INTRODUCTION
✨ In this powerful teaching, Master Woo Myung reveals the true meaning of heaven and hell—not as places one goes after death, but as states of mind determined by whether one lives in the origin or inside a self-made dream world. All beings came from the original foundation, the eternal emptiness that existed before birth and exists after death. 🌿
The “hell” people live in is the false world created in their minds—a dream lasting only a split second compared to the eternity of the origin. By completely discarding this dream world and returning to the origin, one awakens into the true heaven, the real world that exists eternally. 🌌
Through this teaching, readers come to see that only those who destroy the false self and are reborn in the origin can truly go to heaven.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
He Who Goes to Hell, He Who Goes to Heaven
A house can exist because the ground exists and the ground can exist because the Earth exists. The Earth can exist because the Universe, which is the emptiness, exists. The sun, the moon, and the stars in the sky can also exist because the Universe, the emptiness, exists. The Universe, the emptiness, is the origin, the original foundation, and the master of the whole of creation. The Universe is the master and the Creator that brings forth the whole of the Universe.
Let us suppose that you had never been born in this world. This existence of the origin, the original foundation, existed before eternity, exists now, and will continue to exist after eternity. It existed before you were born, it exists after you are born and exists even after you pass away. If you think that you were never born, then aren’t you the origin, the original foundation?
You were born from the origin and started to live in a dream, an illusion. You left the origin, the original foundation, and started living in your mind world. All material creations and people on this Earth that existed ten million years ago, five million years ago, ten thousand years ago, now no longer exist. You, who have left the origin and live in your mind, will also disappear with the passing of the years, as have all material creations and people of the past.
In comparison to the perpetuity of the origin, your dream in the world is equivalent to a split second. In that dream there is a world that belongs only to you – a world of your parents, siblings, spouse, children, ancestors, school, job and home, as well as money, love and honor. That was the life you lived, separated from the origin. From the viewpoint of the origin, you alone dreamt a false dream for a split second. The meditation of self-reflection is completely erasing your whole dream.
Completely discarding this dream and returning to the origin is waking up from the dream. When you are born in the origin and no longer dream, you are born in heaven. Heaven is here, the real world; a place where one whose mind has become that of the true world lives. Living in the dream world is hell, but hell is false and therefore does not exist.
All people are living in the hell world. However man does not know he is living in hell because he does not know heaven. Only he who is born in heaven knows both heaven and hell. When one completely destroys his self that lives in the dream world, the world of human life, and all that was dreamt, only the origin, the original foundation, remains. One who is born here will live forever. Heaven is the true world where everything that is false has been destroyed. Hell is where one lives within his mind holding onto his human life. Only he who destroys the hell world and is reborn in heaven can go to heaven.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners learn the method to discard the false dream world and return to the origin. 🌠 Through this awakening, they come to understand the true meaning of heaven—where the false self has been completely eliminated and one lives in the eternal world of Truth.
