💡 INTRODUCTION
What is a demon?
According to Master Woo Myung, a demon is not a creature from folklore or mythology. A demon is a person who has turned away from Truth and lives with a self-centered mind—filled with pictures, attachments, blame, and greed.
🌀 In this eye-opening writing, Master Woo Myung reveals that everyone who has not become Truth is, in fact, a demon. It is not others, but our own false selves that are the source of suffering. Only by discarding the self and becoming one with Truth can we cast off our demon masks and live in harmony with nature.
🎬 YOUTUBE VIDEO
📝 ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG
Demons or Mara
A demon is a person who has turned against Truth.
Even in heaven, there were demons that were not complete Truth. Our original mind is heaven but in the sunchun age – which literally means the age before heaven, or the age before Truth comes to the world – there were demons who lived only for themselves in that original mind. Status and differences in rank existed because of these demons.
The word demon is used to denote an evil existence. No one in the world wishes to meet a demon; on the contrary, most people are scared of demons. But what people believe to be demons do not actually exist in the current world. People should realize that a person who has not become Truth is a demon.
Very few people in the world believe they have lived wrongly; most people blame the world and other people. In actuality, nothing is the fault of other people or the world – everything is one’s own fault because he is living wrongly. Those who know this are wise.
The worst person in the world is one’s own self, who lives with the worst kind of mind – a self-centered mind. This mind leads him to believe others are right only when they behave in a way that suits him. This belief hurts everybody around him.
In other words, even though we are not aware of it, we cause harm to people because we behave in a delusional way. One’s greed, his selfish mind, is the demon. No righteous person exists in the world; therefore all people in the world are demons.
A person who has become one with Truth lives with the mind of nature, according to the laws of nature. Therefore he is able to live a life of nature’s flow. Demons are all those who live with a selfish perspective because of their minds of pictures acquired from living in the world.
Only a person who has been born as Truth is not a demon. The only sin that exists in the world is the sin of not becoming Truth.
If we knew that we were grotesque demons, we would not be able to hold our heads up for shame. We should all realize that a person who has not become Truth is a demon.
We should be resurrected as Truth as quickly as we can, and cast off our demon masks.
– Woo Myung
🌱 REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION
🔥 The real demon is not some shadow lurking in the dark—it is the ego, the greedy mind, the blaming mind, and the delusional self.
At Santa Clara Meditation, Master Woo Myung teaches the way to resurrect as Truth and live with the mind of nature. Only then can we discard the sin of not becoming Truth and live freely, without shame or suffering.
