INTRODUCTION
✨ In this illuminating writing, Master Woo Myung clarifies what people mean when they speak of the kingdom of the sky. 🌿 Rather than a distant place one goes after death, Heaven is revealed as the sky within the mind—the state in which Truth, the Creator, is present.
Master Woo Myung explains that people imagine a fantasized heaven because they live with their backs turned to the sky, confined by a self-centered and narrow mind. 🌌 When the self disappears—and even the idea of the universe disappears—the original sky exists as it is.
This writing teaches that one enters the kingdom of the sky only by becoming the sky: cleansing the self and the world so that the sky becomes one’s mind. 🌠 Heaven is not “here or there,” but realized while alive, when the mind itself becomes the sky.
ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
The Definition of the Sky
It is often said that people go to the kingdom of the sky.
But where is this kingdom of the sky?
People believe in their own fantasized kingdom of the sky
and they believe they can go there after they die.
One who has the sky in his mind
will live in the kingdom of the sky
and one who does not have this sky,
which is Truth, the Creator,
in his mind will go to hell.
The word, ‘heaven’ also means
the kingdom of the sky
where the whole universe is the sky.
The true sky originally existed just as it is;
however, humans who live with their backs turned to the sky
do not know the sky
because they do not have it
in their self-centered, narrow, and false mind.
When there is no self
nor even the universe,
then the original sky exists.
When one becomes the sky
by not being bound to his self,
he can go to the kingdom of the sky.
When the sky becomes one’s mind
and he has the sky within his mind,
he knows the sky,
sees the sky,
and goes to the kingdom of the sky.
The Bible says heaven,
the kingdom of the sky,
is not something that exists here or there
but in one’s mind.
One whose mind becomes the sky
by cleansing the self
and cleansing the whole world
is the one who has been born
in the kingdom of the sky
and lives there.
Only he has heaven in his mind.
It only makes sense
that one can only be reborn
and live in heaven
when he has heaven in his mind
while alive.
Many believe the kingdom of the sky
exists somewhere
and that a savior will come on a cloud
to take them there.
But realistically it makes sense
only when the meaning of ‘taking people’
is to take people
to the kingdom of the sky
in the mind.
– Woo Myung
REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
At Santa Clara Meditation, practitioners are guided to turn toward the sky within. 🌿 Through cleansing the self and the mind-made world, one becomes the sky itself and lives in the Kingdom of Heaven—here and now.
