ancient Chinese marketplace. It was brief, no time to grab details, just the feeling that I was being sent to pick something up for someone I had been apprenticed to. (Strange that in the current world I was also engaged in courier services.)


A place I have always felt an affinity for is Tibet. I have no memories of a life there, yet it always looks familiar and inviting. I may not have connected Tibet with China because I consider Tibet to not be China, no matter what the real world says!