Introduction
✨ In this profound and expansive teaching, Master Woo Myung explains that the Real World is not a distant place but the realm of Original Mind, where Heaven and Truth already exist within.
He teaches that human beings live immersed in thoughts, karma, and habits—creating turmoil within their own minds. Because of attachments and self-centered thinking, people cannot perceive the true Mind. 🌌
According to Master Woo Myung, the Real World is the realm of God where there is no separation between “you” and “me,” no kleshas, no attachment, and no individual confinement. It is the place where one lives without belonging to anything, dwelling in boundless peace.
Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
Real World
The Word of Heaven is
the message of one who is absent of mind.
In order for one to be absent of mind,
he must have no individual attachments
and be completely absent of self.
In order to be completely absent of self,
one must be without attachments
and not exist in one’s life.
Everyone lives their one lifetime,
but rarely do they live without attachments.
When I say rarely, I mean never.
This is because they do not know how to do so.
Even if such a method were to exist,
they would not be able to discern
whether or not it is correct.
They live thinking that such things as
eating, sleeping, and excreting
are all there is to life.
Such misunderstandings are no doubt pathetic.
If one wishes to discuss life,
he must know life’s fundamental logic
as well as its true meaning.
The true meaning of life does not exist far away
but within the mind.
However he cannot know it,
for man’s mind is too dim to see the true Mind.
Man lives with the passing years
constantly and tumultuously thinking,
then passes on to the afterworld.
This world and the next do not exist separately;
they are one.
Nor is there a place where one goes to and fro.
Everything exists within man’s mind,
whereby his mind is Heaven.
Heaven does not exist someplace far away
but within man – within his mind.
Man is the master of Heaven;
he is the master of both what is real
and what is unreal.
Man’s mind is tumultuous,
but his mind is what is Heaven.
So long as he knows the original Mind
and reaches the one Heaven,
his eternal existence as God
will also exist within his mind.
Within his mind is where
not a single one of his thoughts exist.
It is where reality exists from amidst nothingness;
it is man’s mind and it is the realm of God.
God’s realm is where man’s real image truly exists;
thus this place exists within the mind
and in the world of Truth.
Man lives in this world
constantly and single-handedly creating
turmoil and kleshas in his mind,
but such things do not exist in the real world.
When one’s mind is absent of attachments,
he will have the true Mind
and will live without any kleshas.
And not only would he be absent of any kleshas,
but also the real world is where man lives
without his shape.
The realm of God is where
man lives free of his karma and habits.
It is the real world.
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– Woo Myung
Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
🌸 At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn how to eliminate attachments, karma, and habits so that the Original Mind can remain.
In the teaching of Master Woo Myung, the Real World is not achieved by going somewhere else—it is realized when the false self disappears. Heaven, the realm of God, and the world of Truth exist within the purified mind.
