Introduction
✨ In this teaching, Master Woo Myung explains a subtle but profound distinction about the idea of being “absent of mind.” Many people believe that they have reached spiritual peace simply by calming their thoughts, yet according to Master Woo Myung, true liberation requires something deeper.
He explains that as long as a person still has a self that claims to be free, that self has not yet completely disappeared. The true state of liberation is reached only when the illusionary self has completely vanished and one has become united with the consciousness of the Whole — the consciousness of God. 🌌
When a person lives with only the true Mind, without the false self, they experience complete freedom and peace. In this state, life and death are no longer separate, and the world itself becomes Paradise and Heaven.
Through this teaching, Master Woo Myung invites readers to understand the deeper transformation required to move beyond illusion and enter the world of Truth and Light. 🌿
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
A Person Who Says That He Is Absent of Mind Is One Who Has Yet to Completely Eliminate His Self
A person who says that he is absent of mind is one who has yet to completely eliminate his self. He is one who has yet to receive liberation or be born again in Heaven. He is one who has yet to be free from himself or be converted into the Whole, which is the consciousness of God.
However, a person who only has the true Mind within him – in other words, a person who only has God within him – no longer has his self. He is one who has been converted and has been born again as God. Therefore, he is liberated and is at great peace; he will not die and so he lives in Paradise – in eternal Heaven – where life and death are one.
Since he lives in that true Paradise while he is alive, this earth becomes the Buddha-ksetra; this earth becomes the true Paradise. And because he will not die, the life he has lived on earth will continue; he will live forever on this earth as the Soul and Spirit – as God – even after his body is no more.
Indeed, it is from this state – this Soul and Spirit – that all things are created and man is reborn, and it is from this state that one is able to see the living God.
The difference between Heaven and hell is that Heaven is the world of life while hell is that of death. Heaven is the world of freedom, while hell is that of confinement. While Heaven is the world of Truth – the world of Light – hell is that of delusion and the absence of Light.
Heaven is where a person whose consciousness has become God, for whom there is no existence higher or wider, lives.
— Woo Myung
🌿 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners reflect on teachings from Master Woo Myung that emphasize the transformation from the illusionary self to the true Mind.
Through meditation and the process of discarding the accumulated mind, individuals gradually release the attachments, memories, and identities that form the false self.
🌠 When the self disappears completely, one can experience the state described in this teaching — a life of freedom, peace, and unity with the true world, where the distinction between life and death dissolves.
