🌟 INTRODUCTION
✨ Is meditation a religion? 🌿
In this powerful teaching, Master Woo Myung explains that meditation is not a religion —
but rather the path to transcendence from the confines of religious belief and the illusion of the self.
Religion, he teaches, is for those who are incomplete, who follow the words of saints without the true method to become whole.
To become complete is to become Truth itself — to become one with the eternal Universe, the Creator. 🌏
Meditation is the method of becoming that Truth, transcending the boundaries of religion and the limitations of the human mind.
It is the path to freedom, immortality, and completion.
📜 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Many People Ask If Meditation Is a Religion
Until now, people in religions listened to the words of saints, spoke about them, and strove to behave accordingly. Religions are places where people go to listen to the words of saints because they are incomplete. Religions are also places where one must believe those words and adhere to them. But more importantly, people have been unable to become complete in these places because they lack a concrete method.
Becoming complete is to become an eternally-living, never-dying immortal by becoming Truth. In other words, you are complete only when you become an existence that never dies. The existence of Truth is the Soul and Spirit of the great Universe. This existence existed an eternity before, it exists now, and it will exist and live an eternity after. It is the Creator. Everything created in the world is Truth. They are all enlightened and complete in the land of God and they exist without death. Only man is dead. His body and mind is living in an illusionary picture. For these reasons, man needs to discard his illusionary body and mind and change to the body and mind of the Universe — the real, forever-living, never-dying, immortal.
This, and only this, is the way to become Truth, and only this is true. Religion is something that exists in one’s mind. The true consciousness is beyond one’s conceptions and habits — when a person does not have anything in his mind that is his and he becomes one with the Universe that is God it is possible for him to transcend religion, be resurrected as the child of God and Truth, and become a complete existence.
In order to be reborn with the eternal body and mind of the Universe that never dies and never changes, one needs to discard the false human body and mind because it is not possible to live forever with it. Religion exists only for a person who is incomplete; it does not exist for anyone who has become complete.
Becoming complete is about becoming a person of great freedom. It is to be reborn with the real body and mind of the Universe and Truth by discarding his human body and mind. Therefore it is where one can transcend religion and achieve human completion. It is the place where one can become a master of the true world.
– Woo Myung
🌠 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, we transcend the need for religion by becoming what religion was meant to point to — Truth itself. 🌿
Religion is for those who follow, but meditation is for those who become.
When we discard the illusion of the self and return to the eternal Truth of the Universe,
we are no longer bound by the limitations of belief or ritual.
True freedom comes when one’s consciousness becomes one with the Universe,
transcending all human conceptions, habits, and attachments.
Only then can one live as Truth and be reborn into the eternal world of Truth.
