INTRODUCTION
✨ In this powerful teaching, Master Woo Myung explains why Truth cannot be understood through personal ideas, opinions, or intellectual effort. 🌌
🌿 He reveals that Truth is not something to be figured out, but something to be become. Only when one discards the false self and one’s accumulated conceptions can Truth arise within one’s consciousness.
This passage shows that enlightenment is not thinking about Truth, but being reborn as Truth. 🌠
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
One Can Know Truth Only After Becoming Truth. Do Not Try to Find Truth in Your Own Conceptions
Humans can know Truth only to the extent their consciousness is enlightened and Truth comes into their consciousness.
As I teach people Truth, I find that they try to judge Truth using their own conceptions and behaviors without discarding their body and mind, which is their conceptions and behaviors, and they try to know Truth with their narrow minds, but they cannot; it is a hurdle that they are unable to overcome.
People do not know Truth properly because they do not have it within their minds; instead, they try to know Truth by creating it with their false minds.
A silkworm can transform only after it eats enough, likewise, people can only have Truth within after they throw away enough of their conceptions and behaviors. To have Truth within means to be enlightened.
Truth is not something that can be understood or known with your head. It can only be achieved to the extent you become Truth and you have Truth within. It takes everyone time to complete their path to become Truth.
These days, people are impatient and want to have results without effort, so they cannot accomplish Truth. You must cleanse as much as you can for Truth to be revealed and to become Truth. There is nothing more important than becoming Truth for the sake of Truth; you cannot achieve Truth with a cunning and viperous mind.
In this world only those whose minds are whole-hearted, strong, and righteous can live well and be successful. They cannot achieve this if their minds are cunning and two-faced, or if they are strongly opinionated.
In the same way, if your self still exists, you cannot become Truth; if there is no self and only Truth exists, you will be reborn as Truth. Truth exists only in those who have been reborn as Truth.
This means that Truth remains only when your self – your conceptions and behaviors – do not exist and you are reborn as the body and mind of Truth. This is the complete accomplishment of Truth and completion.
Unless you become Truth itself, you will not and cannot know it.
— Woo Myung
🌿 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, this teaching is reflected upon as a reminder that Truth is realized through inner cleansing, not intellectual effort. By discarding the false self, practitioners begin to experience the Truth described by Master Woo Myung. 🌠
