🔎 Introduction
✨ In this profound teaching, Master Woo Myung clarifies common misconceptions about rebirth, resurrection, and heaven.
Many believe resurrection refers to the physical body rising again, and that heaven is a distant place above the sky. 🌌 However, these ideas arise from human conception and delusion.
According to this insight, true rebirth is awakening into the living consciousness of Truth, becoming the soul and spirit of the original universe. Heaven is not somewhere else — it is the kingdom of Truth within.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
What Is Rebirth and Resurrection ? What Is Heaven ?
People think that rebirth and resurrection are for body, the flesh, to be reborn and resurrected. They also think that heaven is someplace above. But all this is an illusion of conception. To be reborn is to be born again, and to be resurrected also means the same thing – that the dead come to life. Man’s consciousness is not true but is his delusional conception and behaviors; it is false. Man’s consciousness does not have life, and it is falseness that does not exist. Such consciousness is that which he has in his mind according to what he has learned; it is the whole of experiences from his life; it has neither eternity nor life because it is not Truth.
Only Truth, which is everlasting and never-changing, is life itself.
When one’s consciousness is awakened and alive, then there is life. Rebirth and resurrection are when one has the consciousness of Truth. That living consciousness of Truth is the sky – the emptiness of the universe, which is the state before all creation was born. This itself is the soul and spirit. Rebirth and resurrection are when one is reborn as this soul and spirit.
Heaven is the kingdom of Truth where one who is reborn as the soul and spirit of Truth lives. It is the kingdom where all creation which is alive lives.
In the kingdom of the original universe’s soul and spirit, all creation is reborn as the soul and spirit of the original universe. This is heaven; the individual and the whole are one, and there is no death. It is a living kingdom where the soul and spirit of all creations, Truth, lives. It is the forever-living, never-dying kingdom of the universe. It is the kingdom where only those who are reborn as that universe can live. Existence and nonexistence are one, and in that kingdom all existences live as the true existence.
The phrase, ‘one who is born in heaven lives in heaven,’ means one who has become the soul and spirit of heaven lives because he has the soul and spirit of heaven within. Everything is living, and all are alive in the kingdom of Truth; but in man’s falseness, everything is dead. Rebirth is to cleanse the falseness and be born as the soul and spirit of Truth.
Heaven is the kingdom within the mind, the soul and spirit. It is the kingdom where the body and mind of humans become one with the Creator of the universe. One who has this kingdom within him is Truth, and he is one who has gone to heaven. The material world is a limited existence, but the kingdom of the soul and spirit which is Truth is the living kingdom of the Creator; it existed before the beginning, exists now, and will exist after eternity.
– Woo Myung
🌿 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners are guided to understand that rebirth is not physical resurrection, but awakening into the living soul and spirit of Truth. 🌠
Heaven is not above — it is within. When falseness is cleansed and one becomes the consciousness of Truth, one lives in the forever-living, never-dying kingdom.
To be reborn is to become one with the original universe itself.
