What is Heaven?
To many, it is imagined as a far-off place in the sky — but Master Woo Myung shows us that Heaven is already here, within and around us.
Heaven has no boundaries, no form, and no judgment.
It possesses nothing, yet lacks nothing.
It does not speak, yet expresses everything.
“Where you live now is Heaven,
but you will not find it,
for you look to the sky in search of it.”
Most people seek Heaven as a distant dream,
but this very world, when seen with a mind absent of self,
is the true Heaven.
Only when we stop trying to mold Heaven into our desires
and start living in harmony with the flow of the Universe
can we recognize that we are already one with Heaven.
Heaven is not a destination — it is a realization.
Through Santa Clara Meditation, this realization becomes possible:
to discard the false heaven we imagine
and return to the silent, eternal Heaven that is our true nature.
Heaven
Heaven has no limit.
Heaven is silent.
There are no humans in Heaven.
There is nothing in Heaven.
Heaven is as you see it.
Heaven, man, and earth are not separate;
but because they distinguish them,
people are too ignorant to know me.
Heaven remains as it is eternally,
but man creates a heaven in Heaven.
Though it possesses not a single thing in this world,
Heaven does not blame or complain that
it has or has not.
People do not know that
everything in the world is a dream,
and so they seek out reality from within their dreams.
People living in this world do not know
the flow of the Universe – of Heaven.
Heaven is boundless and silent;
Heaven is as it is,
but people create their own heavens,
unwilling to learn this order of Heaven.
Everything that exists in this world
is no different from that which exists in Heaven,
but people do not know this, so they are lost.
There is no one who has entered into Heaven –
every human being that is visible is already in Heaven,
but people live deceived,
constantly in search of it.
Heaven is not far away;
where you live now is Heaven,
but you will not find it,
for you look to the sky in search of it.
Ignorant people!
Senseless people!
You are lost because
You do not know that you and I are one.
No wonder you are unable to find me,
for you try to fit me to you.
The most valuable thing in the world is
the whole of creation.
The noblest thing in the world is the whole of creation.
But people feel anxiety, for they do not know that
all creations are both one and the same.
It seems I cannot persuade them that
anxiety and delusions exist
only for those whose selves exist.
Upon seeing me and my unchanging eternality,
people have given me many a name
and have worshipped me.
It is not such worship I enjoy
but that people know we are all of one body;
what I enjoy is nature’s flow.
– Woo Myung
