✨ Introduction
🌌 Many people look up at the sky and feel its vastness, yet few truly understand what it represents.
In this profound teaching, Master Woo Myung explains that Heaven is not something outside of us—it is something we must become.
Just as clouds obscure the sky, the human mind—filled with self, thoughts, and attachments—prevents us from seeing Heaven as it truly is. ☁️
✨ Only when one empties the mind and becomes one with Heaven can one:
- See Truth
- Know the will of Heaven
- Live in the eternal world
🌌 Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
Only a Person Who Has Become Heaven Can See It and Know It; Only Then Can He Know the Will of Heaven
The clear blue sky,
as clear as clear can be,
looks so high and pure.
In fact, everything in this world looks this way.
One can see only as much as one knows
and only as much as one sees.
Mankind and the universe are that clear blue sky, itself,
but man does not know that such is the logic of the Universe.
Just as the clouds make the sky impossible to be seen,
Heaven cannot be seen because one’s self exists.
He who can see Heaven
is one who has emptied his mind.
The life force that lives in Heaven is God and Buddha;
it is the Heaven before creation,
and this Heaven before creation
is the true image of God and of Buddha.
The sky remains as it is
even when it is full of innumerable clouds.
Likewise, Heaven’s true nature – its foundation – exists as it is
even when there are millions of different images in this world.
But man cannot see this Heaven, which is Truth,
nor can he understand Heaven’s will,
for he has his own mind.
Only a person who has become Heaven can know Heaven’s will.
and live carrying out the work of Heaven.
Heaven is where the world came from,
and it is where the world will return to.
Amidst that Heaven, there is the complete world,
which is true Paradise;
it is the Land where only Truth lives,
where only Truth exists.
That Land can only be entered while one is still alive;
it is the place that can only be entered by a person
who has become one with Heaven while he is still alive;
it is the place that can only be entered by those
who have become Heaven, itself.
Only those written in Heaven’s Book of Life may live.
Only those who have been marked with the seal of Heaven may live.
He who has become the God that is inside his mind
and has become the God of Heaven
believes that God is in his heart
and thus answers with his mouth that God lives.
He who has received the one and only seal of Heaven will live.
He who no longer has his self and has died
will become born again as a child of God;
he will live eternally because he is God.
He who has Heaven in his mind will live
because Heaven is his.
Only a person whose mind is the perfect God can live –
he lives, born into the Kingdom of God.
God is omniscient and omnipotent.
God is Nature’s flow and He is absent of mind.
All who know the true will of Heaven
have minds as large as Heaven.
And it is because they have God within
that they know the will of Truth and of Heaven.
The will of Heaven is for man to become
the existence for which there is nothing higher, wider, or greater;
the will of Heaven is that man be short of nothing, for he is perfect –
so that he may exist on his own as he is and just live;
such a life is one of Heaven.
Heaven can neither be seen nor heard
with the impure and unclean mind of man.
He who has become that Heaven can hear its sounds
and live in accordance with Heaven’s will;
he will know that every single creation is the doing of Heaven
and know that Heaven is alive;
he will know that
Heaven’s Mind – its Soul and Spirit –
will never change,
for it is the eternal and never-changing Energy, itself.
Man has no wisdom
because he is not able to have Heaven inside him.
The wise are those who have
the ‘Jung (Body)’ and ‘Shin (Mind)’ of Heaven;
they are those who have been born again as
the God of Heaven.
Only God has wisdom,
and only God is wisdom, itself.
Just as the eternal Truth is
the Body and Mind of the infinite Heaven,
he who is reborn as that Body and Mind is
the God of Heaven;
he is wholly the eternal and never-changing Energy
and because this, itself, is Truth,
he will live forever.
The original Body and Mind,
which is the original master, is Truth, and so it knows no death.
Because he has
the eternal and never-changing Body and Mind of Heaven
he will live for all eternity.
All creations are the eternal and never-changing Energy,
and each and every one of them
was brought forth by Light – by God.
God is both Energy and Light,
so even though their physical forms may disappear,
their images, which are God – Energy and Light –
will continue to live on,
and such a place would be the complete Land.
Thus the foundation of all the images of creation is Truth,
and because their images are perfect, they live.
However, he who is trapped in his own attachments
will eventually die.
Only a person who has repented and has become
the true Energy and Light –
in other words, the God within –
is one who has the blessings of Heaven.
– Woo Myung
🌠 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, this teaching becomes a living practice.
🌿 Through meditation, you can:
- Clear the clouds of the mind (thoughts, ego, attachments)
- Experience the clarity of Heaven within
- Understand the will of Truth and the Universe
- Live in the eternal, unchanging world of Truth
✨ When you become Heaven, everything becomes clear.
