🌅 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH IS THE SAME AS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH: TRUTH OF THE EMPTY UNIVERSE | MASTER WOO MYUNG | SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

INTRODUCTION

✨ In this profound writing, Master Woo Myung teaches that the empty universe—though appearing as non-existence—is the origin of all creation and the true essence of eternal life. 🌌

To live genuinely is to hold this non-existence, the soul and spirit of the universe, within one’s mind. Only then can one live as the will of the universe itself, transcending the false self and becoming Truth. 🌿

The difference between those who live in Truth and those who remain in falseness is as vast as the difference between life and death, between heaven and earth.

ORIGINAL WRITING BY MASTER WOO MYUNG

The Difference Between Life and Death Is the Same as the Difference
Between Heaven and Earth

The empty universe is the origin of all creation.
It is non-existence, but because it exists
the world and all creation comes from it.
Non-existence brings forth existence;
since people do not have this non-existence within them
they think it does not really exist.
When people have this non-existence in their minds,
this non-existence is the soul and spirit.
Only this existence is true life.
They do not know this because they do not have it.
Only this existence is living,
only this existence is alive,
only one who has become it lives.
One only knows, speaks, and lives
according to what he has within.
One who has the universe within him
knows the true meaning of the universe.
Living as the will of the universe by becoming the universe
is true life.

The empty universe exists before the wind,
it exists before the clouds,
it exists before all creation,
this itself is Truth and is alive.
People do not know it is living
because they do not have it within their minds.
Only this itself is Truth;
only this itself lives forever, and ever.

Born again, not born again;
the living, the dead;
the wise, the unwise;
one with Truth, one with falseness;
these are as different as life and death,
as different as heaven and earth.

– Woo Myung

REFLECT AT SANTA CLARA MEDITATION

At Santa Clara Meditation, the practice of discarding the false mind guides one to realize the empty universe within. 🌠 This awakening is the path to live as Truth itself, transcending the separation between life and death, between heaven and earth.