🌌 CHUNDO: PRAYERS OR RITES FOR THE PASSAGE OF THE DEAD INTO HEAVEN | MASTER WOO MYUNG | SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

🌟 INTRODUCTION

✨ What does it mean to send someone to the Land of Truth? 🌿
In this teaching, Master Woo Myung explains that Chundo, the rites or prayers for the passage of the dead, are not mere rituals for the deceased.
They are a practice for the living, a method by which one can send themselves to the Land of Truth while still alive. 🌏

Chundo, in essence, is about the living finding their true self —
this is the way to the Land of Truth.
If a person is Truth, they can send others to the Land of Truth.
But if they are not Truth, no rite or prayer can lead anyone to Truth.

This is the ultimate spiritual law — only the place of Truth,
where one has truly become Truth, can perform such rites.

📜 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG

Chundo (Prayers or Rites for the Passage of the Dead into Heaven)

Finding one’s true self is the study and the method to go to the land of Truth while he is still living. It is what Buddhism calls ye su jae (Buddhist rites of passage to heaven for the living) which is to send oneself to the land of Truth. Finding one’s true self is like performing chundo for one’s self while he is still living.

Many religions, shamans, and other organizations also have similar rites to chundo. When such kinds of rites or prayers are performed, the dead end up going to the mind world of the person performing them. If the person performing them is Truth, the dead go to the land of Truth; if he is false, they go to a false world.

If you are not Truth right now, the place where you worship or practice is false. Moreover, if a place has not been able to make a living person become Truth, then the rites performed there are also false.

Only the place of Truth can send people to the land of Truth. Making living people become Truth and performing chundo for the dead, which is sending them to the land of Truth, can only be done by Truth.

– Woo Myung

🌠 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

At Santa Clara Meditation, we are taught that spiritual rites are not limited to the dead. 🌿
They are a living practice, the method by which one can transcend the false self and ascend to the Land of Truth.

A person who has become Truth can guide others to the Land of Truth, both while alive and through their prayers or rites.
But if one has not yet become Truth, their efforts are futile. They can only lead themselves and others into the illusion.

To perform the true rite — Chundo — is to live as Truth itself.
This is the ultimate calling: to help the living find their true selves,
so that when death comes, they return to the Land of Truth. 🌏